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Identifying the best security tools that actually align with your hotel’s needs can be challenging. Even just researching new systems can feel like wading through a sea of buzzwords. RFID, analytics, IoT. It’s frustrating trying to figure out what’s actually relevant for your particular facility.
The organization’s first key cabinets relied on metal-to-metal contact for key tags to be accurately read by the system. Chris Hamblin, Director of Security and Facilities at Ameristar adds: “The reality is that metal-contact key tags get dirty and corroded over time, which affects the system’s ability to make contact, and its reliability. It’s labor intensive to keep them clean, and that often falls under the responsibility of Security.”
The pin tumbler lock has been around for about 6,000 years. The Egyptians developed a lock and wooden key (about 2 feet long!) using the same basic principles as your front door deadbolt. With so much attention paid to the high-tech layers of a security program – intrusion detection, video analytics, electronic access control – it’s easy to forget just how critical a well-designed lock is; and just how vulnerable an inexpensive metal key can make you.
