By Victoria Rees
Patrick Wimmer, Joey Yanire and Carl Fenger, at LEGIC Identsystems, explain how smartphones can unlock new potential in access management.
In today’s digital landscape, smartphones have evolved into essential multifunctional tools, serving as central hubs for everyday tasks such as payment, identification, health monitoring and communication.
The integration of access management with smartphones represents a pioneering breakthrough in the realm of Physical Identity and Access Management (PIAM), transcending the constraints associated with conventional mechanical keys and plastic keycards, which are frequently lost, misplaced, forgotten, copied or stolen.
Here are two compelling approaches to achieve PIAM integration:
The key advantage of smartphone wallets is their status as a native application integrated into the pre-installed mobile operating system.
This ensures automatic maintenance and updates by the mobile OS provider, streamlining setup and the addition of room, office and home keys with just a few simple steps.
This frees the service provider from having to create, maintain, update and deploy a dedicated app.
Based on NFC access, smartphone wallets deliver a convenient user experience akin to using a traditional smartcard – they can function without the need to unlock the phone or establish a network connection.
Users can simply present their locked phone to a reader terminal, eliminating the hassle of finding and launching an app that requires both hands – a significant improvement over dedicated applications.
Furthermore, users can enhance security by activating biometric verification such as facial recognition within their wallet.
Additionally, digital wallets function as a centralized repository for multiple virtual cards and keys, simplifying their use across a variety of applications provided by multiple unrelated service providers.
Digital wallets can operate even when the smartphone’s battery is critically low, unlike dedicated apps that cease to function and provide access management.
This feature is particularly valuable for access control scenarios where the ability to enter an office, hotel room or residence when the phone battery appears dead provides both convenience and peace of mind.
As part of the LEGIC Security Platform dedicated to supporting secure mobile services, LEGIC Connect comprises an OWASP-ASVS audited Trusted Service hosted on AWS, a Mobile SDK plus LEGIC Security Modules which include an RF transceiver (Bluetooth, NFC, RFID) and tamper-proof Secure Element (SM-6300 and the programmable SM-6310).
These modules are embedded in infrastructure-devices such as electronic locks, mobility vehicles or IoT sensors.
Together, these components establish a cryptographically secure, bidirectional channel from backend administration system to smartphone to infrastructure.
In addition to credentials, any data needing secure distribution to end devices such as firmware, cryptographic keys, whitelists or certificates can be transported via LEGIC Connect.
For comprehensive information on how to make your LEGIC-based products and services compatible with smartphone wallets, please visit the Wallet Program webpage here.
Discover how to elevate your Physical Identity and Access Management systems by embracing wallet integration on the LEGIC Security Platform and propel your access control products and services into a new realm of security, efficiency and user satisfaction.
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