Touchless Locks: Germ Free Security for Your Valuables

Improving security at your facility, home, or public building can be done with more effective locks. Padlocks and combination locks are no longer the best way to ensure your valuables are safe. Security is paramount if you run a facility with a public locker room or want to keep your home, school, healthcare building, or business safe. Installing a smart door lock system in your building that has the latest security technology can help you and your customers feel more at ease.

New locks can do more than just improve security. They can also lower the spread of germs and illness by enabling touchless entry. A lot of people handle the door to your home, business, or locker room locker, and our hands carry more than 3,000 germs on average. Germ transmission is a particular concern in locations like schools and hospitals.

Reducing germ transfer with touchless locks can improve the health and safety of your business. When you install smart locks with touchless activation, you can drastically limit the number of germs on your lock system and door. For locker rooms where locker space is assigned on an hour-to-hour availability, dozens of people could be using the same locker.

Why You Need To Change Your Security Measures ?

Theft in locker rooms is very common. In public spaces, it’s often very easy for someone to walk in and walk out while raising little suspicion. Traditional locks can be picked very discreetly or easily cut with bolt cutters at slow traffic hours. The thief can then leave with your valuables. Many people believe that a standard padlock or dial combination lock will protect their items in a locker, but that isn’t the case.

Having security cameras in a locker room is a privacy concern, so locker rooms are an ideal target for theft. Improving security with keyless entry locks will lower complaints that facility managers get and make your customers happy. These locks are also great for security in businesses, industrial buildings, schools, residential complexes, and homes.

The Benefits of Touchless Locker Locks

There are several security and health benefits to installing touchless locks.

  1. Lower Germ Transfer. What makes touchless entry systems different from other smart locks is the lack of physical contact with the system. This keeps the lock cleaner and, more importantly, keeps you healthier and in contact with fewer germs and illnesses.
  2. Easy Maintenance. Touchless activation can be done with e-keys, key cards, and even bracelets for mobility. Effective smart lock systems make the process of writing, assigning, and rewriting the user of a card or bracelet simple. Managers can revoke access to smart locks offsite, preventing theft if a user loses their card.
  3. Provide Facility Data. Smart locks can track data of when they were accessed and who opened the locker and provide you information on the usage of your facility lockers or locked areas. This can help managers prevent locker hoarding and learn when there is high and low traffic in certain areas.
  4. Difficult to Break Into. Touchless entry systems don’t have the weaknesses of padlocks or combination locks like lock-picking or bolt cutters. Because they’re keyless systems, they’re much more difficult to get into without permission. You can rewrite cards remotely if a user loses a key card or bracelet.
  5. Improve Customer Happiness. When your facility, residential complex, or business uses the newest technology in security, customers feel more secure and comfortable with your business. Smart locks also make your facility look nice and up-to-date.

Touchless Locks vs. Alternative Locks

Locks like TSA-approved locks, dial combination locks, and padlocks are easy to pick, use a master key on, or simply cut with bolt cutters. These traditional locks all have long shackles, which make using a bolt cutter a simple task. Even disc locks, which are meant to be impossible to cut with bolt cutters, can be cut if the right angle is used.

Even in conditions where using bolt cutters would be too obvious, these locks can still be picked. Padlocks are incredibly easy to pick, and combination locks have a master keyhole that can be picked. Combinations can also be guessed if the thief is skilled and has a quiet environment.

TSA-approved locks are particularly bad for security. They are meant to be opened with a TSA agent’s master keys, and more people have access to these types of keys than you might imagine. They are available commercially or can even be 3D printed.

Touchless access systems can’t be accessed by these means. Instead, there is complete remote access by the managers to assign users to each lock, and these locks are difficult to break or open by force. There are no keyholes and tumblers to pick. Smart door lock systems are easy for you to use and hard for thieves to get into.

Smarter Locker Solutions

When you’re searching for a secure and safe touchless entry system, Ojmar offers the solution you need. Our touchless locks allow you a healthier and more hygienic locking system, all while improving your security. We provide high-quality, ADA-compatible locks that help your facility or building. 

OTS®Advance

The OTS Advance lock system is a minimalist and very secure lock. This lock is the most chosen option for radio-frequency identification (RFID) locking systems. It offers easy installation, advanced system capabilities, impact resistance, key rewriting, and other real-time programming options.

RFID Cards®

These cards are easy to transport and are able to be used for single-use and permanent-use needs. They provide less hassle for users and give managers more control over security measures.

RFID Bracelets®

RFID Bracelets are wearable and easy to transport, which is great in environments like spas, gyms, or other high-moisture environments where portability is important. They provide security, less worry of losing cards, and give managers real-time rewriting access.

E-Key®

Made for use with the OCS Pro, the E-Key can be used as a master key, an ADA key, an audit key, or a programming key.

For high-quality, exceptionally durable smart locks and touchless access systems, contact Ojmar. We can provide you with a quote for upgrading your security system for your home, business, or residential building.