Software for Creating Master Key Systems and tracking the Keys and Doors
The Locksmith Friendly Software for Creating Master Key Systems.
The Original Graphic User Interface Master Key Creation and Management Software. Key Trax was originated
in 1995 when I was the lead locksmith at a large hotel-casino in Laughlin, Nevada. To learn more about me and how I became a locksmith, click here.
Key Trax helps you create a standard master key system and track every pattern issued as either a key or
simply as pinning for a lock. The pinning chart page is laid out similar to the traditional format for a
printed master key system from as far back as sixty years. I chose to devieate from the traditional
layout because it was possible to do so and improve on the traditional layout. Traditional layouts were
based on having to type the pinning sequences out on a typewriter which was usually pre formatted in how
you could build a page.
Because of this forced page layout, It was felt the old method of laying out the master key system was
restrictive to ease of comprehending relationships between pinning patterns and master keys.
With Key Trax, and later with Key Trax II, It was considered important to seperate master keys in a
visual manner which easily indicated any specific master keys' relationship to all other keys indicated
on the
page.
With this in mind, Key Trax uses color coding to indicate the relationship between pinning patterns,
master keys, and the relationship of pre-masters and sub-masters. I also worked closely with color
blind locksmiths to ensure the colors I used as function indicators were easily viewable despite a
person being color blind.
Key Trax allows you to track every key issued to every individual. The page where keys are issued is the
same page where individuals who are issued those keys are entered. This allows you to handle both tasks
in the same process page. Similarly, Key Trax allows you to track every door in a Master Key System, the
page
where you enter the details for a particular door is also the page where you assign a door to open with
a particular key.
Key Trax will make it easy for you to manage small, medium, and large master key systems. Keep up to
15000
different systems seperate and distinct. Key Trax, written for locksmiths by a locksmith.
| Description |
SKU # |
Price |
| Key Trax |
KWS001 |
$ 79.95 |
Key Trax II
The Master Key Creation and Maintenance Software for Enterprise and
Industrial Businesses.
Key Trax II has all the features of Key Trax and MORE. With the ability to track each individual piece of
hardware, alterations to that hardware and get an instant report of how many of a particular piece of
hardware are recorded as installed.
Key Trax II provides the ability to network you files for Key Trax II. This allows large properties to
set up multiple computers all accessing the same Key Trax II file set. With varying degree of access,
this allows the locksmith to have complete access to the system while limiting Human Resources or
Security to information about who has keys and where those keys fit. Those individuals could not see key
pins or pinning information or run reports on pinning information.
When dealing with a large property, or a number of small properties included in a single master key
system it can become difficult to always have all the details about every door and lock floating around
a property. This is where the mapping feature of Key Trax II comes in. By creating maps from bitmap
files, Key Trax II allows you to place the location of every lock on a property, no matter how big or
how extended the properties are.
Airlines use Key Trax II networking to allow the keying of small offices for use by corporations which
have presences in many airfields. By keying all such offices across airports to a single master key
system the management can travel from airport to airport and have access while still being able to hire
local locksmiths at each location to pin locks with change of personnel or for any other reason. Key
Trax II allows you to mark the location of padlocks which may be specialty keyed to match office doors,
or cabinet locks similarly keyed to the master key system. Printouts of portions of maps showing the
location of specific doors and locks make absolute the pinning of the correct door. Key Trax II allows
you to mark the door as keyed to the master key system, so you can layout your intended key plan and
then as you pin the locks to match the plan, you can record when the locks are keyed. This then allows
you to run an UnPinned Locks report which will let you know how many unpinned locks still need to be
pinned. On large properties this is a life saver as far as footwork is concerned.
Hotels Resorts and Casinos all use Key Trax II to track the keying of the mechanical keys in their
properties. Today many such properties are moving to electronic keys for guest rooms and guest facing
doors, but where security is still needed, mechanical locks are still very prevalent. Key Trax II allows
the control of access to mechanical locks at nearly the level of electronic locks. The only thing
missing is who actually used a key. Reports on who carries specific keys, and which doors those keys
open can be had in seconds. If a key is lost, it can instantly be shown where the property is vulnerable
because of it, and provide an exact list of others who carry those keys, making rekeying and reissuing
keys to those effected much quicker and easier.
City Governments, Schools, Large businesses with a desire to maintain key and lock control all use Key
Trax II to keep their facilities working effortlessly. Maintenance can be issued keys to specific
buildings while allowing other areas to be kept completely secured. Housekeepers can be issued keys to
cart storage lockers keyed the same on every floor or in groups with supervisors having greater access.
All of this and more is easily tracked and maintained through time as things change using Key Trax II.
| Description |
SKU # |
Price |
| Key Trax II |
KWS0002 |
$ 199.95 |
| Key Trax II Site License |
KWS0002S |
$ 499.95 |
Key Trax II is not just for Locksmiths. Many businesses have chosen to use Key Trax II to maintain their
Key Tracking of employee and vendor keys, and still choose to change locksmiths and still maintain
control of their own master key systems, choosing how to key doors and how to maintain their system
security.
