Mobile Access Control: 5 Reasons Platform Providers Do It Better
Whether it’s Latch or Kevo or even the Ellipse bike lock, mobile access control is experiencing a boom. In all key verticals: residential, commercial, automotive, and so on, we’re seeing this trend driving many companies to build sophisticated mobile access products. Some companies are developing these products on their own mobile key platforms, while others are partnering with reliable access control […]
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Don’t Underestimate a Reliable Experience
Compare and contrast: the excitement around the release of the very first iPhone in 2007 vs. the hype around the iPhone 8. There’s a significant difference in the amount of eagerness and anticipation for these phones, 10 years and 15 models later. For consumers, these phones have become a fifth appendage and as a result, […]
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Video: New Opportunities in Physical Access Control Technology
Everywhere you look you can see the ways in which digital transformation has brought on a technological evolution. We’re currently living in the age of Industry 4.0, where advanced technology and machinery have coalesced to boost the productivity of manufacturing, shipping, and overall production of consumer goods. And if you’re reading this on a laptop […]
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How Consumer Experience is Driving the Latest Tech Trends
It’s 2017 and as you read headlines about big name companies, you’ll find that they’re either falling behind due to lack of innovation in their customer experiences, or they’re downright knocking customer experience out of the technologically connected park. No matter the business, one thing seems to hold true throughout every industry: doing the same […]
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Not all PACS are Made the Same
After the impact of the world’s biggest ransomware event, WannaCry, the world is not only questioning the defense behind cyber security, but also the stability of modern, smart technology. While WannaCry was an attack that inflicted massive turmoil throughout dated Windows software, the same kind of infiltration could potentially happen to access control platforms that are […]
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UniKey’s Top 3 Takeaways from FIT 2017
UniKey’s very own, Lee Odess, flew out to Birmingham, UK, for the annual FIT Trade Show in order to give us some insider knowledge on the what’s-what in the smart lock and access control industries. The trade show hosted several big names in the industry like ERA, Iceni Windows, and Avantek; showcasing the exceptional tech advancements in the field. Moreover, the […]
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3 Big Ways Democratizing Access Control will Transform the Sharing Economy
Uber, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, and Lending Club; four very different apps with one thing in common: their shared ecosystem, which is better known as “The Sharing Economy”. This very same economy has been “disrupting established business models to usher in a new era of peer-to-peer, access-driven businesses” since 2008. And thanks to this economy and modern technology, […]
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Gig Economy 2.0: Why Smarter Access is the Key to a Winning Customer Experience
Believe it or not, the time of retiring in one job is slowly fading away as the shift to swapping full-time jobs for monetary, contracted employment is sweeping our country’s workforce. With this new “Gig Economy” retirement as we once knew it may become redefined. In place of the conventional concept of long-term employment and […]
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