Access Control Companies in Peterborough

Why do Peterborough businesses invest in access control?

Peterborough's workforce changes fast. The city's logistics sector employs around 21,000 people, and Amazon's Peterborough sites alone received more than 20,000 applications for 4,000 vacancies in a year. With that many starters and leavers, a card or fob can be issued or cancelled in minutes, where lost keys would mean changing locks.

Access control also keeps people out of areas they do not need: stock cages, server rooms, pharmacies and offices inside a larger building. Every door event is logged, which helps after a loss, an accident or a dispute.

What access control do Peterborough sites need?

Distribution centres at Gateway Peterborough usually control access at three points: the vehicle gate, the staff turnstile and doors to high-value or chilled stock. Shift patterns mean the system must change who can enter by the hour.

Multi-tenant offices at Lynch Wood and Orton Southgate need one system where each tenant controls its own doors and fobs, while the landlord runs the main entrance.

Public sites balance openness and safety. ARU Peterborough's Embankment campus was designed to welcome the public, so internal zoning matters more than the front door.

Peterborough City Hospital at Bretton Gate, with 611 beds when it opened, has wards, pharmacies and records rooms that need tight control.

Biometric readers need care. Fingerprints and face scans are special category data under UK GDPR, so you need a valid condition for using them and another way in, such as a card, for people who do not consent.