ACCESS CONTROL DYNAMIC CHANGES COMING TO
CARD READERS T
Manufacturers are striving more than ever to match and even exceed the demands of smart technology users with a new generation of access control readers. By Karyn Hodgson, Contributing Writer
he access control reader has for years been almost an afterthought technol- ogy-wise, placing second to the fast- changing world of card technologies.
Of course, the two go hand-in-hand, but readers have had a slower track to significant change,
only recently branching out from the same Wie- gand protocol that was employed 30 years ago. In an age where everything is “smart” from cards to phones to home appliances, it is only natural that manufacturers are taking a fresh look at the access control reader and asking, “how can we make it do more than just read a specific card technology?” The results are a new and upcoming generation of smarter, more powerful and more secure readers that can effec- tively take users forward from whatever legacy
technology they have now to whatever they choose 10 to 15 years from now. “We are always out there trying to match the requirements to the end users’ needs,” says Walter Helms, vice president and CTO, Matrix Systems, Miamisburg, Ohio. “From my perspective, on the integration side readers used to be straight input devices. They didn’t bring much to system intel- ligence. You found a reader that could read back and that is all you had to worry about. But now, intelligence in the readers is increasing and they are becoming an active part of the overall system.” Not only that, but reader technology is expand- ing the market as well, says Stephanie Hensler, director of EAC OEM sales, Assa Abloy, New Haven, Conn. “As far as readers go they are becoming smarter. Manufacturers are looking at ways to make it easier to have additional openings. Whether it is inside the lock or an edge device, people are becoming more creative in access con- trol in how we can gather more openings.” For example, says Michael Radicella, presi- dent, ISONAS, Boulder, Colo., his company recently installed more than 1,200 readers at a single school location. “We are figuring out places where new access control readers will fit that they didn’t used to. The school wanted to add the readers one at a time and on every door, but they didn’t want all those panels of a tradi- tional system. Customers are just waiting for us to come up with new solutions for problems that have been out there for a long time, but needed a product that matched.”
TALKING TECH New applications and needs are being addressed in a number of ways by access control reader technologies.
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