Access Control Technology is Eating Key Cards

摘要

Big organizations like WeWork, Dropbox and Hines Real Estate are increasingly ditching key cards and moving toward smartphone/Bluetooth-enabled technology to give their employees, contractors, visitors and tenants frictionless access through secured doors, elevators and turnstiles. The move also creates personalized experiences from sidewalk to office. Back in 2011, Netscape founder and venture capitalist Marc Andreesen wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "Software is eating the world." He was referring to technology companies disrupting their brick-and-mortar counterparts such as Netflix and Blockbuster, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.