Access Control
Trusted Identities Are An Essential Part Of The Access Control Evolution, But Who Governs Privacy?
August 24th, 2017ONVIF Acceptance Rates High for Video Surveillance but Lower for Access Control
August 21st, 2017
The Building Controls Sector Could Learn A Lot From Personal Computing
Many technology vendors see an opportunity to separate the hardware from the software in building controls systems. Thus enabling a more robust technology product to control the hardware that already exists in buildings, according to senior smart buildings, IoT and energy product management consultant, Joseph Aamidor. In a recent article for Greentech Media, Aamidor highlights […]
How Far Are We Willing To Go For Greater Workplace Productivity?
Last week we discussed 32M, a Wisconsin based firm who are encouraging employees to have RFID chips implanted in their hands for enhanced purchasing and access control. This kind of development is just the latest part of the ongoing trend to add sensors and connected technology to every element of our increasingly smart workplaces. “Chipping […]
Ushering In The “Internet of Us”
Employees at micro market firm Three Square Market (32M) will be getting an upgrade in the form of a microchip implanted in their hands. Once implanted, the chips will enable their hosts to make cashless purchases and gain access control when opening doors, logging into computers, using the copy machine and other tasks. The chip, […]
Automated to Smart to Cognitive: The Past & Future of Buildings
Once upon a time, a building was just a building, providing shelter from the elements and a space to meet its specific objectives. Most buildings needed light and ventilation, heating or cooling, and often some form of access control. These needs created opportunities for service providers to offer better and more efficient systems to suit […]
Physical Security Business Needs Open Systems & Structural Changes to Deliver Full Potential of Integration
Integration between all three branches of the Physical Security business is now one of the main drivers for growth in demand from building operators and owners. However its full potential is being limited by a lack of initiative from manufacturers and system installers to adopt open communication standards that customers need if they are not […]
Major Trends in the Intruder Alarm & Perimeter Protection Markets
Our recent report on Physical Security found that the world market for Intruder Alarm & Perimeter Protection products reached $6.62 Billion in 2016 and is grow at approximately 3.3% (CAGR) to 2022. This is a mature sector of the Physical Security market and is more dependent upon the fortunes of the industrial market. In terms […]
Where and How does Physical Security fit into the IoT Landscape?
Back in December last year we published the second part of our two part paper What the Customer Needs to Meet the Challenge of IoT & Data-Ism… In Part 1 we discussed customers needs as the physical security equipment business gradually developed products that improved performance, reduced cost and enhanced value add services over the […]
VSaaS & ACaaS Move into the Mainstream
VSaaS (Video Surveillance as a Service) and ACaaS (Access Control as a Service) services realized substantial growth in 2016 and now look set to finally achieve the much vaunted predictions made in previous years about their potential to become multi-billion markets. The global market size for VSaaS in 2013 was approximately $300m but since then […]
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