Texas is dealing with a statewide stay home request from Governor Abbot. Many Texans are transitioning to working from home, while some businesses, like ourselves, are deemed essential services and provide critical infrastructure to the community.

We’ve taken additional measures to keep ourselves – and our clients – safe while working on commercial or residential properties. If your business is deemed an essential service, or if you’d simply like to improve the safety and security of your employees when everyone returns to working on-site, then commercial access control can help you do that.

Access control makes it possible to not only restrict access through doors and entry spots to those with the appropriate authority to enter a space; this innovative technology solution also allows you and any other authorized staff to control your McAllen, TX, building hands-free. Keep reading to learn more.

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Touch-Free Access

If your staff are often rolling or carrying in materials to multiple locations of your commercial building, then avoiding the hassle of holding open locked doors will help them become more efficient in their jobs. Also, leaving doorknobs untouched protects against harmful germs.

Better yet, if you have an area of your building that requires restricted access, commercial access control allows you to protect these areas securely. Hands-free operation is possible with a variety of different options, from a card swipe to a long-range electronic ID badge carried on a lanyard.

The access panel recognizes the ID badge and allows the rightfully vetted employee into the area. There’s no need to fumble for keys, and the doors can be designed to open automatically, so this system is entirely touch-free.

Remote Deliveries

If your workplace is still receiving packages, then touch-free remote delivery is helpful for contactless delivery. When delivery people arrive and ring the doorbell, it will trigger a push notification to send directly to your smartphone. After viewing surveillance cameras of the doorway, you can remotely provide access to delivery people so that they can place the package inside the doorway and away from street view. You can even speak to the delivery person with a video intercom system. Once packages are delivered, remotely lock the door to continue protecting your McAllen-area business.

If you’re interested in bringing touch-free security to your Texas building, consider access control. Call Circle Industries today at (833) 424-7253 or connect with us online. We look forward to working with you.