The $1.8 billion global door phone market is transitioning from audio to video technology, with video set to grow and account for 50 percent of unit shipments in 2017, think the authors of a new report entitled “The World Market for Audio and Video Door Phones,” published by IMS Research, now part of IHS.
PSA Security Network® announced the addition of Vanderbilt Industries to its vendor partners’ line-up. Vanderbilt innovates access control technology by designing, manufacturing and distributing systems that make environments safe, secure and easy to maintain, according to a statement released by PSA Security Network.
Secura Key, Chatsworth, Calif. recently published its new e*Tag Card Capabilities Guide. This guide presents all of the available credential options, so that the customer can select the credential that is exactly suited to their application.
Irvine, Calif.-based HID Global® announced that its EdgeReader® ERP40 networked access control solution and iCLASS SE® platform readers were selected by systems integrator Performance Buildings® to create an intelligent facility management system for “on demand” access to shared and temporary offices.
According to HID, the Green Card is the world’s first secure ID credential combining HID Global’s LaserCard® optical security media with RFID tags for accelerated border crossing.
While the access control continues to play second fiddle to video surveillance in terms of adoption of open standards, the drive to modernize systems is creating a movement toward those open standards in the access control industry — which is forecast to top $2.3 billion worldwide by the end of 2013, according to IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc.
Software House, part of the Security Products Business unit of Tyco, attained the U.S. Government’s Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 197 validation for its complete iSTAR physical access controller family.
Access control solutions provider Lenel Systems International announced flexible migration programs for users of legacy Casi and Infographics systems to move to Lenel’s OnGuard solution.
In July, Evansville, Ind.-based Data Link Communications will begin work on upgrading the existing IP video system at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which will include replacing an antiquated storage platform that wasn’t working well for the airport with new high-capacity Big Bertha servers from BCDVideo.
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