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Entrance control for swimming pools, spas and water parks — chlorine on one side, a legal bather limit on the other, and visitors who carry nothing but a wristband.
An aquatic centre is the harshest environment in this sector, and the one where the entrance carries the most legal weight.
Chloramine vapour travels through the whole building and settles on every surface. Hardware specified for an office lobby survives about two seasons; the failure appears first on hinges, fixings and anything plated rather than solid.
Wet, barefoot, in a swimsuit, holding a towel. No pocket, no wallet, no phone. A credential that assumes a smartphone in the hand is a credential that will not be used on the wet side.
Maximum bather load is set by regulation and by your insurer. Knowing the number inside at any moment is not an operational nicety — it is the difference between compliance and a closed pool.
Timed sessions only work if the clock is enforced at the exit. Enforced by staff, it becomes an argument at the desk. Unenforced, the capacity you sold twice is occupied once.
Prams, floats, kit bags, three children and a grandparent. A 600 mm lane designed for a commuter turns a family arrival into a queue, and turns the accessible lane into the only usable one.
Everywhere else, a locked exit is a serious failure. Here the people leaving are unshod, half-dressed and moving on wet tile. Whatever else the entrance does, it has to disappear.
The KSB1518 is rated by the manufacturer for indoor and outdoor duty, in electroplated stainless steel with an anti-fingerprint treatment. Operating range is −20 °C to 60 °C, with a mean cycle count above five million passages. Figures as published by the manufacturer, September 2025.
That specification is the whole argument. Everything else on this page assumes the hardware is still there in year five.
Readers accept 13.56 MHz RFID and NFC at a range of 0 to 10 centimetres, with a read time under 0.2 seconds, as published by the manufacturer, September 2025. A silicone wristband is waterproof, worn rather than carried, and survives being handed to a six-year-old.
At the dry entrance the same lane still reads QR codes from a screen or from paper, so online booking and walk-up tickets work without a second device.
Every barrier in the range is bi-directional, so an exit is a recorded event rather than an absence. Live occupancy is simply entries minus exits, held at the gate and reconciled centrally.
Set a maximum bather load and the lane can hold new entries at the threshold instead of asking a lifeguard to estimate. When the network drops, the count continues locally and buffers until the connection returns.
On power loss 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.
Every declaration and test document is available for your fire strategy and for building control.
A pool sells time and capacity rather than membership alone, which makes the logic behind the gate the part that earns its keep. On a turnkey delivery Keyable Europe configures and supports it.
Chosen for what an aquatic centre actually faces: humidity, families and an outdoor lido that has to survive winter.
Rated by the manufacturer for indoor and outdoor use, anti-fingerprint electroplate, and the widest lane in the range for families and equipment.
For the dry entrance where a summer Saturday arrives all at once and the queue reaches the car park.
Variants rated by the manufacturer for indoor and outdoor duty in painted or electroplated steel, for a seasonal perimeter that stands through winter.
All technical figures on this page are as published by the manufacturer in the September 2025 specification. Where a value is not published, it is omitted rather than estimated.
A municipal centre with a pool hall, a sauna suite and a summer lido: four barrier lanes on the main concourse, wristband reading throughout, timed sessions enforced at the exit, and a live occupancy figure held against the permitted bather load.
The widest lane doubles as the accessible route and as the family lane, so there is no separate gate and nothing that marks anyone out.
Barriers specified for humidity: electroplated stainless steel with an anti-fingerprint treatment, rated by the manufacturer for indoor and outdoor use, with an operating range of −20 °C to 60 °C. Swing barriers are the usual choice because they also give the widest passage.
With an RFID wristband read at 13.56 MHz. A wristband is waterproof, wearable and does not need pockets, which is why it is the standard credential on the wet side. The same readers also accept QR codes and NFC at the dry entrance.
Yes. All Keyable barriers are bi-directional, so entries and exits are both recorded and live occupancy is the difference between them. That figure can be compared against a maximum bather load and used to hold entry when the limit is reached.
The entitlement carried by the wristband holds a session start and duration. At the exit gate the elapsed time is checked, and an overstay is either charged automatically or referred to the desk, without staff having to watch a clock.
Yes. EN 17352 requires motorised pedestrian barriers on escape routes to leave the way out clear, and Keyable barriers release to free passage on power loss. This matters more at a pool than almost anywhere, because the people evacuating are barefoot and unclothed.
Every model in the range is available either as a supply-only order or as a complete installation. 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.
One point of responsibility from the site survey to the fifth year of service. You approve a design and take delivery of a working entrance.
Both models cover the full range: speed gates, swing, flap and sliding barriers, tripod and full height turnstiles. Scope, response times and warranty terms are set per project and confirmed in the quotation.