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.

Learn how a state-of-the-art fire alarm and emergency notification system, installed across more than 20 facilities for a Minnesota school district, earned Custom Alarm SDM’s inaugural Project of the Year Award.

Building your customers’ security solutions used to be a binary choice. 

Central stations and the monitoring professionals who work there offer inspiration and exemplary ideas to the security industry, through their knowledge, work and achievements.  

Although COVID-19 increased demand for wireless access control in general, new technological advances are making it easier for integrators and customers to add more wireless locks — and increase security at a lower cost. 

The fire alarm industry is never short on excitement, and fire alarm control panels prove just that.

Combining the key feature sets of discrete security systems — such as access control and video surveillance — is giving installing security contractors the capability to create new business efficiencies for their end customers and expand upon existing systems. 

In the face of significant obstacles, the 2022 SDM Top Systems Integrators are demonstrating the resilience, creativity and perseverance that keeps them at the top.

AVS-01 standardizes a classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems, helping law enforcement allocate resources and response prioritization.