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Cloud platforms for access control are set to transform campus life

• By Hilding Arrehed
• December 01, 2018

The use of cloud technologies for campus access control has enabled university students, faculty and staff to employ their mobile devices for valuable new experiences that range from entering dorm rooms to making cafeteria purchases with a simple tap or twist of their phones. The next step is to make campuses smarter and safer as mobile IDs on smartphones are augmented by other technologies in solutions that can recognize people and customize their work and learning environment on a more connected campus.

While these other capabilities can be achieved now, they must be implemented on a building-by-building or, at most, campus-by-campus basis, without the full benefit of cloud technologies that have touched so many other aspects of university operations. This all changes as mobile identities move towards greater adoption, and when today’s installed base of millions of physical access control system (PACS) readers, contr