Genetec and HID Survey Shows Higher Education Ready to Move From Legacy Access Control Systems
While access control is a fundamental element of security in higher education, many aging access control systems urgently need to be upgraded, according to a survey of 1,800 higher education security and IT professionals conducted by Genetec and HID Global.
The survey shows that 33.76 percent of readers, 30.6 percent of controllers and 24 percent of software are more than six years old. Older technologies such as barcode, magnetic stripe and 125khz low-frequency proximity continue to dominate physical access control systems in higher education. More than half of survey respondents still use mag stripe, and almost a quarter still use 125khz prox. Sixty-four percent of survey respondents said their current access control system experiences malfunctions.