School buildings run on brass keys , and every year, some go missing. With traditional locks, a lost master key means rekeying entire buildings. With CyberLock, a lost key is deleted from the system in seconds and never opens another door.
TEC Solutions secures public school districts, private schools, technical institutes, community colleges, and universities across the Northeast , from single buildings to full campuses.
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A school or campus is not one building with one door. It is classrooms, portables, gyms, labs, chemical stores, kitchens, IT closets, athletic fields, maintenance sheds, bus yards and exterior gates, spread over acres and used by teachers, custodians, coaches, substitutes, contractors, community leagues and summer programs.
Card readers usually cover a handful of main entrances. Everything else runs on mechanical keys, and the keys are mastered so that a small number of them open a great deal. When one of those keys is not returned, and every district has a drawer of keys that were never returned, the only real remedy is rekeying, which is expensive enough that most districts simply do not do it.
| Area | Typical opening | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| Classrooms and portables | Mortise, rim or cylindrical cylinders | Per-room records without wiring outbuildings. |
| Science labs and chemical storage | Door and cabinet cylinders | Two-person rule available on standard cylinders. |
| IT, MDF and server closets | Door cylinders, cabinet cam locks | Named accountability for student data equipment. |
| Gyms, auditoriums, field houses | Door cylinders, padlocks | Community and league access on a schedule. |
| Kitchens and food storage | Door cylinders, walk-in padlocks | Vendor and contractor access that expires. |
| Maintenance, custodial and sheds | Padlocks, door cylinders | Records on tools, chemicals and equipment. |
| Athletic gates and bus yards | Weather resistant padlocks | Outdoor assets with nothing to trench to. |
| Residence halls and student labs | Door cylinders, cabinet locks | Higher education spaces with rotating occupants. |
Access is issued against a schedule rather than handed over. A substitute teacher gets a key that opens their rooms, for that day, during school hours. A summer construction crew gets one that opens the wing they are working in, on weekdays, until the job ends. A coach gets the field house on practice days. Nothing has to be collected at the office, and a key that is never returned expires by itself.
If a key is lost you disable it in CyberAudit Web and it stops opening locks. Locks also hold a lost key list, up to 500 entries on Generation 2 non-padlock models, so a named key can be refused at the cylinder itself. Nothing is rekeyed, and no other key on campus is affected. That is the single biggest change from a mechanical master key system, where one loss can mean rekeying a building.
One CyberKey can carry up to 3,300 locks, or up to 12,000 lock list entries on a Generation 2 key with the Lock List Expansion module, across as many as 49 separate schedules. A district maintenance lead can carry one key for every school in the district.
Every cylinder records the lock ID, the date, the time and whether access was granted. A standard cylinder stores 1,100 events in Generation 1 mode and 6,500 in Generation 2. The CyberKey keeps its own separate trail of up to 3,900 events, or 12,000 on a Generation 2 key, and it always records a refusal, so an attempt on a room somebody was not cleared for is captured even though the door never opened.
When something goes missing from a lab, a store room or a kitchen, the question stops being who might have had a key and becomes a list.
Standard CyberLock cylinders can require two or more keys presented in succession before the lock opens, and can require those keys to belong to different schedules, so one person carrying two keys will not satisfy it. An open delay can hold the lock shut for up to 17 minutes after first contact. For a chemistry prep room or a controlled substance cabinet in a campus health center, that is dual custody with no guard and no wiring.
No. CyberLock replaces the cylinder inside the lock you already have. It is built to the exact dimensions of the mechanical cylinder it replaces, so the door, the lever and the hardware stay as they are. With over 450 cylinder designs the aim is to reuse existing hardware rather than replace doors.
No. There is no wiring and no battery at the lock. Power comes from the battery inside the CyberKey the moment the key touches the cylinder. That is what makes portables, athletic gates, sheds and outbuildings practical to secure, because there is nothing to plug in and no conduit to run.
You disable it in CyberAudit Web and it stops opening locks. Locks also hold a lost key list, up to 500 entries on Generation 2 non-padlock models, so a named key can be refused at the cylinder itself. Nothing is rekeyed and no other key is affected. Keys can also be set to expire on their own.
Yes. A key is issued against a schedule naming which locks it opens, on which days and between which hours. It stops working when that window closes, so nothing has to be collected and an unreturned key simply expires.
Yes. A league or community group gets a key scoped to the gym and the restrooms, on their booked evenings only, with every opening recorded. That is usually easier to administer than handing over a mechanical key you cannot get back.
The CyberKey always records a no access event in its own audit trail, so an attempt on a room somebody was not cleared for is captured even though the door never opened. Locks do not record denied attempts by default, though that can be configured.
Yes, on standard cylinders. The lock can require two or more keys presented in succession, and can require those keys to belong to different schedules, so one person carrying two keys will not satisfy it. An open delay can hold it shut for up to 17 minutes after first contact.
Yes, and that is the normal arrangement. Card readers keep doing the main entrances. CyberLock covers everything behind them: classrooms, labs, closets, kitchens, sheds and gates. CyberAudit Web can also manage doors connected to the Flex System, so both live in one application.
Yes. We run free pilots. We fit a small number of your openings, issue keys to the staff who actually use them, and you read the audit trail before committing to anything.
Tell us what you are securing: classrooms, portables, labs and chemical stores, IT closets, kitchens, athletic facilities, sheds or gates, and roughly how many openings are involved. We will tell you which cylinder formats fit your existing hardware and what a pilot would look like.
