PSIA Releases PLAI Experience Video

The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) created a video based on the Virtual PLAI Experience, an event held in May of this year, which included eight companies showing interoperability and exchange of identity information relying on the PLAI specification. 

The video combines step-by-step animation of how the specification works with actual interactive footage of PLAI technology in operation. This video shows the PLAI dashboard, with employee records being added and identity information then being shared with the other disparate physical access control systems (PACS) and biometric systems. 

“The vendors involved in this demonstration have each implemented a PLAI Adapter, which when combined with the PLAI Agent allows employee records to easily be transferred across a company’s physical access control ecosystem, even when there are multiple PACS involved,” said David Bunzel, Executive Director of the PSIA. 

“In addition, there is no longer the need for entering this employee data multiple times, which can lead to discrepancies and compromise the reliability of a company’s security system. Data is pushed from a single authoritative source which minimizes the potential for conflicts to occur.”

This video was used as part of the PSIA’s participation in Convergint’s Insight event in November. Presentations to leading companies in the energy, commercial office, banking and aerospace industries showed growing interest in PLAI and the work of the PSIA.

The eight companies involved in the Virtual PLAI Experience and the video included PACS vendors AMAG Technology, JCI/Tyco, LenelS2, Monitor Dynamics, and Siemens; Biometrics vendors eyeLock and Idemia; and PLAI Agent vendor Cruatech.