PDK History & Milestones
This Utah city is listed as PDK’s headquarters.
What is Draper, UT?
The PDK installation article names this PDK staffer as Director of Product Management who comments on the install-friendly hardware.
Who is Loren Bryner?
This newly released mobile app from ProdataKey replaced the legacy ProdataKey app and offers both Access and Manage-Access modes.
What is the PDK Access app?
PDK is developing this new object type for multi-family and mixed-use properties, allowing doors, access rules, and credentials to be grouped by apartment or suite.
What are Units?
During the team pottery activity, this team member was praised for creating the cutest polka-dotted pot.
Who is Hannah?
Founded in this year, PDK launched as a cloud-based, mobile-first access control company.
What is 2011?
PDK hardware uses this distinctive colour for its enclosure to help installers spot it in messy IT closets.
What is Yellow?
On the PDK.io platform, users can be assigned different roles — such as Admin, Integrator, Manager, or Reporter — via this feature that controls what Cloud Node features they can see or use.
What are Permissions?
This upcoming mobile-based feature will prevent a credential from activating a door unless the user is physically within an approved digital boundary.
What is geofencing access control?
This person's goal in life is to skip from Tomorrowland to Fantasyland, hand-in-hand with Cinderella and Gaston.
Who is Couper?
Part of PDK’s mantra, this phrase summarizes its partner-orientation: ‘we grow as a company by being willing and ready to assist others when needed’.
What is Partner fanaticism?
PDK emphasizes this ‘…first’ design approach for its access control hardware and software.
What is Mobile First?
This UX design system, adopted by PDK, has significantly improved both the efficiency of development and the overall quality of the software product by providing consistent components and design patterns.
What is Shadcn?
PDK is enhancing credential security with this new method, which uses a cloud-verified credential check instead of relying solely on device-stored tokens.
What is “GFC (Geographically-Federated Credential) authentication”?
This team member demonstrates perseverance by continuing to play a high-energy sport even when the team faces consecutive losses.
Who is Josh?
In its list of awards, PDK won this particular award in 2023 for ‘Best Sales Support’.
What is ADI Supplier Award 2023: Best Sales Support?
PDK’s controllers feature this type of connector that can be removed from the board, wired comfortably, then plugged back in to simplify installation.
What is the Phoenix Connector?
PDK.io 2.0 significantly improved its enterprise capabilities: now doors across many Cloud Nodes in different buildings can be managed in this way.
What is as a single customer system?
Dealers will soon get clearer rollout notes and targeted notifications thanks to improvements to this part of the PDK.io Admin portal.
What are Announcements?
On the quest for the perfect round, this team member is always chasing the elusive combination of low scores and ideal weather on the golf course.
Who is Brad?
Prior to launching its cloud-first platform, PDK’s founding team worked in this specific industry segment, where their experience with wiring, retrofits, and panel upgrades directly shaped the company’s hardware-simplification philosophy.
What is “low-voltage security and access control installation”?
When wiring a strike or reader under UL-294 installation guidelines, PDK manual says the wire length from door controller to lock must be less than this distance.
What is 98.5 feet (30 meters)?
A core engineering strength of PDK’s platform is that it was built from scratch (hardware, firmware, and cloud) rather than being layered on legacy systems — enabling features like automatic updates and deep integration.
What is ground-up, native cloud infrastructure?
PDK will provide this feature in the Cloud Node interface, allowing administrators to quickly swap out a defective controller while automatically transferring all settings, devices, and ports to the new unit.
What is the Replace Controller option?
This person could finish this quote, “Certainty of death, small chance of success…"
Who is Brian?
Bonus: finish the quote.