Entry gates, restrooms, maintenance sheds, concession stands, pump and irrigation enclosures, event spaces , parks run on padlocks, and padlock keys get copied, lost, and passed around. CyberLock replaces them with weatherproof electronic locks that need no power and no wiring, managed from one screen.
Trusted by the NYC Parks Department, Friends of the High Line, the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, and park conservancies across New York.
Ask us about our free pilot program , secure one park and see the difference. (888) 289-8911
Most access control assumes a building: a door, a wall, a power supply, somebody inside. A parks department has almost none of that. It has restrooms at the far end of a field, a gate at a trailhead, a concession stand open twelve days a year, a pump house behind the pool, an irrigation controller in a box, a boat ramp gate, a campground shower block, a shed full of mowers and a cemetery gate.
They are outdoors, they are unstaffed, they are scattered across miles, and the people who need in are seasonal staff, volunteers, sports leagues, event hire groups and contractors. So they run on padlocks, and the padlock key gets copied, lent, kept and eventually lost.
| Asset | Typical opening | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| Restrooms and shower blocks | Door cylinders | Scheduled opening and closing tied to a named person. |
| Trailhead, service and boat ramp gates | Weather resistant padlocks | Records at gates miles from any power. |
| Concession stands and kiosks | Door cylinders, roll shutter padlocks | Seasonal vendor access that expires by itself. |
| Field houses and dugout stores | Door cylinders, padlocks | League access on their booked nights only. |
| Pool plant and chemical stores | Door and cabinet cylinders | Two-person rule available on standard cylinders. |
| Irrigation and lighting cabinets | Cam locks, cabinet cylinders | Accountability on equipment exposed to the public. |
| Maintenance sheds and mower stores | Padlocks, door cylinders | A record on the assets most likely to walk. |
| Campgrounds and cemetery gates | Padlocks | Out-of-hours control with nobody on site. |
Access is issued against a schedule rather than handed over. A summer seasonal gets a key that stops working in September. A softball league gets the field house and the restrooms on Tuesday and Thursday evenings between March and July. A wedding hire gets the pavilion for one Saturday. A contractor gets the pool plant until the job closes out.
Nothing has to be collected at the end of a season, which matters, because collecting keys from seasonal staff and volunteers is the part that never actually happens. An unreturned key 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. No gate is rekeyed and no other key is affected.
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, and the CyberKey keeps its own separate trail of up to 3,900 events, or 12,000 on a Generation 2 key. It always records a refusal, so an attempt on a shed or a gate somebody was not cleared for is captured even though it never opened.
When a mower goes missing, or a restroom is left unlocked overnight, or a field is used by a group that never booked it, the record is the difference between a suspicion and an answer. It also tells you whether a closing round actually happened.
There is no perfect security system, and CyberLock does not claim to be one. What it removes is the copied key and the unaccountable opening, which is where most parks losses actually start.
Yes, and it is the main reason parks departments look at CyberLock. There is no wiring and no battery at the lock. Power comes from the battery inside the CyberKey when the key touches the cylinder. A trailhead gate, a boat ramp or a remote restroom gets full access control and an audit trail with nothing to plug in and no trenching.
CyberLock makes weather resistant padlocks and cylinder formats intended for exterior doors, gates, cages and containers. Over 450 designs cover interior and exterior openings, so the format is matched to where the asset actually sits rather than forcing one lock everywhere.
Nothing has to be collected. Keys are issued against a schedule with an end date, so a seasonal key stops working on its own. You can also disable one immediately in CyberAudit Web, and locks hold a lost key list so a named key can be refused at the cylinder itself.
Yes. A league gets a key scoped to the field house and restrooms, on their booked evenings only, for the length of the season, with every opening recorded. The same works for event hire, where a group gets one building for one day.
It tells you what was opened and when, by whom, which in practice answers most closing round questions. Bear in mind it records openings rather than the state of the door, so it shows the visit rather than proving the latch was thrown.
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.
Up to 3,300 locks on a standard key, or up to 12,000 lock list entries on a Generation 2 key with the Lock List Expansion module, across up to 49 separate schedules. A parks crew normally carries one key covering every park in the system.
The CyberKey always records a no access event in its own audit trail, so an attempt at a shed or gate somebody was not cleared for is captured even though the lock never opened. Locks do not record denied attempts by default, though that can be configured.
Yes. We run free pilots. We fit a small number of your openings, issue keys to the crews and seasonals who actually use them, and you read the audit trail before committing to anything.
Tell us what you are securing: restrooms, trailhead and boat ramp gates, concession stands, field houses, pool plant, irrigation cabinets, sheds or campgrounds, and roughly how many openings are involved. We will tell you which padlock and cylinder formats suit the exposure, and what a pilot would look like.
