Whether you were hired to breathe new life into a stagnant security program or if your security system is just in desperate need of an overhaul, a retrofit is likely in your future. However, a high-impact retrofit doesn’t necessarily mean a high-cost system. Sometimes, the return on your investment can come from one lost key.
Sergeant Tony Agee at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport (ROA) was facing both compliance pressure and time pressure in recovering from lost key incidents. Airports face strict regulations on exactly how long officials have to recover security standards after a key, especially a master key, goes missing. With more than 90 locks to manually re-pin and up to 60 keys to recut after the last key went missing, Sgt. Agee started looking for different solutions.