We also have the ASSA ABLOY locks. The initial group of locks used wired connectivity, but a retrofit called for wireless. The initial testing of the wireless unit went fine (with a lot of phone calls to the support folks, including the guy who wrote the code; and only did 2.4 GHz). But, it all worked so the facilities folks ordered several hundred for this dorm. They got installed and wouldn’t work. It seems that the test unit had a preproduction version of code that supported WPA2 while the ones that were shipped only supported PSK. Oops. We bitched about having to build out a new SSID for them, but did it anyway with the promise that WPA2 support would be here soon. And, sure enough, it did appear 18 months later (not my ideal value for “soon”). The locks were upgraded and did support WPA2 Enterprise (again after a number of calls to their support folks, mostly for the proper configuration of the locks). Since then we have dropped the special SSID and use RADIUS to drop them into the proper VLAN. We did find one other problem along the way – the locks need a strong signal. The fact that the wireless radio is inside of the door did not help with our hall-deployed APs. And, the model we have only supports 2.5 GHz. The facilities folks are now happy and we are no longer having to do anything special for them. However, they did say that they want to avoid the use of the wireless version of these locks wherever possible; no batteries or signal strength to worry about.
John Watters Network Engineer, OIT, The University of Alabama From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hector J Rios Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 11:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Door Locks? Like Joseph and Lee, LSU ResLife has been using the ASSA ABLOY door locks for quite a while. They support 802.1X and we’ve had no complaints. Hector Rios Louisiana State University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Bernard Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 7:52 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless Door Locks? We have a lot of ASSA ABLOY IN120 locks around that seem to work fine. I will admit to being against the use of them as battery powered wifi devices to save not having to run data/power, but we've had no complaints. I will still get on a soap box if you want to use wifi for video on a permanently installed TV though instead paying for a cable run. Thanks, Joseph B. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 6, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Gregory Fuller <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Haven't seen any recent discussion here about wireless door locks. Our physical access team is looking to install some wireless door locks in an administrative building. I can see it growing past this building pretty rapidly and want to make sure they aren't putting in something that is going to cause us headaches. They are looking to install Aperio "HUB's" as they call them: https://vo-general.s3.amazonaws.com/53aee5c6-9690-4c74-a82a-09f1d0f1ec68/d0vBYdO5QWWKURZqvp0w_AA%20Aperio%20Family%20Brochure.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ3YBR5GY2XF7YLGQ&Expires=1582662909&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DAA%20Aperio%20Family%20Brochure.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&Signature=920fJFxmRxXi9vkJ7zrIVHZao9o%3D<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__vo-2Dgeneral.s3.amazonaws.com_53aee5c6-2D9690-2D4c74-2Da82a-2D09f1d0f1ec68_d0vBYdO5QWWKURZqvp0w-5FAA-2520Aperio-2520Family-2520Brochure.pdf-3FAWSAccessKeyId-3DAKIAJ3YBR5GY2XF7YLGQ-26Expires-3D1582662909-26response-2Dcontent-2Ddisposition-3Dinline-253B-2520filename-253DAA-2520Aperio-2520Family-2520Brochure.pdf-26response-2Dcontent-2Dtype-3Dapplication-252Fpdf-26Signature-3D920fJFxmRxXi9vkJ7zrIVHZao9o-253D&d=DwMFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=4Pt1z80PQIvvfw2j1-oSIA&m=1mLuIb4xSu-qbT9HBp9wm1kt-1Xu2d2eCaNJu1K4PiE&s=NGtMOXMVcRTfc-744yD0uTUwaeMUJgW6e5hCoLFnKiU&e=> This appears to be using some variant of 802.15.4, which has the ability to run between our 802.11g/n 2.4Ghz channels, but will cause co-channel interference. I'm a bit concerned that there will be some impact to our 2.4Ghz clients (we have a ton of them out there still). Anyone else out there have these or something similar and can speak for how they work and if there are any issues in your environment? --greg Gregory A. Fuller - CCNP R&S, CCNP Security, CCNA Wireless Network Manager State University of New York at Oswego Phone: (315) 312-5750 http://www.oswego.edu/~gfuller<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.oswego.edu_-7Egfuller&d=DwMFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=4Pt1z80PQIvvfw2j1-oSIA&m=1mLuIb4xSu-qbT9HBp9wm1kt-1Xu2d2eCaNJu1K4PiE&s=31Kn4wjloTdDdvzp3l60uHiI90ojSoDCs45dDiwcNJ4&e=> _____________________________________________________ Campus Technology Services will never ask you to email us sensitive personal information such as a password. Please contact us if you are unsure if an email is genuine. ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.educause.edu_discuss&d=DwMFaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=4Pt1z80PQIvvfw2j1-oSIA&m=1mLuIb4xSu-qbT9HBp9wm1kt-1Xu2d2eCaNJu1K4PiE&s=9KZY29O7eu3bxUwrHVpYQW-T6QNF3MWcxksmfnytqw0&e=>. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
