Most businesses have items they want to keep safe. These can be products, parts, tools, or commodities.
Food and beverage operations usually want to lock up their liquor, for example. Manufacturing plants may want to lock up expensive components or finished products ready to be shipped.
Protecting high-value items is important. But most businesses don’t need an elaborate security system, safes, or armed guards to keep their valuable protected. In many instances, wire enclosures and partitions can provide the security you need at a fraction of the cost of these other options.
Indoor and Outdoor Use
All you really need for lockable wire enclosures and partitions is a little out of the way space. This area can be either indoors or outdoors.
Indoors lockable areas benefit from using existing walls and ceilings to limit access to the secured area while outdoor wire enclosures and partitions may need four walls.
If you are going to create an outdoor security enclosure, you also probably will need to use an area that already has concrete or you may need to pour a slab. Whether or not you want to add a roof depends on how weatherproof the items to be stored in the area will be.
Limiting Access
Indoor security enclosures typically will use one or two existing walls. That means you may only have to install two or three wire walls, as well as a lockable entryway. Sliding gates or doors that can be opened with keys provide all the protection you need.
The height of the walls does not necessarily have to go all the way to the ceiling either, especially if you are building your storage area in a warehouse with tall walls. Fencing that is 8 or 10 feet tall is usually enough to discourage anybody unauthorized person who wants to gain access to the restricted area.
Closed-Circuit Television
Once your security enclosure has been built, you will want to limit access to authorized persons only. These can include supervisors, managers, and executives, as well as trusted employees.
Enhance your security by requiring anybody entering the area to either sign in and out on a clipboard at the gate, or sign out for the keys prior to being issued them.
Another option is to install closed-circuit security cameras that can watch the area 24 hours per day. That way, if there is a security breach or if high-value items go missing it can be relatively easy to find out what happened.