ASSA ABLOY: Modernize PACS for Enhanced Security & User Experience
ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions EMEIA's Richard Sharp, Vice President and Head of Wireless Door Locks, Digital Access Solutions, discusses the benefits of modernizing Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) in the September issue. Digital transformation offers a pathway to overcome traditional challenges, enhancing user convenience, simplifying administration, and integrating with enterprise systems.
Digital transformation in PACS delivers a seamless end-to-end experience. It provides trusted access and a digital user experience that improves both physical security and user engagement with spaces and facilities. This shift replaces traditional keys and cards with digital credentials and biometrics, strengthening security posture without adding friction.
Mobile access extends this experience into daily tasks, optimizing user experience and driving monetization opportunities. AI-powered analytics offer advanced features like predictive threat detection and real-time insights, helping security teams proactively identify and respond to vulnerabilities. Modernizing PACS enhances security, streamlines operations, improves user experience, and supports sustainability.
Flexibility and upgradability are essential in PACS to accommodate software upgrades and expanded integrations as technologies evolve. Sustainability extends beyond digital credentials, enabling data-driven optimization of facilities usage and occupier behaviors to reduce waste and energy consumption.
Nearly half of organizations prioritize improving user convenience in PACS, while 41% focus on simplifying administration, and 28% struggle with system integration. Digital transformation addresses these challenges, offering a strategic shift that strengthens security, simplifies operations, improves user experience, and supports sustainability.
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