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Industries — HOSPITALITY: HOTEL LOCK & KEY SYSTEMS· MANHATTAN & THE NY/NJ METRO
Hotel Lock & Key Systems for NY & NJ: every guest gets let in, and every door stays accountable.
A keycard that will not open the door is the first sour note of a stay, and a lock system off the network is a blind spot no one is watching. NYC IT Works runs the wiring, controllers and integrations that sit behind the electronic-lock platforms your property already uses, VingCard, Salto, dormakaba and Onity among them, so cards encode, mobile keys reach the door, and every entry is recorded.
Start with a Free Lock & Network Assessment
Keys that encode · Doors on the network · On-site across NY and NJ
EVERY STAY STARTS AT THE DOOR
A Lock is only as Reliable as the Network behind it.
A hotel lock is a small computer bolted to a door. It encodes cards, checks credentials and records every entry, and none of that happens without power, a controller and a live path back to the front desk. Let that path degrade and the failure surfaces at the cruelest moment, a guest standing outside a room with a key that will not read. Keeping that path solid, door by door, is the job we do at every property you run in NY and NJ.
WHAT WE KEEP RUNNING
Three Systems stand between a Guest and their Room.
THE LOCK NETWORK
Encoders, Controllers & Doors
Key encoders at the desk, the door controllers, and the network that ties them together. We keep them healthy so cards encode and doors open when the lobby is full and a line is forming.
THE INTEGRATION
The Lock Talks to the PMS
Check-in issues the key, checkout kills it, and housekeeping and maintenance carry their own access, all through the lock tie to the PMS. We keep that integration working so the front desk is not re-cutting cards by hand.
MOBILE KEY & AUDIT
Seamless Check In enhances Guest Experience
Mobile keys ride your Wi-Fi and the lock platform cloud. We keep the coverage and connection solid, a guest phone opens the door, and check in is a breeze
PLATFORM DEPTH
We work inside these lock systems every week.
Every brand of electronic lock speaks its own dialect: how it encodes a card, how it provisions a mobile credential, how it reports an entry back to the desk. We are conversant in the ones your doors already run, so a repair or a platform cutover moves in hours instead of stalling between the lock vendor and whoever wired the property. Our lane is the wiring, the controllers and the interface underneath; which lock you buy stays your call.
VingCard
ASSA ABLOY
Salto
Access Platform
Dormakaba
Saflok / Ilco
Onity
Electronic Locks
ASSA ABLOY Mobile Access
Mobile Key
PMS Interface
OPERA / Infor / Agilysys
INTERFACES & INTEGRATIONS
A Door Lock lives or dies at its Connections.
Most lock trouble is not the lock. It is the handoff: a booking that never reaches the encoder, a mobile key that never leaves the app, a checkout that never tells the room to power down, a fire alarm that has to release every door at once. Each of those is a wire between the lock and another system, and each is a place a service call gets bounced from one vendor to the next. We hold those wires, end to end, across your NY and NJ hotels.
RESERVATIONS
Front Desk & PMS
The booking-to-key interface: check-in issues a card, checkout kills it, staff access is scoped, all tied cleanly to the PMS.
MOBILE KEYS
Guest Wi-Fi App Delivery
Phone-as-key credentials ride your Wi-Fi and the lock platform cloud, so coverage and the connection have to hold at the door.
ENERGY
Building Management
Occupancy and checkout signals from the lock and PMS driving HVAC and lighting setbacks, tied in cleanly.
LIFE SAFETY
Panic Alarms & Egress
Fire release and free egress at the door, and the staff panic layer built to New York City’s Safe Hotels Act.
BACK OF HOUSE
Access Control
Back-of-house and common-area entry on scoped, logged credentials, coordinated with the guest-room locks.
BACKBONE
Networks & Cabling
The wired and wireless backbone, PoE and cabling that online locks and mobile keys depend on.
THE HOSPITALITY-GRADE DIFFERENCE
A Guest Lock is Front-of-House, and it should be Supported that way.
A generalist help desk treats a lock like a printer. The team on our end knows a dead encoder empties the lobby and can name the platform on your doors before you finish the sentence, and that is the bar we hold at every property we look after.
WHAT MATTERS
GENERALIST IT SHOP
NYC IT WORKS · HOSPITALITY-GRADE
Support and Helpdesk availability day and night, weekends included
Deep expertise in VingCard, Salto, Dormakaba, Onity and more
Interfaces are kept working so check-in issues the key automatically
Network, Wi-Fi and Connection Engineered so Mobile Keys reach the door
Time-sync and backups kept so the platform’s log stays accurate and recoverable
Every hotel on one standard, one team accountable for all of them
When a key will not encode
Open weekdays, 9 to 5
Broad IT skills, no lock specialism
Beyond standard IT support
Left to the app vendor
As the lock platform was left
PLATFORM FLUENCY
Knowledge of your lock system
The Lock-to-PMS link
Phone-as-key
An access log you can trust
Each one on its own local shop
A group of properties
A guest never thinks about the lock until the key fails at the door. NYC IT Works keeps the network and integrations behind your locks running across your NY and NJ properties, so the door opens on the first tap and every entry is accounted for.
HOW IT WORKS
Three Steps to Locks you Stop thinking about.
01
Book a 15-Minute Call
Fifteen minutes with an engineer, no commitment. Tell us the platform on your doors and where it bites: encoding, mobile keys, the PMS link, the 2 a.m. gaps.
03
Your Plan, Documented
You walk away with the findings in plain language and a fixed price to act on them. Use us for the work or take it to any team you trust; it is yours either way.
02
Free Lock & Network Assessment
On-site across NY and NJ, a senior engineer walks the lock platform, the controllers and network behind it, and the PMS handoff, and flags what is fragile before a guest meets it.
EXPLORE HOSPITALITY
The Whole Property, not just the Locks.
Doors are where we start, not where we stop. The same engineers who wire your locks look after the layers beneath them, gathered here.
HOTEL HUB
Hospitality & Hotels
The wide view of our hotel work, if you would rather start there.
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FRONT DESK
Hotel PMS Support
The Reservation System that tells each lock who belongs in which room.
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CONNECTIVITY
Guest & Property Wi-Fi
The wireless back of house network a phone-as-key leans on to reach the door.
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NETWORKS
Network & Infrastructure
Switching, cabling and PoE, the layer your door controllers plug into.
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CYBERSECURITY
Guest & Access Data
Segmentation and defense around the card data and the door records.
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MANAGED IT
Managed IT & Help Desk
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THE WHOLE STACK
The Lock is one Layer of a much larger build.
A guest touches the lock; everything that makes it work sits behind the wall. One team engineers and runs all of it, so a fault has a single owner instead of a huddle of vendors trading blame.
Networks & Infrastructure
FOUNDATION
The wired and wireless backbone every other system rides on: ISP procurement and failover circuits, structured cabling to every floor, firewalls and switching, on-property servers, and Wi-Fi engineered from the lobby to the top floor and through back of house. When a carrier cuts a line outside, the desk keeps working inside.
Built Only For Hotels
HOSPITALITY BUILDS
Locks and mobile keys first, then everything they touch: the PMS and its integrations, guest phones, guest Wi-Fi, in-room TV, staff panic alarms and building energy controls, each held where it plugs into the network, each with a page of its own.
Cybersecurity
PILLAR
Card data at the desk and an entry record on every door make a hotel worth attacking. Detection and response around the clock, managed EDR, mail and DNS filtering, camera and access-control oversight, and staff security training, plus the PCI-DSS evidence a card-brand or processor review comes looking for.
AI Infrastructure
PILLAR
Private AI kept on the property: assistants and analytics a group can run without a guest or staff record ever crossing the door, on on-prem servers and local models that retrieve from your own SOPs and rate rules. The model learns only from what stays inside your walls.
Smart Spaces
EXPERIENCE LAYER
The parts of the stay a guest can feel: lobby and bar audio, lighting and climate scenes, in-room casting and the TV matrix, signage and wayfinding, sensors and EV charging, all riding the same segmented network the locks do.
Managed IT
ONE ACCOUNTABLE TEAM
And the team behind all of it: a help desk your staff can raise at 3 a.m., monitoring and patching, endpoints and backups, disaster recovery, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, VoIP, co-managed IT, and vCIO planning and procurement, so every layer answers to the same people.
PARTNER
PARTNER
THE ENTERPRISE PLATFORMS THAT RUN HOSPITALITY TECHNOLOGY
On the network side we standardize on Ubiquiti UniFi across a hotel: the LAN, PoE out to every door controller, Wi-Fi dense enough to carry a mobile key to the far room, and UniFi Access and UniFi Protect run from a single console. We watch and maintain all of it through N-able. It is one stack, documented, with the same people behind it at any hour of the night.
Systems we work across: VingCard · Salto · dormakaba · Saflok · Ilco · Onity · ASSA ABLOY Mobile Access · Latch · SALTO KS · And More!
The infrastructure under these platforms is what we run. We do not resell locks or key systems; we are the engineers who keep the wiring, controllers and integrations beneath your doors working, at every NY and NJ property you operate.
Hotel Lock & Key FAQs
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The Network behind your Locks should Never keep a Guest waiting at the Door.
Book the Free Lock & Network Assessment. Someone senior comes on-site, traces every door back to its controller and its network, and writes up what needs attention with a fixed price to put it right. No obligation; the findings are yours to keep whatever you decide.