Europe
Entrance control for schools, colleges and universities — where the question is not who came in this morning, but who is standing inside the building at this exact minute.
Education is the one sector where the entrance carries a duty of care rather than only a commercial interest. Six problems come up in every conversation.
Safeguarding rests on a simple claim: every adult inside the perimeter is known, expected and accounted for. A signing-in book kept at a desk that is sometimes unattended does not support that claim, and everyone knows it.
Issued in the morning, never returned, now somewhere in a car. A physical pass that outlives the visit is a credential with no owner, no expiry and no record of where it went.
Most of the day's arrivals land inside ten minutes, then it happens again at the end of the day. A gate that hesitates gets propped open by the second week, and a propped gate controls nothing.
Attendance is taken in classrooms; evacuation is counted in the playground. When the two lists differ, somebody has to walk back into the building to find out why.
They are shorter, they carry backpacks, they arrive in groups and they run. Equipment specified for a corporate lobby meets none of those conditions, and the sensing that works on an adult in a coat can miss a child at speed.
The building is a school until half past three and a community facility afterwards. Two populations, two sets of rules, one entrance, and usually a set of keys that has been copied more times than anyone can count.
A visitor credential is a QR code valid for a defined window, read at the same lane as staff. Nothing is handed over, so nothing has to be chased at the end of the day, and no unaccounted badge leaves the site.
Contractors, peripatetic teachers, exam invigilators and parents all pass under the same rule, and the record of who was inside is created at the door rather than reconstructed from a book afterwards.
Published throughput is 35 persons per minute for a tripod turnstile and up to 50 per minute for a speed gate lane, as published by the manufacturer. Three lanes clear a two-form-entry arrival comfortably.
Speed is a safeguarding measure here, not a convenience. A gate that queues is a gate somebody props open, and a propped gate controls nothing at all.
Infrared windows run the full height of each inner face and read presence across the whole opening rather than at a single beam. A smaller person is detected as reliably as an adult, and anti-pinch detection holds the wings open on an obstruction instead of closing on it.
Where a lower profile is wanted, the KSB1322W stands 950 mm tall — the shortest swing barrier in the range, as published by the manufacturer.
On power loss or an alarm the arms release to free passage and stay there, as EN 17352 requires of motorised pedestrian barriers on escape routes. On the widest variants that leaves an opening of up to 1200 mm — wide enough for a class moving together.
Because every lane counts in both directions, the last figure for who had entered and not left is available to whoever is holding the register at the assembly point.
A school is a different institution at nine in the morning and at seven in the evening. The entitlement logic behind the gate is what lets one entrance serve both, and on a turnkey delivery Keyable Europe configures, commissions and supports it.
Chosen for what a campus actually faces: a bell-time surge, a lane that a class can move through, and a sports facility that lives a second life after dark.
The widest lane in the range for groups, bags and wheelchairs, with the lowest housing option at 950 mm.
For libraries, faculty buildings and halls of residence, where the population is adult and the volume is constant.
Variants rated by the manufacturer for indoor and outdoor duty, for a pitch or sports hall used by the community out of hours.
All technical figures on this page are as published by the manufacturer. Where a value is not published, it is omitted rather than estimated.
A secondary school with an attached sports hall: three barrier lanes on the main entrance, visitor passes issued as time-bounded QR codes, pupil arrival and departure recorded at the point of entry, and a live on-site figure held for the fire register.
After half past three the same lanes admit booked community groups under a separate time window, so the sports hall earns its evening income without a second entrance and without a single key changing hands.
Every model in the range is available as a supply-only order, as an installation integrated with the system you already use, or as a complete working solution. The choice is commercial, not technical — the hardware is identical.
You already have an integrator, an access platform and a programme. We deliver the equipment and the paperwork, and stay out of the way.
We install, commission and integrate Keyable barriers and turnstiles with virtually any professional access-control platform capable of exchanging the required commands and credentials. You keep your software; only the entrance changes.
One point of responsibility from site survey and commissioning through long-term local service support. You approve a design and take delivery of a working entrance.
All three models cover the full range: speed gates, swing, flap and sliding barriers, tripod, full height and half height turnstiles. Scope, response times and warranty terms are set per project and confirmed in the quotation.
Because a school has to be able to say who is on site at any moment. That single fact underpins safeguarding, the fire register and attendance. A controlled entrance produces the answer as a by-product of people arriving, rather than as a clipboard exercise.
With a pass that expires by itself. A visitor credential is a QR code valid for a defined window, read at the same lane as staff. Nothing is handed over, so nothing has to be recovered, and no unaccounted pass leaves the site in a coat pocket.
In part. Every Keyable barrier is bi-directional, so entries and exits are both recorded and the difference is a live figure for who is still on site. On an alarm the barriers release to free passage, as EN 17352 requires on escape routes, and the last recorded count supports the register at the assembly point.
Safety comes from three things: infrared sensing across the full height of the lane rather than a single beam, so a small person is detected as reliably as an adult; anti-pinch detection that holds the wings open rather than closing on an obstruction; and free passage on power loss. Lower housings are available, with the KSB1322W at 950 mm the shortest swing barrier in the range.
Yes. Entitlements are held against time windows, so the same lane can admit pupils during the school day and a booked sports club in the evening, without a second entrance and without keys changing hands.