Access Controls

Access Controls encompass many features not available in a simple “lock”.  Accountability, Time Restrictions, Flexibility.  In many cases in today’s world, it is not enough to provide a lock on a door, you have to be able to prove who passed through that door and when they did it (or tried to and failed); you have to be able to block someone immediately after they are terminated without blocking 100 other employees; and you may have to adhere to some very specific conditions of who and how and when the door can be opened.  For example, pharmacies and law enforcement agencies require a “two-person rule” to access drug storage and evidence lockers.

In the past, very complicated and very fallible systems grew up to accomplish these tasks using tiers of mechanical locks and human oversight but today these features can easily be accomplished using electronic access controls.

Stand alone locks can control 1000s of users, are instantly updateable, can track date and time restrictions, even expire users based on number of uses or preset rules such as date and time and report the last 40,000 events at a lock.  Systems can be configured to track who is in a room and sound an alarm if an entry or exit happens without proper authorization.

Today these “systems” can be a single lock on a door or a wired or wireless campus-wide octopus of varied and interconnected equipment that not only report activity but actuate other systems (such as using the same electronic key to both open a classroom and turn on the air handler while working after hours or authorize a copy machine that records the activity and charges back to the appropriate department).

Pyrran can supply and configure all manner of these and many solutions fit both a single family home as easily as a large multi-building campus.