The problem with keys is that you cannot un-give one
Somewhere in your city there is a business owner who has changed the locks three times in five years, each time at a cost of several hundred dollars, each time because one employee left on bad terms and nobody could account for every key ever cut.
Fixed written quote after a free survey — we beat any written competitor quote
Revocation is the entire product
Everything else access control does — the fobs, the readers, the satisfying click — is packaging around one capability: the ability to remove somebody's access instantly, remotely, and completely, without touching a single lock cylinder.
A terminated employee at 4:47 on a Friday is not a locksmith call anymore. It is four taps on a phone from a parking lot. Their credential dies. Every door, every site, simultaneously. And there is a record showing exactly when it happened, which matters more than people expect the first time an unemployment claim or a theft investigation turns on the question of who had building access on a Tuesday night.
Credentials, and which ones to pick
Proximity fobs are cheap and familiar, and they are also the least secure common credential — the older 125 kHz formats can be cloned with a device that costs less than dinner. If you are protecting inventory, controlled substances or client data, we specify encrypted smart credentials instead.
Mobile credentials are increasingly the right answer. The phone is already in the employee's hand, it cannot be handed to a friend without handing over the phone, and issuing one costs nothing and takes ninety seconds. For a growing business that onboards seasonally, that math gets persuasive quickly.
Keypads still have a place — a back door where gloves are the norm, a gate where a delivery driver needs a code. We mix credential types per door rather than pretending one type fits a whole building.
Doors, hardware and the unglamorous truth
Access control is a door hardware discipline wearing an electronics costume. The reader is the easy part. The hard parts are the strike or maglock selection, the power supply and its battery, the request-to-exit device, the door position switch, and above all fire code — because a locked egress door that will not release on alarm is a violation that closes businesses.
We handle all of it, including the fail-safe versus fail-secure decision on each opening, which is a decision with legal consequences and should never be made by whoever is holding the drill. Every install gets documented so the next technician — ours or anyone's — can read what was done.
What is included
- Instant remote revocationKill a credential across every door and every site from a phone.
- Full audit trailWho opened which door, when, retained and exportable.
- Mobile + encrypted credentialsModern formats that resist the cloning attacks older fobs do not.
- Schedules and lockdownAutomatic unlock at open, one-button lockdown when you need it.
- Fire-code compliant egressFail-safe/fail-secure selected per opening, documented and inspected.
- Integrates with videoEvery badge event tied to the camera clip of that door at that second.
Questions people actually ask
- How much does access control cost per door? +
- It varies more than any other product we install — the existing door hardware, whether the frame is prepped, and the credential type each move the number substantially, and doors that already have electrified hardware come in considerably lower. That is exactly why we quote per opening, in writing, after seeing the doors. The walkthrough is free.
- Can we keep using our existing fobs? +
- Sometimes. If your current credentials are a readable standard format we can often enroll them into the new system. If they are an insecure legacy format, we will tell you plainly and let you decide.
- Does it work if the internet goes down? +
- Yes. Controllers cache credentials and schedules locally and keep granting and denying access offline, then sync the event log when the connection returns.
Access Control Systems across Texas
We install and service this in all four metros, and in every community within fifty miles of downtown San Antonio. Service calls carry no trip charge regardless of how far out the address is.
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Bring us a written quote. We will beat it.
Any competitor, comparable scope, in writing. A licensed technician walks your property, maps the real entry points and gives you a fixed number — whether or not you hire us.
TX DPS PSB Lic. #B16898 · Serving San Antonio, Austin, Houston & Dallas since 2010