In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the need for efficient, secure, and future-proofed building access has become more critical than ever. Large corporate enterprises with large numbers of employees and networked doors across various sectors such as high rise commercial buildings, factories, universities, hospitals, or airports can’t afford to allow their security to become vulnerable, therefore it becomes a necessity to transition to modern access control technologies, like mobile NFC credentials.
Traditionally, the upgrade to mobile access has often been associated with significant hardware investments, requiring the rip and replacement or upgrading of existing reader access control systems. However, many enterprises run into the dilemma of balancing the imperative to modernize with the constraints of budgetary considerations. Many often haven’t prioritized or factored in the extent of reader access control hardware upgrade costs and implementation time.
Unlock Mobile Credentials With No Disruption to Hardware
This is where the concept of reader-less NFC mobile access emerges as a cutting edge solution that offers the fastest route to mobile whilst minimizing existing infrastructure disruption. With a reader-less mobile credentialing solution there’s no need to worry about rip and replacing or upgrading your existing system hardware. With one single software-only integration, you can make your system or systems future-ready and accommodate NFC mobile access via both Apple and Android devices. With the user’s smartphone acting as the active mobile NFC reader, security is optimized and costs are minimized.
One Mobile Credential For a Portfolio of Systems
One of the key advantages of integrating Sentry Mobile Access reader-less mobile credentials is their ability to interface and work with multiple disparate access control systems from a combination of manufacturers, managed under one centralized platform. A reader-less approach makes this possible due to the ability to bypass the door reader integration and simply communicate directly with the access control system’s servers. This provides a centralized ‘single pane of glass’ solution for property managers, to be able to manage access and door unlock data across a portfolio of buildings using different systems, just as easily as one.
How is Reader-less Mobile Credentialing Different to Wallet App Credentials?
Unlike Sentry Mobile Access, other NFC mobile credential solutions that utilize mobile wallet apps for NFC door entry face restrictions with aggregating legacy systems, due to separate integrations required per building and system. On top of this, a big challenge and non-starter for the competition is that reader upgrades will be required for any reader that was installed prior to 2017. Therefore, a reader-less approach like Sentry Mobile Access offers unparalleled flexibility and scalability with no disruption, a true software-first solution.
Unlocking Proprietary Systems with Non Proprietary Software
Sentry Mobile Access’ mobile credential software solution unlocks traditional system hardware, providing interoperability for proprietary access control systems, no matter the brand or age. As the only reader-less NFC mobile credential solution that enables you to keep what you’ve got including existing hardware investments and physical credentials, Sentry Mobile Access , powered by Doordeck, provides the option to aggregate a combination of systems. Sentry Mobile Access, stands as the pioneering force in the realm of reader-less NFC mobile credentialing. Providing enterprises with the means to seamlessly transition to modernized access control solutions while preserving the integrity and functionality of their existing systems. With Sentry Mobile Access, the future of mobile credentialing is not just within reach – it’s already here.
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