Access control systems

Card, fob, keypad and mobile access control for Edmonton offices, shops, industrial sites and multi-family buildings, installed and wired by licensed electricians.

Keys stop scaling fast

Once you have a few staff, a cleaning crew and a delivery schedule, physical keys become a liability. You cannot tell who opened a door, and a lost key often means rekeying the building.

Access control replaces keys with credentials you can add, schedule and cancel in seconds. Every swipe is logged, and doors can lock and unlock on a timetable that follows your business hours.

• Office suites and tenant spaces
• Warehouses and shop areas with overhead and man doors
• Multi-family entrances, parkades and amenity rooms
• Server rooms, cash offices and stockrooms

What goes on each door

Every controlled door is a small system. There is a reader outside, a locking device in the frame or door, a way to exit freely from inside, and a contact that reports whether the door is actually closed. Wiring runs back to a controller with its own power supply and battery.

We pick hardware to suit the door, the frame and the traffic. A glass storefront door, a steel man door and a fire-rated stairwell door need different solutions. Where an existing frame cannot take a strike, we look at other locking options rather than forcing one in.

Exits, fire alarm and the code

Locking a door must never trap people. The Alberta Building Code sets rules for how doors on an exit path may be locked and released, and some locking arrangements must release automatically when the fire alarm activates or power is lost.

We confirm the requirements for each door with the authority having jurisdiction and coordinate with your fire alarm contractor, or our own fire alarm team, to wire the release properly.

Common setups we install

Most of our access control jobs fall into a few patterns, and knowing which one fits your site makes the conversation easier.

• Single office or shop: one to four doors on a small controller, managed from a phone app. Staff use fobs, and the front door unlocks during business hours.
• Multi-tenant building: shared entrances and parkade gates on one system, with each tenant managing their own users and suites.
• Industrial site: man doors, gates and sensitive rooms, often with readers rated for outdoor and cold use and heated enclosures where needed.
• Multi-family residential: main entrances, amenity rooms and parkades, with an intercom that calls residents' phones.

Exterior readers and gate operators in Edmonton need to cope with ice, blowing snow and deep cold. We choose rated equipment, protect it from direct weather where we can, and make sure every exterior cable entry is sealed.

Software, cost and growth

Modern systems can be managed in the cloud from a phone or browser, or run on a local server. We help you choose based on how many doors and sites you have and what your IT team prefers.

We do not quote prices online because each door differs. The main cost drivers are the number of doors, the type of door and frame, whether cable can be fished or needs surface raceway, the locking hardware, and the software licensing model. Planning spare capacity in the controller and cable paths makes adding doors later much cheaper.

Questions we hear