Thursday, January 25, 2007

All about Electronic Locks

Once you have your Planet Antares vending business up and running, you will need to protect your vending business from internal theft as well as external theft. Technology has provided the vending industry with answers that will help it combat this persistent problem.

In the market today there are a variety of electronic locks that are available to protect all types of vending machines, which includes Planet Antares vending machines. Electronic locks in vending machines offer several advantages over convectional lock-key methods. The benefits of electronic locks are numerous. Here are some of them listed below.

• Cannot be picked: Once you have installed an electronic lock in your Planet Antares vending machine, there would no longer be a need for a visible lock on the front of the vending machine. The lock can only be opened using an electronic key. There are machines that also use non-contact infrared key fobs.
• Hard to drill: You can choose to have hardened steel roll pins incorporated into the vending machine’s t-handle locks. This will prevent drill bits from coming in contact with the actual lock.
• Key cannot be duplicated: The software used in the electronic vending machine keys is encrypted, so only you will access to key codes.
• Full control of keys: You are the one who will have complete control how many times the key will be used.
• Access to all locks: An electronic lock would be of great advantage because there would be no need to change all the vending machine locks if one set of keys gets lost all that you would have to do is to quickly change the key codes.
• Ability to monitor a route person work habits: The electronic lock can give you the ability to determine the time that the route person takes to fill a vending machine and the time it takes the route person to move from one vending machine to the next.

To replace the convectional locks in your Planet Antares vending machines with electronic locks would take about the same time as changing a regular lock.

There are other ways of increasing vending machine security. You can choose to reinforce weak components of the vending machine. This can be done by installing mechanical security panels to secure dollar bill acceptors from the front and rear of the vending machine. Vending machines security can also be increased by implementing cashless payment options.

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