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Aug 19
2026

5 Reasons Businesses Are Ditching Traditional Keys

Smart Access Control With SALTO, Exclusively From In-Focus Systems

A single lost master key can turn into a full week of rekeying every door in your building, and that's if you're lucky enough to know it went missing. For property managers and office owners across the country, especially in the Twin Cities, we know traditional locks create more headaches than they provide security. If copied keys aren't flagged, and former employees retain their access, no one has a real record of who came in after hours last night.

Smart access control, from brands like Salto and others, replaces those metal keys with a cloud-based system you’re able to manage from your phone or laptop. Consider it one part of a fully integrated approach that pairs access control with the AV, security, and network infrastructure your building already runs on, rather than treating it as a standalone service call. Keep reading to learn more.

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Say Goodbye To Lost And Copied Keys

Traditional keys can be duplicated at any hardware store, and there's no way to know when it happens. Salto replaces them with mobile credentials, keycards, or PIN codes tied to a specific person. So if a phone goes missing, deactivate that one credential in seconds instead of rekeying the whole suite, or worse, the entire building. Your team, tenants, or contractors get a faster way in the door, and you get a lock that only trusts the people you've approved.

Add Or Remove Access In Just A Few Taps

Every office and every multi-tenant property deals with turnover of employees, tenants, contractors, and seasonal staff. With a cloud-based platform, granting or revoking access doesn't require a locksmith or a spare-key hunt.

All you have to do is make the change from a dashboard, and it takes effect immediately. A departing employee or an outgoing tenant loses access the moment you flag it, not whenever someone remembers to collect a badge.

See Exactly Who Comes And Goes

Every credential use, successful and unsuccessful, gets logged, so you have a timestamped record of who entered which door and when. That visibility matters after an incident, during an insurance claim, or when you simply want to know whether or not your cleaning crew locked up on schedule. In a multi-tenant building, that record can matter across several businesses at once, not just yours, so instead of guessing, you get a clear answer pulled straight from the system.

Manage Every Door From One Screen

Whether it’s a corporate office, tenant suite, warehouse, or an amenity space in a multi-family development, one dashboard covers it all. You set schedules, define who can open which door and when, and get alerts the moment something looks off, like a door propped open after hours. For developers and property teams, an access control system is another reason residents and tenants will choose your building over the one down the street.

Ready to Scale Without Rekeying A Single Lock?

Adding a new hire, a new tenant, or an entire new building to your portfolio used to mean new keys and new locks. Imagine a workplace where you can add users and doors in an instant, and everything seamlessly connects to your existing security system.

Your access control can grow with your business, without the cost or downtime of swapping out hardware every time your roster changes. Partnering with In-Focus Systems is just one more way for access control, lighting, security, and AV to work together rather than as separate systems from different vendors.

Ready to see what smart access control looks like for your building? Schedule a quick walkthrough with our team today!