Can An Access Control System Save My Business Money?
Jay360 is a leading installer of commercial access control systems in Southern Ontario. Contact us today to discuss your options and for answers to all the questions you may have on access control.
An electronic access control system can seem complicated and intimidating, like something you would only find at high-security government offices. As you consider investing in one, you must have a lot of questions:
How much will it cost? In what ways will it benefit my business? Importantly, will an electronic access control system save my business money?
An access control system gives you an electronic way to control who can enter which doors and at what times of the day. This opens up many opportunities to save money and run your business more efficiently.
Granted, you will have to spend a significant amount of money upfront, but an access control system will pay for itself by the savings it will make for your business. Let’s look at that in more detail:
5 ways an access control system will save your business money
An access control system is an excellent tool for deterring thefts and vandalism of equipment at your facility. Here are other ways it can save your business money:
Of course, access cards can also be lost. But if the concerned employee reports immediately that they have lost their access card, it can be deactivated from the system before it can be used by an unauthorized person. Better yet, there are now biometric access control systems that completely dispense with access cards.
Of course, access cards can also be lost. But if the concerned employee reports immediately that they have lost their access card, it can be deactivated from the system before it can be used by an unauthorized person. Better yet, there are now biometric access control systems that completely dispense with access cards.
2. Save on energy costs
You can enjoy numerous cost savings by integrating your access control system with other automated systems you use at your business. These include your HVAC, payroll, and lighting systems.
Integration enables data exchange between your access control and other systems. This allows you to, for example, configure your HVAC to turn off the air-conditioning in the parts of the building that are unoccupied as your access control system has all this data at any given time.
You can also control the heat and airconditioning based on the number of people in a room at a given time. With lights, you can configure the light switch to be activated by a person swiping their access card to enter a room. In the same way, the lights will turn off when the last person leaves the room.
Still on integration:
3. Minimize lost employee productivity
Businesses lose millions of dollars in lost productivity by employees turning up late for work. In large companies where it is difficult to monitor employees, you can even have problems with employees cloaking their absent colleagues in and out.
Besides costing your business money in lost manhours, such habits can spread throughout your company, with the risk of demoralizing your loyal, honest employees. An easier fix is to integrate your access control system with your payroll software.
Instead of relying on the unreliable data from your employee cloaking system, you can simply import the data from your access control system, which can tell you with pinpoint accuracy what time each employee entered and left their place of work. This way you only pay people for the time they have actually spent at work as well as discipline or terminate perennial latecomers
The excellent reporting options of electronic access control systems can also give you data on staff movements within the workplace. You will know how much time people are spending at their designated workstations, helping you monitor and ensure everyone is being productive.
4 Improved security means fewer thefts
An access control system removes the risk of undesirable visitors slipping into your facility undetected. Once inside, there is no telling what damage an unauthorized visitor can do. But you will naturally be concerned with the risk that they may steal items of value or vandalize critical equipment.
Businesses today collect mounds of sensitive information. This includes private client information as well as data on how their products are used, which helps to improve their products. All this is information that can harm your business interests and risk your compliance with privacy laws if it fell into the wrong hands.
Within your own organization, an access control system can discourage staff from pilfering stock and materials as it can tell which people were in a specific part of the facility when a theft occurred. Better yet, you can easily restrict access to your storerooms and warehouses to people who need to be there.
5. Improve revenue collection at multi-tenant buildings
One of the biggest challenges of running multi-tenant buildings is the late-payment of rent. Another is tenants who sublet their apartments, depriving you of rental income and running up utility and building maintenance bills. Unsanctioned tenants are also the most likely to steal and vandalize the property.
Installing an access control system gives you control over who has access to the facility. If the building has common areas for laundry and recreation areas like the gym, spa, or swimming pool, you can lock people with unpaid rent out of these areas until they settle their bills.
An access control system can also provide data on irregular patterns that point to a larger number of building occupants than normal. Depending on the capabilities of your access control system, you can use the data to reset rent amounts or evict the tenants responsible.
Still not sure if an access control system can benefit your business, facility, or institution?
Jay360 is a leading installer of commercial access control systems in Southern Ontario. Contact us today to discuss your options and for answers to all the questions you may have on access control.
