To strengthen and enhance the entry experience, Verkada has deepened the integration of Verkada Guest and Verkada Access Control. Now, its customers can grant guests temporary, customisable visitor access credentials. The moment a visitor checks in with Verkada Guest, organisations can provision a temporary access badge with custom permissions, or they can send a door unlock link that enables a visitor to open authorised doors directly from their phones. Each credential is unique, time-bound, and exactly matched to the visitor's needs. Guests are also now fully integrated with Verkada's roll call reports. Verkada customers can manage all occupants – both employees and guests – in emergency situations from a single tool.

Verkada has also made several step-change improvements to its access control solution for large-scale deployments, including support for third-party OSDP door readers and two new APIs that automate access control operations: programmatic updates to door schedules and the ability to update the doors, schedule, or groups components of an access level from third-party software, eliminating the need to make these changes manually in Command.

Significant investment

"Today, Verkada's platform controls access for more than 3.7 million users and checks in more than 1.5 million visitors every month," said Brandon Davito, Senior Vice President of Product and Operations at Verkada. "We know that security starts at the door, so we've made significant investments in our platform that will both strengthen and simplify the entry experience for our customers – especially for organisations managing access in enterprise environments."

Verkada also announced a range of additional product and platform updates, including broadened video search tools, continued commitment to interoperability, more flexible security deployments and enhanced privacy features.  In addition, streamlined management for organisations operating at scale empowering large, multi-site enterprises to more efficiently streamline and delegate operations. With the User Directories feature, organisations can now create regional boundaries for users and permissions that mirror their organisational structure, allowing local IT teams to manage their specific user base while central IT teams maintain oversight.

Finally, the company has also expanded its line of next-generation dome cameras. Verkada's 5MP CD43 and CD53 dome cameras include advanced image sensors with enhanced low-light viewing capability and expanded IR range for precise nighttime monitoring, as well as onboard storage of up to 365 days' retention and nearly 3x optical zoom capabilities for the CD53.