In support of Carrier’s Healthy Buildings program and the safe return to work, LenelS2 introduced a COVID-19 contact notification subscription-based service for businesses and other organizations using LenelS2’s OnGuard or NetBox access control security systems along with LenelS2’s BlueDiamond mobile credential app. 

Carson, creator of the One-App Resident ExperienceTM and 24/7 remote doorman service for multifamily properties, and dormakaba, a manufacturer and distributor of electronic apartment, hotel and vacation rental door locks, have announced an integration and distribution partnership. 

It’s amazing how much can change in a year. Last year’s state of the market report on access control was released at the beginning of April, just as the coronavirus started to spread throughout the U.S., and much of the research that went into the report was done before COVID-19 was a real concern.

ASSA ABLOY has announced a bi-weekly, one-hour virtual discussion series beginning March 31 through April.

How access control readers and credentials have evolved in recent years, and how COVID-19 has impacted the market.

HID Global, a worldwide provider of trusted identity solutions, announced that the American School of Guatemala has selected its Seos credential technology to modernize its physical access system. 

In 2020, the Slippery Rock IT and housing department’s leadership team moved some of its offline locks into an online system in student residences. 

Allegion U.S., a provider of security products and solutions, recently worked with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, one of the early adopters of the Allegion and CBORD mobile access solution, to successfully implement mobile student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch.