Customer attitudes and demands have continued to shape the security sector, driving ongoing market and industry changes.

Although the industry remains subject to supply chain disruption, a precarious labor shortage and other headwinds, multiple growth factors are creating a lot of overall positivity across the fire alarm systems marketplace. 

In a post pandemic world, businesses and organizations off all types are reinventing themselves to adopt hybrid or work-from-home policies in order to sustain company culture as well as viability in the marketplace.

 Learn how businesses are finding more uses for today’s advanced video analytics — and how integrators can leverage it to increase revenues.

 What’s impacting enterprise access control installations today and what lies ahead.

Did you know that in many installations, analog speakers could outnumber network cameras by as much as 10 to one? That’s a multi-billion-dollar market ripe for conversion from analog to an intelligent network audio solution. 

Even before the pandemic, the security industry was staring down the barrel of a future fraught with workforce development challenges. Now even more acute, leaders from across the industry discuss how they are maneuvering to overcome talent shortages, become more diverse, adopt hybrid workplace models, among other challenges to remain viable.

While most distributors made a smooth transition to remote training during the pandemic, they’re now facing another formidable roadblock that’s plaguing everyone: supply chain shortages.

According to a recently released report by HID Global, “The 2022 State of Access Control Report,” there has been an increase of interest in mobile credentials — in large part as a result of the pandemic.

Megapixel cameras now come in a variety of form factors for uses within a wide cross section of video surveillance applications. Industry expert explain the technology’s latest trends and use cases.