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Pros and Cons of Electronic Safes and Key Safes
Keeping valuables safe is a pressing issue for most families and businesses. Families have documents, jewelry, and heirlooms that are often irreplaceable. Keeping those valuables secure in an electronic safe, like a Sentry Safe, can bring peace of mind. Researching electronic safes and finding an electronic safe that matches your needs often offers reassurance to a small business owner as well. Defining your electronic safe needs is a helpful way to start your search for an electronic safe.
There are different options for safe entry available, whether they are keyed or electronic digital keypad or combination locks. There are varying degrees of cash ratings, which affect the security levels and locking mechanisms of the safes, such as dual locking, maybe with key and electronic, key and combination, or combination and electronic digital access locks. Time rating is the time delay required to compromise the safe door by picking locks or by tampering with tools or experimenting with combinations. It also measures the time to get through a certain thickness of door.
In a business, with employee turnover, it is reassuring to know that digital electronic or combination entry can be easily and immediately reprogrammed, when you have terminated an employee. If terminated employees are aware of this ability, they will automatically assume that is the first thing you did when they left. Keys can be “lost”, making it necessary to have the lock changed or the lock drilled and re-keyed to protect against a terminated employee or “lost” keys and this is often dependent on a locksmith coming out. With combination and electronic access safe locks, you can change the door-lock combination, or digital electronic safe combination, without telling anyone, anytime you desire. Some business owners make a habit of changing their combinations on a regular basis for security purposes.
At home, with a personal safe, the same is true, it is possible for you to lose a key and if you hide it in the house, a thief could possibly find it. If you lose a set of keys, not only are your car and home compromised if the thief knows where you live, but your safe key may be on there as well, giving access to a safe with your cash, valuables, jewelry and maybe even important identification documents. With a digital electronic safe lock, you can immediately change the combination, if you think it has been compromised or at random, so you are not dependent on noticing whether a key has been lost or having a locksmith appointment to change the lock.
In business and personal safes, multiple degrees of security can be found in way of time-delayed entry to waylay tampering or that have safe door destruction in case of theft or burglary. Safes are also rated by the amount of currency they hold and increasing security and safety measures built to increase as currency levels increase. All safe cash rating is based on the amount of insurance cover for overnight storage they contain, and ten times the amount for jewelry and valuable storage. Since many of these are protected by both electronic digital and key locks, it could be argued that electronic digital locks are the safest, but the combination of the two together provides a higher level found on most of the higher cash rating safes.
Safes can be installed into concrete floors, which offers added insulation from fire and a keyed lock may survive a fire, where a digital electronic lock may not. By consulting with your safe security expert, you will be able to find a solution to keep your hard-earned personal and business valuables protected, no matter what type of locking mechanism you desire.
Electronic safes are a good investment and enable you to secure your valuables in your home or business. Explore the various electronic safe options available and match an electronic safe with your needs.
For further information on electronic safes and information on Phoenix or Sentry Safes, check out http://www.ishopit.com/.
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