• Posted on May 23, 2022

TIPS FOR IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF YOUR BUILDING

One of the main worries for owners of commercial buildings is security. Whether you manage a single-story office building, a multi-building industrial complex, or a high-rise residential tower, it is your duty to keep your property and residents secure from theft, vandalism, and unauthorized intrusions. Although hiring security guards is effective, the cost can be too high. Fortunately, digital building technology offers a number of cost-effective options to increase building security.

Use CCTV To Monitor Your Property

One of the most efficient and cost-effective ways to increase building security is by installing CCTV. You can keep an eye on your building without having to spend money on employing security personnel with a CCTV system that combines several different types of CCTV cameras with a CCTV recorder. You can either employ a monitoring service or a single guard to keep an eye on all of your facility’s cameras.

Install An Elevator Access Control System

In multi-story buildings, elevators are one of the main points of vulnerability. There are multiple ways that installing an elevator access control system, which uses cards and readers to limit who can use elevators to access different floors, will improve security. Elevator access control enables you to restrict access to only those who have permission to be on each floor, which is useful if various tenants or departments are located on separate floors. Elevator access in buildings with parking garages adds an added layer of security by making sure that only authorized individuals can enter the building from the garage.

The time of day can also be used to tailor elevator access. For instance, you can configure the system to limit access based on a predetermined schedule so that, during business hours, anyone can access floors that house commercial offices, but only authorized workers, like a cleaning service, can enter them at night.

Use Access Control To Prevent Unauthorized Intrusions

By limiting access to specific areas, floors, or even the entire building, access control can substantially increase the security of your structure and ensure that only authorized employees are allowed inside. By prohibiting transient visitors from entering your lobby, installing a card reader, RFID scanner, or biometric scanner can act as the first line of defense for your building. If you have many tenants, access control can prevent unauthorized entry by competing businesses into each company’s space. To prevent physical breaches into vital spaces like data control centers, an access control system can also be utilized to individually restrict access to sensitive places. To safeguard your tenants from unhappy former workers, you are always free to revoke someone’s access.

Improve Security In Your Garage

Sometimes security risks in garages go unnoticed. To keep an eye on accesses and exits, install a license plate reader camera in your garage. To ensure that your employees have safe access to transportation, it is essential to install monitored CCTV cameras with a clear view of every corner. To stop unauthorized intrusions, integrate CCTV systems with elevator access control systems.

Install A Comprehensive Building Security System

A thorough building security system is the finest way to improve the protection of your tenants and property. To protect your tenants and property, these systems integrate CCTV cameras, a CCTV recording solution, motion detectors, lighting, elevator access control, access control, and monitoring.

Please get in touch with us if you are interested in enhancing your building security. As one of the leading security system providers in Kenya, we have provided customized commercial building security automation solutions to secure the facilities of hundreds of building owners.