For decades the dominant story in access control has been that it was a victim of its own success: that is, customers were reluctant to change out what was still working — even 15 or 20 years on — and didn’t see the benefit in spending the money to upgrade, even for significantly new or different features.

The TRAC-Guard padlock is designed for authorized, secure access to virtually any remote site.

While at ISC West 2019, SDM editors Laura Stepanek, Karyn Hodgson, and Courtney Wolfe asked exhibitors three of the most pressing questions facing the industry today.

ProdataKey (PDK), an innovator of cloud-based networked and wireless access control products and services, released a whitepaper that explores why widespread adoption of mobile credentialing in conjunction with access control systems has lagged behind other smart phone applications, and how new technologies promise to overcome barriers related to a security/convenience trade-off previously inherent in such solutions.

HID Global announced the availability of its HID Origo cloud platform that opens a new world of opportunities for partners to create more seamless and intuitive workplace experiences that are built on HID’s proven access control infrastructure. The platform combines HID’s technologies for mobile IDs (and location services in the future) with its expansive access control architecture to bring together physical security and a wide range of building applications, services and IoT use cases via a unified cloud experience.

Vicon Industries added mobile credentialing, allowing VAX customers to present their smartphones instead of cards or fobs to specialized Bluetooth-enabled VAX door readers.

Farpointe Data’s new CSR-35 Conekt Bluetooth reader and CMC-2 smartphone mobile access credentials are the newest members of DMP’s expanded line of high-security access control products.

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