Advantages of Electronic Locks

There are many advantages that exist for various electronic locks versus the standard barrel locks. Here are some of them:

a) Thieves will virtually be unable to pick the locks on your Antares vending machine

b) The locks are very difficult to drill.

c) A thief will be unable to create duplicate keys.

d) The combinations can be quickly and easily changed on an Antares vending machine that you would want to move from one route to another.

e) The operator will be able to control the specific times a key is active.

Many benefits are available for both external and internal theft as well as labor efficiency.

If there is a cash shortage in your Antares vending machine, you will be able to determine immediately who has had access to the machine since the last collection. In the past years this is something that would have been time consuming and at the same time inaccurate.

If a set of keys for your Antares vending machine is lost, you will not need to change the locks on all machines. The electronic keys are normally “refreshed” on a daily basis when the route and service people report back to the office at the end of a day. This means that the keys become inactive once they reach the expiration time that you have set for them. In most cases this would be at the end of the day. When a set of keys is lost, they will be totally useless to the person who finds them. There is nothing that the person can do with the keys. Electronic locks will give you peace of mind. You should use them for all your Antares vending machines because they have more advantages over the traditional locks. When you have left other people in charge of your business you will always want to know that your merchandise is safe. With electronic locks you will not to worry about that since you will be in control.

On a daily basis, you will have an audit trail of all the activities of the route person. You will get to know where they were at any time of the day. This will help you to determine the amount of time the route person is taking to fill each individual Antares vending machine.