Access Control

Merger and Acquisition in the Physical Security industry has been on a roller coater ride over the last 15 years. With an upswing in 2015, Memoori’s New Report predicts that industry M&A will start a new cycle of growth during the next few years. In 2015 the value of deals increased to $5,700m. The two […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

** 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]