Interface Systems has introduced its new Digital Keys feature, designed to enhance security through AI-powered technology and remote video monitoring.
This solution specifically targets restaurants, retailers, and commercial businesses using Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) access control systems. Digital Keys replaces traditional security cards, fobs, and keys with mobile credentials that integrate seamlessly into Apple Wallet and Google Wallet.
Physical Credential Management
Digital Keys is tailored for environments such as retail chains, quick-service restaurants, and businesses with multiple locations. It offers a streamlined process for administering access by enabling managers to issue, update, or revoke credentials remotely via the DMP Virtual Keypad application.
These credentials can be shared swiftly through text or email, allowing recipients to store them in their mobile wallets without the need for additional apps. This feature is especially beneficial for businesses with high staff turnover, numerous sites, or short-term staffing needs, as it simplifies credential management and enhances control over site access.
Cost-Effective Badge Management
Additionally, businesses can gain greater insight through integrated video systems
Key benefits of Digital Keys include tap-to-unlock access through Near Field Communication (NFC)—the same technology used in contactless payments—ensuring usability even when devices are low on power. It significantly lowers management costs by enabling remote credential issuance or deactivation, thereby reducing the logistical challenges associated with physical keys.
Mobile credentials, tied to individual users, bolster accountability as they are less prone to being shared or lost than physical badges. Additionally, businesses can gain greater insight through integrated video systems that connect access credential activity with surveillance footage, allowing for precise verification of facility access.
Adaptable Access and Phased Modernization
This system offers temporary access features, enabling contractors and vendors to obtain time-bound credentials that automatically expire. Furthermore, multi-technology readers support both NFC credentials and existing key cards or fobs, allowing companies to modernize their security measures progressively without abandoning current systems.
Steve Womer, the Senior Vice President of Product at Interface Systems, emphasized the need for adaptable access control systems, stating, “Retailers, restaurant operators, and commercial businesses need access control that keeps pace with employee turnover, distributed locations, and evolving security expectations.” He highlighted that Digital Keys allow firms to efficiently reduce reliance on physical keys while maintaining robust control over site access, thereby lowering costs, mitigating risks, and enhancing adaptability to personnel changes.
Interface Systems, a provider of AI-powered security and expert remote video monitoring for restaurants, retailers, and commercial businesses, announces the launch of its Digital Keys, a mobile credential solution for Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) access control systems.
Digital Keys enables businesses to replace traditional cards, fobs, and physical keys with secure mobile credentials stored directly in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet.
Physical credential management
Designed for retailers, quick-service restaurants, and other distributed enterprises, Digital Keys simplifies access management by allowing administrators to issue, update, schedule, and revoke employee, contractor, and vendor credentials remotely through the DMP Virtual Keypad application.
Credentials can be delivered instantly by text or email and added directly to a user’s mobile wallet, without requiring employees to download a separate credential app. For businesses managing high employee turnover, multiple locations, temporary contractors, and lost or unreturned keys, Digital Keys reduces the operational burden of physical credential management while improving control over who can access each location.
Badge management costs
Key benefits include:
- Tap-to-unlock access: Using Near Field Communication (NFC), the same standard used for tap-to-pay transactions, Digital Keys allow authorized users to unlock doors with a smartphone or smartwatch. Credentials can continue to function even when the phone’s battery is low.
- Lower key and badge management costs: Administrators can issue or deactivate credentials remotely, helping reduce the time, cost, and operational burden of shipping badges, recovering keys, replacing lost fobs, or rekeying doors.
- Stronger accountability: Mobile credentials are assigned to individual users, making them harder to share, lose, or misuse than traditional keys or badges.
- Greater visibility: When combined with video integrations, businesses can connect credential activity with recorded footage to verify who accessed a facility and when.
- Temporary access control: Contractors, vendors, and temporary employees can be granted access for a defined period, with credentials scheduled to expire automatically.
- Phased modernisation: Multi-technology readers support NFC credentials alongside existing cards and fobs, allowing organizations to modernise access control at their own pace while preserving prior infrastructure investments.
Evolving security expectations
“Retailers, restaurant operators, and commercial businesses need access control that keeps pace with employee turnover, distributed locations, and evolving security expectations,” said Steve Womer, SVP of Product at Interface Systems.
“Digital Keys gives them a practical way to reduce dependence on physical credentials while improving control over who can access each location. Administrators can issue, modify, or revoke access remotely, helping businesses lower costs, reduce risk, and respond faster when employees, vendors, or contractors change.”
