Patent ID: 7221273

Claim:
An improved storage system comprising: a plurality of individual storage units, each of the plurality of individual storage units having a door, alarm and a locking mechanism, each of the doors having a door sensor which senses whether said each door is open or closed, said door sensor being in electrical communication with a computing device, each of the locking mechanisms having a position sensor which senses whether each locking mechanism is in a locked position or an unlocked position, said position sensor being in electrical communication with the computing device, each of the locking mechanisms having a motor for moving the locking mechanism between the locked position and the unlocked position, the motor being actuated by the computing device, one or more access control units located proximate to the plurality of individual storage units, said access control unit being in electrical communication with the computing device, the computing device reviewing information from the access control unit and opening and closing the locking mechanisms, turning on and off the alarms, and determining the open and closed status of each door in response to the information from the access control unit.