A smart lock and an enterprise access control system can both open a door with a phone. They are not, however, the same product. Choosing the wrong one creates either an under-engineered installation that fails the first time someone is fired, or an over-engineered system that costs five times what the project actually needed.
In this piece we break down the real differences: audit trail depth, integration with CCTV and intercom, anti-passback, interlocking zones, certificate-based credentials, and what happens when the cloud goes down.
We finish with a simple decision tree: how many doors, how many users, what compliance requirements, and what is the worst case if a credential is compromised.
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