There’s an Inner Range Concept 3000 or Concept 4000 system running access control and security on a commercial site. It’s been doing the job for years — doors, users, areas, schedules, all built up over time. Someone has now raised the fact that Concept is discontinued, and the obvious next thought is a full replacement: rip it out, start again, rebuild the whole configuration from a blank site.
That assumption is worth checking before acting on it. Inner Range didn’t simply let Concept lapse and leave sites to work out a replacement on their own — it built Integriti specifically as the migration path, and has publicly described what a Concept-to-Integriti upgrade actually involves. The valuable part of an old Concept installation usually isn’t only the controller. It’s the hardware already connected to it, and the years of users, doors, access rules and site configuration built around it. Both are part of what Inner Range’s own migration guidance addresses.
Concept Is End of Life. Integriti Is the Named Path Forward
Inner Range’s Concept line evolved through Concept 3000 and later Concept 4000; both sit within the legacy Concept family covered by the manufacturer’s End-of-Life and migration guidance.
Concept is formally End of Life. Inner Range’s own announcement states plainly that “Concept has reached End of Life,” with the underlying technology “no longer economical to maintain in comparison with modern platforms.” Concept’s companion management software, Insight, follows the same end-of-life timeline as the panel. That doesn’t mean every form of support vanished overnight — the same announcement notes Inner Range continued “providing technical support for existing customers, repairing or replacing parts from existing stock or suitable alternatives as necessary” for a period afterward, alongside urging customers to migrate before that becomes impractical.
Critically, Inner Range didn’t just announce an ending — it named a specific successor. The same announcement, and others since, directly and repeatedly identify Integriti as the migration path for Concept customers, not simply “our current product that happens to exist.”
What Does “95% Compatible” Actually Mean?
Inner Range states that Integriti is compatible with 95% of Concept hardware. That’s a real, directly-attributable manufacturer figure, not a marketing estimate pulled from nowhere — it comes from Inner Range’s own public statements about the Concept-to-Integriti transition.
It’s worth being precise about what that figure is and isn’t. It’s a manufacturer-wide aggregate, not a guarantee that 95% of any individual Concept site’s equipment will specifically remain. The 95% figure is therefore a product-family compatibility claim, not a percentage that can be applied to an individual site before its installed hardware is identified.
The Real Migration Project Is the Site Data
This is the part that separates a Concept upgrade from a simple panel swap, and it’s where Inner Range’s own documentation goes further than most legacy-system migration stories.
Inner Range has publicly described this directly: a dedicated migration service, run by its own in-house technicians, built specifically to move information from an existing Concept installation across to Integriti — not just hardware, but the site’s actual operational data. In Inner Range’s own words, describing the service when it launched, the categories covered are user types, cards, time zones, doors, areas, lifts and readers.
That’s a genuinely different kind of migration story than “buy the new box.” It means a meaningful share of what makes a Concept installation valuable — not just the wiring, but years of accumulated access configuration — is something Inner Range has built a documented process around preserving, rather than something every site has to rebuild from a blank slate.
One geographic note worth being upfront about: Inner Range describes this dedicated migration service for customers in the UK and wider EMEA region specifically. For a Melbourne Concept site, its relevance is as direct manufacturer evidence of what kinds of Concept site data are considered migratable at all — not a claim that the identical regional service offering should be assumed to apply locally. The categories themselves — and the fact that Inner Range built a formal process around them — are the useful takeaway regardless of region.
Hardware Migration Can Be Hybrid
Concept-to-Integriti doesn’t always mean a clean cut between everything old and everything new. Inner Range still sells bridge hardware specifically supporting upgrade scenarios where older Concept access modules stay in place while current reader technology is introduced.
The OSDP↔Wiegand Converter, a current Inner Range product, is a concrete example. Inner Range’s own product documentation describes exactly this scenario: OSDP readers — including Inner Range’s own SIFER readers — “can now be connected to existing Wiegand reader ports,” which “allows SIFERs, for example, to be used on older Concept access modules where the system is being upgraded to use an Integriti ISC/IAC Controller.” In plain terms: a site can introduce current reader technology without necessarily replacing every piece of legacy access hardware in the same step.
That’s a useful, specific example — not a claim that every Concept reader or access module has an equivalent bridge path. It shows hybrid migration scenarios are something Inner Range actively supports with current hardware, not something a site has to improvise.
What Still Needs a Site-Specific Check
None of the above — the 95% hardware figure, the migration service, the bridge hardware — removes the need for an actual site assessment. It’s worth being clear about what these facts do and don’t establish before treating a Concept upgrade as a known quantity.
The 95% figure is an aggregate, not a site-specific number — the exact modules, keypads and readers installed still need identifying against what’s currently compatible. Inner Range’s migration service transfers a documented set of data categories, but that doesn’t establish that every custom rule, integration, or site-specific programming detail carries across unchanged — Inner Range’s own general manager has described the underlying process as requiring “complex programming” to migrate existing processes and protocols onto the new platform, which is a reasonable signal that this isn’t a trivial, fully automated conversion. Reader and access-module compatibility can be hybrid, as shown above, but that depends on the exact hardware installed, not a blanket assumption. In short: manufacturer-documented migration support meaningfully reduces how much of a Concept site has to be rebuilt from nothing — it doesn’t remove the need for commissioning and verification once the new system is in place.
What Are the Real Upgrade Paths?
Once a site’s status is understood, most Concept installations fall into one of three practical paths.
1. Continue servicing the existing Concept system can remain a short-term option where the required repair is technically possible and the necessary parts or suitable alternatives can actually be sourced. That needs to be established for the specific system rather than assumed from historical support arrangements — parts availability has narrowed since Concept’s End of Life and shouldn’t be taken for granted this far on.
2. Migrate to Integriti is the path Inner Range has directly built for Concept customers: the 95% aggregate hardware compatibility, the documented site-data migration categories, and current bridge hardware for hybrid reader scenarios all support this as a considered upgrade rather than a ground-up replacement. It still requires a proper site inventory and assessment rather than an assumption that everything transfers automatically.
3. Redesign is the right conversation when the installed hardware or integrations fall well outside what migration realistically covers, or the site’s current requirements have moved far enough that an Integriti migration wouldn’t sensibly reflect them anyway. This isn’t the default outcome — it’s reserved for sites where a proper assessment shows migration genuinely isn’t the better fit.
FAQ
Is Inner Range Concept 3000/4000 discontinued?
Yes — Concept is formally End of Life, and Inner Range has directly named Integriti as the manufacturer’s migration path for Concept customers.
What replaced Inner Range Concept?
Integriti. Inner Range’s own announcements repeatedly and directly identify it as the migration path for Concept sites, not simply as their current unrelated product.
Does upgrading from Concept mean replacing everything?
Not necessarily. Inner Range states that Integriti is compatible with 95% of Concept hardware, but that’s an aggregate manufacturer figure — each site’s actual installed equipment still needs checking against what’s currently compatible.
Can Concept users and access data be migrated?
Inner Range has documented a migration process covering categories including user types, cards, time zones, doors, areas, lifts and readers. That specific service has been described by Inner Range for its UK and EMEA customers; those categories show what Inner Range’s documented migration process is capable of transferring, without implying that the same regional service is offered in Australia.
Can old Concept readers or access modules stay in place?
Depends on the exact hardware installed. Inner Range’s current bridge products show that hybrid scenarios — keeping older Concept access modules while introducing current reader technology — are actively supported, but that’s not the same as blanket compatibility for every reader or module.
If a Concept 3000/4000 site is still operating, the useful first step isn’t assuming a ground-up replacement — it’s identifying the installed hardware and the site data that actually needs preserving before an Integriti migration scope is defined. SIPKO can assess the existing access-control and security environment and map what should reasonably carry forward, through our integrated security and access control solutions.
