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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Ahlsell: kaikki myymälät auki 24/7 Find an Ahlsell store
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.
Selepso Group MACS solution
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.
The open access control platform is expanding its reach by partnering with lock manufacturers Dormakaba, XPR Group and Südmetall.
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.
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.
CatMarina coworking space runs a book–pay–access flow powered by Bitwards Mobile Access and the Asio booking system.
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.
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.
The third part of the company history: what the German research organisation Fraunhofer Society contributed to the technology behind the platform.
Smarten Spaces, a global hybrid workplace technology provider, and Bitwards announce a strategic partnership to improve the hybrid workplace experience for employees and organisations.
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.
Hallinnoitko kiinteistöjä, asennatko kulunvalvontaa työksesi vai valmistatko laitteita, joiden pitäisi olla älykkäämpiä — ohjaamme sinut oikean vastauksen tai lähimmän kumppanin luo.
Valitse mitä haluat, niin lähetämme sen sinulle. Emme lähetä sinulle muuta kuin pyytämäsi, ellet rastita viimeistä kohtaa.
Käytämme tietojasi vastataksemme yhteydenottoosi ja sen jatkokäsittelyyn. Lue tietosuojakäytäntömme.
Lähetimme sinulle sähköpostiin linkin aineistoon. Avaa linkki, niin lataus alkaa.
Linkki on voimassa 15 minuuttia. Jos se ehtii vanhentua, pyydä vain uudelleen — voit tehdä sen niin monta kertaa kuin haluat.
Kerro vähän ovistasi, niin palaamme asiaan — tai yhdistämme sinut lähimpään Bitwards-kumppaniin.
Pyyntösi on meillä, ja joku ottaa sinuun pian yhteyttä sähköpostitse.
Bitwardsin myy, asentaa ja tukee kumppani kullakin markkinalla. Kerro mitä teette, niin kerromme miten alusta sopii siihen.
Kyselysi on meillä. Kumppanitiimistämme otetaan sinuun pian yhteyttä sähköpostitse.
