In a world where security systems can be overly complex, Gallagher Security’s SMB (Security Made Better) is an innovative, app-based intruder detection and access control solution that challenges the status quo of overly complex security systems.
Providing full control and visibility over business security, SMB is the small business access control solution that helps to reduce operating costs, relieve administrative tasks, and optimize security via a simple, easy-to-use app.
Why Small Businesses Need Access Control Systems
SMB was created in response to some of the most common security challenges faced by small businesses including theft, complexities associated with granting and managing access permissions, high costs of issuing lost keys and access cards, and the difficulty of securing multiple locations.
By lightening the administrative load, SMB allows businesses to focus on what matters most. Providing the latest technology, aligned with how people work in today’s world, SMB is an affordable access control system that offers enhanced control via the Cloud. If users are connected to the internet, they’re connected to their business.
Similarly, maintenance can be performed remotely, reducing on-going costs, a common pain point for many small businesses, and with automatic software updates, including new features and security updates, users can be assured their small business security system is always performing at its best.
Features of Gallagher’s Small Business Access Control Systems
Packed with features, SMB is the access control for small business that leverages the latest in cloud technology to keep you connected to your business security around the clock. Unlike traditional, non-cloud-based systems that require you to be physically present to arm and disarm your premises or manage security, SMB provides full control, remotely. Using a smartphone app that connects to your system via the internet, you can manage your security from anywhere, at any time.
- Easy to use - SMB was designed with ease of use at the core, allowing business owners to focus on what’s most important. Taking the complexity out of site security and access, it simplifies operations to ensure time is best spent elsewhere.
- Scalable security system - SMB is a scalable security system that can be quickly and easily rolled out across multiple business locations. Providing small business owners with full control and visibility over each location via the app, users can instantly grant a staff member access to any location. Staff will only need their smartphone, one key tag or one user code to gain access to any of the locations, removing the need to carry multiple keys or access cards.
- Remote management – SMB is Gallagher’s access control solution providing full remote access. It enables small business owners the power to lock and unlock doors from anywhere via the app. If you're connected to the internet, you're connected to your business.
- Intruder detection - SMB rolls robust intruder detection and access control into one, intelligent system, removing the need for separate systems with different capabilities.
- Optimized accessibility - SMB enables small business owners to add, edit or remove users directly via the app, enabling them to grant or revoke staff and contractor access from anywhere, and at any time. Saving costly time delays, this ensures any access changes are applied instantly, enhancing business continuity, and minimizing any interruptions to business operations.
- Flexible business security system - Coined ‘arming your way’, SMB offers a suite of options that enable customers to choose how and when they arm their premises. By providing choice over arming credentials, location, behavior and timing, SMB is the business security system that offers exceptional flexibility. Business can choose how access to a building is granted, by smartphone access, key tag, a user code, or a combination of all three.
Further enhancing user flexibility, customers can arm and disarm the alarm from anywhere, at any time using the SMB app. This not only provides visibility over the site’s security status but also saves someone from travelling out to control the alarm locally.
Benefits of Gallagher’s Access Control Solutions for Small Businesses
Gallagher’s SMB offers users a premium streamlined experience. With all the access control for small business features you need, and none that you don’t, SMB makes security simple. Offering businesses complete oversight and ease of use without the extortionate price tag, SMB is affordable, accessible, flexible and customizable, providing complete small business access control.
Affordable access control system
When compared to other small business access control systems, SMB is relatively affordable. Offering quicker installation than traditional access control systems, SMB boasts lower set-up costs, and because maintenance can be performed remotely, on-going service costs are also reduced.
Control access to restricted areas
SMB enables small businesses to control an individual’s access down to a granular level, this is especially useful in situations where access needs to be limited to restricted areas:
- Businesses can limit an individual's access to specific areas of the building, useful if they need to limit who can enter sensitive areas (e.g. give a doctor access to the drug storage area, but not a receptionist).
- Businesses can limit an individual's access to specified times, useful if they only want someone entering their business at previously agreed times (e.g. a cleaner that only comes in at night, or a courier that needs to get in to drop packages off early in the morning).
- Businesses can allocate an individual access for a specified date period, useful if they have someone temporarily working at their business (e.g. a contractor, a casual worker, or an intern). After the specified period, access with be automatically revoked.
Reduced risk of theft or loss
By providing granular control over who can access specific areas and at what times, SMB drastically lowers the risk of theft or loss. Access can be restricted to authorized personnel only, ensuring that sensitive areas like storage rooms or server rooms are off-limits to unauthorized individuals. The ability to set time-specific access eliminates the likelihood of unsupervised access during non-operational hours, while temporary access periods for contractors or casual workers prevent lingering access privileges. This sophisticated level of control and surveillance significantly enhances security and mitigates the risk of internal and external threats.
Accountability
Capable of recording and tracking every time a door is unlocked, SMB captures who has entered a premise, and at what time. Similarly, it will also record when access has been denied.
Reliability
SMB was built using the same technology as our award-winning, enterprise solution, Command Centre, used to protect some of the world's most high risk and critical sites.
Real-World Examples
For Cameron Turchie, Club Captain at Lyall Bay Surf Life Saving Club in Wellington, New Zealand, SMB’s suite of access options is extremely beneficial. He says, “Due to the water environment we work in, if I’m going out in the boat, I’ll take a key tag rather than my phone,” says Cameron.
Similarly, Samantha Lee, Head of Customer Experience at Tend Health, says “Prior to Gallagher SMB, if access was required by a contractor or casual staff after hours, a team member would have to drive to the centre. Now, using the SMB app, I can disarm the site remotely without moving from the couch.”
Choosing the Right Access Control System for Your Small Business
For small businesses, solutions and processes that enhance operations without hefty price tags, multiple touch points or intensive training and onboarding requirements are critical. Business security systems that excel at their core functionality, while also streamlining processes without compromising security are hugely beneficial.
SMB's intelligent functionality enables small businesses to manage alarms, control access and respond to security incidents across all their business sites from one central location. It does away with the need for keys and access cards, both of which can be lost or stolen, and instead provides access via smartphone, access code or key tag.
The flexibility of SMB, coupled with its scalability and affordability make it the smart choice for businesses wanting a simplified, yet robust small business access control system.
Gallagher’s access control system, SMB, is a security solution that prioritizes simplicity without compromising on flexibility. Providing better control, better flexibility and better peace of mind, SMB simplifies and streamlines security for businesses by taking a fresh approach - bringing you all the features you need, and none you don't via an easy-to-use app.
To learn more about SMB or book a demo, contact our team today.