tenant retention, and creating the opportunity for new revenue streams. UNIFIED ACCESS CONTROL REDUCES PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COSTS. Whether a building is self-managed or managed by a third party, imple- menting unified access control can help cut costs. Overseeing property access is vital to maintain security, but it’s also time-consuming—and time is money. By investing in access control technologies that talk to each other, ownership can streamline and automate the process of coordinating access for residents, visitors, delivery carriers, self-guided tours, and maintenance service providers. Ultimately, a unified access solution eliminates the need for management
juggle entirely separate access systems like intercoms, keypads, and smart locks. Without a unified solution, all of these systems must be managed from separate platforms with unique log-in credentials. For a property with a lot of access points, this is a time-consuming process, and the chances that somebody updates one system and forgets to update another are too high. Fortunately, access control providers have innovated past this problem too. The answer? Using technology so every access control system throughout the property can share data, combining all of those disparate systems into one. In the past, onboarding a resident might have meant cutting an entire ring of
keys or spending hours in separate access control databases, but a unified access control system means that management can onboard a resident with one click. HOW DOES UNIFIED ACCESS CONTROL INCREASE ROI? According to the analyst firm Ovia, 42% of all apartments in the United States will feature smart devices such as smart locks by 2025. So, why are buildings across the country embracing smart technology like unified access control? The reason is simple: Unified property access control positively affects ownership’s bottom line. It increases ROI by reducing property management costs, increasing
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