Access Control

Securing Your Fleet Starts with Smart Access Control

Securely manage who can access your vehicles and cargo, with flexible access control solutions designed specifically for road transport operations.

Goods in transit remains one of the most vulnerable points in the supply chain, with the continued threat of cargo crime presenting a significant challenge for fleet operators.

In response, operators are increasingly investing in more robust physical vehicle security. While this is an important step, physical protection is only part of the solution. To deliver truly effective security, the way access is authorised, controlled and managed across the fleet must be equally robust.

Managing Access Across Your Fleet – Greater Control. Greater Visibility

Who has access, when they have access and how that access is controlled are all important considerations. Effective access control provides an additional layer of protection, while helping to improve accountability and operational efficiency. From managing individual users and permissions to maintaining a clear audit trail of activity, the right solution can give operators greater control and visibility across their fleet.

At Maple, we work closely with our clients to identify the most appropriate approach for their individual operation. Here, we explore the different access control options available, their individual benefits and how they can be applied across a commercial fleet.

How Maple Access Control Helps Improve Fleet Security

Manage Access Across Large Fleets

Control access to multiple vehicles and assets without compromising security or adding unnecessary complexity.

Controlled, Authorised Access

Manage access permissions without creating delays or impacting operational efficiency

Access Control, Your Way

Select from a range of flexible access control options tailored to your specific security and operational requirements.

Maintain Clear Audit Trails

Capture access activity to provide greater accountability and visibility of who accessed an asset, when and where.

Respond Quickly to Changing Requirements

Update or revoke access permissions when personnel, responsibilities or operational requirements change.

Strengthen Security Without Complicating Operations

Introduce additional control while keeping day-to-day access straightforward for authorised users.

RFID Transponder Fobs

For convenient, reliable and user-friendly access control, RFID transponders provide a flexible solution for managing access across commercial fleets.

High-security RFID keyfobs can be individually assigned to authorised users, with access permissions configured around specific operational requirements. This gives operators greater control over who can access individual vehicles or groups of assets, and when.

Assign access permissions to individual or groups of vehicles
Apply expiry dates or date and time restrictions to individual fobs
Delete lost, stolen or unaccounted-for fobs from circulation
Manage user permissions as operational requirements change
Provide simple, convenient access without traditional keys

Challenge Response – PIN Entry

Challenge Response provides secure, controlled access without the need to issue individual access fobs or physical keys.

It is particularly suited to operations where drivers do not routinely require access to a vehicle’s load area, or where access needs to be authorised on an individual, event-by-event basis.

Using the unique electronic seal number generated by the locking system, an authorised user can obtain a single-use access code through Maple’s secure web portal. The code can then be provided to the person requiring entry, enabling controlled access to the load area and when required.

Generate secure, single-use access codes remotely
Authorise access only when it is required
Eliminate the need to distribute additional keys or access fobs
Maintain greater control over occasional or exceptional access

Key Validation

Key Validation provides an effective way to manage RFID access across larger or more dynamic fleet operations, helping ensure that lost, missing or unauthorised fobs are automatically taken out of circulation.

Rather than providing indefinite access, users are required to regularly validate their RFID fob for a predefined period, such as the duration of a shift or daily basis. This is achieved by presenting the fob to a designated validation unit, housed in a secure area.

Once the validation period expires, the fob is automatically disabled until it is validated again. This provides operators with an additional layer of security while keeping the process straightforward for authorised users, whilst maintaining efficiency.

Automatically restrict fobs that have not been regularly validated
Reduce the risk presented by lost or unreturned access fobs
Define validation periods around operational requirements
Maintain tighter control across large numbers of users
Provide authorised personnel with simple, hassle-free day-to-day access

Remote Access Control

For operations demanding enhanced cargo security, Maple Connect provides secure remote management of vehicle access.

This powerful option allows operators to remotely restrict access to a vehicle’s load area, helping prevent unauthorised entry while goods are in transit. Once the vehicle reaches its intended destination and its location has been verified, access can be remotely authorised for approved personnel.

By combining physical security with real-time vehicle location and remote authorisation, operators can maintain tighter control over when and where cargo can be accessed.

Remotely control access to secured load areas
Restrict access while vehicles and cargo are in transit
Authorise access once a vehicle reaches an approved location
Strengthen security for high-value or sensitive cargo operations

A Powerful Access Control Platform

What impressed us most was Maple’s ability to deliver consistent security across our entire fleet, regardless of vehicle type. With every system integrated into a single management platform, we can easily monitor and control security across all our vehicles, making fleet-wide management simpler and more efficient.

Ed Martin | Head of Business Growth