Re: Filing Cabinets That Use Electronic Access?

["ABLE1" <royboynospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> >
>>
>>
>> Let me understand this a little better.
>>
>> You want to have a $129 - $199 file cabinet protected by a $500 or more
> card
>> access system to stop a would be individual from accessing the contents
>> of
>> said file cabinet to potentially gain knowledge of what???
>>
>> With out spending the time on a no return on investment brain phart, just
>> place all of your inexpensive file cabinets with the very important stuff
>> inside in a secure room with one steel door and put the card access
> control
>> on that door and you are done.
>>
>> As for this statement.
>> > If the employee's card is lost or stolen, you can instantly invalidate
> it.
>>
>> That is not possible.  From the time that the card is REALIZED by the
> person
>> that can invalidate the card can it be disabled.  Otherwise it will be
>> anywhere from minutes to days or more before anyone actually knows that
> the
>> card is either lost or stolen.
>>
>> Life can be much easier and with less stress when practical thoughts are
>> implemented.
>
> Life can be easier when the reality matches the simple solution, but in
> this
> case it does not.
>
> Let's consider what your solution entails.   For accounting alone, we have
> these classifications of files, each with a different list of personnel
> who
> has access:
>
> - payroll
> - current year income and expenses and assets
> - historical filings
> - legal contracts
>
> So in your solution I need to dedicate four private offices to holding
> four
> office filing cabinets?    We only have six private offices in the entire
> space, and I have to dedicate four of them to holding individual office
> cabinets?
>
> Yeah, this is plenty simple for the implementer.    For everyone who works
> here that solution would look wacky.    We basically turn the company's
> space utilization plan upside down because it makes the alarm guy's job
> easy.   Great.
>
> And I haven't even started to discuss the requirements for warehouse,
> which
> are far more complex and extensive than the above, and simply cannot be
> implemented with the "separate rooms" concept easily.
>
> I'm willing to accept that no office filing cabinet can be economically
> retrofitted to use a solenoid locking system.    That's a shame if true
> but
> that is life.
>
> --
> W
>

Well sir, you keep adding more details to the project.  I feel real bad that
I proposed something that would not work give the limited amount of space
available in your office.

If you truly want to pursue this project and as you say your local alarm
dealer don't know how, I would be willing to give it a serious look.  I will
need to know the exact model filing cabinet you want to secure.  It may be
necessary to choose just one model so that what I design can be cloned for
the additional.

I have 22 years in industrial manufacturing, with 14 of those year as a
Maintenance Supervisor.  I have designed numerous machines for specialized
operations and see no reason this can't be accomplished.  I have been in the
alarm business since 1989 and it seems a perfect match of experience to work
on your project.

Just so that we are on the same page a retainer will be required in advance
for the R&D work to come up with a conceptual plan.   Additional fees would
be required for machining of  a working prototype and to cover purchasing a
certain file cabinet, shipping, etc.   I could go on but we would need to
sign some legal documents to cover all aspects of what we are discussing
such a  proprietary information, confidential information, non-disclosure,
compensation, liabilities, design rights, etc., etc., bla bla bla.

Where are you located??  Country, State, City??  It would be cool if you
were just across town from me.

If you are serious please post contact info and we will start the process.

Les