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Mercury
Open-architecture hardware
Mercury controllers, powered by Alocity
Non-proprietary access control. Open-architecture hardware. AI-powered software.
Deploy modern Mercury MP controllers with Alocity, or modernize your existing Mercury environment without ripping everything out. One cloud-managed platform for doors, users, credentials, video, visitors, alerts, reports, workflows, and Aimee.
Open hardware
No proprietary lock-in
Modern access control
Why non-proprietary matters
Don't get locked into a closed access system
Many access control platforms force customers into proprietary controllers, readers, and software. That can make future upgrades expensive, limit your choices, and create long-term dependency on one closed ecosystem.
Alocity takes a different approach. With Mercury controllers, Alocity gives organizations a non-proprietary, open-architecture foundation — then adds the modern cloud, AI, video, visitor, and automation layer on top.
The result
More flexibility
Better long-term investment protection
Easier upgrades over time
No unnecessary rip-and-replace
A modern experience without proprietary lock-in
Mercury MP intelligent controller board
Mercury MP Intelligent Controllers
Mercury's newest generation. Alocity-ready on day one.
The all-new Mercury MP line — MP1501 PoE+, MP1502, MP2500, and MP4502 — brings a secure-boot CPU, the latest cryptography, and a dual-footprint circuit design for supply-chain resilience. Alocity supports the full range.
Legacy mode keeps MP backward-compatible with existing LP setups and Series 3 / Series 2 I/O modules, so you can replace an LP controller without rewiring the doors behind it.
What MP delivers
Secure-boot CPU and latest cryptography built in
Dual-footprint design for supply-chain continuity
Legacy mode: drop-in replacement for LP controllers
Works with new S4 and existing Series 3 / 2 I/O modules
Embedded app environment for edge and IoT extensions
Ready for Alocity cloud, AI video, Aimee, and automation
What's new from Mercury — 2026
Four upgrades every Mercury owner should know about.
Alocity tracks every Mercury release so your platform is ready the moment the hardware is. All four are supported today.
MP Intelligent Controllers
MP1501 PoE+, MP1502, MP2500, MP4502. Secure boot, modern crypto, supercap-backed clock, flash-stored cardholder database that survives power loss.
MP1501 · MP1502 · MP2500 · MP4502
NEW
S4 I/O Modules
The next-gen MR50, MR52, MR54, MR16IN and MR16OUT. Secure-by-design, significantly more processing power, and faster installs — on the same RS-485 bus.
MR50-S4 · MR52-S4 · MR54-S4 · MR16IN/OUT-S4
MercOS Firmware
One firmware platform across LP and MP with a cyber-governed release cycle. LP controllers get features, fixes, and security updates through 2028.
LP + MP · supported through 2028
Embedded App Environment
Build directly on MP controllers: custom apps, IoT integrations, and edge logic that runs at the door even when the network doesn’t.
MP series · app-enabled
Already have Mercury?
Keep what works. Upgrade what matters.
Running LP controllers? Mercury's MercOS firmware keeps them fully supported through 2028 — and Alocity runs on LP and MP side by side. Modernize the software today, migrate the boards on your schedule.
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Keep existing readers, locks, and doors where possible
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Move LP → MP at your pace (LP supported to 2028)
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Move to a modern cloud access platform
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Connect access events to video and AI
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Expand across more spaces over time
The Mercury experience, rebuilt
Mercury configuration used to take a specialist. Now it takes a click.
The most modern Mercury interface ever built. It sees your bus in real time, finds wiring faults before you do, pairs readers in one tap, and maps elevator floors automatically — every Mercury feature, simplified.
Auto-detects wiring faults
Bus polled at 4 Hz
OSDP Secure by default
Auto-maps elevator floors
Sizing assistant
Live bus health, always on
A real-time RS-485 health graph, baud, frame-error rate, and A–B voltage — polled at 4 Hz. Faults surface before a door ever fails.
One-tap reader pairing
Plug in the reader, click Pair. Address is auto-detected, OSDP Secure Channel is negotiated, and the key is rotated — no laptop at the door.
Wire inputs by preset
Door contact, request-to-exit, tamper, or custom. Each preset pre-fills normal state, supervision, and debounce so installs are right the first time.
Wire relays by preset
Electric strike, maglock, motorized lock, or auxiliary output. Fail-secure vs fail-safe, pulse duration, and door-follow behavior are set for you.
Elevator auto-map
Ten floors, relays, access levels, and who-can-go-where — mapped in one view. Auto-map floors assigns MR16OUT relays for you; click any cell to change a schedule.
Mercury bus topology with live health
One-tap OSDP reader pairing
Input presets
Relay presets
Elevator auto-map
Auto-detected: one end-of-bus board is missing termination. The UI flags it and shows exactly which board needs the resistor.
For integrators
Commission a panel in minutes, not a day.
Discover the bus, pair readers, wire by preset, and test — all from one screen. The UI tells you what’s missing before you leave the site.
For operators
See the whole Mercury chain at a glance.
Panel, boards, ports, doors, and elevators in one topology view with live health. No more guessing which layer failed.
For Mercury veterans
Every feature you know. None of the friction.
Same MP and LP hardware, same S3 and S4 modules, same RS-485 bus — with the configuration depth you expect and none of the utility-software pain.
Aimee speaks Mercury
Every other Mercury platform gives you menus. Alocity gives you an operator.
Aimee doesn't just search Mercury logs. She manages panels, doors, readers, SIO modules, and elevators — through conversation. What used to be a truck roll is now one sentence.
Panels
Doors
Readers / OSDP
SIO Bus
Elevators
Troubleshoot
Audit
Aimee
AI OPERATOR
Panel 7 — HQ Lobby
Show me the topology of Panel 7 and check its health.
Panel 7 (HQ Lobby) is online and healthy. Here is the full topology:
Panel 7 — Mercury MP1502 — ONLINE — last heartbeat 4s ago
0.2s
4 doors: Lobby, Reception, Stairwell A, Server Room
0.4s
SIO bus: MR52 (addr 0), MR52 (addr 1) — both accepted
0.6s
Schedules + holidays in sync — last push today 06:00
0.8s
Panel healthy. No resync required.
0.9s
Ask Aimee anything about your Mercury hardware…
Live troubleshooting
Aimee finds the failing link in the Mercury chain.
Door not unlocking
Before
Truck roll. Tech opens the panel, meters the relay, checks wiring by hand.
With Aimee
“Why won’t the Lobby Door unlock?” → Aimee inspects topology + port IO and names the failing part.
Schedules not applying
Before
Log into the panel utility, compare configs, re-push manually, hope it sticks.
With Aimee
“Resync Panel 7.” → Schedules and holidays pushed, confirmed in seconds.
Reader not responding
Before
Swap the reader to rule it out. Check OSDP addressing with a laptop at the door.
With Aimee
“Identify the reader on port 2.” → LED flashes, pairing state verified, fixed remotely.
New SIO not visible
Before
Manual bus discovery from the panel utility. Readdress by DIP switch.
With Aimee
“Discover and accept new modules.” → Found, accepted, online — no site visit.
Mercury with Alocity vs. everyone else
Same Mercury hardware. A completely different way to run it.
Capability
Other Mercury platforms
Alocity + Aimee
Panel resync & schedule push
Panel utility, manual
One sentence
RS-485 SIO bus discovery
On-site, DIP switches
Remote, conversational
OSDP reader pairing & identify
Laptop at the door
From anywhere
Elevator floor-to-relay mapping
Spreadsheet + menus
Ask, map, pulse-test
Root-cause diagnosis
Truck roll
Aimee names the failing link
Change audit (“who paired this reader?”)
Raw logs, if any
Instant, with actor + time
Door control by natural language
Not available
Lock, unlock, hold open
Built for the tech standing at the panel — and the operator who never has to be.
Industries
Purpose-built for scale.
From single sites to global estates, Alocity is deployed across every environment where physical operations matter.
Healthcare Safety, compliance, and patient flow.
Education Campus-wide safety without the friction.
Corporate Offices Global campuses, one operating system.
Warehousing Asset protection at industrial scale.
Manufacturing PPE compliance and floor operations.
Retail Loss prevention, queues, and experience.
Hospitality White-glove security, invisible to guests.
Multifamily Residents in, everything else managed.
Financial Zero-trust access for regulated spaces.
Data Centers Continuous audit, zero blind spots.
Quick Service Restaurants Every location, every shift, one view.
A better way to modernize access control
With Mercury controllers and Alocity's AI-powered platform, you can deploy new MP controllers, modernize existing Mercury environments, and connect every door to video, visitors, alerts, workflows, reports, and Aimee.
Non-proprietary hardware.
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Open-architecture access control.
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AI-powered software.
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