Alcatraz AI Gets Another Distribution Partner for Contactless Access Control Tech

Biometric access control specialist Alcatraz AI has a new partner to help promote its solutions. RFI Communications and Security has agreed to offer Alcatraz’s tech to its customer base.

Founded in 1979, RFI is a systems integrator focused on security and safety solutions. Today, the company has offices in California, Nevada, and Washington, and counts a range of companies in its client roster, including public sector organizations and Fortune 500 companies. RFI got a ranking of #15 in SDM Magazine’s ranking of the top security integrators last year.

The partnership means that RFI’s customers will have the opportunity to deploy Alcatraz’s flagship solution, the Rock, which uses facial recognition to identify authorized personnel as they seek to enter a given premises. A platform upgrade implemented earlier this year also endowed the Rock with support for three-factor authentication, allowing organizations to pair its biometric authentication with factors such as badge and PIN readers.

That having been said, its biometric capabilities alone should prove to be particularly appealing for their contactless nature. Identifying individuals and regulating access without the need for physical contact with a reader can be seen as a further means of mitigating the spread of COVID-19.

Indeed, this particular advantage of the solution proved to be a highlight for the administrators who deployed it at Los Angeles’ Banc of California Stadium – home of the Los Angeles Football Club – earlier this summer, with the Rock’s contactless technology seen as a way of making employees feel more comfortable as they returned to work.

In a statement, RFI Technical Program Manager Matt Varvais expressed excitement about the partnership on behalf of his team, praising Alcatraz’s access control technology. “Their ability to combine industry leading technology with a product agnostic interface, while still maintaining a simplified user experience, provides RFI a solution to our clients dynamic challenges in today’s physical security landscape,” he said.

In partnering with Alcatraz, RFI joins a reseller network that includes New York Security Solutions and Southern California’s Clear Cloud Solutions, both of which joined the team last autumn.

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August 4, 2021 – by Alex Perala