Access Control Systems Melbourne Keyless. Logged. Compliant.
Keys walk out the door with the people who hold them. Access control replaces them with credentials you can switch off in ten seconds, whether that is a card, a fob, a PIN, a phone or a fingerprint. We supply and install commercial entry systems across Melbourne for offices, warehouses, apartments, clinics and industrial sites, plus keyless entry for homes.
- Free on site door survey
- Fixed written quote per door
- Licensed security and cabling team
- Cards, fobs, PINs, phones, biometrics
- Free on-site door survey
- Fail-safe egress designed in
- All Melbourne · Mon–Sat 7am–8pm
Free on-site door survey
We count your doors, check the existing hardware and give you a fixed written quote. No obligation.
Master Security Licence
Z67-511-50S
Registered cabler
T59216
Emergency egress
NCC exit compliant
Installations
2000+
Quote turnaround
Within 24 hours
Google rating
4.9 from 79
Supplied, Installed and Serviced Across Melbourne
An entry system decides who can open which door, when, and records every attempt. Instead of a key that works forever and copies itself at any hardware shop, each person carries a credential tied to their name. Give someone access in seconds. Take it away just as fast when they leave, without touching a lock. Rekeying a building after keys go missing is slow and expensive. Cancelling a fob costs nothing.
Controlled entry also lets you set hours, so cleaners only get in between six and eight, restrict a server room to three named people, and pull an audit trail when you need to know who opened the store at four in the morning. This is no longer a big building luxury. Most of the systems we fit are two to six doors.
Priced Per Door, Not Per Guess
Every job we do starts the same way, with a free on site survey where we look at each door rather than quote off a floor plan. Frame material, existing hardware, whether the door is a required exit, where cable can run, and whether it sits on the fire alarm all change what that door needs. You get a door by door specification and a fixed written price.
We fit single shopfront doors, whole office tenancies, warehouse personnel doors, gates and boom gates, and lift control in apartment towers. Because we hold a security licence and a cabling licence, the reader wiring, the network side and the lock hardware are handled by one licensed team on one visit. Not split between a locksmith, an electrician and an IT contractor who each blame the other when a door starts playing up.
Commercial work is the bulk of what we do, but the same crew handles the small jobs. One door on a shopfront, a gate on a yard, a keypad on a storeroom. If you have rung around and been given a number over the phone, ask what lock is going on which door. That is where the real cost sits, and it is why we survey before quoting.
Every door is priced after a free on site survey. No phone estimates, no surprises on the invoice. Call 1300 520 116 or book a survey below.
What Drives the Price Per Door
Two doors in the same building can differ by hundreds of dollars, and the reader on the wall is almost never the reason. These four things are what we look at during the survey.
The door itself
- Timber, aluminium, frameless glass or a roller shutter. A solid timber door with a good frame takes a straightforward electric strike. Frameless glass needs a magnetic lock and a matching bracket, which costs more and takes longer to fit.
Whether it is a required exit
- If people need that door to leave the building, it has to release freely without a credential and it usually has to interface with the fire alarm. That is a compliance requirement, not an upsell, and it changes both the hardware and the wiring.
Where the cable can run
- A door near the comms cupboard is quick. A door at the far end of a tenancy with a concrete slab in between is not. We check the path during the survey so this never turns up as a variation later.
How many people and how many sites
- Three staff on one door is a different system to forty staff across three buildings. User count drives the platform choice, and the platform choice drives whether there is an ongoing licence fee.
Every door is priced individually after a free survey, in writing, with nothing to pay if you decide not to proceed. If you need an existing system serviced rather than replaced, our repair and servicing team covers hardware we did not fit.
Complete Security Solutions, Including Access Control
We are specialists in smart technology and connectivity solutions in Melbourne, with expert installation and ongoing support.
Intercom Installation and Servicing
CCTV and Camera Installation
Security Alarm Installation
Smart Home Security
Ways to Open a Door
Most buildings end up using two or three of these together. Staff on their phones, contractors on a code that expires, and a fingerprint reader on the one room that matters. Here is what each is genuinely good at.
Mobile credentials
Staff open doors with the phone already in their hand. Nothing to issue, nothing to collect back, and access stops the moment someone leaves.
Best for:
Offices, professional services, any site with regular turnover
Cards and fobs
The workhorse of commercial entry and still the right answer for a lot of buildings. Encrypted credentials, not old-style cards copied with a device off the shelf.
Best for:
warehouses, factories, sites with visitors and contractors
PIN keypads
Nothing to hand out at all. Individual codes rather than one shared number, so the log still tells you who came in and when.
Best for:
storerooms, low risk doors, temporary and contractor entry
Fingerprint readers
The credential cannot be lent, lost or copied. Fast at moderate volumes and the strongest answer for a room where sharing is the actual risk.
Best for:
cash rooms, drug safes, server rooms, high value stock
Facial recognition
Touch-free and quick when people arrive at once, and works well where hands are full. Privacy obligations apply, which we set up properly.
Best for:
clinics, food handling, main staff entries on larger sites
Gates, boom gates and lifts
Long range readers so a driver does not open a window, plate recognition where the vehicle is the credential, and lift control so a card only reaches the floors it should.
Best for:
car parks, yards, apartment towers, multi tenancy buildings
Intercom and entry integration
The intercom verifies who is at the door and the entry system decides whether it opens. Standard on apartment buildings and any reception that is unstaffed part of the week.
Best for
apartments, body corporate, offices without a permanent receptionist
Industries We Serve
Buildings We Work In
The hardware barely changes between these. What changes is how the permissions are built, and that is where a system either works for years or ends up propped open with a fire extinguisher.
Offices and professional suites
Front entry on a schedule, restricted server and records rooms, staff on mobile credentials, and visitors on a pass that expires the same day.
Warehouses and industrial sites
Personnel doors, dock doors, roller shutters and yard gates, with long range readers so drivers stay in the cab and a log that satisfies safety audits.
Apartments and body corporate
Lobby, lift, car park and bin room on one credential set, issued to a tenant on move in and dead the day they hand the keys back.
Clinics and allied health
Drug safes, records rooms and after hours staff entries, with retention and access practices that suit your privacy obligations.
Schools and childcare
Controlled entry during hours, visitor sign in, restricted yards, and after hours facility hire that does not need somebody to attend with a key.
Retail and hospitality
Staff only doors, stock and cellar areas, and a record of who opened up and who locked the place at close.
One Licensed Team. One Visit. One Written Price.
From a single shopfront door to a building full of them, we survey, specify, install and support the whole system. No locksmith on one day and an electrician on another, and no gap between them where a door does not work.
What Goes on Each Door
What is the most important decision on a door? The lock, not the reader. A reader can be swapped in ten minutes. The lock decides whether the door still opens in a power failure, whether it holds under force, and whether the installation passes an inspection. We choose it door by door during the survey, which is the whole reason we survey.
Main Components
Door Controller
The decision maker, usually in a comms cupboard. Holds the rules, releases the lock, and keeps working when the internet drops.
Reader
Mounted beside the door. Weatherproof outside, slim and touch free inside. Reads whichever credential you have chosen.
Magnetic Lock
Holds the door shut with an electromagnet and releases the instant power is cut. Always fail safe, so it needs a request to exit device and a break glass release.
Electric Strike
Replaces the keeper in the frame. Can be specified to unlock or stay locked on power loss, so it suits doors where security outranks egress.
Request to Exit Device
A sensor or button on the inside that releases the door on the way out. Legally required on most doors carrying a magnetic lock.
Emergency Break Glass
Manual release beside the door for a fire or an evacuation. Not optional on an exit door.
Power Supply and Battery Backup
Keeps controllers, readers and locks running through a blackout rather than dropping the site offline.
Fire Alarm Interface
Releases the exit doors automatically when the fire system activates. A hard requirement on most commercial buildings.
Cloud Dashboard
Where you add users, set schedules, unlock remotely and pull reports. Browser based, with no server sitting in a cupboard.
Credentials
Cards, fobs, PINs, phones or biometrics. Most sites run two or three types for different groups of people.
Advanced & smart features available
- Remote unlock from your phone
- Real time door alerts
- Full audit trail, exportable
- Time based access schedules
- Temporary codes that expire
- Visitor passes
- Multiple permission levels
- Emergency lockdown
- Anti passback on gates
- Multi site under one login
From Survey to Handover
The same four steps whether it is one door on a shopfront or twenty across a building.
Free door survey
We walk the building and inspect every door. Frame type, swing, fire rating, existing hardware and where cable can run. This is where the real cost is decided.
Door by door specification
You get a written plan naming the lock, reader and release for each door, plus the user groups and schedules. Not a lump sum with nothing behind it.
Installation and configuration
Locks, readers, controllers and cabling fitted by one licensed team. Users enrolled, credentials issued, schedules built.
Testing and training
Every door tested both ways, egress and fire release verified, backup power checked. Then we sit with whoever manages it and show them how to add and remove people.
Typical Jobs and What They Include
Four shapes of job that cover most of what we quote. Every one is priced after the free survey, because a door count on its own does not tell you what a building needs.
Single Door
Priced after survey
installed
- Reader and lock for one door
- Standalone or cloud connected
- Request to exit device fitted
- Up to 25 credentials issued
- Handover and training
- Full app setup & handover
Best for:
Shopfronts, storerooms, single tenancy
Small Business
Priced after survey
installed
- Three to six doors on one controller
- Cloud-based dashboard
- User groups and access schedules
- Full audit trail
- Egress and fire interface
- After-hours access scheduling
Best for:
offices, clinics, small warehouses
Building Wide
Priced after survey
installed
- Eight or more doors, expandable
- Lift, gate or car park control
- Visitor management
- Camera and alarm integration
- Role based administration
- Documented handover pack
Best for:
Apartment buildings, multi-tenancy offices
Multi Site
Priced after survey
installed
- Several buildings under one login
- Permissions follow the person
- Consolidated reporting
- Central credential issuing
- Staged rollout site by site
- Shared reporting across sites
Best for:
Retail groups, franchises, property
System Options
Cloud Managed or On Site Server?
Both hold the rules at the door, so both keep working if the internet drops. The difference is where you manage them from, and what happens as the site grows.
CLOUD MANAGED
Recommended
How it works
Managed through a browser from anywhere. Controllers hold the rules locally and sync back to the platform.
Adding a user
Thirty seconds from a laptop or a phone, wherever you happen to be.
Multiple sites
One login covers all of them, with permissions that follow a person.
Updates
Applied automatically, including security patches.
Ongoing cost
A subscription per door or per user, usually modest.
Ideal for
Almost every site we quote, from three doors upward.
Our recommendation for most Melbourne buildings. Cloud management pays for itself the first time somebody leaves on a Friday afternoon.
ON SITE SERVER
Alternative
How it works
Software runs on a machine in your comms room. You manage it from there or across your own network.
Adding a user
Someone has to be on site or on the VPN to make the change.
Multiple sites
Each site is generally its own installation to maintain.
Updates
Your responsibility, which is why so many on site servers end up years behind.
Ongoing cost
No subscription, but you own the server, the backups and the updates.
Ideal for
Sites with policies against cloud hosted data, or existing infrastructure worth keeping.
Hardware We Fit
We are not tied to one manufacturer, so the hardware suits your doors rather than our stock list. What we do insist on is genuine product with local warranty support and a supply chain that will still exist in five years. Entry hardware is a long life system and orphaned equipment is expensive to replace. The full range is on our [brands we supply ] page.
Inner Range
Australian designed and widely specified on commercial and government sites here. Integriti is the benchmark for larger integrated buildings.
Gallagher
New Zealand designed, high security end of the market. Common on critical infrastructure and sites with strict compliance requirements.
Paxton
Straightforward, reliable and well supported. A very good fit for small to mid size commercial buildings.
Hikvision
Dahua
Strong face recognition and card controllers, and it integrates cleanly with their intercom range.
SALTO
Wireless and standalone electronic locks for doors where running cable is impractical. Heritage buildings, retrofits and hotels.
Why Most Buildings Still Run on Keys
Almost nobody upgrades because it sounded interesting. They call us after one of these, or once they realise it is coming.
Nobody could tell me how many keys were out there.
He left in March and still had a key in June.
Stock went missing and we had no way of knowing who had been in.
The cleaner needed access at six, so we gave everyone the same code.
Every one of those is a management problem rather than a lock problem. A key works forever, copies itself at any hardware shop, and tells you nothing about who used it. A credential is tied to a person, expires when you decide, and writes a line in the log every time it touches a reader. That is the whole difference, and it is why rekeying a building solves the symptom while changing nothing underneath it.
What Our Clients Say
Borderless Solutions helped us choose the right cameras and alarm for our property. No pressure, just honest advice and great installation.
Time to Upgrade?
Signs Your Entry System Has Had Its Day
Entry technology has moved a long way, and an older system usually costs more in workarounds than a replacement would. Upgrading is also cheaper than people expect, because existing cabling, controllers and lock hardware can often be reused while the readers and software move to something modern.
- Software runs on a PC nobody wants to touch
- Adding a user means somebody has to come on site
- Cards are the old unencrypted type
- No audit log, or one nobody can export
- Doors propped open because the schedule is wrong
- Credentials still active for people who left
- Controller no longer supported by the manufacturer
- A second site means a second separate system
- No fire alarm interface on the exit doors
- The original installer has gone quiet
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Looking for a door entry system near you? Borderless Solutions services all of Melbourne and surrounding suburbs. Check your area below, or call 1300 520 116 for this week’s availability.
Check Our Service Areas
Serving Melbourne and surrounding suburbs with licensed entry systems and smart technology. Our full Melbourne is on the locations page.
Western Melbourne
Werribee, Point Cook, Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit, Sunshine, Footscray, Williamstown and Altona. Industrial estates and new commercial builds, cabled during fit out where we get in early enough.
Eastern Suburbs
Box Hill, Doncaster, Ringwood, Blackburn, Balwyn, Burwood, Mitcham and Lilydale. Serviced from our Nunawading office, so surveys here are usually same day or next day.
Inner Melbourne
CBD, South Yarra, Richmond, St Kilda, Fitzroy, Carlton, Prahran, Port Melbourne and Docklands. Apartment lobbies, lift control and owners corporation documentation.
Northern Suburbs
Craigieburn, Epping, Preston, Coburg, Broadmeadows, Bundoora, Essendon and Tullamarine. Warehouses, medical suites and school campuses.
South-East & Bayside
Dandenong, Glen Waverley, Frankston, Brighton, Cheltenham, Moorabbin, Bentleigh, Sandringham, Hampton and the Peninsula. Retail strips and light industrial.
Regional Victoria
Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Melton. Enquire for scheduled installation runs, and ask about [satellite internet] if the site has no reliable fixed line for a cloud managed system.
Common Questions
Questions We Get Asked Most
Whether you found us searching for a door entry system near you or came from a referral, our licensed technicians are happy to answer anything. No obligation.
- Control who enters your property
- Unlock doors with a phone, PIN or key card
- Track entry and exit activity
- Give temporary access to staff or visitors
- Remove lost or stolen access cards instantly
- Integrates with CCTV and alarm systems
Still have questions?
Our licensed technicians are happy to answer any questions about access control systems for homes and businesses. No obligation.
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How much does a door entry system cost in Melbourne?
It is driven by door count and door type rather than by the reader. A single timber door with an electric strike is a modest job. A frameless glass entry with a magnetic lock, an exit device, a break glass release and a fire interface is a different order of work. We inspect every door and quote in writing, so you get a real figure rather than a phone estimate.
Can I unlock doors using my phone?
Yes, and it is the fastest growing way our clients use these systems. Credentials work over Bluetooth or NFC, so the phone in your pocket is the key. They are issued and revoked instantly from the dashboard, which removes the problem of chasing cards back from people who have left.
What happens in a power failure?
Two things. Battery backup keeps controllers and readers running for several hours. Separately, every electrically locked door is specified to fail in a defined direction. Fail safe hardware unlocks so people can get out. Fail secure stays locked. On any door forming part of an exit path, people must be able to leave freely without a credential, and that is set by the building code rather than by us.
Will the doors still work if the internet drops?
Yes. Controllers hold the credential list and the rules locally, so cards, fobs, PINs and biometrics keep working at the door. What you lose is remote management and live alerts, not entry itself. Everything syncs when the connection returns.
Can it work with my cameras?
Yes, and it is the most useful pairing available. An entry event arrives alongside the footage from that door, so you see who actually walked through rather than only which credential was presented. Our team handles both sides of it.
Can it work with my alarm?
Yes. The common setup is disarming with the same credential that opens the door, and arming automatically when the last authorised person leaves. It removes the two most common alarm problems in a business, which are staff forgetting to arm it and everybody sharing one code. Our [alarm installation] page has the detail.
How many users can it handle?
Cloud platforms handle thousands of users and dozens of doors without difficulty. The practical limit is almost never the software. It is whether the permission groups were thought through at the start, which is what the specification stage is for.
Can access be limited to certain hours?
Yes. Doors can unlock for trading hours and secure themselves afterwards, and individual people or groups can be restricted to their own windows. A cleaner with Tuesday mornings, a contractor with a fortnight, a manager with no restriction at all.
Is fingerprint entry secure?
Very. The credential cannot be lent, lost or copied, and modern readers store a mathematical template rather than an image of your finger. There are privacy obligations attached, because biometric data is sensitive information under Australian law, so we set these up with proper consent and retention practices. We will also tell you honestly when a card would serve the same door just as well.
Can I manage several buildings from one login?
Yes, and it is one of the strongest reasons to go cloud managed. Permissions follow a person across sites, reporting can be pulled per site or across the group, and you are not maintaining a separate key register for each location.
What is the difference between fail safe and fail secure?
Fail safe hardware unlocks when power is lost. Fail secure stays locked. Fail safe is required on doors people need to escape through, which is why magnetic locks always need an exit device and an emergency release on the inside. Choosing wrongly is the most serious fault we find on systems installed by non specialists.
Can you fit it to a glass door?
Yes. Frameless and aluminium framed glass doors need specific hardware, usually a magnetic lock with a matching armature bracket or a purpose made glass door strike. It is more involved than a timber door, which is one of the reasons we inspect each door rather than quoting from a count.
Do you install lift and car park entry?
Yes. Lift control restricts a credential to particular floors, which is standard in mixed tenancy buildings. For car parks we install boom gates, roller shutters and long range or plate recognition readers so drivers do not need to open a window.