New CLIQ Readers and Updaters are extending the functionality of CLIQ digital key access management systems with enhanced applications for both indoor and outdoor environments.
By integrating seamlessly with existing CLIQ solutions, these innovations simplify the management of digital access devices, making it easier for organisations to broaden their security scope.
Enhancements to the CLIQ family
The latest additions to the CLIQ lineup are fully compatible with eCLIQ and PROTEC2 CLIQ solutions. These Readers and Updaters enable secure unlocking and easy updates to CLIQ keys.
The CLIQ Readers require users merely to insert their keys, with an LED providing visual confirmation, bypassing the need to turn the key and thus reducing wear and tear. Similarly, Updaters use intuitive LEDs to convey update and battery status to keyholders.
Complete system integration
According to Ralf Stange, Product Manager at ASSA ABLOY, these new Readers are the first to achieve full integration with the CLIQ system. "Managing access is simple because the software treats a Reader just like a cylinder. The Updater facilitates cost-effective credential updates in external environments," he explains.
Flexible access management
CLIQ Readers and Updaters come in both flush and surface-mounted configurationsThe CLIQ Reader supports various management configurations with CLIQ Web Manager, Local Manager, and CLIQ Go for small enterprises. Users can set their preferred switch delay and choose between key insertion or removal as the activation trigger.
An optional remote relay unit adds an extra layer of security. The Reader can manage access to different types of doors and even activate devices like electric strikes and motorised locks.
Durable outdoor solutions
Designed for outdoor use, the CLIQ Outdoor Reader features a robust stainless-steel housing, certified against water, dust (IP65), and vandalism (IK09). This ensures reliable performance for outdoor barriers, gates, and other entrances.
Additionally, the CLIQ Updater offers secure key updating outside buildings, without the need for network cables, simplifying installation for retrofits. Connected via RS485 cable to an existing CLIQ Wall PD, the Updater activates third-party devices without exposing security-related elements to the exterior.
Installation flexibility
CLIQ Readers and Updaters come in both flush and surface-mounted configurations, suitable for various applications. They can also be integrated with outdoor systems like steles and tableaus, offering seamless compatibility with solutions such as ASSA ABLOY's DoorBird intercom.
Stange adds that these devices provide facility managers with more comprehensive, flexible access protocols, supported by ASSA ABLOY's extensive expertise in security technologies.
Organisations of every size and type have already discovered the security and convenience benefits of a CLIQ digital key access management system.
Now, new CLIQ Readers and Updaters for indoor and outdoor use make extending the scope and reach of a CLIQ solution even simpler, including to third-party digital access devices. It takes CLIQ to new openings more easily than ever before.
New additions
These new additions to the CLIQ family are compatible with fully electronic eCLIQ and electromechanical PROTEC2 CLIQ solutions. They simplify both secure unlocking and the transfer of access updates to CLIQ keys. With new CLIQ Readers, all the keyholder needs to do is insert their key and wait for visual confirmation from its inbuilt LED – they do not even turn it, which minimizes key wear-and-tear.
The Updater incorporates the same intuitive LEDs as CLIQ Wall Programming Devices (PDs) – informing the keyholder about update and key battery status.
Fully integrated
“The new CLIQ Readers are the first readers which are fully integrated with the CLIQ system,” explains Ralf Stange, Product Manager at ASSA ABLOY. “Managing access is simple because the software treats a Reader just like a cylinder. The new Updater makes it easier and more cost-efficient to add secure credential updating protocols to outside spaces.”
A fast, reliable new Reader, inside or outdoors
The CLIQ Reader is compatible with everything an organisation needs to manage access more flexibly: with CLIQ Web Manager and Local Manager; with the CLIQ Go mobile solution for small businesses; and with the full range of CLIQ programmable keys.
The Reader itself offers customised setup options to suit individual needs. Switch delay may be set between 1 and 10 seconds, with a choice of activation on key insertion or on removal. An optional remote relay unit can add an extra layer of security. Installing and connecting a Reader can put a CLIQ system in control of user access to doors with electric strikes or motorized locks, automatic revolving doors or sliding glass doors, lift priority and more.
In addition, the Outdoor Reader model packs all this convenient functionality into a durable stainless-steel housing designed for exterior use. With certified protection against water, dust (IP65), and vandalism (IK09), it extends CLIQ’s use-cases reliably to external barriers, gates, turnstiles and other entrances.
Secure outdoor credential management with a new Updater
Another new addition to the device range, the CLIQ Updater provides a secure way to add CLIQ key updates outside a building.
Because connecting the Updater does not require a network cable, the device is fast and secure to install even on retrofit projects. The Updater is simply linked via RS485 cable to an existing CLIQ Wall PD (Gen 2), up to 200 metres away, with no need for network configuration. All security-related elements remain in the building interior. When connected to a Wall PD featuring a free output switch function (FO1), the Updater can activate third-party devices such as electric strikes.
For installation convenience, all CLIQ Readers and Updaters come in a choice of flush and surface-mounted configurations to suit the specific application. The Outdoor Reader and Updater are also available as e-modules for seamless, integration with steles, tableaus, and outdoor intercom systems, including ASSA ABLOY’s DoorBird solution.
Secuting homes and businesses
“With these new additions to the CLIQ device range, facility managers can implement even more comprehensive and flexible access protocols,” adds Ralf Stange. “And like every CLIQ product, they are backed by decades of ASSA ABLOY investment and innovations in lock and key technologies to secure homes and businesses.”
