GE Security Offers Real Estate Solutions

29 May, 2009

GE Security develops and distributes real estate solutions that include access control and integrated key management, satisfying the demands of home buyers and sellers alike. Real estate brokers, agents and commissions rely on GE Security's dependable, innovative product line of key control solutions. Securely selling a home could not get any easier! Key control solutions are available from GE Security's Risco and Supra product lines, ensuring that the needs of America's real estate professionals are satisfied.

Have you ever purchased or sold a home? You are probably familiar with traditional lockboxes, devices that are placed on the doorknobs of homes for sale. Lockboxes are designed to securely store a key to the property, allowing potential buyers to easily enter the home. Atlanta-based First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS) Inc. has been utilizing GE Security's lockbox solutions for a long time.

"The oldest lockbox models are basically just metal boxes with embedded combination locks," says Cantey Davis, President of FMLS. "These boxes posed security issues because they could be easily broken into with a hammer, or the combinations could fall into the wrong hands, allowing anyone to access a home."

GE Security strives to continuously improve the efficiency of its lockboxes. According to Davis, GE Security's latest lockboxes are so secure that intruders can more easily break into the home itself, rather than access the key inside the lockbox.

Among the advancements that GE Security has made, machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions are now available. While developing DisplayKEY, popular key control solution, GE Security fostered a relationship with M2M network service provider, Numerex. DisplayKEY relies on an SMS infrastructure, and Numerex provides SMSXpress service that satisfied GE Security's demands. M2M technology, utilized by GE Security, ensures that real estate agents have many options when searching for security!