Quintron Systems, a provider of advanced interoperable voice systems, physical access control and intrusion detection systems, announced that its AccessNsite now supports “Authenticard” Consortium’s Codebench + Mercury Panel based solution operating with Farpointe’s OSDP-Secure enabled smartcard reader.

The new version of AccessNsite is the first Access Management Software Platform to support the Codebench + Mercury Panel based solution.

Quintron’s solution compliments a broader offering of integrated access control, alarm management, video surveillance, and voice communications for small, medium, and large enterprise-class customers across many categories of organizations, company officials said.

The Authenticard Consortium’s solution leverages the capabilities built into all versions of the federally issued smart card credentials now in use for verified user identification for PACS at the door credential validation. The solution was developed by Quintron in partnership with Codebench, Farpointe, and Mercury Security.

“With Quintron’s multi-decade government systems sales and support experience, we decided to invest in a fully compliant, high security, HSPD-12 solution for existing and new federal, state, local, and critical infrastructure customers,” said Richard Finnegan, vice president and general manager at Quintron, in a statement.

Authenticard Consortium’s solution for physical access controls meets the intent in the HSPD-12 Presidential Directive and is supported by the NIST Publication 800-116 for best practices in PACS applications.

Quintron’s solution includes an AccessNsite HSPD-12 hardware and software solution featuring OCSP certificate validation via the Federal Bridge at the time of card enrollment, and periodically thereafter, and now at the door prior to granting access to the federal facility.

An important feature of this solution is an IP-based 2-door control panel from Mercury Security with embedded PIV Check code from Codebench. Additionally, it features a smart card reader communicating via the industry open source protocol known as OSDP-Secure that allows transparent readers to perform challenge-response routines at the door.

Earlier this year, Quintron announced it has been awarded two major contracts for its DICES communications equipment. This award came on the heels of the company’s recent upgrades to the innovative DICES VoIP command and control voice system to support corporate and related use in Security Operations Centers (SOC).