Physical Security
The Security Industry Promises Sustained Growth to 2020 but Major Differences Exist Across Sectors & Regions
December 16th, 2015Audio: How the Cloud is Transforming Identity Management & Access Control
December 14th, 2015The 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 […]

PSIM Software Evolving into Situation Management and Command & Control Platforms
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. PSIM, or Physical Security Information Management, is a category of software, created by middleware developers, which is designed to integrate multiple unconnected security applications and devices and control them through one comprehensive user interface. These solutions aimed at large facilities have been deployed to […]

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 […]
How Advanced are Video Analytics Now?
The general consensus in the Physical Security and Video Surveillance industry is that the benefits of Analytics were previously oversold, no doubt leaving a sour taste in the mouth of some buyers. So as an industry we are entitled to keep asking how advanced Video Analytics are now? The simple truth is that intelligent computer […]
Webinar: Using Machine Learning to Make Video Surveillance Smarter
** Recording of this Webinar can be Found HERE ** Please Join us on Tuesday 15th September for our 9th FREE Webinar in the 2015 Smart Building Series… Using Machine Learning to Make Video Surveillance Smarter. Q&A with Carter Maslan, Founder & CEO of Camio. Discussing the Future of Video Surveillance & how Camio are […]
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 […]