A CyberLock cylinder is the exact dimensions of the mechanical cylinder it replaces, so it drops into the hardware you already own and does not change how that hardware works. No wiring. No wifi. No power or battery at the lock. Over 450 cylinder designs, and it runs about a tenth the price of a card reader.
CyberLocks install in interior and exterior doors, padlocks, containers and cabinets. If it locks, there is almost always a design that drops straight into it.
No wiring or battery is needed at the lock. Power is provided by the battery in the CyberKey, delivered the moment the key touches the cylinder.
On a wired job most of the invoice is construction and electrical labor. Take the wiring out and that line goes with it.
A CyberKey powering and opening a retrofitted cylinder. No wiring, no power at the door.
Most access control needs power and a wire at every door. This does not, which is why it reaches openings other systems cannot.
A CyberLock is an access control cylinder with no conventional keyway, so it cannot be picked. It is the exact size of the mechanical cylinder it replaces, installs with the same ease, and does not change how the lock hardware functions. No drilling, no conduit, no trench. Depending on the hardware, a swap can take as little as 30 seconds, and 10 to 15 minutes on the tougher ones.
No wiring or battery is needed at the lock. The battery lives in the CyberKey and powers the cylinder on contact. That is why the same cylinder works on an office door, a padlock on a fence and a cabinet in a plant room.
Each cylinder stores its own encrypted access codes, its serial number, its audit trail and a list of lost keys. Gen 2 cylinders hold up to 6,500 audit events and use AES-256 encryption between lock and key. A CyberKey holds up to 12,000 events. The cylinder stays offline, but the keys do not have to. CyberKey Air connects over wifi and Bluetooth keys connect through the phone app, so permissions and audit trails move in close to real time without anyone driving back to the office.
You do not have to pick. CyberAudit-Web manages CyberKeys and fobs opening CyberLocks and FlashLocks, and RFID access cards opening doors and vaults, and mobile credentials, from the same system. One set of people, one set of permissions, one set of reports.
People open doors and access points with an electronic CyberKey, a fob, an RFID card at a reader, a phone over Bluetooth or NFC, or a phone flash pattern with FlashLock. Every one of them is set up, changed and reported on from the same software, with the same people and the same schedules.
Card swipes at doors and vaults, cylinder openings, denied attempts and no-open contacts all land in the same reporting, so an auditor gets one answer instead of two exports that have to be stitched together.
Consolidating onto a single platform removes duplicate licensing, duplicate training and duplicate maintenance, and it cuts the wiring and electrical work that drives most of the bill.
Want a card reader and CyberLock? You can have both, on the same software, consolidating cost by a wide margin and leaving you far less to manage. Tell us the opening and we will tell you which of the two belongs there.
A closer look at the hardware, with some explanation of how each piece works.
A card reader needs power and a wire. Most of what actually needs securing in a building or across a site has neither.
Substations, pump stations, tower sites, wellheads
Perimeter openings with nothing to wire into
Cages, closets, medication and chemical storage
Traffic signals, DOT boxes, trackside equipment
Where you cannot cut, drill or run conduit
IDF and telecom closets, records rooms, tool cribs
Nothing permanent, and the cylinders move with you
Because electrical labor, not hardware, kills the budget
The same gap exists in a records room, a supply closet, a tool crib or a fenced yard. The reader proves someone came in. It cannot tell you what they touched once they were inside.
You can prove who was in the room. You cannot prove what any of them opened.
Same room, same badges. Every cabinet is now its own opening with its own permissions and its own record. Illustrative example.
A CyberLock cylinder records every access granted, every denied attempt, and a no-open contact for guard rounds. It does not report a door as closed. Closed and open status needs a door sensor on a Flex System, a card reader door, or a FlashLock, and TEC installs all of those too.
If it locks, we can put access control on it and tell you who opened it. Twenty years of that work has run through public agencies, hospitals, airports, plants, campuses and utilities, and just as much of it through ordinary buildings that simply could not be torn up.
Public sector and municipal · Transit and rail · Data centers and IT · Airports · Pharmaceutical and labs · Utilities and energy · Traffic and DOT · Schools and universities · Parks and public spaces · Vending and route · Telecom · Logistics and storage · and everywhere else
Send the openings and the constraint. We will tell you honestly whether this is a fit, and if it is, we will set up a free pilot on a handful of openings so you can prove it before committing to anything.
Yes, and this is the most common reason people call us. A CyberLock cylinder is the exact dimensions of the mechanical cylinder it replaces and installs with the same ease. No wiring or battery is needed at the lock. No conduit, no trenching, no core drilling and no electrician at the opening. Depending on the hardware, a swap can take as little as 30 seconds, and 10 to 15 minutes on the tougher ones.
The key goes on a lost key list that is carried inside the cylinders themselves. When that key touches a lock, the lock denies entry, the key alarms, and a denied event is written to the audit trail of both the lock and the key. The key can also be set to stop working in every other lock. No rekeying and no locksmith. If you are running CyberKey Air over wifi or a Bluetooth key through the phone app, that change reaches the key out in the field rather than waiting for someone to bring it back to a station.
Yes. Unlike a mechanical key, a CyberKey can be set to expire regularly, even daily. An expired key has to be reauthorized at a communicator before it works again, which sharply limits what a key is worth if it walks off site.
Yes. The software is cloud based, so you reach it from a browser anywhere. Add a person, change a schedule, revoke access or pull a report without going to the building. Audit reports can also be emailed to you on a set schedule, so they arrive without anyone having to go looking for them. Temporary access can be granted to a chosen set of locks for a set period and then it simply ends.
Yes. There are over 450 cylinder designs covering the most common lock hardware in North America, including standard door cylinders, padlocks, cam locks, switch locks, gate hardware and cabinet locks. In most cases the hardware on your door stays exactly where it is and only the cylinder inside it changes.
No. A CyberLock has no conventional keyway to pick. Access is verified electronically between the lock and the key, using AES-256 encryption between lock and key on Gen 2 cylinders.
Yes. Access granted, access denied and no-open contacts are all written to the audit trail with a date and time stamp, in the lock and in the key. A Gen 2 cylinder holds up to 6,500 events and a CyberKey holds up to 12,000. That is the report an auditor or an investigator asks for.
Yes. You assign a No-Open schedule to the checkpoints on that guard’s key. Their key will not open those locks. Instead of the access denied siren it beeps three times and records the contact with a date and time stamp, which proves the guard was at that location at that time. The same key still opens the locks they do need, like the employee entrance.
They work the same as any other. The battery in the CyberKey supplies the power on contact, which is why this is used on outdoor gates, remote cabinets, unmanned sites and underground assets where running power was never realistic.
No, keep them. They are fine on the doors they already cover. If you want everything under one roof we can also swap the brains out and run your existing readers off our hub, so card access and CyberLock access are administered and reported in the same place instead of as two separate systems.
It runs about a tenth the price. On a wired job most of the invoice is construction and electrical labor, not hardware. Removing the wiring removes that line entirely, which is why this reaches openings that were quoted once and then quietly dropped from the budget.
Yes, and this is one of the real advantages. The system scales from the bottom up. Start with a couple of locks and a couple of keys, run it in your own environment, then add openings at whatever pace your team is ready for. There is no head end to size up front and no wiring to commit to, so expanding later costs roughly the same per opening as starting did.
