3 Reasons You Should Be Offering Cloud-Based Access Control
Cloud-based access control can make life easier for both the security integrator and the end user, as well as open up new markets and opportunities to integrators.
To understand how cloud-based access control can help boost your business, you first have to define what it is — and what it isn’t. While cloud-based “as-a-service” business models are beginning to proliferate across the security industry, when it comes to access control, the terms “hosted” and “managed” seem to be more common; and while these can be cloud-based, they are not necessarily the same thing as cloud-based Access Control as a Service.
“Everybody is used to the term “VSaaS” [for video as a service], but you don’t see ACaaS as much,” says Martin Renkis, general manager, cloud solutions, global security products, Johnson Controls, Milwaukee. “There is a big difference between ACaaS and hosted or managed access … Hosted or managed access control could be the same as taking your current system you have in your building that is residing on a server, unplugging it, walking it down the street to a data center and plugging it in … All you are doing is moving the hardware off-site.”