Equipment and Installation Cost by Campus
CS interviewed several hospital, school and university end users and consultants about what they paid for the various access control and lock solutions they’ve recently installed at their facilities. Due to the variations in campus/district size, project complexity and equipment installed, there is a wide range of costs.
- A university in the Midwest installed about 6,000 WiFi-enabled standalone locks (with prox or prox and PIN or NFC), costing $1,600 per door, including installation
- A university installed more than 4,000 locks and several hundred readers on interior doors, costing $1,200-$1,500 per door, including installation
- A hospital has added 70-80 readers in three years with the cost per reader being $3,000, including the reader, lock and labor
- A hospital added 2,000 new locks with the mechanical locks costing about $300 each, keypad locks costing about $1,000 each and card readers costing about $3,500 each (including associated infrastructure). It cost $200-$1,500 to install each lock.
- Val Verde Unified School District in California installed 300 Salto units at a cost of $500-$700 per lock and installation cost of $200-$300 per lock.
- According to Paul Timm of RETA Security consulting, Grade 1 cylindrical locks can range from $280-$350 and Grade 1 mortise locks can range from $350-$400 with an installation cost of about $130 (one hour of labor)
- Access control costs at ASU start at approximately $3,500 for a single reader due to the need for the initial controller. Each reader thereafter averages about $1,500-$1,900, depending on cabling and hardware complexity. “Standardization of the access control solution requires coordination and guidelines, which add to the install costs due to asbestos, fire-stop verification/certification, and quality on the cablework, activation and testing,” says ASU Director of Business Applications and Planning Laura Ploughe.
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