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their 15-foot read range, smartphone credentials let drivers easily get reads from well beyond what proximity and smartcards would provide, granting users access from the confines of their car if it happens to be raining. Drivers can stay warm and dry (or cool, as the climate may be) when accessing the parking booth at the entrance or self- service boom.
Secure applications such as those in medical facilities, data rooms and armories are proving to be other great applications for mobile access. As far as security goes, the mobile credential, by definition, is already a multi-factor solution.
Once again, one must have proper access to the phone to have access to the credential. If the phone doesn’t work, the credential doesn’t work. The credential operates just like any other app on the phone. For better or worse, the phone must be “on and unlocked.” These two factors—availability and built-in multi-factor verification—are why organizations want to use smart phones in their upcoming access control implementations.
Plus, once a mobile credential is installed on one smart phone, it cannot be re-installed on another. Think of a soft credential as being securely linked to a specific smart
phone. Similar to a card, if a smart phone is lost, damaged or stolen, the process should be the same as with a traditional physical access credential. It should be immediately deactivated within the access control management software, and a new credential should be issued.
Mobile Access Control
for Little Boxes and Cabinets
Now, key management of small-format interchangeable core (SFIC) applications— such as cabinets and lock boxes—is now possible with mobile access when you replace the mechanical locking device with a smart, secure digital technology activated via your mobile device. With specific capabilities in healthcare, retail and commercial, government, and learning and higher education environments, mobile access will work anywhere you need it to.
Access control is critical in healthcare facilities, but the cost has always been prohibitive. Now, you can extend electronic access control to anywhere you currently use a mechanical lock using a small format interchangeable core. This includes medicine cabinets, linen closets, filing drawers and more.
In retail establishments, mobile access control provides an improved and cost-
effective way to monitor, manage and trace individual access to inventory, offices records, back-of-house storage and display cases. The administration can also save the time and effort it takes to change keys or replace cores due to high staff turnover.
Government agencies have many doors and cabinets containing sensitive information in offices, files and cupboards within close proximity of the general public. Whatever small space that uses a digital "key" to protect what is stored inside can now be managed with mobile access control.
Where Will You Be Using
Mobile Access Control?
Writing a year ago, the research company Gartner forecasted that, "The mobile access control market is primed for mainstream adoption, providing product leaders with opportunities to expand into new business areas and service models. Product leaders should build mobile access options into their roadmaps to support emerging customer demand."
Scott Lindley, general manager, Farpointe Data, is a 25-year veteran of the contactless card access control industry. He can be reached by email at Scott.Lindley@farpointedata.com.
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