ASSA ABLOY Openow mobile app for SMARTair adds online functionality to offline locking

The newly updated Openow app now includes Update on Card functionalities, offering additional and powerful features to security managers.

Openow mobile app

Openow is the convenient mobile solution for ASSA ABLOY’s SMARTair wireless locking systems. Users store their validated digital keys securely in the Openow app. To open a SMARTair lock, they simply tap their phone against its inbuilt RFID reader. An encrypted Bluetooth connection connects the phone and locking device to quickly validate or deny an unlock request. With Openow, if users have their phones on them then they are already carrying their keys.

To open a SMARTair lock, they simply tap their phone against its inbuilt RFID reader

Facility managers get through their access management workload much faster when they replace traditional card or tag credentials with the Openow app. Because Openow and the intuitive SMARTair TS1000 software handle everything, delays in issuing or revoking keys for sensitive doors no longer jeopardise site security or company efficiency. There are no physical credentials to handle or track; no card encoders to buy; and no queues at reception for staff or visitors awaiting credentials being issued.

Online functionality to offline locking

With the new Openow features New Openow mobile app for SMARTair adds online functionality to user’s offline locking there so as to ensure completion of security taskloads will be even more efficient. Openow administrator functionality now includes Update on Card management for SMARTair door devices. Powerful features usually only available in online mode are now enabled for SMARTair offline locks, too — without any need to install dedicated wall updaters or communications hubs.

Now, every time a user opens a SMARTair door with Openow, the event and entire door history are reported in the SMARTair software — alerting security managers of door entrance attempts, battery status, low battery and more.