Comment Re:get doors offline idiots! (Score 1) 53
Most systems are interfaced to the hotel's property management system. This is generally by serial, but now systems are IP based. The newer card encoders are also IP based. The workstations that are running the encoders and the key database should be dedicated workstations, but these are usually networked for support and management. Some vendors are better than others, the ones that don't let use join these to our domain cause the most issues because we loose the ability have have these centrally managed.