Anviz (a business unit of Xthings Group, Inc.) has officially launched an OSDP (Open Supervisory Device Protocol)-enabled access control solution. Our goal is simple: improve the shortcomings of legacy access control systems while enabling bi-directional, secure data interactions between systems and components.
Legacy Wiegand functionality limits device capability to being a point-to-point system where the reader transmits data directly to the access control panel but not to other devices. Data transmitted over Wiegand is not encrypted, creating security exposure and vulnerability.
Anviz is fully committed to global security and privacy requirements, as exemplified by our adherence to GDPR compliance. The feature deployment of OSDP meets our customer’s goals of creating, enhancing, and maintaining secure and capable access control solutions. Once OSDP was released as an industry standard, Anviz mandated an internally-driven and committed OSDP-focused feature enhancement goal.
Anviz Support for Wiegand and OSDP
The SAC921 access controller supports legacy Wiegand readers and C2KA-OSDP readers. As shown below, each door cassette on the SAC921 has connection points for legacy Wiegand and OSDP Anviz readers – for maximum installed or new site support.
