How would you define wireless access control? Is it wireless at the reader, wireless at the panel, or both? Systems integrators use different types of wireless technology to get a perfect fit.
“It is a semantic problem,” says Jesse Abbott, president, Advance Technology Inc., Scarborough, Maine. “The word is vague and can mean a number of different things. For us, primarily in the past wireless has been used for remote gates. Those systems use a wireless transmitter and receiver, but the actual card reader and panel sit out at the gate and we send signals back by line-of-sight to the main building. That has probably been the most common scenario in the past.