Readerless Mobile Access Software
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Introduction to Sentry Interactive
Who are we?
Sentry Interactive is a software development company that provides organizations with cloud-based NFC mobile credential integration for their legacy access control systems without needing to upgrade door reader hardware. Using a software-driven approach Sentry provides a pathway to simple, scalable and secure NFC mobile access without any disruption to your current access control infrastructure.
What we do?
Our mobile credential software provides readerless mobile access that enhances convenience and security, and can scale without requiring reader upgrades, to provide value for organizations.
Why is it needed?
As organizations continue to adopt digital-first employee, member or guest experience, mobile access becomes the standard expectation across tenant and member-based environments. Integrating mobile credentials bridges the gap between digital operations and physical access, creating smarter, safer, and more convenient employee, tenant or member experience.
Implementation
Sentry Interactive’s mobile credential software is integrated with your existing access control system.
Download the Sentry Interactive Mobile App or integrate mobile credentials with a third-party app.
A wireless and powerless Smart Access Tile is applied next to the door.
The door is connected to the smart access tile using the QR code.
Users are granted access permissions to doors via their email.
How it works?
Sentry Interactive’s mobile credentials can be stored within the Sentry Interactive Mobile App or a third-party app. Using a single mobile credential employees, members or guests have the ability to unlock doors that they have been granted permission to access. With Sentry Interactive’s readerless mobile credential software there is no need to install new mobile-enabled door reader hardware.
User taps their mobile onto the Sentry Interactive smart access tile which connects to the Sentry cloud services.
The cloud services communicate via SSL/SSH to the building’s door access controller.
The access controller acknowledges the access request from the cloud services.
The user is granted access and the door unlocks.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, our mobile credentials for readerless NFC mobile access can work with proximity access control systems of all ages.
No, we sit within your access control system and cloud architecture. The only thing we ask is that your customers mount our Smart Access Tile next to your existing reader and door.
We do have smart lock integrations to enable NFC and QR code access to unlock smart locks. Our mobile credentialing software integrates into the smart lock providers cloud architecture.
Yes, our SDK allows your customers to enjoy our readerless mobile access within the market leading building experience applications. Benefit from having our mobile credentialing software and time-limited digital visitor passes embedded into your application. Provide your permanent staff or temporary contractors or guests with time automated digital visitor passes through centrally managed cloud-based infrastructure running through tenant or building management platforms.
We provide a software only integration for organizations access control systems, allowing them to add mobile access to more doors without needing to install any reader hardware. This creates the fastest and most cost effective route to scaling mobile access for organizations that want to expand.
Our software is interoperable with major access control systems and third-party applications. Therefore, organizations have flexibility and freedom of choice to where and how they would like readerless mobile credentials to work.
No, we can remotely login and set up our software to work alongside your access control infrastructure, the only thing required from you to do is to invite and assign a user’s email address with digital keys for the doors that have been brought online for mobile access.
Our software integration for legacy access control systems turns the user’s smartphone into the active NFC reader therefore no reader hardware upgrades are necessary. For NFC mobile access we use our Smart Access Tile, a passive NFC tag, that applies next to a door without any wiring or batteries.
For PKOC deployments if the reader manufacturer has integrated our SDK, mobile credentials and physical credentials built on PKOC specification can work with the reader hardware. For readerless deployments all that’s required is our Smart Access Tile for NFC mobile access next to your existing reader. Our mobile credentials don’t rely on reader hardware to work.
Currently our non-proprietary mobile credential software works outside of smartphone wallet applications. This allows for seamless interoperability with other access control systems and third party building experience applications. It also allows for fast and cost-effective deployment
Our mobile credential software for is interoperable with a combination of access control systems. This provides the possibility to use a single credential to access select doors controlled by disparate systems. See a list of our PACS integrations to see which systems we can integrate with.
Our readerless mobile NFC credentials work alongside your existing key card or badge systems, therefore you always have the ability to use one or the other depending on what provides the most convenience for your users.
Our solution uses the active NFC technology in smartphones to read the passive NFC chip within our wireless Smart Access Tile. The users smartphone communicates with the access control system via cloud services bypassing the reader.
Our readerless mobile access software follows NIST cybersecurity best practices as we use the user’s smartphone device as the active reader, therefore it is kept up to date with the latest security measures. Our mobile credentials are secured with asymmetric cryptography, and we leverage smartphone multi-factor authentication security. Keycards, fobs and employee badges compromise the building’s security as they easily get lost, cloned or shared. Even if a phone is stolen it is quick and easy to deactivate and requires biometric facial or fingerprint recognition to access the app and unlock doors.
