Trends in access control

Alfredo Neumann, Head of Area Sales and New Business at Elatec, in an interview with Protector

Complicated cases, technologies in the pipeline and current market requirements: An interview with Alfredo Neumann, Head of Area Sales and New Business at Elatec.

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What are particularly complicated examples of the use of physical access control systems?
Alfredo Neumann: Large companies with hundreds of distributed physical access control systems. The challenge there lies in managing and synchronizing numerous access points across different locations. The solution is centralized management and remote configuration of the systems in order to increase efficiency and reduce administration costs.
Other challenges are environments with high security requirements, such as data centers or research facilities. Maximum security and preventing unauthorized access must be ensured. The use of multi-factor authentication (MFA), encrypted RFID cards and biometric data is suitable for that purpose in order to guarantee the highest 
security standards.
When integrating physical access control into complex IT ecosystems with multi-factor authentication methods, ensuring interoperability and seamless integration with existing IT systems is no simple story. The 
solution here is to use open standards and APIs to integrate physical access control systems into existing IT infrastructures and security solutions.


What other physical access control technologies are currently in the pipeline?
One example here would be multi-factor authentication (MFA). It’s the combination of RFID, NFC/BLE and biometric data such as fingerprints or facial recognition to increase security. In the future, there will also be 
physical access control systems that are fully integrated into the cloud to enable centralized management and easy scalability. The use of AI to analyze access patterns and proactively identify security threats is also a topic that we’ll be focusing on in the future.


What are current market requirements in the area of physical access control?
Primarily higher security standards and encryption technologies. There is also demand for integrating physical access control with IT and business systems – keyword: “interoperability”. As multi-factor authentication will increasingly be used for physical access in the future, systems should also support this technology. However, simple and cost-efficient management and installation of the systems is also still in demand, as is the scalability and flexibility of physical access control systems. In the future, the demand for cloud-based and mobile physical access solutions is expected to increase further, as they offer simple administration and a high degree of flexibility. In addition, integrating artificial intelligence and advanced analytic tools will further improve security functions and open up new possibilities to automate and optimize access control.

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