Hotel Door Locks

The cost of fitting multiple doors with strong standard (keyed) locks is an important design consideration for every private residence or commercial building. In hotels and motels the sheer number of doors that need locks can be staggering - easily reaching hundreds and even thousands of individual lock mechanisms. Each door is important. Losing track of a single key or failing to change just one compromised or broken door lock can quickly result in employee or guest injury,  theft or vandalism of property, and resulting lawsuits, replacement costs, and other consequences.  

In the past manual keyed locks presented a challenge that required on-site expertise and even a dedicated locksmith in large facilities. Modern technology has eliminated this requirement with the advent of computer controlled electronic door locks. But keypads have mechanical features and can be damaged by vandalism or rough use. Those problems have now been eliminated by the use of keyless electronic door locks that use a proximity card, programmed on-site, to control access.

After keypads, the next generation of keyless hotel door locks used magnetic swipe cars. While being cheap and easy to make, they lacked some important features. Two features are the most troublesome (among others). Since so many personal cards (drivers licenses, credit cards, phone cards, etc.) contain magnetic strips, a typical wallet or purse can be jammed with a dozen cards or more. Under the right conditions these cards can come into contact with each other and effectively de-magnetize (or scramble) each other, making one or both cards useless or undependable.

Radio frequency proximity cards eliminate the problem with demagnetization. Proximity cards are cheap to keep on hand and can be programmed by anyone. The process is fast and simple and requires only some software and a small, dedicated hardware module. Cards can be programmed to unlock a single door or a group of doors and even to allow access to special locations on a card-by-card basis. These cards can not be copied and expire automatically OR at managements' discretion.

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