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.
The D5 SMART Blog: SMART Improvements We’d Like You to Know About (And That Will Make Your Life Easier)
Since its debut, the D5 SMART has already been enveloped in a compelling mythology built around its potential to solve residential security challenges at the access level. Visually and aesthetically alone, the design of the SMART tells a captivating story framed by...
The D5 SMART Blog: Why the Speed of Your Gate is Important
As you turn the corner into your street, memories of the workday start to fade into the background as your head starts to fill with thoughts of home: what to cook for dinner; getting the kids bathed and ready for bed; a birthday gift that you still need to wrap. You...
The D5 SMART Blog: Theft Protection
Gate motors are the latest domestic appliances to be targeted by criminals, with thieves cutting a swath across South African suburbs and sometimes hitting several homes and even neighbourhoods in a single night of banditry. There have been reports of residents having...
Introducing SMART TV: The Official Channel of the D5 SMART
Since first being introduced in 2005, streaming video site YouTube has become the world’s leading online source of cross-generational information and entertainment with over 1.9 billion logged-in monthly users. Not only has the site given content producers a platform...
4 Benefits of Automatic Doors
Providing a safe and comfortable environment for employees and clients is an integral and indispensable part of any enterprise. It is becoming increasingly important to optimise the various ecologies in which people work and relax, weaving ergonomics and convenience...
5 Reasons to Attend Access Automation Expo 2020
Access Automation Expo 2020 kicked off in Durban on the 20th February and, by all accounts, the event was a home run with roughly five-hundred security and access control professionals coming through to witness the unveiling of our most innovative gate motor yet, the...
This Valentine’s Day, You’ve Got a Date with Peace of Mind
From Shelly to Shakespeare to Sia, the power and beauty of love have been inspiring poets, bards and songwriters for centuries, the inherent sweetness of the emotion captured through mellifluous metaphors, saccharine similes and honeyed hyperbole. And, this time of...
Our Favourite Products from the Past Decade
Whereas much of the world entered the new millennium with a fair amount of trepidation, by the time the 2010s rolled around we had built up enough momentum to be catapulted into a new age of technological innovation. Y2K anxiety had long since subsided, no cataclysmic...
Mercado Internacional: Dar a conocer el acceso de automatización al Mundo
Centurion Systems ha anunciado la reestructuración de sus departamentos de exportaciones y cadena de suministro, que ahora operarán conjuntamente bajo el nuevo nombre de Mercado Internacional. El cambio principal se basará: en que la esencia de la marca de la empresa,...
Going Away? Let our G-ULTRA Range Look After Your Home
If you plan on either visiting family or your favourite holiday destination this festive season, you will be looking forward to relaxing and spending some quality time with your loved ones. Taking a break from the pressures of work in a fresh setting can be truly...
Holiday Lockout for CENTURION Gate Motors
And, just like that, we’ve reached the end of the year which, for many of us, means either returning to our home towns or going away on holiday. But, as everyone reading this article can probably agree on, nothing ruins a holiday like constant worry; the anxiety of...
(Not) Home for the Holidays? Meet Your New House-sitter
Home Alone is arguably one of the most beloved holiday movies of all time. In the film – which was an important vehicle for future star Macaulay Culkin - two bumbling criminals (played to perfection by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) find themselves being outsmarted in...
Apporter l’automatisation de l’accès au monde
Centurion Systems a annoncé la restructuration de son département des exportations, qui s'appellera le département International. À partir de 2019, CENTURION est présent dans plus de 70 pays, ce qui représente une augmentation du nombre d'entreprises et d'individus...
Why You Should Join the Automation Movement
What’s the best feeling in the world? For some, it’s witnessing the majesty of a sunrise and the feeling of wet grass beneath their feet, while tech junkies will tell you that nothing comes close to the breathless excitement of unboxing a new gadget. Or perhaps you...
Holiday Security Tips 2020
To borrow a line from Swedish rock band Europe’s diabolically catchy 1986 hit: it’s the final countdown. And, even if Scandinavian singalong synth-pop isn’t your thing, the promise of temporarily trading dull spreadsheets for sweeping ocean vistas and board rooms for...