Fob, card and mobile entry for Vaughan industrial units, warehouses and offices — built around shared doors, contractor schedules, and who controls what.
Most of our Vaughan access control work sits in multi-unit industrial buildings — the blocks off Highway 400 and 7, through Concord and Woodbridge. Individual businesses, one building, and usually at least one door that everybody uses and nobody owns.
That shared door is where the actual security problem lives. Each unit locks its own space, everyone has a key to the common entry, and over a few years those keys spread through former staff, past tenants, cleaners and contractors nobody remembers hiring. Nothing has been broken into — the building just quietly stopped being controlled.
Concord and Woodbridge multi-unit blocks — shared entries, man-doors beside loading bays, and yard gates.
Suite entry, after-hours access for staff, and restricted rooms for records or stock.
Credentials that work on the days and hours they should, and stop working the moment someone leaves.
Entry events with video attached, so a badge-in shows you a person rather than just a credential number.
In a multi-unit building this needs settling before anything is installed, because it decides what system goes in and who administers it.
Usually the landlord’s to control, and usually the door with the worst key hygiene. Worth pushing for — it protects every tenant in the block at once.
Yours. This is the one you can act on unilaterally, and where most tenants sensibly start.
Often shared, sometimes assigned. Get it clarified in writing, because a gate controller nobody agreed to pay for stops getting maintained.
Whoever holds the admin login effectively controls access. In a shared system that should be a named person with a documented backup, not “whoever set it up”.
Replacing keys with fobs is the obvious upgrade. Scheduling is the one that changes how the building actually runs.
Cleaners, service techs and trades get credentials that work Tuesday evening and not Sunday afternoon. When the contract ends, access ends — without chasing anyone for a key or re-keying a door.
Someone leaves, you revoke the credential, done. Compare that with a lost key on a shared industrial entry, where the honest fix is re-keying the building and reissuing to every tenant.
When stock goes missing from a shared area, the useful question is who was in the building and when. An access log answers that in a minute. Keys answer it never.
Staff who need weekend access get it on their own credential instead of somebody driving out to open a door.
Plenty of Vaughan industrial stock is older, and the doors matter more than the electronics. Heavy steel doors that have shifted on their hinges, closers that no longer pull fully shut, frames that have moved with the building — these cause more access control failures than any reader does.
We check door and frame condition at the site walk and tell you which openings are ready and which need hardware work first. Putting a reader on a door that doesn’t close properly produces a system that fails intermittently, which is worse than no system, because people start propping the door.
Where an existing entry system is already in place there’s often usable cable in the walls. We test it before designing around it, and we say so plainly when it doesn’t pass rather than forcing a marginal run into service.
Yes, and it’s the most common starting point. Your unit door is yours to control. Anything on the shared entry, exterior walls or common cabling routes needs the landlord involved.
Then secure what you control and treat the common entry as public. It’s a reasonable position — it just means your unit door does the real work, and the system should be designed knowing that.
Yes, with the right specification. Readers and locking hardware need to be rated for the temperature range they’ll actually see, and the controller belongs somewhere conditioned. It’s worth confirming rather than assuming, because a panel in an unheated space will eventually cause problems.
Yes, and this is where these systems earn their keep. Credentials can be limited to specific days, hours and doors, and expire on a set date without anyone needing to remember.
Yes, and it’s a legal requirement in Ontario, not a setting. Exit doors have to open from the inside with a single motion and no key or code, and electrified locks release when the fire alarm activates or power to the panel drops. Any proposal that keeps an exit locked during an alarm is wrong.
Yes. If you run units in more than one building, a single cloud-managed system across all of them means one login and one place to add or revoke access, rather than a separate system and password per site.
Doors keep working. Credentials are stored locally at the controller, so an outage costs you remote administration and live logs, not entry. Anything needing a live connection to open a door isn’t suitable for an industrial entry.
A single unit door is often a few hours. A shared entry plus several unit doors is typically a day or two, and anything needing new cable runs through a finished building takes longer. You get a schedule with the written quote.
We’ll look at the doors, check the frames and closers, test what cabling exists, and sort out who controls what before anything gets quoted. No charge, no obligation.
Request a site survey Call (416) 890-3639Vaughan, Concord and Woodbridge are core service areas, and we cover the wider region from Richmond Hill.
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