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How Farpointe Data moved access credentials onto the phone
Readers, credentials and a mobile experience brought together so that opening a door no longer depends on carrying a card.
Farpointe Data
Customer context
Farpointe Data, based in San Jose, California, USA, supplies readers and credentials used in access control installations globally. The physical card has been the industry's default for decades.
Farpointe Data wanted the phone to replace the access card, sold as a service through its dealer channel.
The solution has to work for the person walking up to a door with a phone in one hand, and for the administrator who has to issue and revoke that credential for hundreds of people. The door has to open as fast as a card did, or the change is a downgrade no matter what it enables.
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What the solution gives each group
Anyone who used to have a keycard
The phone is the badge: credentials in the phone wallet, no card to carry.
Security administrators
Credentials issued and managed centrally and delivered by email or SMS, with no cards to print.
Dealers
Mobile credentials sold as a service bring recurring revenue.
Integration partners
An API lets third-party access control systems manage credentials.
- Booster Cloud
- Cloud and admin web UI for CONEKT® mobile credentials
- Wallet integration
- Third-party API
The full storyThe challenge · The SADE approach · Technology · Business outcome
The challenge
Moving credentials to a smartphone changes the whole chain: the reader firmware, the credential lifecycle, the way a credential is issued and revoked, and the app the user actually touches. Security expectations do not relax because the medium changed.
Why the obvious solution was not enough
Access control is a domain where a generic IoT platform is a poor fit. The behaviour of the reader, the credential format and the trust model are the product, and they have to interoperate with installations already in the field.
The SADE approach
SADE worked across the device and application layers to bring mobile credentials into Farpointe's product line, combining embedded work on the reader side with a cloud backend and mobile application.
Technology and delivery
- Embedded development on the reader side
- Cloud services for credential management
- Mobile application for carrying and presenting credentials
- Remote monitoring and analytics views
Business outcome
- Access credentials can be issued and used from a smartphone
- Access control installations gain remote monitoring and analytics
- Digitized access control demonstrated publicly as a hands-on demo
What happens next
Mobile credentials continue to expand across Farpointe's product range. SADE Innovations and Farpointe Data continue to expand the features.
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