Wireless is supposed to be easy, right? When it comes to access control, the answer isn’t a simple “Yes” or “No.” For an integrator, knowing when to use wireless, which product to use, and how to install it requires skill sets that fall at both extremes of the spectrum. But for those integrators that navigate those extremes, the payoffs can be big.
“Wireless is very sexy in access control right now,” says Stephen Sheppard, director of sales, North America, Farpointe Data Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. “The typical wireless lockset has the lock built into the reader. It is all there, very neat and clean, and I can see the appeal it would have.”