One of the interesting things about emerging technology discussions (new platforms) is that the physical security industry has a habit of being late. Caulk it up to a culture of conservatism. A case in point is the cell phone. One aspect of the digital revolution, or “evolution” if you will, is how quickly it changes our behavior on a personal level, yet simultaneously many people believe that same technology adoption into the business cycle will take much longer. Why?
True, years ago technologies needed to incubate, typically within the information technology (IT) departments of large corporations, prior to carefully phased rollouts and managed deployments. Of course at the time many of these products were vendor specific and proprietary solutions, both hardware and software.