Z9/FL=X seamlessly integrates a wide range of both open and proprietary access control hardware and software...
October 24, 2022 – Z9 Security, creator of the access control industry's first and only true hardware and software interoperability ecosystem, announces the availability of the Z9/FL=X access control hardware integration platform. Z9/FL=X is a flexible, cloud-based service, supporting multiple wired, wireless and offline access control hardware platforms with a single, elegant API integration. Access control software vendors can deploy Z9/FL=X anywhere – in their cloud hosting environment, on-premise, or as an appliance. What used to take years of engineering and partnership development to introduce new integrations now takes just months.
Flexible Integration: Z9/FL=X can be integrated with any access control software platform in any language, using a single, powerful, elegant JSON/REST API. The Z9/FL=X JSON/REST API is extensively documented, with plenty of examples, to give developers a quick start.
Flexible Hardware: Z9/FL=X supports all major access control hardware platforms from vendors using the z9/op=n ecosystem such as Azure Access, WaveLynx and ZKTeco USA Atlas Series, and also proprietary platforms from Mercury Security, Allegion, dormakaba, and Assa Abloy.
Flexible Deployment: Z9/FL=X can be deployed in any container-based cloud infrastructure, including AWS ECS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. It can also be deployed on-premise, or instance-per-customer, as a Windows or Linux service. Because Z9/FL=X is deployed in the software vendors' platform, they are fully in control of scalability, privacy, and security. It can be used for any vertical industry, including commercial, higher-ed, multifamily, and government.
Feature Rich: Z9/FL=X is not just a thin layer around a handful of access control functions. It integrates richly and deeply with all of the hardware platforms it supports, handling all of the nuances and features of each, including hardware commissioning and provisioning; hardware connectivity, encryption, and certificate management; and automatic synchronization of configuration, credentials, and access rights.
Future-Proof: Z9/FL=X uses a single, elegant data model, which means that once Z9/FL=X is integrated with a software platform, supporting additional hardware platforms is simply a matter of configuration, as opposed to new integration.
"Any software company that has implemented hardware-specific integrations knows from experience that the technology and security industries are awash in APIs of a wide range of quality - some are good, but plenty are awkward, dated, and poorly documented," said Ken Larson, President of Z9 Security. "Z9 Security’s expert team has been performing these nuanced integrations for decades, and has combined all of that effort and deep hardware knowledge into Z9/FL=X for something completely different: a single, seamless, elegant integration experience for software vendors."
Z9/FL=X meets the highest standards in network security, and has passed multiple rigorous 3rd-party penetration tests. The Z9/FL=X platform is already deployed and in production, proven and trusted by major software vendors and end-users worldwide.
The Z9 Security interoperability ecosystem currently enables hundreds of hardware and software interoperability combinations, and is growing rapidly.
For more information on the Z9/FL=X access control hardware integration platform, or to join the interoperability ecosystem, visit Z9 Security at https://www.z9security.com.
About Z9 Security
Z9 Security is the creator of the access control industry's first and only true hardware and software interoperability ecosystem. The ecosystem features the Z9/FL=X cloud-based service and z9/op=n unified technology platforms, seamlessly integrating a wide range of both open and proprietary access control hardware and software, redefining interoperability, and drastically reducing time and cost to introduce new integrations. The Z9 Security ecosystem currently enables hundreds of hardware and software interoperability combinations, and is growing fast. The Z9 Security team is made up of industry veterans with decades of expertise in access control, who have been behind the success of some of the biggest names in the industry. For more information, visit https://www.z9security.com.
Keywords: access control, physical security, security industry
