Town hall, the DPW garage, parks buildings, pump stations, the senior center, ballfield gates , a municipality’s keyring never stops growing, and nobody can say for sure who has copies of what. CyberLock replaces it all with one electronic key per employee, managed from one screen.
Used by towns, counties, and city agencies from New England to Hawaii.
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A city or town does not have a campus. It has a city hall, a public works yard, a fleet garage, a records store, a police property room, a court, a library, a community center, a salt shed, an animal shelter and a scatter of pump houses and traffic cabinets. Different departments run them, different people hold the keys, and the key ring is usually mastered so a handful of keys open a great deal.
Staff turn over, seasonal crews come and go, volunteers help at the community center, and elected officials change. Very few municipalities can say with confidence how many copies of the public works master are out there, and rekeying a town is not something a budget absorbs quietly.
| Facility | Typical opening | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| City hall and department offices | Mortise, rim or cylindrical cylinders | Per-room records without wiring an old building. |
| Public works yards and salt sheds | Gate padlocks, door cylinders | Seasonal and contractor access on a schedule. |
| Fleet garages and fuel points | Cabinet cylinders, padlocks | Accountability on fuel, tools and vehicle keys. |
| Records and evidence storage | Door and cabinet cylinders | Two-person rule available on standard cylinders. |
| Libraries and community centers | Door cylinders, padlocks | Volunteer and hire access that expires by itself. |
| Water, sewer and lift stations | Door cylinders, hatch padlocks | Remote sites with no power run. See utilities. |
| Traffic cabinets and signal boxes | Cabinet cam locks | Records on street furniture exposed to the public. |
| Animal shelters and storm shelters | Door cylinders, padlocks | After-hours access tied to a named person. |
Access is issued against a schedule rather than handed over. A summer parks crew gets a key that works from June to August. A paving contractor gets the yard on weekdays until the job closes out. A volunteer gets the community center on the nights their program runs. Nothing has to be collected, 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 department is affected.
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 public works lead can carry a single key covering every municipal building and yard.
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 property room, an election equipment store or a records cage, that is dual custody without posting anybody at the door.
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 room somebody was not cleared for is captured even though the door never opened. When a records request or an internal question arrives, there is an actual record to answer it with.
Yes, and that is how most municipalities do it. Public works is the usual starting point because the pain is sharpest there. Because permissions live in the key rather than in the lock, adding another department later does not require revisiting the locks you already fitted.
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 historic city halls, sheds, yards and outbuildings practical to secure, because nothing is drilled and no conduit is run.
It stops working. Keys are issued against a schedule with an end date, so an unreturned key expires on its own. You can also disable it immediately in CyberAudit Web, and locks 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.
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.
Every cylinder records the lock ID, date, time and whether access was granted. The CyberKey keeps its own separate trail and always records refusals. That gives a per-opening record for buildings and yards that no card reader was ever extended to.
Yes. CyberAudit Web separates people, locks and schedules, so a department can be given responsibility for its own staff and openings while the whole municipality still sits in one system.
Yes. 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.
It sits behind them. Card readers keep doing the main entrances. CyberLock covers the interior rooms, cabinets, sheds, yards and remote sites they were never extended to. 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 crews who actually use them, and you read the audit trail before committing to anything.
Tell us what you are securing: city hall, a public works yard, fleet and fuel, records or evidence storage, libraries and community centers, or remote water and traffic assets, and roughly how many openings are involved. We will tell you which formats fit your existing hardware and what a pilot would look like.
