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Embrava + HID Global

HID gives employees the credential they already carry. Embrava reads it at the desk and the door. The badge already on your hip, or the HID Mobile Credential in your Wallet, becomes your check-in, with no new card, no new app, and no new credential to roll out.

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Identity and the reader

Who does what.

HID and Embrava solve different halves of the same tap. HID is the secure identity employees prove at the door every day. Embrava is the reader that turns that same credential into a desk or room check-in, no second credential required.

HID Global

The secure identity

  • Physical RFID access badges employees already carry
  • HID Mobile Credentials delivered through HID Origo
  • The same credential in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet
  • Access control and the credential of record for the building
Embrava

The reader on the floor

  • Desk Sign and Room Sign that read the credential at the point of use
  • RFID at 13.56 MHz and 125 kHz, NFC, and Wallet credentials
  • Color status light readable from across the floor
  • Ground-truth check-in data for desks and rooms
How it fits together

One credential, two jobs.

The credential that opens your front door is the credential that checks you in to a desk or a room. HID issues it, as a physical RFID badge or as a HID Mobile Credential delivered through HID Origo to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. When an employee taps that badge or phone on an Embrava Desk Sign or Room Sign, the sign reads it over RFID at 13.56 MHz and 125 kHz or over NFC, and turns the tap into a check-in. The sign shows a color state anyone can read across the floor, and the check-in is a ground-truth signal of who actually showed up.

Nothing about your HID estate has to change. There is no new card to print, no new app to install, and no new credential to issue. HID stays the secure identity. Embrava is the layer that reads it at the desk and the meeting-room door, so rolling out check-in needs only the badge and phone employees already use.

What Embrava adds

What an HID credential gains at the desk and the door.

The badge already on your hip

Embrava reads the HID badge and the HID Mobile Credential in Apple or Google Wallet that employees already carry. No new card, no new app, no new credential to issue for desk and room check-in.

Many credential methods, one reader

RFID at 13.56 MHz and 125 kHz, NFC, and HID Mobile Credentials via Apple or Google Wallet, all read at the same Desk Sign or Room Sign. Employees tap whatever they already use for the door.

Status anyone can read across the floor

A color status light shows free, reserved, or in use from across an open floor, so a tap of the HID credential is visible the moment a desk or room is claimed.

Ground-truth check-in data

Every tap of an HID credential at an Embrava sign is a real check-in, so utilization data reflects who actually sat at the desk or used the room, not just who booked it.

Common questions

Embrava and HID Global, answered.

Does Embrava read HID badges and credentials?
Yes. Embrava Desk Sign and Room Sign read RFID at 13.56 MHz and 125 kHz, NFC, and HID Mobile Credentials delivered through HID Origo to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Employees tap the same badge or phone they use for the door, and the sign turns that tap into a desk or room check-in.
Do employees need a new card or app to check in?
No. That is the point. The HID badge already on your hip, or the HID Mobile Credential already in your Wallet, is the credential. There is no new card to print, no new app to install, and no new credential to issue. Embrava reads what employees already carry and use to get through the building.
How do HID Mobile Credentials in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet work for check-in?
HID Origo delivers the HID Mobile Credential to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet on an employee's phone. At a desk or meeting-room door, the employee taps the phone to the Embrava sign exactly as they would at an HID door reader. Embrava reads the credential over NFC and records the check-in, with no separate booking app to open.
Who does what in an Embrava and HID deployment?
HID is the secure identity and the credential: the physical RFID badge and the HID Mobile Credential delivered through HID Origo to Apple or Google Wallet. Embrava is the reader at the desk and the door that turns a tap of that credential into a check-in, with a color status light and ground-truth check-in data. HID proves who you are; Embrava records where and when you sat or met.
Does this change our HID access control setup?
No. Your HID access control and credentials stay exactly as they are. Embrava sits alongside that estate as a check-in reader for desks and meeting rooms, not a door access controller. The same badge and HID Mobile Credential that open the front door now also check an employee in to a desk or room, with nothing about your identity system to re-architect.

Tap your HID credential on an Embrava sign before you commit.

Sixty minutes at our Hudson Yards Experience Center. Room Sign and Desk Sign on the wall and the desk, reading a badge and a Wallet credential live, the engineers in the room.

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