The days of big warehouses with small individual spaces where you can store your business or personal belongings are now long gone. With space and buildings becoming scarce, companies have become more creative of ways to create space.
Some, like Steeles have turned to shipping containers.
Steeles take old shipping containers, give them a lick of paint and then stack them into orderly rows, fit new doors and all of a sudden they have bespoken individual storage units. The challenge they then had was to secure the site, whilst providing access to customers, but maintaining their business model of operating each site on a skeleton staff whilst continuing to deliver a high level of service for their customers.
The site was controlled by entry panels and remote access, but was time consuming and not particularly effective. They required an access control system where fobs could be quickly added for new customers and deleted when customers no longer required using the facility. They system also required to provide:
- tiered access like a gym membership
- the facility to deny access should someone not pay for their storage unit
- trigger alerts for fobs that have been disabled
- global management of all sites from any internet connected device
- remote door open function
- door unlock invitation via email in emergency
- reporting on who and when accessed the site
- a reduction in costs managing the access
CAME KMS’ SimpleKey Web is the leading communal door access control solution in the UK and its flexibility in adapting to different requirements is one of the reasons behind its success at Steeles Self Storage.
Find out how SimpleKey Web provided Steeles with the service and security they required or how it can manage your organisation communal door access, please contact us.
