Most guides on self storage technology are really guides to self-storage software. They compare management platforms, list vendors, and stop there. Software matters — but it is one layer of four, and the layer that quietly decides your long-term running cost is the one almost nobody writes about: the lock on each unit door. This is a full-stack view of self storage technology, written from the lock side of the industry. It lays out the four layers, shows where each technology

Are there app-controlled storage unit locks? Yes — and a phone can open one four different ways: Bluetooth, WiFi/platform, cellular, and battery-free NFC. Most run on a battery inside the lock, and several charge a recurring subscription fee. One category does neither. This guide lays out all four for self storage, gives you the comparison table nobody else publishes, and answers what using one from an iPhone actually feels like. We build battery-free NFC locks, so we have a

Most self storage security content is a list of components — fence, lights, gate, cameras, alarms, locks — in roughly that order. A list is not a system. What separates facilities that get hit repeatedly from facilities that do not is rarely one missing component; it is that the components were never arranged into layers that cover each other's blind spots. This guide organises facility security the way an attacker actually encounters it: as five concentric rings from the pro