The Cloud-Ready Campus: Access Control from Genea + HID

Access control on a campus is never one system. It is decades of panels, readers, and credential formats layered building by building, and it now touches campus IT, public safety, housing, and the card office at the same time. Genea and HID address that together: a cloud-native access control platform built on open Mercury hardware, and the credential and reader layer underneath it. The result is that physical access can move one building at a time, on your academic calendar, without replacing what already works. The resources below cover the cloud vs on-prem decision, migration planning, and how Mercer University did it.

Plan a Smarter Path to Modern Campus AccessA Higher Ed Migration Readiness Checklist
Planning a campus-wide move off a legacy access control system? A practical checklist built around how higher ed migrations actually run, covering academic calendar timing, stakeholder alignment, hardware compatibility, credential and identity migration, procurement and budget, and post-migration validation. Get the Checklist

Mercer University: A Seamless Solution for Centralized Campus Security
Mercer University ran a 30-year-old on-premise system across 15 campus locations and roughly 4,000 doors. See how the university migrated to Genea over three fiscal years, utilized HID Mercury boards, and held per-door conversion downtime to under two minutes. Read the Story
The Honest Guide to Cloud vs On-Prem Access Control on Campus
A decision framework for campus CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and IT leaders. Names the five objections to cloud access control and examines whether they still hold, states where on-prem genuinely remains the right call, and ends with a ten-question diagnostic your team can run together. Download Guide