Code handle: Secure keyless door locking solution

Many businesses and buildings seek reliable security solutions that do not involve the cost and complexity of advanced access control systems. For these premises, keyless digital door access using a PIN-based system presents a practical solution. This method enables managers, employees, and visitors to avoid the inconvenience and expense of handling physical keys.

In various workplaces, some rooms need to be securely separated from publicly accessible areas. Whether it's a stock room, a medicine store, a staff breakroom, or a private office, these spaces require a straightforward, standalone locking system.

Mechanical locking cylinder

The Code Handle PIN lock is a streamlined device designed specifically for such use cases. It provides robust security by allowing access only to authorised individuals via a digital PIN code entered on its discreet handle keypad. Intended for private rooms adjacent to public areas, the Code Handle has been tested in numerous environments, demonstrating its efficacy in preventing unauthorised access.

The Code Handle PIN lock is a streamlined device designed specifically for such use cases

Installation is straightforward, necessitating only the replacement of the door's handle while the existing mechanical locking cylinder remains intact and operational with the original key. Staff members can manage their doors independently without requiring specialised skills or external assistance, making the Code Handle a popular choice for a variety of small and medium-sized settings.

Small healthcare facilities

In the healthcare sector—encompassing surgeries, dental practices, pharmacies, and physiotherapy suites—doors are sometimes left unsecured inadvertently. Given the presence of valuable equipment or controlled substances, such lapses can attract opportunists. The Code Handle digital PIN lock guarantees peace of mind for practice managers.

Doctors and patients can rely on the privacy it offers for consultations. Additionally, it provides a more efficient means of securing controlled drugs and hazardous waste containers, simplifying security without the need for key management. The additional security for treatment and examination rooms, housing equipment like X-ray machines and dental tools, becomes possible without the necessity of installing an expensive software-based access system.

Shops and retail environments

Employees' PINs are easily deactivated when they depart, with the process taking only seconds

Retail environments need to restrict public access behind certain doors, but traditional key management can be cumbersome and visually unappealing. A sleek, modern handle like the Code Handle combines aesthetics with digital security, making it an attractive option for shop staff without requiring any training. Employees' PINs are easily deactivated when they depart, with the process taking only seconds.

Suitable for a range of retail settings—from outlets and petrol stations to car dealerships—the Code Handle is an economical solution for securing stock rooms, staff toilets, and offices at risk of unauthorised access from public areas.

Home-based workspaces

Offices often contain sensitive, valuable, or private items that not all workplace members should access. The Code Handle ensures such items remain secure even if staff are away, enhancing the safety of office environments. Designed to secure office doors of all types, it automatically locks when closed, allowing staff to carry on without disruption.

Offices often contain sensitive, valuable, or private items that not all workplace members should access

The increasing trend towards remote and hybrid working has led to the rise of private workspaces within homes and shared environments like co-working spaces. These require effective security measures for activities like video calls or confidential discussions. The Code Handle is a proven, seamless way to reinforce security between private workstations in residences and shared areas.

Other education settings

Educational institutions benefit from securing private rooms and stores with ease. Teachers can avoid cumbersome key bunches when securing classrooms and other areas, knowing that Code Handle locks eliminate unauthorised student access.

Installing Code Handle locks ensures that staff rooms are secure, with teachers able to leave marked work or personal items without fear of intrusion. Separating student and staff toilet facilities by using PIN-protected mechanisms is another advantage. Only select doors equipped with Code Handle can prevent unauthorised access to school facilities like sports equipment stores, musical instrument rooms, and kitchens.

Health and safety compliance

This added convenience helps maintain sanitation in educational and other settings

The Code Handle is compliant with fire-door safety regulations (EN 1634) and boasts a certified operational lifespan of at least 100,000 uses. Its smooth surface design makes disinfection straightforward: a damp cloth easily maintains hygiene, reducing germ-hiding spots compared to traditional PIN locks. This added convenience helps maintain sanitation in educational and other settings.

Code Handle devices are easily retrofitted to existing doors, keeping the original cylinder or lock intact while replacing only the handle. Each handle is battery-powered (two CR2 batteries), enduring approximately 30,000 lock/unlock cycles per change. Its installation requires no wiring, drilling, or specialised tools, making it a hassle-free addition to nearly any door up to 80mm thick.

Door management transitions smoothly to a keyless system, with each Code Handle offering a Master Code and up to nine user PINs, simplifying key management and security transformations for offices adjacent to public areas.

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Many businesses and buildings need trustworthy, keyless door security without the expense and invasiveness of an advanced access control system. For these premises, PIN-based digital door access adds this security efficiently, freeing managers, employees, and visitors from the cost and hassle of handling physical keys.

In all kinds of workplaces, private rooms need separating – securely and reliably – from spaces where the public have free access. Their doors need a simple, standalone locking solution, whether for a stock or medicine store, staff breakroom, private office, or any similar room.

Mechanical locking cylinder

A Code Handle PIN lock is an elegant device designed for precisely these use-cases. A Code Handle keeps a space secure, while admitting authorised employees via a digital PIN code on its discreet handle-keypad. Designed to add valuable door security to any private room facing interior public areas, it is already proven across multiple applications and environments to keep unauthorised people out.

Fitting is simple, only requiring a change of handle. The existing mechanical locking cylinder stays in place and may still be operated with the existing key. Staff need no specialist knowledge or outside help to manage their doors with Code Handle. This flexibility has seen it deployed successfully in a wide range of small and medium-sized settings, including all of the following.

Small healthcare facilities

In a busy medical facility – surgeries, dental practices, pharmacies, or physiotherapy suites – it is easy to accidentally leave a door unlocked*. With expensive equipment or controlled drugs on the other side, any opening invites opportunists. With a Code Handle digital PIN lock, practice managers need never worry again.

Doctors and patients expect privacy during consultations. With Code Handle, they get it. To secure controlled drugs and hazardous waste bins, a Code Handle is quicker and safer than tracking a physical key – with no need to change the lock when one goes missing. Many treatment and examination rooms have expensive or dangerous equipment such as X-ray machines, dental tools, and physiotherapy equipment. With Code Handle, all this gets the extra level of security it deserves, without the expense of a software-based access system.

Shops and retail environments

Every store has doors from the retail floor where the public should not go. Managing keys for these openings creates unnecessary workload and distracts staff. At the same time, a bulky mechanical PIN lock can ruin carefully thought-out aesthetics. Retail managers can instead secure these doors with a slimline, contemporary handle. Code Handle adds reliable, aesthetic, digital security to almost any interior door. It is easy for shop staff to operate, no training required. When an employee moves on, it is straightforward to cancel their PIN in seconds without removing the handle.

In a shop, outlet, petrol station, or car dealership, Code Handle is a convenient, low-cost solution for stock rooms, staff toilets, or offices facing any space where the public is free to roam.

Home-based workspaces

The contents of an office may be sensitive, valuable, private… or all three: not everyone at a workplace should have free access. Staff should be able to grab a coffee without worrying about the laptop or handbag left inside. Designed for office doors of any kind, Code Handle keeps such stuff safe and private. When the door shuts, Code Handle locks it automatically – staff do not even need to put down whatever they are carrying.

The growth in work-from-home (WFH) and hybrid working strategies has also led to an increase in private workspaces within the home and other communal settings such as co-working premises. These require their own security and privacy, whether to make video calls or have a sensitive conversation. Commercial security is always desirable. In many industries, it is required by law: the physical security of documents, data, and conversations may be the responsibility of those who keep them.

As experience across sectors and locations has demonstrated, the most elegant, seamless way to put an effective barrier between a residence and a private workstation is with a Code Handle digital door lock.

Other education settings

Staff and school administrators can relax when they know private rooms and equipment stores are properly secured. Currently, many teachers carry cumbersome key bunches to ensure pupils do not enter rooms which could put themselves or school equipment at risk. With Code Handle, this is possible without having to constantly lock and unlock by key.

Fitting a Code Handle brings a sense of security and privacy to the staff room: teachers can leave marked work or mobile phones where no pupils can enter. A Code Handle makes it easy to separate pupil toilets from PIN-protected staff toilets.

PIN-protected staff toilets

With Code Handle fitted to just a few important doors around the building, school principals ensure sports equipment, musical instruments, cleaning stores, and kitchens are protected against unauthorised access or theft.

Health and safety are also part of the package. Code Handle is fire-door compliant (EN 1634) and with a certified lifetime of at least 100,000 operations. Product design makes disinfecting easier. Unlike mechanical push-button PIN locks, a Code Handle has a smooth surface without corners or ridges. Germs have fewer places to hide. A disinfected damp cloth is all a caretaker needs to keep a handle hygienic – and school doors and storerooms secure.

Keeping track of keys

Code Handle devices are easy for any small organisation to retrofit to their existing doors: the cylinder or lock remains in place and its handle simply swapped for the new device. For power, two standard batteries (CR2) slot inside the handle, typically lasting 30,000 lock/unlock cycles before replacement. Installation needs no wires, specialist tools, or drilling. Two screws attach it to almost any interior door up to 80mm thick.

Door management becomes easy and keyless. Every Code Handle comes with a Master Code and 9 different user PINs, making it simple to abandon the inconvenience of carrying and keeping track of keys. PINs are easy to set and to change whenever an office manager decides. It is this easy to transform the security of private rooms which face public spaces.

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