While it’s important to keep such This lock provides security and fire updated with the results of this valuable resources safe from safety for commercial and public new level of fire resistance. unauthorized access, it’s equally buildings, making it an ideal solution crucial to ensure that workers can for ensuring optimal security, RELIABLE AND ADAPTABLE quickly access and exit the space especially in busy areas. Equipped with a 70 and 72mm axis swiftly when required. and a 50, 55, 60 and 65mm centre And, particularly in emergency The EML is compatible with any type distance, the EML adapts to all types situations such as a fire, a room of electronic access control while of wood and metal doors. It is easy to must never be so secure that it is providing a solution to the dual need install and designed to be intuitively impossible for people to escape. for automatic locking and free exit. reversible to fit right or left hand This is why sensitive buildings or As a result, the EML can be used in doors. Only the external handle is environments require a range of situations where handle-controlled electronically controlled. security measures, including access unlocking needs to be combined with Mechanical opening via the cylinder control, surveillance, cybersecurity, mechanical security requirements. is always possible. The main environmental monitoring, parameter to set is whether the and fire prevention. The electromechanical lock has lock should open or close in the also recently passed the EI2 30 fire event of a power failure. EML’S BAPTISM OF FIRE resistance test for metal doors, As part of its access control range, with further certification on the way. With automatic locking, the unit is DOM Security has developed an The assessment, carried out by Efectis, fitted with a counter-bolt that electromechanical lock, the EML tested both sides of the door block automatically activates the deadbolt Emergency Mortise Lock, to meet the and found the lock to be highly when the door is closed, preventing standards for lever handles and push resilient. Already certified to EN 14846 retraction of the ½ turn bolt. pads on emergency exits as defined for its strength, security, durability This provides an additional level of by EN 179 and the requirements of and function, this classification, security by locking automatically when EN 1125 for panic exit devices together with EN 179, is now operated by a horizontal bar. 68 | Best of DOM