Mobile access unlocks new possibilities for businesses
Approximately 459 million smartphones are active in Western Europe alone. Only a fraction of these are currently used for digital access. But as digitalization increasingly means moving to mobile, the situation is changing fast.
One projection estimates mobile credentials’ CAGR of more than 22% over the next 7 years. Mobile-first is becoming the norm for access, across dramatically different regions and industries.
From an organizational perspective, digitalization helps to maximize the productivity of existing assets. By adopting a mobile ethos, in access and beyond, businesses increase both convenience for users and the security of their buildings.
What is mobile access?
Choosing a mobile solution streamlines access in two distinct, but complementary, ways.
Mobile keys – a digital “key” stored securely on a mobile phone – can unlock a door or other opening just like a card, fob, badge or any other credential. Secondly, mobile solutions simplify access management, by enabling remote operations – so security teams can monitor, control, or audit access anytime and from anywhere. They bring the benefits of mobility to facilities management.
This rapid growth of mobile access seems only natural. For facilities teams, mobile access is more secure and more convenient to manage. They work smarter and more flexibly, benefitting both their well-being and the organization’s productivity.
And for building users, everyday access is so much simpler when their smartphone is also their key. It is easy to understand why mobile is, according to one analyst, “the dominant trend in access control”.
How mobile access boosts your business
Mobile credentials help create a modern workplace with improved operational and cost efficiency. Remote access management via smartphone and a secure cloud saves facilities staff time and hassle. Mobile credentials minimize the risks from loaned or missing credentials: phones are harder to lose, and most people are reluctant to lend them to anyone even for a few minutes. Mobile access also helps to reduce single-use plastic waste, because there’s no more disposable access cards or key fobs, contributing towards an organization’s sustainability strategy.
How mobile access empowers mobile work
Using mobile keys for access helps building users to act faster, work smarter and collaborate better. Similar convenience benefits have already transformed banking, travel and food delivery into mobile-first services. With mobile access, staff no longer carry or keep track of keys, fobs, badges or cards. No more time-wasting handover meetings are scheduled when a tenancy, employment contract or authorized visit ends.
How mobile access simplifies access management
Mobile access enables the secure movement of people into and through premises – and simultaneously streamlines daily work. Mobile credentials are easier to amend or de-authorize than a mechanical key. Changes to access permissions are made over the air, without dedicated readers or asking a user to check-in their credential. Furthermore, when an administrator cancels a mobile key, it vanishes immediately.
Your choice of ASSA ABLOY mobile access solutions
At ASSA ABLOY, we were quick to identify the wide-ranging possibilities and benefits of mobile access. So many of our innovative solutions can make access not only digital – but also mobile.
We offer customers a wide range of mobile access solutions, both within complete digital systems and via devices which plug seamlessly into an existing security solution.
CLIQ
Key-based system which transforms mechanical to high-security digital access management
SMARTair
Modern out-the-box digital access solution which maximizes flexibility and ease of use and management
Primo
Intelligent digital access solution which seamlessly integrates multiple devices into one unified, scalable system
KentixOne
Scalable IoT platform that integrates access and security management into one centralized system for data centers
ASSA ABLOY® Access
Smart, scalable digital access management system that unifies key, tag and mobile access on a single cloud platform
ABLOY® CUMULUS
Cloud platform with straightforward integration of digital access devices and secure mobile access
Aperio® Wireless Locks
Devices for any opening, the easy way to extend the reach of any new or existing access system
