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A guide for Software Developers

Unlock value by offering integrated NFC mobile credentials as a feature in your platform.
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Contents

Overview

This guide is designed for tenant and member experience platform providers that serve a
wide range of vertical markets, including commercial real estate buildings, flex and
coworking spaces, higher education, sports facilities, and private member clubs.


As user expectations rise and the pressure to increase active users grows, platform
providers must continue to offer meaningful, high-value in-app experiences. If you’re
already delivering a portfolio of valuable features that drive operational efficiency and firstclass user experience for your tenants or members via your platform, there is now the
opportunity to grow your revenue, add even more value for your clients and stand out
from the crowd.


With Sentry Interactive’s Readerless Mobile Credential SDK, you can seamlessly integrate
secure, contactless NFC mobile access as a native feature within your app that requires no
hardware upgrades, no wallet app dependencies, and no friction for your users.

This guide will show you how our SDK helps you:

  • Enhance the user experience with convenient, in-app mobile access.
  • Drive daily engagement and retention through smartphone entry.
  • Unlock new recurring revenue through premium service opportunities.
  • Differentiate your platform in a competitive digital ecosystem.

Let’s explore how easy it is to turn your app into the gateway to smarter spaces.

Unlock instant value: Add secure access to your app

Your mobile platform can now store digital keys and control physical access just like it
manages room bookings, digital workflows, and more.


Sentry Interactive’s SDK lets your clients:

  • Add mobile access to any door with electronic locks via integration with the existing access control system.
  • Deliver NFC mobile access via a wireless and passive NFC smart access tile, no reader rip and replace or cabling required.
  • Optimize user convenience with mobile access credentials within your own branded app experience.
  • Eliminate card credential administration and refine operational efficiency.
  • This turns your platform into an access management tool to secure and unlock spaces.

This turns your platform into an access management tool to secure and unlock spaces.

Increase app retention and engagement

When users open your app to unlock a door, access an elevator, or tap into a workspace…
you’ve got their attention.


Benefits include:

  • Higher daily active users.
  • Increased customer retention through room booking and workflow integration.
  • Ownership of the full user journey across digital and physical spaces.

Your app becomes the hub of access, engagement, and interaction.

Independent from wallet – Full control, no Fees

Sentry Interactive’s SDK puts your application first.

  • No dependence on Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.
  • No certification costs, user confusion, or third-party policies.
  • Full UX, brand, and credential control inside your native app.

You gain full control of the mobile access feature within your platform and avoid extra
license and integration headaches.

Pioneer with the most secure mobile credentials

Give your customers a smarter and more secure alternative to legacy keycard or fob entry
systems:

  • NIST compliant mobile credentials where the phone is the reader and credential.
  • Mobile credentials are protected from cloning, sharing, or loss.
  • Credentials are encrypted at rest and can be time controlled, geofenced and IP restricted.
  • Digital credentials are deployed instantly via software, not printed and shipped.
  • Phones are constantly upgraded with the latest security updates while card-based systems are outdated and can become a security liability.

Offer modern smart access in your application that aligns with user expectations and
security standards.

Grow customer lifetime value and revenue

Mobile access is a high value feature, and your customers are willing to pay for it.

By integrating mobile credentials, you can:

  • Monetize mobile access through premium plans or per user fees.
  • Improve customer retention and stickiness.
  • Deliver new upsell opportunities in current deployments.
  • Justify higher pricing.

Turn your app into a strategic operating tool, not just a convenience enabler.

Support operations with automation and interoperability

Help your customers modernize operations and reduce manual tasks with the mobile
access feature integrated with room and facility bookings, check-in and more features:

  • Auto-issue access for new members, tenants, or employees.
  • Enable guest and visitor access through self-service tools.
  • Reduce front desk and admin overheads.

You’re not just improving tenant and member experience; you’re streamlining workflows
and operations.

Seamless integration with existing systems

Sentry Interactive’s SDK is built to adapt:

  • Works with leading access control systems
  • Supports integration with identity management, HR, CRM, visitor management and booking systems.
  • Delivered via an SDK and APIs with full technical support.
  • Deployable across single-site and multi-location environments.

No need to rip and replace hardware to get mobile access, your app becomes the bridge
between users and physical access.

Future-proof your platform offering

NFC mobile access is the next gen access control solution. Platforms that don’t offer it risk
falling behind.


By acting now, you:

  • Keep pace with evolving user expectations.
  • Offer next-gen features like NFC mobile access and time-limited guest access.
  • Position your platform for the hybrid workplace and smart building revolution.
  • Stay competitive in a landscape moving toward unified ecosystem experience.

Deploying credentials via your platform has never been easier with no reader hardware
necessary to be installed. This allows your platform and your clients building access to be
smart, simple and secure.

Align with ESG and smart building goals

A mobile access upgrade isn’t just about security and convenience; it should be an
opportunity to be sustainable as well.


Sentry Interactive’s SDK provides the most sustainable transition to mobile access on the
market by eliminating the need to rip and replace reader hardware to enable mobile entry.

  • Eliminate plastic waste from plastic cards and printed badges.
  • Eliminate e-waste from ripped out reader hardware and cabling.

Our powerless and wire-free passive NFC smart access tiles offer energy savings.

Conclusion: Open the door to what’s next

The next generation of mobile access is already here, and it’s readerless, seamless, and
fully integrated into your app. With Sentry Interactive’s readerless mobile credential SDK,
you’re not just adding a premium feature, you’re unlocking a powerful new layer of value
across user experience, security, sustainability, and revenue.


By embedding NFC mobile access directly into your platform, you:

  • Turn door entry into the first opportunity in the working day to engage with your members or staff.
  • Drive daily app usage and customer advocacy.
  • Support ESG goals with a hardware-free mobile entry solution.
  • Open new monetization and upsell opportunities.
  • Streamline operations with automation and interoperability.

You’ve already built a platform and application that users love and rely on, now add
mobile access value for their workplace, club, campus or fitness and health facility.


Let’s turn your app into the gateway to smarter, more secure, and sustainable spaces.

Let’s get started

Are you ready to modernize your tenant or member experience application and provide
next generation readerless mobile credentialing to unlock a new revenue from your new
and existing customers?

Offer mobile credentials as a managed software-only service

Become a partner and maximize value from your existing and new customers with a mobile credential software-only upgrade solution for legacy systems, that breaks down the barriers associated with traditional NFC mobile access upgrades.

William Bainborough

Board of Directors

William is an experienced British entrepreneur, founder, and accomplished board executive and advisor for a number of businesses. He is the CEO and co-founder of Doordeck, the world’s only true cloud-based access control aggregator. He is also the managing director and founder of Group Secure, a leader in providing security, CCTV, and access control solutions, products, and installation for high-net-worth individuals in the UK. 

William established his first business at just seventeen and brings 20-plus years of in-depth experience and industry knowledge. He has a proven track record for building businesses from the ground up—and then leading them to profitability and a successful exit across a myriad of sectors including hospitality, retail, security, telecommunications, and e-commerce. William’s leadership, vision, and experience in creating cutting-edge SaaS-based technology platforms will prove invaluable for Sentry Interactive moving forward.

Denis Hébert

CHAIRMAN & CEO

Hébert began his career at Honeywell International where he held several leadership positions including Managing Director for the Automation and Controls business in France and eventually President of the NexWatch Corporation from 1999-2002. Hébert led HID Global as President & CEO over a transformative 12-year period from 2002-2015, where he provided strategic guidance and grew the business tenfold through a mix of strong organic and acquisitive growth. Most recently, Hébert was President of Feenics Corporation which is a cloud-based access control company that was successfully sold to ACRE LLC at the end of 2021. Hébert also served on the Board of Directors for the Security Industry Association (SIA) from 2009-2020 and was nominated to be Chairman of the Board for SIA from 2016-2018. He is currently Chairman of the Board for Nightingale Security based in Newark, CA.

Stephen Taylor Matthews

Board of Directors
Stephen is a very accomplished attorney, member of the Texas State Bar, licensed commercial real estate broker, and an avid philanthropist. He is an experienced executive board member, serving in leadership positions for more than 20 community councils and corporate boards—ranging from Boy Scouts of America to the ABBA Business Leaders Council, and most recently the American Bank BOD, the Real Estate Council of Austin, and the Marbridge Foundation BOT. With more than 35 years experience, Stephen and his firm, Barrond & Adler, L.L.P. are devoted to eminent domain cases in Texas.

Jon Davis

Board of Directors

Mr. Davis is an Experienced corporate board member, having served on boards of public, private equity-backed, and venture-backed companies. Jon possesses deep industry expertise in dairy, food processing, food technology and manufacturing, and food, beverage, and entertainment services. 

During Jon’s tenure of 25 plus years, he’s led operations, research and development, and mergers and acquisitions. He’s served as CEO and has been the founder and active board member for many successful enterprises—from startups to billion-dollar corporations. While COO and CEO of Davisco Foods International, Jon built a state-of-the-art cheese plant which was awarded the United States Dairy processing plant of the year in 2005 by Dairy Foods magazine. Currently, Jon is active with several non-dairy projects, including investments in local real estate, the Wayzata Brewworks, and his latest venture the new CōV restaurant in Edina’s Galleria.

Joe Caldwell

Founder and Chairman of the Board

Joe is an American entrepreneur, investor, and accomplished executive. He has co-founded, founded, and led many successful businesses, including US Internet, a leading fiber internet service provider, Securence, a leading provider of email filtering software, and Ravon, an industry-leading digital voice communications service. 

It was Joe’s venture, Municipal Parking Services (MPS), that inspired him in 2020 to start Sentry Interactive, an advanced touchless and staffless detection platform.

Caldwell currently serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board for Municipal Parking Services (MPS), a global tech company based in Austin, TX responsible for inventing and patenting technologies that assist in parking and security enforcement.

Joe was named one of Minnesota’s 500 Most Powerful Business Leaders for the past two years—and is a seasoned corporate board member. He’s served on boards of public, private equity-backed, and venture-backed companies—and has deep industry expertise in all aspects of digital technology.

Jason Bohrer

Board of Directors

Jason Bohrer is one of the visionaries behind our mission to bring people back together safely and securely, in any environment, through Sentry’s advanced digital communications and detection platform. With over two decades of senior leadership experience, Jason’s track record of success spans across sales, operations, product innovation, strategy, and technology for domestic and global companies like Bexar Technology Partners, CPI Card Group, HID Global, and Motorola, Inc. Prior to launching Sentry Interactive, Jason was actively involved with several key technology transitions across multiple industries, including the contact and contactless EMV transitions in the U.S. payments industry and the adoption of smart card and mobile technologies in the global access and identity market. Jason was an inaugural member of the University of Chicago Executive Institute and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Executive Director for two industry-leading not-for-profit organizations: the Secure Technology Alliance and the U.S. Payments Forum.
Brent Terry

Brent Terry

Chief Operating Officer
Brent Terry leads the operations and solutions organizations at Sentry. This includes all product innovation, development, and operations management. A veteran in the technology space, Brent has more than 30 years of experience across a myriad of industries, like physical security technology and building automation, SAAS, hardware and software product development, internet, digital TV, interactive TV, digital media, telecommunications, and medical products and services. Prior to Sentry, Brent has spun up successful startups and led high-performing teams for some of the biggest global, Fortune 500 companies, including ARRIS, Conerco, Motive Communications, SeaChange International, and IBM. Brent holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana. He also is the committee Chairman and Program Director for a non-profit organization responsible for the rollout of smart cards for physicians and first responders.