Services · Access control
Access control: decide who gets in, where, and when.
In plain terms: instead of metal keys that can be copied and never expire, your doors, gates, elevators, and parkades are opened by credentials (cards, fobs, PINs, or phones) that you can grant, limit, and revoke in seconds, with a record of every use.
The problem it solves
Keys don't scale, and they don't testify.
A commercial building sees hundreds of access events a day: staff, tenants, cleaners, trades, deliveries. Physical keys can't tell you who entered, can't be revoked when someone leaves, and can't apply schedules. Every lost key is a quiet rekeying decision that usually gets skipped.
Access control replaces that uncertainty with policy: the right people move freely, everyone else doesn't, and the system remembers everything.
- Poor design: fail-safe/fail-secure chosen by accident; doors that lock people in during a fire alarm or unlock during a power cut.
- Poor installation: readers that die in cold snaps, door position switches that never worked, unlabelled panels.
- Poor integration: access events invisible to video; elevator floors uncontrolled; fire interface untested.
- Poor maintenance: a credential database full of ghosts, dead batteries in locks, and firmware years behind.
How REM approaches it
Assessment to handoff, on the record.
Assess
Door hardware survey, movement patterns, code requirements, and existing system audit.
Design
Door-by-door schedule: reader type, lock hardware, fail mode, monitoring, and fire interface, each decided deliberately.
Install & integrate
Clean installation, tied into video, intercom, elevator, and alarm systems where they add value.
Commission & hand off
Scenario testing (power loss, forced door, fire alarm), then as-builts, credential policy, and admin training.
Related technologies & serviceability
What's involved, and how it stays maintainable.
- Card, fob, PIN, and mobile credentials
- Electric strikes, maglocks, electrified hardware
- Elevator floor control
- Gate and parkade integration
- Platform fit confirmed during assessment
- Video surveillance (event-linked footage)
- Intercoms (see, talk, release)
- Intrusion alarms (arm/disarm by credential)
- Fire alarm interface (release on alarm, tested)
- Door and device schedules with locations
- As-built drawings and panel layouts
- Credential policy and admin guide
- Commissioning and fire-interface test records
Maintenance & lifecycle
An access system is a living database plus moving parts.
Both need attention. REM maintenance for access control includes periodic inspection of door hardware and readers, battery and power checks, firmware and software updates, credential database reviews to remove departed users, and fire-interface retesting. Lifecycle planning flags controllers and platforms approaching end-of-support before they fail.
Next step: a door-by-door assessment.
We survey your openings, document what exists, and give you a written picture of options and phasing. Useful whether or not you hire us.