In Inverness, local firm MacGregor Industrial Supplies specified and installed the CLIQ Local Manager access control product from Abloy UK to the showroom of Bonk & Co. Tha firm sells and fits wood burning stoves, multi fuel stoves and range cookers across the Highlands.
Reagan Brice, Office Manager at Bonk & Co said: “Due to the high value of the products that we supply, we needed a high quality, high security solution to ensure our assets were kept safe. We also required a solution that didn’t need too much infrastructure. CLIQ Local Manager really appealed to us as it allowed us to combine a variety of different locking solutions into one overall system. We are now able to programme time schedules for different members of staff, and block lost or stolen keys should we need to. We also liked the ability to have audit trails, and being able to determine the movement of staff by viewing the user-friendly software has increased security significantly. The fact we could install the system with minimal disruption was another benefit, and there was no need to run cables or introduce power supply units.”
Given some 25 fireplaces are on display, the firm wanted its premises protected against theft, and appreciated an overview of who had accessed what location and at what time, to make staff accountable too. MacGregor suggested Abloy’s eCLIQ enabled hardware on access points, controlled by CLIQ Local Manager. The specification included padlocks to secure external gates, cylinders for key switches which control roller shutter doors, and cylinders for mechanical lockcases.
CLIQ Local Manager is a locally installed software as used for the day-to-day management of CLIQ master keys. CLIQ Local Manager allows system managers to perform a variety of tasks based on their specific needs, the product developers say, including managing access rights of user keys locally via desktop programming devices, and now, wall programming devices. CLIQ Local Manager software can be installed on a standard Windows PC, with what’s needed to run programmable key access control for a business.
The interface lets the user add or amend users and change the access rights of CLIQ keys with the companion programming device. System managers can limit access according to 32 programmable time slots, with key audit trails available.
Aimed at small or medium-sized businesses, CLIQ Local Manager works with electro-mechanical PROTEC2 CLIQ systems as well as eCLIQ, the electronic key access system based on the same technology.
