Alocity Adds Mercury Open Access Control to Its AI Operating System for Physical Spaces

Physical security has always made you choose between proven infrastructure and modern software, forcing you to either rip out what you own to get what's new or stay stuck with what's old. We think that trade-off should be over.

Today, Alocity is announcing support for Mercury Security's open access control platform, bringing Mercury's trusted controller infrastructure together with Alocity's AI Operating System for Physical Spaces. One side brings decades of proven access control hardware, and the other brings Aimee, AI Video, intercom, visitor management, and a cloud platform built for how security teams work today.

Why Open Access Control Infrastructure Still Matters

Controllers, readers, locks, and wiring are built to live in your walls for years, often outlasting several generations of software. The problem has never really been the hardware, it's that modernizing your access control software used to mean abandoning it.

Mercury's open architecture changes that math by giving you a foundation, while Alocity becomes the intelligence layer on top, connecting cloud access control with AI-powered video, automated workflows, and operational insight through one platform. That means no rip-and-replace, no closed ecosystem, just your existing investment working harder for you.

As Alocity Founder and CEO Marco Quintero puts it, Mercury represents exactly what this industry needs more of: "open infrastructure and customer choice."

What an AI Operating System for Physical Spaces Means

This was never just about moving access control to the cloud. It's about building an AI operating layer across the entire physical environment, one where doors, cameras, visitors, and intercoms stop acting like separate systems and start sharing context with each other.

That's where Aimee comes in. Alocity's AI security operator lets your team skip the dashboards and just ask questions like these:

• "Show me everyone who entered the loading dock after 9 PM."
• "Was there anyone tailgating through the west entrance this morning?"
• "Find the vehicle associated with this access event."
• "If this door is forced open after hours, alert security and show the nearest cameras."
• "Generate an access and security report for all locations this week."

These are systems that don't just record what happened, they understand it and help your team respond.

Open From the Door to the Camera

This move continues Alocity's broader open-platform strategy for AI video security and access control. On the video side, AIVR already works with existing IP cameras, layering in AI search, real-time detection, contextual reasoning, and AI Video Agents.

Now, on the access side, Mercury brings an open controller architecture that supports a wide ecosystem of readers, credentials, locking hardware, and downstream devices, all unified in one Control Center covering every door, every camera, and every alert, without forcing a single hardware standard on anyone.

What This Means for Security Integrators

For Alocity's channel partners, this isn't another proprietary stack to sell around. It's a way to lead with the customer's real problem, whether that's modernization, AI, operational efficiency, cybersecurity, video intelligence, or unified management, instead of leading with a hardware replacement conversation.

Partners can design new Mercury-based Alocity systems or help customers evolve the Mercury environments they already have toward modern cloud-based physical security, and either way, the infrastructure stays open.

Alocity SVP of Channel Development, DJ Atkins, sums up the opportunity for partners simply: it gives them "a new software and AI platform to bring to those conversations."

The Next Generation of Physical Security Is Open

Physical security is going through the same shift enterprise IT went through years ago, where infrastructure is opening up and software and AI are becoming what drives value. The winners in this next chapter won't be the ones forcing another closed ecosystem on customers, they'll be the ones connecting proven infrastructure to intelligent software that finally understands cameras, doors, people, vehicles, and visitors as one picture instead of a dozen disconnected feeds.

Mercury gives that future a foundation, and Alocity gives it a brain.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Alocity work with Mercury access control panels?

Yes. Alocity now supports Mercury Security's open access control platform, allowing customers and integrators to connect Mercury-based controllers, readers, and locking hardware directly to Alocity's AI Operating System.

Do I have to replace my existing access control hardware to use Alocity?

No. Alocity is built to work with the Mercury infrastructure you already have, adding cloud management, AI Video, and Aimee on top instead of requiring a hardware replacement.

What is Aimee?

Aimee is Alocity's AI operator. It lets security, facilities, and operations teams search video, manage access, and get answers about their buildings using plain, natural language instead of navigating multiple dashboards.

Ready to see what your existing infrastructure can do with an AI Operating System on top? Book a demo and find out.