Today’s access control users want things to operate more simply. Manufacturers are responding by using the most up-to-date technology available, enabling features to be easier.
Austerity breeds creativity. The economic pinch has informed the choices of end users in all kinds of security, particularly in the past year. The access control customer today is better educated and more tech savvy. The consumer world has taught them that technology can help them not only do more with less, but do it more smoothly, efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before.
“There has been a gravitation of customers exposed to access control to get back to simplicity,” says Bob McKee, vice president of sales and marketing/Americas, Paxton Access, Orlando, Fla. “More and more it is about the interaction and design of the product as opposed to a specific feature. It’s like the iPod. There were a lot of MP3 players available before that, but it was the intuitiveness and simplicity of navigating quickly to what customers wanted that helped the iPod dominate the market.”