ProdataKey Launches Red Access Control Hardware Line
ProdataKey announced the release of its new Red 2 Controller, Red Readers, and Red High-Security Credentials, all components of its new high-security, line of hardware called PDK Red. The Red lineup represents a new class of OSDP-compliant, multi-technology readers, controllers, and credentialing options appropriate for both daily installs and the most demanding security applications. Red 2 and the Red Readers are powered by PDK?s pdk io mobile-first, true cloud access control solution, bringing together the industry?s most convenient access control experience.
ProdataKey Adds Another Touchless Option to Its Pdk io Solution
ProdataKey introduces ?Present-to-Open,? a new touchless way for Pdk io users to interact with their system?s Touch io Bluetooth readers. With Present-to-Open, users hold their smartphone within proximity of the reader to initiate immediate authentication of their credentials, eliminating any delay in unlocking the door or need to touch the reader. The phone may remain locked as long as the Touch App and mobile credentials have been installed on the user?s device.
ProdataKey Simplifies Third-Party Integrations with Introduction of Webhooks
ProdataKey announced that the company has made it easier to connect third-party solutions with pdk io software through the use of webhooks. Webhooks are an enhancement to the pdk io API, allowing the software to send automated notifications to a receiving URL when specified events occur. They can be created for any number of access control events, such as opening a specific door, opening any door, the entry of a specific employee, or the addition or deactivation of a user.
ProdataKey Releases Whitepaper, ?Redefining Access Control with a Mobile First Approach?
ProdataKey has released a whitepaper that explores the differentiating features and distinct advantages of a Mobile-First access control platform. Built from the ground up with the needs of the mobile user foremost in mind, Mobile First platforms are designed with the mobile experience as the default method by which integrators, technicians, system administrators, managers, tenants, and employees engage with the system.
New ProdataKey and Systems Surveyor Partnership Streamlines Design and Delivery of PDK Access Control Solutions
ProdataKey (PDK) announced a partnership with System Surveyor. A complete catalog of PDK?s mobile-first access control system components is now available for import into the System Surveyor platform, making it easier than ever to incorporate PDK?s solutions into site plans and design drawings that can be shared by integrators, subcontractors, vendors and customers. Using an iPad or Android-based tablet or browser-based device, users upload a floor plan or Google Earth snapshot into the System Surveyor platform.
ProdataKey Introduces Updates to Touch Reader and Touch App
ProdataKey announced several updates to its ?touch? Bluetooth reader and mobile app that further distinguish the pdk io solution as the most convenient, seamless, access control experience on the market. Unlike other mobile access control solutions, which require users to unlock and present their phone in place of a fob, PDK?s touch reader automatically senses encrypted credentials on locked phones carried by users, even when they?re deep inside pockets, bags and purses.
New Integration Between ProdataKey Access Control and Comelit Video Door Entry Offers Site-Wide Security and Convenience
ProdataKey announced the imminent release of a new integration between the company?s pdk io platform and VIP video door entry system. The integration will be available on March 18, 2020, coinciding with the first day of exhibits at ISC West event in Las Vegas. The pdk io/Comelit integration will be on display at ProdataKey?s booth 20125.
New ProdataKey and Pedestal PRO Partnership Delivers Quality, Convenience and Value to PDK Customers
ProdataKey announced a partnership to offer three custom pedestal solutions designed for turnkey mounting of pdk io readers. The pedestals allows for reader placement in free-standing locations where wall-mounting is not possible, including lobbies, entryways, parking lots, office space and gated properties. As all pedestal dimensions and mounting holes align perfectly with pdk io devices, PDK dealers benefit from simplified installation and consistently clean, precise mounting.
ProdataKey?s Two New Controllers add Enhanced Convenience and Flexibility to it’s Powerful Cloud Platform
ProdataKey will introduce two new door controllers at the upcoming ISC West 2020. Visitors at the event will be among the first to view the company?s new eight-door ?eio? and the two-door ?dio.? Each offer expanded benefits and functionality when used as part of a PDK io system. The 2-door dio unit includes a power monitoring feature that alerts dealers to any power-related issues. onboard ethernet, with auto-discovery powered by PDK io, simplifies installation and setup.
ProdataKey Releases Touch App for its PDK io Access Control Platform
ProdataKey announced the release of its Touch app for Apple and Android devices. The Touch app, which is available for free to all PDK customers, allows users to unlock entrances remotely with the push of a button on the mobile app. Only entryways matching the user?s permission level will be available to unlock. The Touch app is compatible with all pdk io systems and all doorways, regardless of the type of readers in place.
ProdataKey and DW Access Control/VMS Integration
ProdataKey announces the imminent release of its integration with DW?s Spectrum IPVMS video management platform. The integrated solution will be on display at ISC East 2019, at the ProdataKey booth. The event coincides with the release of the integration to installing dealers who will now be able to offer their customers one of the most affordable, feature-rich unified video/access control platforms industry-wide, both in terms of initial expense and long-term, total-cost-of-ownership.
ProdataKey Named to MountainWest Capital Network’s 2019 Utah 100, Marking Four Consecutive Years in the Top 100
ProdataKey announced that the company has once again been named to the Utah 100, MountainWest Capital Network’s annual list of the fastest-growing companies in Utah. This marks the fourth consecutive year that ProdataKey has been designated with this elite status. Representatives of the company were recognized and received their award at the 25th annual Utah 100 Awards program held on October 30th at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City.
ProdataKey and DW Enhance Security Offerings through Seamless Access Control/VMS Integration
ProdataKey is offering a powerful new integration between pdk io access control and the DW Spectrum IPVMS video management platform. This seamless, integrated solution allows DW Spectrum users to review all pdk io event data from within the IPVMS interface and enables more efficient and effective security monitoring through automated responses to access-related events. The result is a comprehensive security solution, accessible through a single interface.
ProdataKey Brings Cloud-Based Wireless Access Control to Arkansas? Corning High School
ProdataKey announced that Corning High School, in Corning, Arkansas, has increased its security and greatly enhanced its lockdown capabilities by installing the pdk io wireless access control system. Pdk io is a wireless, cloud-based solution that provides advantages such as around-the-clock accessibility, remote management, superior backup and redundancy, automated updates, and strong cyber security. The installation was undertaken by Blue Sky Technologies of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
ProdataKey Introduces ?touch io? Bluetooth Reader for Use with Smartphones
Touch io brings new levels of convenience and security for the communication between smart phones and access control door readers, eliminating the need for cards or fobs. Unlike other systems, touch io does not require the user to unlock the phone, or to even remove it from pocket or purse, in order to gain access through a protected door. The individual?s identity is validated through communication directly between his or her credentialed device and the reader, via Bluetooth.
North Carolina Retirement Community Secures Hundreds Of Doors With ProdataKey And ASSA ABLOY Wireless Solution
ProdataKey and ASSA ABLOY, announced the completion of a campus-wide security upgrade at Glenaire Retirement Community in Cary, North Carolina. Modern Systems, of Yadkinville, North Carolina, has installed a fully integrated wireless lock and access control solution securing 370 doors spread across the community?s main building entrances, public access areas, offices and residential apartment units.
ProdataKey Named To MountainWest Capital Network’s 2018 Utah 100
ProdataKey announced it was named to the 2018 Utah 100, MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN)?s annual list of the fastest-growing companies in Utah. ProdataKey ranked No. 40 out of 100 companies and was honored at the 24th annual Utah 100 Awards program, held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. 2018 marks the third consecutive year that ProdataKey has made the top 100 ranking. Recipients of the Utah 100 were chosen by the percentage of revenue increase of each company between 2013 and 2017.
ProdataKey Releases Whitepaper, ?Safely Invisible: The Powerful Security Of Cloud-Based Access Control?
ProdataKey (PDK) has released a whitepaper addressing the cybersecurity benefits of cloud-based access control solutions. The confluence of cyber and physical security is driving dealers and integrators, along with their customers, to question the best ways to address security vulnerabilities in the systems they install. Juniper Research estimates that by 2019, the annual cost of cyber-attacks will cost business over $2 trillion. The majority of access control solutions are now comprised of IP devices, each with the potential to provide bad actors with access to the data and operational systems on their connected networks.
ProdataKey Partners With Dwelo To Create Unique Perimeter Security Solution
ProdataKey and Dwelo LLC announced a partnership that will seamlessly integrate PDK?s cloud access control technology into the Dwelo smart apartment platform. Dwelo?s web and mobile software, which currently offers apartment dwellers the ability to control smart devices such as light switches, thermostats and door deadbolts for their individual units, will be adding features to manage access to common areas of their building or community, such as entry gates, clubhouse, gym and laundry facilities.
Biometrics And Wireless Pair Up Through ENTERTECH SYSTEMS And ProdataKey Alliance To Enable Mainstream Adoption Of Secure Access Control
ENTERTECH SYSTEMS, the official operating partner for Suprema in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Puerto Rico, has just announced a strategic partnership with ProdataKey, a leading wireless smart access control products innovator. ProdataKey will offer Suprema biometric products to their integration partners and through their network of national and international distribution […]