PLAI Gains Momentum With Commercial Implementations
Software House (Johnson Controls) demonstrated its commercial implementation of the Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) specification at ASIS 2017 in Dallas. Jason Ouellette, product general manager - access control for Johnson Controls, led the demonstration and showed how PACS systems in two different locations in an enterprise environment could easily synchronize identity data.
To support this demo, Johnson Controls developed both a PLAI Adapter and a PLAI Agent. The Johnson Control PLAI Agent will be targeted to be commercially available by the first calendar quarter 2018. This will allow enterprise customers the ability to manage disparate PACS systems and other solutions implementing a PLAI Adapter for personnel, credential, biometric, and other items supported by the profile to be synchronized in a cost-effective, but secure manner with PLAI.