Modernize Legacy Access Control Without “Rip-and-Replace”
For facility managers and security integrators, transitioning legacy access control systems to bio reader-centric systems usually comes with a painful ultimatum: stick with aging, inflexible systems, or endure a costly, disruptive “rip-and-replace” overhaul.
So, what are the choices when a customer wants better security, modern readers, biometric identity verification or a more flexible architecture? In the past, the answer has been expensive: replace panels, readers, wiring and software and essentially start over.
FaceKey developed the Smart Bridge to provide another choice.
The FaceKey Smart Bridge is designed to allow a legacy access control system and FaceKey’s modern reader-centric architecture to operate together. Through software, information between the two databases can be synchronized without requiring a physical connection between the databases.
Why does that matter? It means an integrator can give a customer a practical migration path instead of proposing a rip-and-replace.
A customer can modernize a few important doors first, add biometric identity verification where stronger security is needed, expand into a new building or area with reader-centric technology, and continue using the existing system for operations and reports where it makes sense, which will reduce the need for additional training.
As the system evolves, more doors can be converted on the customer’s schedule and budget.
FaceKey’s reader-centric approach also changes where access-control intelligence resides. Rather than depending on the traditional panel-centric architecture, intelligence is moved to the reader. This design reduces infrastructure requirements and can simplify expansion while providing modern identity verification capabilities.
For integrators, we believe this opens an important opportunity. There are enormous numbers of legacy access control systems that customers are reluctant to replace because of the cost and disruption involved.
What if modernization no longer required starting over? The FaceKey Smart Bridge is designed to make that possible. Keep what works. Modernize what needs to change. Expand when the customer is ready.
We are interested in talking with security integrators who are encountering this problem with their customers.
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