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Bitwards ONE brings Tap to Open to iPhone

The new Bitwards ONE app uses the iPhone's own NFC: hold the phone to a reader to identify yourself, or to an NFC lock to open it — the same gesture people already use to pay. Available now in the App Store.

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A school has many more doors than your security budget can cover

Wired access control costs roughly €2,200 a door to install, so a fixed budget reaches the entrance and a few utility rooms out of a building with a hundred and fifty doors. Mark Linder and Eljas Saastamoinen on what changes when the wiring goes away — and the cost of a managed door falls by an order of magnitude.

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Tredu on keeping a campus secure without keys

Tampere Vocational College Tredu manages student and staff access on mobile, across 13 separate sites. Security expert Mika Tennberg describes how a campus that now hosts cafés, beauty care and outside customers changed what access control has to do — in Jyri Paasonen's article for Turvallisuus & Riskienhallinta 3/2026.

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Bitwards launches Tenant Access Manager

The world’s first delegated access solution for offline locks. A school can let each evening club’s own coordinator manage its members’ access, within the boundaries the school sets — and the building owner keeps policy control and the audit trail without touching a single user credential.

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Every Ahlsell store in Finland now opens with a phone

Ahlsell's professional customers reach its Finnish B2B stores around the clock with the Bitwards app. The platform was first taken up across the Rexel store network; after Ahlsell acquired Rexel's Finnish operations in 2025, it covers all 38 retail locations.

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Selepso launches Bitwards in France under the MACS brand

Selepso Group, the French specialist in electronic security and secure identification, has launched the Bitwards platform in France as MACS — Mobile Access Control Services. The group brings deep roots in access control through SCOPUS, ELSYLOG and SCAP.

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New Smart Doors Revolutionize Access Control

Dormakaba and Südmetall have both unveiled intelligent lock bodies that look like traditional mechanical ones but carry smart technology inside, letting them run on the Bitwards platform.

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Significant European Lock Manufacturers Join the Bitwards Platform

The open access control platform is expanding its reach by partnering with lock manufacturers Dormakaba, XPR Group and Südmetall.

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How can Securitas Flow improve customers’ experiences?

Guest writer Juha Pieviläinen of Securitas Technology on ‘holiday stress’, and how rental property owners can take the key handover out of a customer’s journey entirely.

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The different flavours of Mobile Access

Mobile access is a mainstream feature now, and customers ask every vendor for it. But several quite different approaches travel under the one term, which makes it hard to tell what a given service actually provides.

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CatMarina — modern office and coworking space in Lahti

CatMarina coworking space runs a book–pay–access flow powered by Bitwards Mobile Access and the Asio booking system.

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Press release: €1.3 million raised for international expansion

A fundraising round at the end of the year boosted Bitwards’ plans for international market expansion with a €1.3 million investment. Among the investors are Mikael Lilius, Johan Hammaren and Peter Ramsay, CEO of Taaleri.

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Access control then, now and in the future

Guest writer Jukka Laakso, CEO of Louhos Solutions and former CEO of Flexim Security, on how security and access control have developed over the years — and where he thinks they go next.

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Fraunhofer Society’s research played a part in Bitwards’ development

The third part of the company history: what the German research organisation Fraunhofer Society contributed to the technology behind the platform.

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Smarten Spaces and Bitwards announce partnership

Smarten Spaces, a global hybrid workplace technology provider, and Bitwards announce a strategic partnership to improve the hybrid workplace experience for employees and organisations.

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Doors wide open with the Bitwards app

Finnish Bitwards has developed an app that turns a smartphone into a key — opening doors, lockers and gates, and even starting an industrial machine’s ignition switch.

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