Nothing wired to the site
Battery-powered digital padlocks. No power, no cabling, no network at the lock.
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Site Access · Tower & Critical Infrastructure
Nobody gets on site without a name, a reason and a record.
Access requested against a job, approved by rule, opened from the technician’s phone for a set window — and logged, down to the attempts you refused.
Running across roughly 10,000 IHS Towers sites · Integrated with Abloy BEAT digital locks
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Every site on record
Each site is listed with its client and details, so access is requested against the right place.
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The access request
An access request and its access window, in the portal.
Every site on record
Each site is listed with its client and details, so access is requested against the right place.
The access request
An access request and its access window, in the portal.
Screens from the WorkWide app and portal, shown with demonstration data.
The problem
You can control the lock, or control the work. Almost nobody joins the two.
Estates of unmanned sites run on keys and phone calls. The keys get copied, the calls get forgotten, and when something is stolen the investigation starts from nothing.
Keys, everywhere
Nobody knows how many copies exist. Re-keying a region costs more than the theft that triggered it.
Permission by phone call
Someone rings the control room and someone says yes. That decision is recorded nowhere useful.
No record of who was there
“The batteries went missing between Tuesday and Thursday.” That is as close as most operators can get.
Locked out on arrival
A technician drives three hours, cannot get in, and the outage runs another day.
How it works
A site visit, end to end
Access requested
A technician, subcontractor or tenant requests access to a site, against a job.
Approved by rule
Approved automatically or by a named approver, against the rules for that site.
Rights issued
A time-bound right lands on that person’s phone. Nobody else can use it, and it expires on its own.
Lock opened
The phone opens the Abloy BEAT padlock over Bluetooth. No keys, no wiring, no call to the control room.
Work recorded
The job runs on the same app: checklist, photos, readings, parts, SLA clock.
Closed and logged
Lock closed, job closed, access expired — and every event written to the audit trail.
What gets recorded
Every visit, and every attempt
- WhoThe named person, their company, and whether they were vetted and inducted
- WhyThe job the access was requested against
- Who approved itThe approver, the rule applied, and the time of the decision
- The windowWhen the right started, and when it expired
- Lock eventsEvery open and close, with time and person
- RefusalsEvery attempt that was turned away — and the incident it raised
Exportable per site, per person, per period. Audit history is append-only — corrections are added, never overwritten.
Access record · site JHB-0412Tower site, northern region
- Person
- T. Dlamini · contractor, vetted
- Job
- Generator service · WO-88431
- Approved by
- Regional ops · rule: planned work
- Window
- 06:00 – 10:00 · 18 Sep
- Opened
- 06:41 · Abloy BEAT · gate padlock
- Closed
- 09:12 · site secured
- Refused
- 21:04 · right expired · incident raised
The lock
Integrated with Abloy BEAT
The lock is the enabler. The access management is the product.
Opened from an approved phone
The right is held on the phone and the lock opens over Bluetooth, so it works where there is no signal.
Or the hardware you run
We can work with other locking hardware where an estate already has it.
Buy it either way
Locks through ASSA ABLOY or through us. The platform, the rules and the audit trail are the same.
Proof
How IHS Towers runs it
Site access managed on WorkWide across roughly 10,000 sites.
10,000
sites under access management, shared with operator tenants
2.5m+
access requests handled a year — around 7,000 a day
3,000
field users licensed: employees and contractors
Every
event logged: requested, approved, opened, closed, refused
Access requests, approvals, digital lock events and the work done on site all sit on one record, so the trail of who accessed each site, and when, exists without anyone writing anything down.
Who it’s for
Built for estates nobody is standing on
Tower companies
National estates shared with operator tenants, visited by contractors you do not employ.
Mobile and fibre networks
Base stations, exchanges, PoPs and cabinets, spread across regions.
Utilities and water
Substations, pump stations and reservoirs, where theft and vandalism are constant.
Broadcast, rail and remote plant
Transmission sites, trackside cabinets and remote assets with nobody on site.
Why WorkWide
Access is only half of it
The lock event lands on the job
Lock software tells you a lock opened. We tell you who was approved, for what work, and what they did inside.
Nobody holds a key
Rights are issued to a person for a window and expire on their own. Losing a phone is not losing a master key.
Built for no signal
The lock opens over Bluetooth, not over the network, and records sync when the phone is back in range.
An audit trail you can hand over
Append-only history, exportable per site, per person, per period — for tenants, insurers and auditors.
FAQ
Questions operators ask
Do we have to change our locks?
We integrate with Abloy BEAT as standard, and can work with other locking hardware you already run. The locks can be bought through us or through ASSA ABLOY.
What happens where there is no signal?
The access right sits on the phone for its window and the lock opens over Bluetooth. Records sync when the phone is back in range.
Can contractors be restricted to certain sites and times?
Yes. Rights are issued per person, per site, for a window, and check-in can be restricted to the area around the site.
Do you handle vetting and permits?
Contractor vetting, induction records and permits to work are part of onboarding, so a person cannot hold access rights without them.
Can it work with our alarms or cameras?
Integration is possible through our open API. Nothing is delivered yet, so we scope it with you rather than promise a date.
Can our tenants see their own access records?
Yes, through the client portal.
Who was on your site last Tuesday?
If the answer takes more than a minute, we should talk.