Office suites and tenant doors
Suite entries, floor doors, stairwell doors, and shared corridors get a reader only after the frame, strike prep, and closer are checked.
San Jose commercial
Commercial access control installation and retrofits for San Jose buildings.
Elwin Security installs, configures, repairs, and supports commercial access control for San Jose offices, warehouses, retail, and medical suites. The scope covers readers and controllers, keycards, fobs and mobile credentials, electric strikes and maglocks, request-to-exit devices, and the low-voltage wiring between them. Elwin is Santa Clara-based and serves the San Francisco Bay Area.
Use case
For San Jose buildings where the door hardware decides what the reader can do.
The Census Bureau's ACS 2024 1-year estimates list a population of 997,395 for San Jose city, California. Elwin plans commercial access control for San Jose buildings starting with a site walk of every controlled door.
Warehouses, cages, and loading doors
Maglocks, exit buttons, and request-to-exit devices on cage and loading doors are planned with the egress path; your fire marshal or AHJ determines compliance.
Retail and storefront doors
Aluminum storefront stiles take narrow readers, electric strikes, and keypad levers chosen for the stile width.
Service focus
The 2022 California Fire Code lets the fire code official require a key box where access is restricted by secured openings.
Your fire marshal or AHJ determines compliance.
Readers, controllers, and credentials
Elwin installs and supports cloud and on-premise access control, including Kisi and Brivo, with keycards, fobs, PINs, and mobile credentials.
Release hardware and egress
Electric strikes, maglocks, exit devices, and request-to-exit devices are chosen per door with the egress path in view; your fire marshal or AHJ determines compliance.
Site walk
What Elwin checks at a San Jose commercial building before the scope is written.
The walk records each controlled door and the hardware that is already there.
Doors, frames, and closers
Door material, frame type, strike prep, closer behavior, and whether the opening is fire-rated or on an egress path.
Cable paths and power
Existing conduit, wall plates, controller locations, and power supplies that can be reused.
Keys and key boxes
Who holds keys today, and whether a fire department key box holds a key that will change when the lock does; your fire marshal or AHJ determines compliance.
Scope details
The scope is the door, the reader, the controller, and the credential.
The site walk is where the scope is matched to the building.
Readers and controllers
Kisi's pricing page lists the Reader Pro 2 at $475 and the Controller Pro 2 at $850, marks the controller as required, and states that the price includes a 5-year warranty on hardware. Brivo's Access Editions sheet offers the Brivo Security Suite in three editions, Standard, Professional and Enterprise, and lists card, fob and PIN credentials as supported.
- Kisi, Brivo, and other cloud platforms
- Readers at suite, floor, and stairwell doors
- Controllers at prepared cable points
Release hardware
Elwin services electric strikes, maglocks, exit devices, and request-to-exit devices; Your fire marshal or AHJ determines compliance.
- Electric strikes on storefront and suite doors
- Maglocks with push-to-exit on glass lobby doors
- Request-to-exit devices
Credentials and administration
Keycards, fobs, PINs, and mobile credentials are issued per tenant or department, with administrator roles set at handoff.
- Keycards and fobs
- Mobile credentials
- Visitor and vendor PINs
Process
From the door schedule to a system the tenant or owner runs.
The sequence runs from the first site walk to the handoff.
Walk and list the controlled doors
Suite, floor, stairwell, loading, and storefront doors are recorded with lock type, closer, strike prep, existing reader, and cable path, and any fire-rated or egress door is flagged for fire marshal or AHJ review.
Result: A door-by-door scope the owner can review before anything is ordered.
Install around the existing building
Readers, controllers, strikes, maglocks, exit devices, and cable are installed with the release behavior checked at each door.
Result: Each door is tested at the controller before credentials are issued.
Issue credentials and hand off
Users are loaded per tenant or department, administrator roles are set, and the team is shown how to add a user, revoke a card, and read a door event.
Result: The property team runs the system from day one.
Field proof
Published before-and-after work in San Jose.
Each photo pair is from an Elwin job published with its location on the before-and-after gallery.
San Jose lobby: Maglock and push-to-exit button on glass lobby doors.
San Jose lobby: Elwin installed a magnetic lock (maglock) at the header and a green push-to-exit button beside the doors.
FAQ
Elwin checks each door's reader, cable path, power supply, and release hardware on the site walk and reuses what works with the new controller; the scope lists what stays and what is replaced.
What property teams say about working with Elwin.
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We’ve worked with Elwin Security across multiple office buildings for both access control and building security improvements.
Dino and Mike from Elwin Security were fantastic to work with on our commercial building. They were professional, thorough, and clearly know their craft.
Site walk
Start with the property conditions.
Tell Elwin what is not working, what systems are already on site, and which access points matter most. The next step is a scope grounded in the building, not a generic product list.
Request a site walk.
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