Organizations across various sectors have embraced the benefits of CLIQ digital key access systems, particularly for their security and convenience.
Recent innovations in CLIQ Readers and Updaters now make it easier to expand the system's capabilities both indoors and outdoors, including integration with third-party digital access devices, thereby enhancing its range of applications.
New Additions Enhance Flexibility
The latest devices in the CLIQ range operate with both electronic eCLIQ and electromechanical PROTEC2 CLIQ solutions, facilitating secure unlocking and access updates for CLIQ keys.
By simply inserting the key into the new CLIQ Readers, users receive visual confirmation via an LED, eliminating the need to turn the key and reducing wear. The Updater uses intuitive LED indicators similar to those in CLIQ Wall Programming Devices (PDs) to convey update status and key battery life to the user.
Streamlined Integration
According to Ralf Stange, Product Manager at ASSA ABLOY, "The new CLIQ Readers are the first readers fully integrated with the CLIQ system. 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."
Versatile Indoor and Outdoor Applications
The CLIQ Reader is compatible with essential management tools, including CLIQ Web ManagerThe CLIQ Reader is compatible with essential management tools, including CLIQ Web Manager, Local Manager, and the CLIQ Go mobile solution, offering versatility for various organizational needs. Users can customize the Reader's setup, such as setting switch delay times and choosing activation on key insertion or removal.
Additionally, an optional remote relay unit provides enhanced security. The system can control access to various facilities, such as doors with electric strikes or motorized locks, automatic doors, and elevator access.
Outdoor Durability and Security
Designed for outdoor use, the CLIQ Outdoor Reader comes in a durable stainless-steel housing with certifications against water, dust, and vandalism, extending the system's use to external sites like gates and turnstiles.
The CLIQ Updater enables secure key updates outside without requiring network cables, facilitating quick and safe installation, especially in retrofit scenarios. The device connects to an existing CLIQ Wall PD via RS485 cable, with safety elements contained within the building. When connected to a Wall PD with a free output switch (FO1), it can also activate third-party devices.
Optimized for Various Installations
Both Readers and Updaters offer flush and surface-mounted options to accommodate different installation requirements. Outdoor models are also available as e-modules, facilitating integration with systems like DoorBird from ASSA ABLOY.
As Ralf Stange notes, "With these new additions to the CLIQ device range, facility managers can implement even more comprehensive and flexible access protocols. 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."
Organizations 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 organization 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 customized 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.”
