Stadtwerke Kiel AG, or SWK, has supplied energy to Schleswig-Holstein’s regional capital, Kiel, and its surrounding municipalities for decades. Businesses and households in a city of almost quarter-of-a-million people rely on SWK for electricity, gas, water and district heating supply.
Now a public–private enterprise operating in Germany’s liberated energy markets, the company sought a modern, flexible locking system to meet its complex and rapidly developing security needs.
Key requirements included:
- A locking system flexible enough to assign different areas individual levels of security and to give employees and contractors finegrained, personalised access to only the areas for which they have authorisation
- A system that could be installed quickly and at a relatively low price
- Locks and other security equipment that would be resistant to extremes of temperature and other weather conditions.
Solution
Stadtwerke Kiel AG chose the CLIQ® mechatronic locking system, installing around 10,000 locking cylinders to secure multiple sites in the Kiel area. CLIQ® combines the best of electronic access control and mechanical security to provide optimum protection for critical infrastructure.
Each lock’s power is provided by the battery inside the programmable CLIQ® key, meaning no wiring is needed when fitting CLIQ® cylinders – a particular advantage in securing remote or outdoor openings. No wires means fast, affordable installation comes as standard, too.
Flexibility is another crucial CLIQ ingredient. The CLIQ® range includes cylinders designed for doors, gates, windows, flaps, machines, postboxes and many other structures both indoors and outdoors, including for explosion-prone areas.
With CLIQ® installed, administrators can now issue and modify access authorisations right down to the individual level, for employees and temporary contractors working time-limited shifts across SWK’s multiple sites. And if one of them loses a key?
That’s no problem for CLIQ®. The company simply revokes the key’s authorisations from the system, and there’s no need to waste time and expense changing the locks.
