Inventor and director of Lockit Systems Richard “Rick” Gould is the winner of the 2019 ASIAL Security Exhibition + Conference award and an Australia Good Design award.
For 20 years, Gould’s system Guardian Angel has taken away the worry from automotive security, providing a key control system for automotive dealers, who can safely secure assets.
Gould has just launched Keyhound, an electric version of the Guardian Angel cabinet.
“Your greatest unaccounted assets are your keys, vehicles and staff,” Gould says.
“Our clients’ lives are much better without wondering about keys.”
Lockit’s Keyhound control system allows dealers to track keys, vehicle parking usage and having staff accountable when handling valuable assets.
It is app-based, where the app locates parked vehicles, has live key tracking, dashboard management and can access keys and find multiple vehicles’ parking locations in under 30 seconds.
Gould says losing a vehicle or paying for traffic offences, or losing a property key can cost thousands in key, locks or property replacement.
Guardian Angel has reduced theft by 80-90% through its system of securing the keys 24/7, according to Gould.
“It changes the way keys are managed in a dealership,” Gould says.
“Now, Keyhound tells you everything you need to know about your keys.”
Keyhound works on any mobile device and open to an unlimited number of keys and cabinets.
It has been in the works for five years, Gould says, getting it right and making it perform in the industry.
Gould has 25 years of experience in security management, property consultancy, armed robbery survival training, banking and financial institutions and security products design.
“In the beginning, there were no systems around dealership needs, and we know that losing a key can be expensive, time consuming and traffic offences are debilitating for a company.”
With Keyhound, each time staff removes and returns keys it is chronologically logged, and so is the parking location of the vehicle.
Gould says Keyhound not only saves money but time looking for lost keys.
“Your work time is worth three times what you are paid … therefore losing half an hour a day looking for keys costs your company 1.5 hours of unattainable worth,” Gould says.
His invention will feature on an episode of Australia by Design Innovations, where 10 innovations feature in each episode before being judged for Australia’s top innovation of the year.
Dealers take care of a lot of keys, the bigger dealerships even thousands.
Australia by Design Innovations presenter Brandon Gien asks: “Can you imagine what it would be like to lose a thousand car keys?” in the promo.
“The good part is we have solutions,” Gould replies.
The Keyhound system knows what keys have been taken out.
The episode will air on Sunday, September 8 on channel 10 at 2.30pm AEST and will be available on tenplay the next day.
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