Smart security on the move with new mobile app

Keeping data secure is paramount – and is now even easier thanks to new technology that transforms a smartphone into a digital key, merging the function of advanced locking technology and a user-friendly smartphone app.

The new “EMKA mobile” app is designed to be used as a digital locking and unlocking mechanism to keep cabinets and enclosures in the industrial and digital sphere, plus wider environments, secure.

EMKA explains that as the amount of data continues to increase, control and telecommunication cabinets have become essential components of our infrastructure. Ensuring only authorised personnel have access to this data and making modifications regularly is essential. In order to provide authorised personnel with digital access control, EMKA has developed a solution that uses a smartphone application to unlock the handle of such cabinets. Currently, the app is compatible with their “Agent E-BLE” swinghandle. The communication between the app and the handle is based on Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE).

In the future, it is planned that the app will enable users to trace, manage, and access allocated handles with various levels of permission determined by specified user profiles. This way, “EMKA mobile” secures flexible personalised access and supplements the range of access options available through the EMKA family of technologies.

Secure and convenient personalised access to the Agent-E handle has been achieved using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology. Other locking solutions such as the single-point locking and the outdoor swinghandle of their 1317 series can also be opened via the app. Depending on the smartphone manufacturer, identity is checked through either entering a pin, activating a fingerprint sensor, or using facial recognition.

After undergoing a testing phase, the new app has now been put into use by a producer of transport boxes that are fitted with the EMKA single-point locking system.

EMKA’s development team have designed this system specifically for business customers, OEMs and installers who are aiming to improve their security technology, or offer their clients fresh, innovative locking options.

For more information on EMKA products see www.emka.com