An Openpath alternative that keeps the access control you already own.

Openpath — now Avigilon Alta — popularised walk-up phone entry, but it’s a cloud platform on its own readers with a per-door, often per-user subscription. GateStride brings the same hands-free experience to the access control you already run, and adds the exit side most systems ignore.

Where they differ

• Deployment: Alta replaces your readers; GateStride keeps your panels and adds a small node per door.
• End per-user fees: GateStride connects to your access system as one integration user and manages every employee itself — so per-user and per-mobile-credential billing on the underlying system simply goes away.
• Exit tracking & muster: a live who’s-inside list and one-tap evacuation roll call.
• Offline: doors keep opening from a cached, signed credential set with no connection.
• Privacy: device credentials and non-biometric person detection by default; facial recognition is optional, off by default, and offered only where legally compliant.

When to pick which

Green-field building or standardising on Avigilon/Motorola? Alta is a strong choice. Keeping working, certified access control and just want no-card entry, exit tracking and to escape per-user fees? That’s GateStride. See the full comparison.

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