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For decades, many openings have been considered “not worth automating”: storage rooms, interior offices, community rooms, maintenance closets, remote facilities, and secondary doors in distributed properties. They remained mechanical not necessarily because owners did not value accountability, but because the wiring, labor, and complexity of adding access control were difficult to justify. Connected locks can change that calculation. The opportunity, however, is not to make every opening...

Imagine a retailer with hundreds of stores, a corporate-lodging operator with facilities across several states, or a franchise network managed by different local teams. An employee changes locations. A contractor needs access to twelve sites for one week. A remote facility requires emergency service on Friday evening. None of these situations is solved simply by knowing that a door can be unlocked from a phone. The more important question is whether the organization can give the appropriate...

Conversations about smart locks often begin and end with multifamily housing. Apartments are an important application, but they are hardly the only places struggling with access. Community and commercial organizations may have fewer doors than a major campus, but they commonly manage more changes in users and schedules than their key systems comfortably support. A modest facility can serve employees, volunteers, outside instructors, cleaning companies, contractors, and visitors, all with...