eCLIQ Makes Tokoroa High School Security Access Simpler and Safer

Forest View High School in Tokoroa spans a large green campus, catering to more than 425 students. Built to the Ministry of Education’s design standards of the day, it comprises separate classroom blocks, a gymnasium, an auditorium and an administration wing, as well as extensive sports fields and courts.

Despite the best management, the time and cost of running a site with registered mechanical keys was too high, and compromised property safety too.

"Running the old traditional key system was manual and time-consuming," recalls school principal Jocelyn Hale. "There was one key for each block and others for different storage rooms according to access restrictions."

But with so many doors spread over the campus, replacing all the manual keys with a wired-in digital system was not practical.

Choosing the eCLIQ electronic keying system by ASSA ABLOY, which features battery-powered electronic keys, meant the upfront costs of installation was substantially less than hard-wired locks. Installed by local locksmiths, eCLIQ was retrofitted to 50 years’ worth of various lock types, bringing the school’s access system into the 21st century.