Change in the access control industry, together with innovation, is occurring at a rapid pace. The virtualization of contactless smart cards, and their residency on smartphones, allows new innovative thinking, along with the ability to combine access control applications into a single, very convenient solution.
New developments include using hand gestures for access control, could enhance the next generation of mobile device-based access control credentials. Gesture-based technology will change how users interact with access control systems.
With a user-defined wave of the hand or other gesture, individuals will be able to control a variety of RFID devices, improving the user experience while increasing security by providing new authentication factors that go beyond something the cardholder “has” to include a gesture-based version of something the cardholder “knows”.
Gesture-based access control works with smartphones in a mobile access control environment, where it will be possible to use both two- and three-dimensional gestures by leveraging a smartphone's built-in accelerometer feature. This allows for a novel way of adding another authentication factor to the existing authentication scheme.