Water Case 2
Water Case 2
Water Case 2
Version: ASSA ABLOY AC CLIQ Eau de Valence, ABLOY PROTEC² CLIQ ® 03 2017 ENG UK
Eau de Valence (www.eaudevalence.fr) Created in 2014, the munici- Eau de Valence chose “The electronic and mechanical
Type: Utility (water) pal water authority of Valence PROTEC2 CLIQ® key-based cylinders are managed by the
Location: Valence, Drôme, France provides safe drinking water access control with same key”
to 65,000 residents of this mechanical disc cylinders Christophe Nublat
CLIQ® devices installed: city in south-eastern France. and encrypted electronics Head of Study & Works Division
Eau de Valence
About 40 PROTEC2 CLIQ® programmable cylinders, padlocks Eau de Valence manages managed with a web based
and battery-powered keys 4 boreholes on the city software — a technology
ASSA ABLOY brand: ABLOY outskirts, a storage unit with already proven and trusted at Comprehensive audit trails
ASSA ABLOY partner: AC Pro a capacity of 1,780 m2 and critical infrastructure sites all for every cylinder, padlock
Year of installation: 2016 300 km of water pipes. over Europe. and key are available on
demand, so monitoring the
During an asset transfer from With CLIQ®, power to a cylin- frequency of contractor and
a previous operator, several der is supplied by a standard other keyholder visits is easy.
keys were misplaced. Eau de battery inside every CLIQ® It’s also simple to limit any
Valence’s main requirements key, so no wiring is required user’s access permissions to
for a new, upgraded locking — making it an ideal retro- precise time periods. Weekly
system were: fit solution at sites where mandatory key revalidation
mains electricity is difficult provides yet another layer of
· Secure access control · The convenience of issuing or impossible. With weath- security.
that could protect widely one single programmable er-proofed locks and pad-
dispersed water utility key per user locks, CLIQ® can lock almost Five Eau de Valence keys
sites from unauthorised any opening, making it much are equipped with CLIQ®
CLIQ ® WebManager intrusion, and the resulting · Locking technology that more adaptable than other Connect technology, so
Q® Connect
CLIQ
degradation of assets could handle the deploy- electronic access control supervisors can update
ment of mechanical and systems. access rights of workers on
· The ability to trace workers’ electronic locks in the same the move, via Bluetooth and
and contractors’ access his- system the CLIQ Connect app, if a
tory by generating lock-by- problem arises when they’re
lock audit trails on demand away from base.
from a central control panel
Images: © Courtesy of Eau de Valence and ASSA ABLOY ASSA ABLOY Access Control, School Street, Willenhall, WV13 3PW, United Kingdom