Access authorisations

Clearly: Anyone renting or buying an apartment or house has access authorisation for this. For this, they need a key. But he's not the only one. Access authorisation may also be granted to other persons: Be it family members, residents of shared apartment, but perhaps also neighbours or friends with a key if you forget your own, possibly even external house visitors with access authorisation. These could be regular cleaning staff working in the household, for example.

Other types of accesses

Homes also have other entrances, such as a underground car park, a garage or even a tool shed. Anyone who has access authorisation here also needs the corresponding key. Here it also must be clarified as to who has or should receive access authorisation.

In addition to access authorisation to your home, you also need access to your workplace. Depending on where you work, this may also involve one or more access authorisations. On the one hand, this involves access to the company building, but perhaps also to the your own workplace. In addition, depending on the type of job, other rooms can be added – be it storage rooms, server rooms or other rooms. Wherever the employee has access authorisation, they also need a corresponding key. In addition, there may also be a company car park or a parking garage to which access authorisation must be granted.

Access authorisations

However, not only directors, owners and employees have access to a company, but also external workers. These include, for example, cleaning staff who clean the building outside of working hours, but also suppliers who could have access to the warehouse in order to store or store goods directly. Access must also be granted to these workers.

As you can see, keys are always required for access authorisations. The consequence is often a large number of keys – the more access authorisations, the more keys a person has to carry around. This happens quite quickly, especially when it comes to work.

This large number of keys also increases the risk of losing keys – the more keys you carry, the greater the risk of losing one. But whether it's a lot of keys or if you're carrying a few with you (as in the case of private housing): Losing keys is always annoying and costly. The fact that you can no longer enter the premises to which you have access authorisation is just one factor here (as is the fact that the lost key could be found and thus someone can access the property unauthorised). In order to restore security, in the case of analogue keys, cylinders and keys have to be replaced, which means a great deal of effort – as already mentioned, also in terms of costs.

There is a remedy here: Instead of assigning an analogue key, we recommend using a digital locking system. Instead of many keys, you can store all access authorisations in a digital access medium (preferably a transponder), thus avoiding not only a large set of keys, but also many other potential problems.