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By ASSA ABLOY | August 30, 2024
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In recent years, there’s been a shift toward more aesthetic and performance type doors that are constructed partially or completely of glass. Commercial buildings are incorporating more glass openings to enhance interior spaces with natural light. One of the struggles customers often face when utilizing glass doors is finding a functional and secure opening solution. To solve these challenges, ASSA ABLOY and Wesco offer innovative door opening solutions that are designed for today’s modern glass doors.
Switching from mechanical door locks to electrified openings continues to accelerate in the security industry. The latest innovations make it more economically feasible and beneficial for property owners, facility managers, and security professionals to upgrade to keyless and electronic access control (EAC) using wireless and other technologies.
These advancements provide a much higher level of security, accountability, and access control efficiency. EAC data, for example, provides audit trails and information that integrate with key and asset management programs as well as building management software. Electrified hardware and EAC solutions are also now as practical for all-glass openings as they have been for hollow-metal and other traditional doorways.
A growing number of electronic access control options, auto operators, electric strikes, maglocks, wireless readers, and other electrified mechanisms for glass applications are now available. These products are designed with sleeker profiles that blend seamlessly with the doors.
For instance, ASSA ABLOY’s retro-mounted HES 9100 and 9200 Electric Strikes sets a new industry standard for openings due to their low profile, integrated adjustability, adaptable voltage sensing technology, and field selectable fail secure/fail safe. This series is easy to install, requiring no drilling of extra holes or cutting into different header conditions. Surface-mounted solutions like this do a great job of harmonizing security with design.
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For locksmiths, it’s important to embrace newer digital technologies for glass openings as well as traditional doors. Gaining expertise in these solutions presents increased opportunities to help customers migrate to even higher levels of security and, as a result, grow your business.
Access control should never be a compromise, no matter what type of opening that someone in the field should encounter. With new solutions that tackle these types of applications, the time to secure our doors is now.
Wesco offers a complete portfolio of door hardware, mechanical and smart locks, and access control solutions from ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions.
ABOUT THE SPONSOR
This article was brought to you in partnership with ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions.
ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions is a market leader of door openings and access solutions for homes, businesses, and institutions. Wesco partners with the ASSA ABLOY Group to offer builders and businesses the resources they need to plan and execute projects that protect and beautify the world.
