Top 5 Access Control Trends

By Jason Ouellette, Tyco Security Products’ Product Line Director for Access Control

After decades serving as a steady and predictable segment in the physical security market, access control is becoming an adaptive and dynamic market in its own right. A few trends in particular have made the access control industry exciting to watch.

1. Unification vs. Integration. End users and integrators alike are seeking ease of use and a singular interface for a lower total cost of ownership, not only in access control, but also across the physical security market and beyond. Unified solutions provide scalability and optimizations from a single data source of information, giving integrators and end users the competitive advantages necessary in today’s changing business world. By providing access control and video systems in a single server solution, manufacturers are providing solutions that are easier to navigate and more efficient and that provide additional capabilities such as deeper sets of analytics and reporting capabilities at a lower total cost. Though typically favored by government and corporate sectors, unified solutions are gaining popularity with all size businesses today.

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