A key you can switch off from your phone.
Keys have one problem you cannot design around: you cannot un-issue one. Someone leaves and you either trust them or re-key the building. A credential you can revoke in two seconds fixes that, and it runs on the same app as your cameras.
A door needs two boxes, not one.
This is the single most common surprise on a quote. A reader on the wall, and a hub inside that actually throws the lock. The hub goes where nobody can reach it, because if the thing that opens the door were on the outside wall, prying it off would open the door.
Door Hub
The brain of the door, mounted inside where nobody can reach it. It throws the lock.
Reader Flex
The reader on the wall. Card, phone tap, or a PIN with no card at all.
Gate Hub
Rated well below freezing, for a gate or an unheated entry that a Door Hub cannot take.
Fail-Secure Strike Lock
Fail secure. Power dies, the door stays shut. Read the safety note below.
Prices are all-in CAD, Ubiquiti’s own price including their memory surcharge, and we add nothing to them. They move when Ubiquiti moves them, so we confirm every line on the quote.
What a working door actually costs.
- The reader. The part on the wall. Card, phone tap, PIN or fingerprint.
- The hub. Separate, mounted inside, and it is what releases the lock.
- The strike or lock. Separate again, and fail secure or fail safe is a decision, not a default.
- The wiring. Relay cable to the lock, network cable to the reader. Often the biggest line on the job.
- Egress hardware. Usually a door contractor’s work rather than ours. See the note below.
- The credentials. Cards or phone passes, priced per person.
The safety point, and it is not a preference
Our standard is fail secure: a power cut leaves the building locked. That makes the way OUT a mechanical job. A push bar or push pad that retracts the latch by the physical act of pushing, with no power, no network and no device involved. The failure you design for is all of them at once, and someone who has never been in the building is walking at that door. It must open when they push. We are not a code authority, and your local code and Authority Having Jurisdiction are the ones who decide what your building requires.
Tell us about the doors.
How many, whether they are heated, and whether the egress hardware is already mechanical. That is most of the design settled.
Want the full detail? Door Access in the wiki has the complete tables and the specs behind these choices.