Welcome to your one-stop resource for all things CENTURION. As leaders in gate automation and access control, we’ll be using this blog as a platform to engage with you and keep you up to date with our latest products, industry-related news and company developments.
Solar-compatible Solutions from CENTURION
The English novelist and poet Roman Payne – now residing in sun-kissed North Africa – said it best when he wrote: “O, Sunshine! The most precious gold to be found on Earth!” Indeed, Earth’s lone star and its quasi-mystical qualities have been a source of inspiration...
5 Benefits of Solar for CENTURION Products
While the popularity of solar power as an alternative energy source has certainly soared in the last couple of decades, harnessing the power of the sun has a long and storied history dating back to the 7th century B.C., when our ancestors cooked their food on fires...
Feel Empowered with the New D5 SMART
When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel crooned and harmonised their way into folk music history with “The Sound of Silence”, featuring the now-famous lyrics, “hello darkness, my old friend”, they certainly weren’t singing about load-shedding, but rather solemnly...
Load-shedding Got You Feeling a Bit Stuck? We Have the Solution
Winter is here. For some, it signals a welcome reprieve from the often-stifling South African heat and brings with it a certain cosiness, while others might not be so keen on the arrival of Jack Frost and his frigid ministrations. Whatever your feelings towards the...
Dual-Battery Backup: Double Your Peace of Mind
We all know that there are times and situations where being punctual is everything. Whether it’s to make a good first impression, or to maintain the equilibrium of our daily routine, no one likes running late or, even worse, being rendered completely unable to make an...
CENTURION Door Automation: Safe and Sound(less)
Whether customers or employees, people are the lifeblood of any organisation. Sure, a business might make furniture, fix computers, or, as in our case, manufacture industry-leading security equipment, but, in the end, it’s flesh and blood human beings that make the...
CENTURION Door Automation: An Energy-saving Solution
When technology first became the primary propellant behind societal progress at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, it was largely a matter of utility, of the ends justifying the means. The innovations of the day were resource-heavy and devoured power with a...
The D5 SMART: New Features
Technology is constantly changing and evolving. We are forever making new discoveries, breaking new ground, innovating and exploring. To quote the celebrated English poet and painter William Blake (1757-1827): “What is now proved was once only imagined”. Indeed, in a...
The D5 SMART Blog: 5 Reasons to Get the D5 SMART Right Now
When our brand new D5 SMART sliding gate motor was launched to an eager public at the CENTURION-hosted Access Automation Expo earlier this year, it was presented as a “blockbuster” product and, like a true blockbuster, it is reshaping and redefining the “genre” in...
The D5 SMART Blog: Longer Battery Standby Means Less Worry
As South Africans, load shedding has become such a big part of our lives that it has spawned an entirely new brand of local meta-humour predicated on poking fun at the paucity of power. But, while we may make light (pardon the pun) of an increasingly dire situation,...
CENTURION Door Automation: The Best Long-term Performance
You know that euphoric, elated feeling you experience when you dig into a huge piece of chocolate cake or finish a big assignment at work? That’s your brain’s reward centre at work; or, more specifically, the presence of elevated levels of dopamine, the...
The D5 SMART Blog: Let’s Talk About Safety
Imagine, for just a moment, that you’re in the market for a new car. You’ll probably take into consideration things like fuel economy, spaciousness and after-sales support. But we’re willing to bet that there’s one thing that’s hundred percent non-negotiable,...
Thinking SMART: How the D5 SMART is Changing the Face of Access Automation
Against the heady backdrop of what some scholars are calling the Golden Age of Innovation, an era in which new technologies and innovations converge in a digital revolution that is transforming entire industries, CENTURION has innovated a fully-intuitive gate...
From Evolution to Revolution: The Genesis of the D5 SMART
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once said that he wanted to “make a ding in the universe”. This was a powerful expression of his sincere desire to innovate, to disrupt and to create a brand that would revolutionise technology and reshape society. In 2020, seventeen...
How Door Automation Can Promote Hygiene and Prevent the Spread of Germs
Did you know that you touch your face on average twenty times in a single hour? That interesting, if seemingly innocuous, statistic was quoted in a recent documentary about virology narrated by none other than J.K. Simmons, the guy who played J. Jonah Jamison in all...