Welcome back to the July edition of Sentry Interactive’s “Unlocking Access Innovation” newsletter, where we provide a round up of our latest insights surrounding the latest in technologies that are shaping the future of mobile access.
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In our July edition:
- We look into how CRE operators can integrate a readerless mobile access feature with their smart building platforms to achieve smarter energy management, space utilization, and tenant experience via accurate mobile unlock data, helping them hit ESG targets.
- We explore the security vulnerabilities associated with outdated access credentials and how open standard asymmetric credentials like PKOC, that can now be rolled out at scale to enterprises, avoid these security risks entirely.
- We evaluate the access security challenges facing decentralized energy and utility infrastructure, and how a readerless upgrade to mobile access, powered by passive NFC smart tiles and existing PACS integrations, lets operators modernize across fragmented legacy systems without costly rip-and-replace upgrades.
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Unifying mobile access with PropTech to help CRE operators hit ESG targets
As ESG targets become more important to meet, CRE operators are pushing their smart building platforms to do more, and PropTech providers are racing to keep pace with features that deliver sharper, more reliable data. Readerless mobile access software answers that call directly: it gives platforms a new stream of operational intelligence, via mobile unlock data, that powers smarter energy management and space utilization, and delivers a better tenant experience. Being interoperable and open to integrate with existing systems without the need to rip and replace readers, it gives both PropTech providers and CRE owners a fast, scalable route to integrated smart access that will make their buildings more sustainable, more efficient, and data-driven.
PKOC: Securing your building in the age of credential attacks
The physical security landscape has shifted, and the same techniques used to steal modern vehicles now apply just as easily to outdated building credentials. Static-code proximity cards and weak symmetric mobile credentials leave organizations vulnerable to credential cloning and replay attacks. Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) avoids these risks entirely, an open-standard, asymmetric encrypted approach to credential authentication that keeps private keys locked to the credential holder’s device secure element, stripping away the weaknesses attackers depend on that are associated with shared keys. Until now, there was no practical way for enterprises to roll out PKOC at scale, but a new software integration with enterprise access control systems now enables remote deployment of thousands of PKOC credentials at once.
Powering down the reader: Securing fragmented energy and utility infrastructure with readerless mobile access
The energy and utilities sector faces a unique access security challenge, disparate legacy access control infrastructure decentralized and spread across environments such as remote substations, water treatment plants, and solar fields, leading to physical and cyber threats. Replacing infrastructure across all these sites in an attempt to unify access and improve security with mobile credentials can become a very costly upgrade. Sentry Interactive’s Readerless Mobile Access solution provides an alternative solution to traditional reader-based mobile access upgrades. By using passive NFC smart access tiles that need no power or wiring, paired with smartphones that act as both reader and credential. Interoperable with 20+ PACS platforms, the solution lets utility companies roll out modern mobile credentials across fragmented, legacy infrastructure without rip-and-replace costs, extending the life of existing systems while delivering a faster, more scalable path to digital transformation.
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