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Seriline: mobile IDs for the access control a customer already owns
Seriline sells identity and access management across Sweden and the Nordics — cards, readers, printers, the Serix platform. Mobile access is how the same customer keeps all of it and still retires the plastic.
The pitch Seriline makes is about the system already in the building. Mobile IDs are credentials that stand in for physical smart cards in an existing physical access control system: they are generated in the cloud service and delivered to people's phones. A reader authenticates them and passes the result to the access controller, which decides about the door exactly as it did before. Nothing about the decision-making changes — only what the user carries.
An open ecosystem, by design
Seriline describes the platform as an ecosystem rather than a product line: manufacturers can implement BLE support in their own equipment, and access control systems integrate over an API. That openness is what lets one customer mix technologies instead of standardising on a single vendor's hardware.
One app, optionally wearing someone else's name
A single mobile app holds the rights to everything a user has access to, on iOS and Android, and works online or offline. It can be white-labelled to carry the customer's or the end-user's own brand, and an SDK puts the same functionality inside an app the customer already ships.
Stand-alone, or integrated in stages
Mobile access can be run from a web application as a separate piece of the access control estate, or integrated step by step up to full API integration — where names, employee IDs and even card IDs come from the access control system, and every access right stays defined there. Several RFID technologies can run alongside mobile IDs over Bluetooth or NFC. The credentials are reusable: when somebody changes phone, or leaves and is replaced, the ID is not thrown away with the card.
Cidron readers, ready for mobile
Seriline's own Cidron reader series is built for the door environment that has to last: robust against weather and abuse, available in standard and narrow profiles with or without a keypad, customisable in colour and logo, and configurable for most standard RFID technologies as well as BLE and NFC. Accessories cover the awkward installations — weather and privacy shields, vandal protection, distance plates — and readers arrive pre-configured with the agreed settings and the partner's authentication key.
Sharing access, offline
Access sharing is the offline half of the cloud platform. Users are administered in a web application or imported from an access control system over an API; rights reach the phone, which checks in with the platform periodically to stay current, and changes propagate through the users themselves. The lock hardware runs from digital cylinders, door handles, padlocks, furniture and cabinet locks, and controllers with a Cidron pin pad — on batteries or mains.
Summarised from “Mobile Access Solutions”, published by Seriline on 12 June 2020.