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A reader is a small part of the bill. What a door costs depends on what has to happen when the power fails.
People ask what an access control system costs, and the only honest first answer is a question: how many doors, and what kind.
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If you let a flat by the night, the lock is the only member of staff you have. It is worth choosing it like one.
A hotel has a front desk. A short-stay flat has a lock, and that lock is doing the entire job of arrival: letting the right person in, at the right...
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Access control on a school site is mostly about who may come in, and about doors that must never lock a child on the wrong side.
Access control in an office is a theft and confidentiality problem. In a school it is a safeguarding problem, and that changes almost every decision.
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Guest rooms are the obvious answer and the least interesting one. The doors that change how a hotel runs are the ones behind the desk.
Every hotel that asks us about card locks starts with the guest rooms, which is right, and usually stops there, which is a missed opportunity.
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A key opens a door and keeps no record. Past a certain size that is not a security model, it is an assumption.
Ask an office of forty people who holds a key to the server room and you will usually get a confident answer and a wrong one.
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