Access Control
Smart Buildings will Attract Smart Employees
January 13th, 2016Mergers & Acquisitions in Physical Security start an Upwards Trend to 2020
January 5th, 2016The Security Industry Promises Sustained Growth to 2020 but Major Differences Exist Across Sectors & Regions
Memoori’s new 2015 annual report on Physical Security shows that despite all the global economic uncertainty of the last 8 years the industry has grown at a CAGR of 7.82% since 2010. Our estimated total value of world production of Physical Security products at factory gate prices in 2015 was $27.2 billion. We forecast that […]
Audio: How the Cloud is Transforming Identity Management & Access Control
For those who missed it or want to listen again, below is the Audio Stream from our 12th Free Webinar in the 2015 Smart Building Series… “How the Cloud is Transforming Identity Management & Access Control.” A Webinar Q&A with Steve Van Till, President & CEO of Brivo. In this Webinar, we discuss some important […]
The Global Market for Security Products is worth $27.25Bn in 2015
We have published a New Report on Access Control, Intruder Alarms & Video Surveillance in 2015, forecasting to 2020; which brings together all the factors that are influencing this industries future. The total world production value of security products at factory gate prices was $27.25 billion in 2015. Of this Video Surveillance products at $14.68 […]
Webinar: How the Cloud is Transforming Identity Management & Access Control
** Recording of this Webinar can be Found Here ** Please Join us on Monday 14th December for our 12th FREE Webinar in the 2015 Smart Building Series… “How the Cloud is Transforming Identity Management & Access Control.” A Webinar Q&A with Steve Van Till, President & CEO of Brivo. Discussing how cloud-based physical access […]
BOPS Enables Widespread use of Biometrics for Access Control
Passwords are old fashioned, impractical and insecure. Enter increasingly pervasive biometric technology and the promise to guarantee the identity of who is at the other end of a mobile device or reader, enabled by BOPS (Biometrics Open Protocol Standard). This has lead to biometrics industry leaders, such as Hector Hoyos, CEO of Hoyos Labs, predicting […]
Can Smartphones become a Fundamental part of the Access Control Market?
Smartphones are set to replace all biometrics hardware in the coming years, that’s according to Hector Hoyos, CEO of Hoyos Labs. The prediction has serious implications for the proprietary biometric hardware sector, notably access control. “Proprietary biometrics-based hardware will go away in the next three to five years”, Hoyos says. “You don’t need a proprietary […]
The Chinese Economy Splutters & World Stock Markets Dive – What Does This Mean For the Security Industry?
Everyone agrees that the Chinese economy is slowing down and the World Bank statistics showed GDP growth of 7.4% in 2014 and predicted in August that it will fall to just over 7% this year. If this figure proves to be accurate it is still 3.5 times more than the average GDP growth of many […]
Why the Internet of Things Changes Physical Security
This article, written by Per Bjorkdahl, Chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee explains why the security industry needs to take special care in ensuring that the introduction of IoT into the physical security industry meets the highest security standards. To do this and ensure that the most appropriate communication standard is adopted requires ONVIF to […]