Intro to Key Control

Key control has been around for as long as keys and locks have been used to secure assets. After all, what good is a lock if the wrong person has the key? It’s also been a challenge people have been struggling with for centuries.

In ancient Rome, the elite classes wore keys around their neck as a status symbol showing that they owned assets valuable enough to be secured. Their idea of key control was surrounding themselves with personal guards.

As keys became more common over the centuries, new methods of key control were needed to protect and keep track of keys.

By the industrial age, businesses were hanging keys on pegs on a wall. They tracked access with manual logbooks to keep up with key activity. For this method to be effective, employees had to fill out the logbook correctly every single time.

Key control hasn’t evolved much since then. More than 200 years later, many businesses still rely on pegboards and paper logs. Keys can easily be taken from unsecure pegs, and logbooks are often incomplete.

If that sounds familiar, it’s time to let KeyTrak help you bring your key control into the 21st century.