One driver for access control sales is not so much a feature as a threat: End users are increasingly worried about the security of their system, both physically and digitally.
“One thing that has really changed in the last year is the knowledge of the inherent weakness of the Wiegand interface,” says Scott Lindley of Farpointe Data. “There are articles on the Internet on how to hack that system. As a result we have seen an upsurge of our customers and integrators and installers asking us what they can do to harden the existing installation or make it even better.