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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com for all credentialing.” April 2019 - Edition 43 He further observes that “facial recognition, as it becomes per- fected, will likely gain wider ac- ceptance in the near future.” Jonathon Harris, Guidepost Solutions cure facility; possibly through passive credential scanning...” Another recognized consulting/ design expert, Frank Scala, is Senior Lead – Security Practice at WSP Engineering. After designing access control for more than 20 years with all types of authentication technol- ogies, he points out that “BLE (Blue Tooth Low Energy), Bio- metrics and facial recognition will soon become the standard Frank also offered the unique perspective that “card media will improve as enhancements in the metals and plastics will evolve to be anti-viral and bac- terial resistant”. One large national end user who has employed hand-wave and fingerprint technology, as well as conventional card readers Frank Scala, WPS Engineering 13