Zwipe has launched a two-factor access control solution based on its biometric authentication technology platform. The global access control market is estimated at $ 7.65 billion and is expected to reach $ 11.7 billion by 2026.
Entering the access control market, Zwipe announces collaborations with a number of well-known companies in the security industry; Especially HID Global, the ASSA ABLOY Group and a world leader in trusted identity solutions, LeGrand, the global expert in high value-added products and solutions for commercial, residential and industrial buildings, and Southco, the leading global designer and manufacturer of engineered access solutions.
The coalition will bring to market an extremely advanced, highly cost-effective biometric authentication solution. The full capability of Zwipe’s biometric card works with existing access control systems thus eliminating the need to make any time-consuming and costly adjustments to existing access control infrastructure.
Referring to this breakthrough, André Løvestam, CEO of Zwipe, said, “Thanks to Zwipe’s advanced biometric authentication technology platform, Zwipe is ready to move into nearby markets, starting with access control. We see a real need for much more powerful access control solutions and are confident that our biometric card solution will address many security issues in this area. We are especially proud to partner with such reputable companies and we look forward to adding significant value to this sector with our solution. I am confident that access control and identification will be a significant business line for Zwipe in the future, which will add to our profitable growth and long-term value creation. ”
The customer project began with Raritan (a data center specialist company with global referrals and a subsidiary of LeGrand), focusing on the joint development of a highly secure solution based on Zwipe’s biometric card technology that provides a new level of secure data center access. closets.
Raritan’s CTO, Swen Anderson, said “it was vital that we developed a product that allows us to deploy the latest technology in biometric technology without having to make any infrastructure changes. Zwipe provided us with the opportunity to leverage their leading technology platform to create a new product that provides security for Access control for data centers that is unique in our industry. ”
“Thanks to this excellent collaboration based on true use cases, the complete integrity of our biometric card solution has been successfully proven for new application areas. Our biometric authentication technology platform provides world-class security and we are excited that it can be seamlessly integrated with physical and logical access control solutions. We believe that innovations such as biometric access control and identification management will be in great demand, “says Christian Wass, vice president of identification and access control solutions at Zwipe.