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Smart locks and access control, Monroe GA
Entry doors, the garage, and the gate, all run through the same access system instead of a collection of separate locks and an ever-growing set of keys nobody can fully account for.
Most homes accumulate keys the way they accumulate remotes, one for the front door, one for the garage, a spare hidden somewhere for the housekeeper, another given to a contractor two years ago that was never returned. Nobody can say for certain how many copies exist or who still has one. Access control replaces all of it with something that can be seen, managed, and revoked from one place.
What runs through it
Each of these connects to the same Control4 system as the rest of the house, not a standalone lock app on its own.
Smart locks on the doors you actually use daily, unlocked by code, app, or automatically as an arrival scene runs.
Access points inside the home included in the same system, not left as a separate, older lock nobody thought about.
Temporary or single-use codes for a cleaner, a contractor, or a guest, active only for the window they actually need.
The same system covered on the gate and intercom page, so entry at the property line and entry at the door share one interface.
The actual difference
Both control who gets in. Only one of them can be undone after the fact.
The scenario that makes this concrete: a landscaping crew has had a code for two years, the relationship ends, and the code gets removed in seconds. Nobody drives to the house to collect a key that may or may not still be in that person’s possession, and nobody wonders afterward whether it actually happened.
How it gets built
Door hardware gets specified alongside the rest of the low-voltage plan, since power and network requirements at each entry point need to be run before drywall closes. This is also when backup power for the locks gets sized against the same plan as the gate operator.
Locks themselves are installed and configured at trim, once the doors are hung and finish work is complete, then tested against the same arrival and away scenes as the rest of the system.
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For builders, door hardware and access control are easiest to specify at the same time as the rest of the low-voltage plan, since power and network runs to each entry point are part of the same rough-in work. This falls under the same scope covered on the low voltage contractor page, and fits naturally into a standing partnership where hardware selection is already understood project to project.
Already in a finished home
Not every home gets shades planned at blueprint. If yours is already finished, we can usually still add motorized shades, the trade-off is power, since a battery-powered motor is the more common route in a home where running new wiring means opening a wall. We will walk the rooms with you and tell you plainly which windows are a clean retrofit and which would need more work than the shade is worth.
Common questions
The locks themselves keep functioning on local battery power and their own connection to the Control4 system, so a network outage does not lock anyone out. Extended power loss is planned for at blueprint the same way it is for the gate, with backup power sized to the home.
Yes, and this is one of the more common reasons homeowners bring this up. A code can be created for a single visit, a recurring schedule, or an ongoing basis, and revoked instantly the moment it is no longer needed, without changing the code anyone else uses.
Just the doors that are actually used for entry and exit, typically the front door, a garage entry, and sometimes a side or mud room door. Interior doors and closets are not part of this system, the scope is access into and out of the home, not every door inside it.
Most smart locks retain a physical key cylinder as a backup, which we recommend keeping rather than removing entirely. It becomes the option of last resort rather than the daily method, but having it costs nothing and covers an edge case a code cannot.
In most cases, yes, without replacing the door itself. We will look at the specific hardware installed and tell you plainly whether it is a direct swap or something that needs more work, but retrofitting locks is generally more straightforward than retrofitting wiring.
It is part of the same system covered on the gate and intercom page. An arrival scene that opens the gate and the correct garage door can unlock the entry door in the same sequence, rather than treating the property line and the front door as two unrelated systems.
Yes. Every credential is tied to a person or a purpose, so the access log shows which code opened a given door, not just that the door opened. This is useful well beyond security, confirming a delivery arrived, that a cleaning crew came on schedule, or that a contractor left when they said they would.
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