This year has been especially rewarding as we hosted a record 14 onsite interns. This is a surprising number and many people have asked where we were going to fit them all. I’ve also received pushback on hiring interns, internally & externally: Doesn’t it distract you from making XPressEntry better? Aren’t you spending considerable profit on their salaries? Do you have enough meaningful work for all of them? Will they receive enough mentorship?

The answer to all four questions is yes.

Yes, it can be distracting. Yes, interns cost us money and reduce short-term profit. But this is why I love being a private company. As long as Telaeris remains profitable and growing, we can choose to invest our resources in ways that align with our values.

We make similar choices with charitable giving, STEM education grants through our SquareBrain program, and opportunities like these internships.

And as for meaningful work and mentorship, I’d bet $1 our 2026 intern class would overwhelmingly answer yes.

You’ll likely see the results of their summer projects in upcoming XPressEntry releases. Some may even grow into entirely new products, like our upcoming XPressProxBLE badge reader, or into independent businesses.

In fact, we recently spun off a previous summer intern project as its own business: Tagaby, a solution that helps schools return lost-and-found items to students. We’re excited to see where it goes.

As our summer of 2026 draws to a close, I want to give our interns a big thank you for the heart, soul, and effort they gave us. Thanks also to our employees who created such a great environment for them.

We wish all of our interns blessings on their journeys ahead.

– Dave   Dr. David Carta CEO, Telaeris, Inc. +1 858-627-9700   P.S. Want a first peek at what some of our interns built this summer? We’d love to show you in person at our Telaeris Partner Summit in sunny San Diego, November 4–6.

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Global data center capacity is on pace to roughly double by 2030, from about 100 gigawatts today to 200 gigawatts, as AI and cloud workloads push demand to a 14% annual growth rate. Occupancy across existing sites is already sitting near 97 percent, so the pressure to open new facilities, and open them fast, is not slowing down.

That kind of growth does not leave room for slow, one-off security integrations. This month’s case study looks at a global data center operator running close to 30 sites worldwide, each with its own sealed, on-premises instance of Genetec Security Center. Read how XPressEntry handheld readers gave guard staff a fast, mobile way to validate badges at every gate and guard shack, with more than 45 handheld readers in service already and more on the way.

CLICK HERE to read the case study.

When Telaeris deploys our handheld products for US Government projects, we are asked to work with a variety of very similar government credentials – CAC, TWIC, PIV and others. Like many industries, it feels a little like alphabet soup trying to keep track of all the acronyms. When I first started working with these cards in the late 1990s, it would have been hugely helpful to have had a reference like this to understand the technology landscape.

This blog is meant to be a quick history of these government credentials along with explaining the similarities and differences between the cards. In upcoming blogs, we will dig into what goes on with the data in the cards and provide an interesting story about the handheld badge reading industry itself.

CLICK HERE to read the case study.

Stay current with the latest feature enhancements, performance improvements, and security updates for your XPressEntry compatible readers.

XPressEntry Desktop: 3.7.7699

XPressEntry Handheld: 3.7.113.382

Key Benefits:

• Faster emergency response with enhanced panic alarm and muster activity support for LenelS2 OnGuard customers
• More flexible entry and exit workflows for guards, events, and mobile badge validation
• Easier troubleshooting with new diagnostic reporting and improved handheld error logging
• Greater reliability across major OEM integrations, including OnGuard, NetBox, CCURE 9000, Gallagher, Pro-Watch, Brivo, and others
• Stronger platform security with improved authentication, signed software components, and vulnerability fixes

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