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Is it worth using the phone as a credential?
It is worth it where access has to be given and taken away remotely and in a hurry. A supplier coming on Saturday gets their credential by email on Friday afternoon and nobody has to wait for them with a card in hand; on Monday it expires by itself.
The trade-offs have to be told up front: the battery, changing handset, and above all that nobody can be forced to install a company app on their personal phone, so there always has to be an alternative. On site, with gloves on or with your hands full, getting the phone out is worse than swiping a card. And almost every platform charges for the mobile credential per user per year, which is a cost the card does not have.
There is a technical detail that decides a great deal: if the read is by short-range proximity you have to hold the phone up, like a card, and if it is by longer-range radio the door can be opened from several metres away. The second one sells very well and opens doors that should not open, because the system does not know whether the person pressing is at the door or walking down the corridor. In practice the phone lives alongside the card, it does not replace it.
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