For Helsingin Energia, based in Helsinki, Finland, and its customers, infrastructure security is paramount. Any interruption in supply would affect homes and businesses across the city, so the company switched to a security system tailored to the needs of critical services like public utilities.

Cliq is designed for organisations whose employees, technicians, and other contractors need variable admission rights to multiple high-security sites and buildings. Each user carries a single key that is programmed with exactly the access rights that the user needs.

The use of every key in the organisation can be controlled—and audited—remotely. Communications between door, cylinders, and system software are all encrypted.

Helsingin Energia has equipped almost all of its interior and exterior door locks with the Protec² Cliq system—around 3,500 doors, spread across 70 different site locations, ranging in type from power plants to warehouses.

“The Cliq system is perfect for large, dispersed workforce with ever-changing access requirements,” says Kevin Hoare, Cliq Business Development Director EMEA at Assa Abloy. “In the case of Helsingin Energia, the access rights in every key are renewed daily, bringing the highest levels of security to one of Helsinki's vital public utilities.”

“Now, if someone goes out on a Saturday night and loses the key, it is not a risk to us anymore,” says Mats Fagerström, chief security officer at Helsingin Energia.