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You stop wondering who made copies of your building keys. You stop paying a locksmith every time an employee leaves or a contractor needs temporary access. You stop worrying about whether someone propped open a back door at 11 PM.
With a door access control system, you assign credentials digitally. You revoke them instantly when someone’s employment ends. You get a timestamped record of who entered which door and when—something no physical key can give you.
Most businesses in Upland and across Delaware County don’t realize how much time their office managers spend coordinating keys. It’s not just the cost of cutting new ones. It’s the interruptions, the liability, and the lack of visibility. Access control systems eliminate that entire category of problem.
We’ve been in the locksmith business for over 100 years. Chuck and Tom McCausland represent the fourth generation of locksmiths in our family, and the fifth generation is already working here. That’s not a marketing line—it’s just how long we’ve been fixing security problems in this area.
We’re based in Prospect Park and we’re the largest locksmith company serving the Delaware Valley. We’ve installed access control systems in office buildings, warehouses, medical facilities, and multi-tenant properties throughout Upland and the surrounding towns. We know what works in older buildings with retrofit challenges and what systems scale when your business grows.
We start with a walkthrough of your building. You show us which doors need control, who needs access to what areas, and what your current pain points are. We’re looking at door hardware, power availability, network infrastructure, and how people actually move through your space during a normal workday.
Then we recommend a system. If you’ve got multiple locations or you want to manage everything from your phone, we’ll talk about cloud-based access control. If you need something simpler for a single building, we’ll show you what that looks like. We don’t upsell—we match the system to what you actually need.
Installation usually happens during off-hours so we’re not disrupting your operations. We mount the controllers, wire the electric strikes or magnetic locks, install card readers or keypads, and connect everything to your network. Then we program the system, set up user credentials, and train your team on how to add or remove access as employees come and go.
You walk away with a system that works the day we leave, and you’ve got our number if anything ever needs adjustment.
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You get hardware that’s built to last—electric strikes, magnetic locks, and readers from brands like Schlage, Kwikset, and Medeco. You get a control panel that manages all your doors from one interface, whether that’s cloud-based or local to your building.
You also get credentials that fit how your employees actually work. That could be key cards, fobs, PIN codes, or mobile credentials if your team uses smartphones. Some businesses in Upland are moving to touchless entry, especially in healthcare and food service settings where hygiene matters.
We set up access schedules so your system automatically locks and unlocks based on business hours. We configure user groups so you’re not assigning permissions one person at a time. And we make sure you’ve got reporting in place—because if you ever need to pull a log for an insurance claim or an HR issue, you’ll want that data clean and accessible.
If you’re managing multiple buildings or you’ve got a property in Upland and another in Chester or Media, we can tie it all into one system. You’re not logging into different platforms or driving to each location to make changes.
It depends on how many doors you’re controlling and what kind of system you need. A basic setup for one or two doors with keypads and electric strikes might run a few thousand dollars. A cloud-based system with card readers on five doors and mobile credentials could be closer to ten thousand.
The bigger cost difference comes from whether you’re retrofitting old doors or working with newer commercial hardware. If we need to replace door frames, add power, or run new network lines, that adds to the scope. We give you a clear estimate after the walkthrough so there’s no surprise when the invoice comes.
Most businesses see a return within a couple years just from eliminating locksmith callouts and not having to rekey locks every time someone leaves. You’re also reducing the risk of theft or unauthorized access, which is harder to put a number on but matters a lot if you’ve got inventory, equipment, or sensitive data on site.
You manage it yourself. That’s the whole point. Once we install and configure your business access control system, you’ve got admin access to add employees, remove credentials, change access schedules, and pull reports whenever you need to.
We train you or whoever on your team is going to be the system admin. It’s usually pretty intuitive—most platforms are designed so office managers or HR staff can handle day-to-day changes without a technical background. If you’re using a cloud-based system, you’re doing all of this from a web browser or a phone app.
You only call us if something breaks, if you’re adding new doors, or if you want to change how the system is set up at a structural level. Routine stuff like onboarding a new hire or locking someone out after they quit? That’s on you, and it takes about thirty seconds.
Most commercial access control systems have local controllers that store credentials and access rules on the device itself. If your internet drops, the doors keep working. You just can’t make changes remotely until the connection comes back. People can still badge in and out like normal.
For power outages, it depends on your setup. Electric strikes and magnetic locks need power to function, so if the building loses electricity, you need a backup plan. A lot of businesses add battery backups to critical doors or configure their locks to fail-secure (stay locked) or fail-safe (unlock for emergency egress) depending on the door’s purpose.
If you’ve got a door that’s part of your fire egress path, we make sure it’s compliant with local codes. In Upland and throughout Delaware County, we’re familiar with what inspectors look for. We’ll walk you through what makes sense for your building so you’re covered during an outage and you’re not creating a safety hazard.
For a small business with two or three doors, we’re usually done in a day. For a larger building with ten or fifteen doors, multiple floors, or complex wiring, it might take two or three days depending on the scope.
We do most of the work during off-hours if that’s easier for you. A lot of businesses in Upland don’t want us running wire and drilling doors while they’re trying to operate, so we’ll come in evenings or weekends if that’s what works. We just need access to the building and someone available to answer questions if something comes up.
The timeline also depends on whether we’re waiting on equipment. If you’re ordering a specific type of reader or you want branded credentials with your company logo, that might add a week or two to the front end. We’ll give you a realistic schedule during the estimate so you know what to expect.
Not always. If your doors already have commercial-grade locks and the frames are solid, we can often add electric strikes or magnetic locks without replacing everything. We’re essentially adding an electronic layer on top of what’s already there.
But if your doors are residential-grade, damaged, or not set up for the kind of traffic a business sees, we’ll recommend upgrades. There’s no point installing a high-end access control system on a door that can be kicked in or a frame that’s falling apart. We’ve seen that before and it doesn’t end well.
We’ll tell you during the walkthrough what needs to stay and what needs to go. If you’ve got a mix—some doors that are fine and some that need work—we’ll prioritize based on your budget and which entries are highest risk. You don’t have to do everything at once if that’s not realistic for your business right now.
Yes. A lot of the access control systems we install can tie into video surveillance so you’re not just seeing who badged in—you’re seeing video of the actual entry. That’s helpful if someone tailgates through a door behind an authorized employee or if there’s a dispute about who was on site at a certain time.
We also integrate with alarm systems so your access control and your intrusion detection are talking to each other. If someone forces a door open or uses an invalid credential, the alarm system knows about it. You can get alerts sent to your phone or have it notify a monitoring service depending on how you want to handle after-hours security.
We handle both access control and CCTV installation, so if you want everything set up by the same company, we can do that. It’s cleaner than trying to coordinate between multiple vendors, and it means you’ve got one point of contact if something needs troubleshooting down the road.
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