How current concepts can meet future needs and help integrators help their customers solve problems.

Clare Controls’ winter update empowers users with greater system control, enhances security features, provides dealers with powerful new system management options and adds 10 new drivers for native integration of more third-party peripherals than ever before.

After a “frothy” period when growth was king, buyers today have different ideas about how to value a company.

Everyone hoped things would be “back to normal” by now. While security companies in 2021 continued to feel the impacts of the coronavirus, the 2022 SDM Industry Forecast shows both slow but steady improvement and optimism.

Body-worn cameras present an exciting new revenue opportunity for security dealers and integrators.

Email marketing can be both a relationship-building and business-building tool.

Like many areas of the security industry, enterprise access control saw many changes in 2020. Now in 2021, the needs and expectations of what access control systems can provide are continuing to evolve, says James Segil, vice president of access control at Motorola Solutions, Chicago.

When the COVID-19 pandemic drove people nationwide to isolate themselves and curtail travel, security dealer training largely went digital. Now that the pandemic is waning, will the shift toward digital be a permanent change?

The overall growth of surveillance video has greatly increased in the past few years, as video analytics, megapixel cameras and other innovations are causing more customers to install new or upgrade existing surveillance systems.