SnapKey units
Cellular units that open the gates, barriers and doors with no cylinder — from the same app, on the same access rights, into the same log as your iLOQ locks.
Book a demoWorks alongside iLOQ
Opens over 4G
Every opening confirmed
Installed by our partners
For everything without a cylinder
Gates, barriers, garage doors, bollards and service doors held by a magnet. They were never part of the locking plan and never will be — but people still have to get through them.
One system, not two
A unit appears as a door like any other. The same security groups decide who may open it, the same app opens it, and the opening lands in the same log as the cylinders. There is no second system to administer.
Openings that confirm themselves
The command travels over the unit's own cellular link, and the unit reports back once the contact has closed. You see whether the gate got the signal — not merely that somebody pressed a button.
Presence is proved
The phone has to be inside the door's radius — 150 metres until you tighten it for that door — or scan the QR sticker on the door itself. Nobody opens a gate in another town.
From gate controller to phone
Mount
The unit goes in the cabinet beside the gate or door controller, on permanent power and a cellular link. One free dry contact on the controller is all it asks for.
Provision
Each unit gets its own certificate, pinned to that unit alone. The private key is shown once at provisioning and never stored, and a unit taken down is revoked from the dashboard.
Assign
The opening becomes a door in SnapKey: security groups decide who may open it, and how close they have to be standing.
Open
From the app, the unit closes the contact for the few seconds you have set, confirms back, and the opening is written to the log.
Where it earns its place
Car-park barriers and gates
The contractor lets themselves in for one afternoon — instead of a remote control that moves into a glovebox and stays there.
Bin stores, bollards and garage doors
The shared openings nobody wants to re-key, opened with the key people already carry on their phone.
Service doors on a maglock
Plant rooms and technical rooms where a strike or a magnet holds the door, and there is no cylinder to fit a key to.
What the administrator gains
The openings that used to sit outside the system — on remote controls, code pads and borrowed keys — brought in beside the cylinders.
Gates and barriers listed as doors, next to the iLOQ locks
The same security groups deciding who may open what
Live online and offline status for every unit
Every opening in the same log as the cylinders
A unit revoked from the dashboard the day it comes down
What the field gains
Fewer things to carry, hand over and chase — and a record that writes itself while the work happens.
The gate opens from the phone that already opens the doors
No remote control to hand over, lose or get back
Confirmation that the gate received the command
The door's radius or its QR sticker shows who stood there
One app for the whole site, cylinders and gates alike
What a site needs
A unit is quick to fit where these three things are in place — and it is not an offline device, so we say that up front.
Permanent mains power. The unit does not run on a battery.
Usable cellular coverage. A metal cabinet may call for an external antenna.
One free dry contact on the gate or door controller.
Each unit carries its own certificate, pinned to that unit, and everything behind it runs on AWS inside the EU, with AES-256 encryption at rest.
iLOQ is a trademark of its owner.Questions about SnapKey units
No. The cylinders keep doing what they do best — deciding at the door, with no power and no network. The units cover the openings that were never part of the locking plan: gates, barriers, garage doors and doors held by a magnet.
No, and we would rather say so plainly. A unit opens over its cellular link; without that link it cannot be opened from the app. Openings that have to work with no network belong on an iLOQ cylinder, which decides at the door itself.
Our partners. They size the installation, fit the unit beside the controller and stay your point of contact afterwards, with SnapKey supporting them behind it.
Permanent mains power, usable cellular coverage — a metal cabinet may call for an external antenna — and one free dry contact on the gate or door controller.
Each command is followed from the moment it is sent until the unit confirms it, and the result is written to the same log as the cylinder openings. A command that never reached the unit is visible as exactly that.
Yes — with the same security groups you already use for the cylinders, and by how close the person has to be: inside the door's radius, or standing at the QR sticker on the door.
It supplies the evidence: who opened which gate, when, and on whose authority. Whether your programme as a whole satisfies the directive remains your own assessment.
The unit is bought once and carries a yearly remote-access licence. Your SnapKey partner quotes the two together and handles the installation.
Bring us the opening that never fitted the locking plan
The barrier, the bin store, the gate at the back of the yard. We will walk through what a unit needs on site, and what it would look like in your log afterwards.
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