Why use Metra Smart Locking System in your lockers

The Metra Smart Locker System and the technology behind it transform your lockers into flexible, secure, energy-efficient, maintenance-free, and user-friendly storage solutions for the future.

It enables your lockers to be easily and remotely managed, instantly adapting to any changes in needs or work dynamics – saves you time, money, storage space, and office space, while reducing your company’s environmental impact.

Explore below how Metra Smart Locking Systems in your lockers can give an extra edge to your business success.

To best utilize the convenience of mobile access and extend your access control with mobile credentials, the Metra Smart Locker System enables your employees or students to access lockers in your office, building, campus, or elsewhere with their smartphones and wearables, either via Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, HID app, MyMetraKey app, or a custom, user-experience app.

If your employees or students use mobile credentials, Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, or the HID Mobile Access app provide the most secure and convenient way to open their (Metra Smart) lockers with their smartphones or wearables.

If your employees use your third-party app, booking and accessing your Metra Smart lockers becomes an additional service in the app (API).

If your organization is not using mobile credentials for access or a custom app with various services, then the MyMetraKey app is the best option.
The MyMetraKey app or a third-party apps enable users to open their lockers directly from the app (remotely).

You can provide biometric access to personal and other types of lockers (for storing business or financial documentation, project documentation, etc.) for secure and totally seamless locker access. Locker users will be able to access lockers via face recognition or palm scan.

Your smart lockers, equipped with Metra Smart locker system, are seamlessly interconnected with your access control, security, HR, or other systems in your office, building, or facility. Through Metra’s REST API, your lockers can also be integrated with your POS, payment terminals, cash register, ticketing, hotel PMS, ERP, and accounting software.

The result is an enhanced, seamless access experience for your employees, students, tenants, customers, or guests, as they can access the lockers the same way they go through access control (with access badges, mobile credentials, via face recognition, etc.). Rentals, guest data, and payments flow automatically between systems, with no double entry and no gaps in your turnover records.

A smarter, more interconnected IT environment with networked Metra Smart personal storage also optimizes access and security processes, such as onboarding and managing user access.

Due to the centrally connected and managed Metra Smart Locker System in your lockers, which is connected to your HR department and your employees’ database, you can now save time and optimize your employees’ onboarding and offboarding processes, remotely assign and manage personal, team, exchange of goods, and other types of lockers within your office, prevent locker squatting, etc.

Metra smart lock is fully concealed. This enables a modern, fully clean-line locker design, something your architects and interior designers will love and appreciate. We understand that locker design is an important part of achieving the desired visual experience of your facility.

Get creative with locker door design or graphics!

Metra patented smart lock has a reputation for being the most reliable on the global market and enabling the most flexible and custom use. It is proven to withstand even harsh conditions from scorching desert to freezing winter temperatures and humid environments due to its design and engineering. It can be mounted at any angle, can handle overpacked lockers where the contents exert pressure on locker doors from the inside and is tested up to 300.000 openings.

Learn more about the technology behind the most reliable smart lock.

Make sure you don’t have to deal with costly, time-consuming, stressful chores and locker downtime situations. Metra’s smart lock is thoughtfully designed, constructed and tested to be maintenance-free. It is assembled from noncorrosive parts only. As it is powered by low voltage electricity, you save money, time and the environment (no changing and disposing of harmful lock batteries, no unwanted locker downtime). Special lock design can compensate in case of shabby locker doors and hinge wear. It can flawlessly operate even with over packed locker contents exerting pressure from the inside which is not the case with other types of locks.

Each Metra smart locker system is powered by low-voltage electricity, thus providing you with an ultra energy-efficient smart locker solution. To give you a better idea, an average monthly electricity consumption of 500 lockers with Metra Smart System, which can provide flexible storage for up to 1000 employees in a hybrid work environment, is similar to 1 (yes, one) desk computer monitor.

Compared to battery powered locks, when using Metra Smart System in your lockers, there is no need to replace and dispose of hundreds or even thousands of harmful lock batteries (there are usually up to 4 batteries per lock) to use your lockers, which saves time, money and minimises company’s environmental footprint.

Metra smart system components use high-quality materials, which are easly recyclable and free from halon gases (RoHS 3 compliant).

In every company and organization, there are always various exchanges, deliveries, and pickups of posts, parcels, tools, and other types of items. There is also the need to ensure these processes run as smoothly and error-free as possible. Some processes are inbound, like buying an item online and getting it delivered to your office, and some are outbound, like sending some business packages out of the office or dropping off ordered items for customers to collect. Some are internal, like exchanging a business or project documentation between two employees.
Especially for the last one, some open-type “pigeonholes” are used, or the item or items are just left on the desk of the “recipient”. It is a great way to get those items misplaced, lost, or even stolen.

Your smart lockers, powered with Metra Smart System, can facilitate and organize the above-mentioned, and many others, into secure, discreet, error-free, user-friendly, and time-saving processes that can optimize the workflow in your office, building or campus.

Dropoff lockers are innovative self-service solutions that can support and grow business by improving customer convenience and satisfaction through extended accessibility and reduced wait times, as well as through lower labour costs and expanded service range (more details here).

It is important to know that turn-key, one-size-fits-all parcel lockers, which are available on the market, might not provide you with customisation options that your business and sales dynamics would need.

Metra Smart Locker System enables a fully custom dropoff locker solution for your business needs, which will boost your business by providing your customers with a tailored 24/7 pickup option that will suit them and you. It will seamlessly integrate with your existing CRM or other software to ensure the established sales dynamics and other workflows are not disrupted or changed.

If you want to add a 24/7 pickup locker solution for your customers tailored to your business needs and the needs of your customers, contact us.

Each group of lockers, equipped with networked Metra Smart System comes with MyMetraLockers, the smart locker management software that takes locker management to a completely new level of remote, real-time locker management.
It enables you to centrally, remotely, and easily get information & insights on everything related to smart locker use in your office, building, campus, or other locations, which are part of the same Metra Smart Locker installation.

Identify the usage patterns and preferences related to locker use and easily and instantly administer and make changes that instantly effect and optimize locker use dynamics and other factors to support a more streamlined locker experience.

Benefit from various the locker-related data, reports, and analytics which ara available inthe MyMetraLockers management software. Metra smart locker management can be seamlessly integrated, via API, into third-party management software you are already using in your office and/or company.

Metra smart locker system is the most flexible and customizable smart locking system for lockers on the market. It enables you to adapt your lockers to your organization, business, and user dynamics. You can set your Metra Smart lockers to be permanently assigned to users (f. Ex. office or campus), unassigned or self-assigned (hybrid work), shared, etc. The lockers can be used for personal storage or exchange of goods or other drop-off or pick-up solutions. The locker use can be free, or you can charge users for it (rental lockers). The Metra smart locking system lockers can have a fixed location (office, water park, etc.) or be part of a mobile locker solution (F. ex.. lockers at events).

It is important that lockers with our smart locker system can provide hygienic use in specific environments. We have over three decades of experience providing solutions to medical facilities integrating touchless technology, clean surface design, and various locker cleaning services.

Touchless access – The best way to keep locker use hygiene at a high level is to minimize the need to touch the locker when unlocking and opening it.

Cleaning mode – Using Metra’s smart locker cleaning mode provides another option to make sure your lockers, especially if the lockers can have multiple users, are clean and disinfected.

Antibacterial materials – Specific locker materials provide additional antimicrobial protection to keep your lockers as hygienic as possible.

Self-opening locker doors – besides unlocking your locker, the Metra smart lock will also open the locker doors for you.