Software across the Physical Security Industry is fragmented and this makes joined up solutions expensive and difficult to justify on the basis of ROI. The introduction of IoT & Big Data would enable a much more effective solution both improving the quality of security and add on services. Software in the Physical Security Business has for the most part been built separately around the 3 major segments of the business (Video Surveillance, Access Control, Intruder Alarms) and then further broken down into packages to manage and control the various components. More recently to bring together data from these packages, more comprehensive software has been introduced, providing complex analysis and control and thus delivering better and more actionable information. However it has taken the 3 integration packages PSIM (Physical Security Information Management) and PIAM (Physical Identity Access Management) and Situational Awareness Platforms (SAP) a lot longer to get established. The main reason for this is the […]