There’s a wide variety of safe types currently on both the consumer and professional market today – and they can be evenly split between traditional mechanical varieties and electronic varieties. In this blog post, the commercial security experts here at SOS Locksmith will detail both the advantages and the disadvantages of having an electronic safe at your property.
Advantages of Electronic Safe Locks
Easy Operation
Digital safes are incredibly easy to operate, and eliminate the need to worry about the location of a key, or to worry about dial combinations. Safe locks can be programmed to work with digital keycodes that can be changed, and the keypad of the safe utilizes a backlit light that makes safe operation in the dark easy. This is contrasted with the difficulty of operating a mechanical safe lock, which is finicky about the precise use of the spinning dial – a much longer process than unlocking a dial lock with a code.
Reliable Security of your Safe
Electronic locks are subject to much less damage over time than their mechanical counterparts, making them just as reliable as mechanical locks, but MUCH longer lasting. In order to verify the quality of your safe’s lock, check it’s UL rating – the UL List is the main excellence standard rating in the safe hardware industry, so you can be sure that if your safe is highly UL rated that your lock has been tested for reliable security.
Superior Security of Electronic Safes
Electronic safes have a wide variety of high quality security features like dual controls, time delays, dual tokens, reprogrammable codes, silent alarm triggering, time0-period based operations, and single use codes. All these features increase the amount of custom tailored security that you can implement to protect your belongings.
Electronic Safe Disadvantages
There’s not too many drawbacks with electronic safes, however it should be said that electronic safes are priced somewhat higher than mechanical safes. Electronic safes also require battery changes – and will notify you when batteries are running low. Aside from these two factors to consider, electronic safes are a fantastic bet for residential or commercial property owners looking to protect their assets with high tech levels of reliable physical security.
