MachineSense may not be brand new (it was founded in 2014), but its entrance into the security and building automation industry is.

If you hadn’t heard of them before, you may recognize Swiftlane from the Security Industry Association’s New Product Showcase, which was held virtually last week. The young company received the award for best wired access control software, hardware, device or peripheral — quite the accomplishment when going up against the biggest names in the industry.

Yesterday, March 25, a new security systems integration company hit the scene: Sage Integration. And while the current business climate may not be ideal for a new business, Sage’s leadership is ready to become the greatest integration company out there. 

Founded in 2017 by CEO Aaron Zhang, CTO Clark Chen and CMO Joe Tham, Simshine provides customized AI vision solutions, combining software and hardware, to companies in various industries. 

RemoteLock — which went through a rebrand approximately 18 months ago — has always been in the lock business, cutting its teeth in the vacation rental space. But now, the company has evolved into focusing on software versus hardware. 

While Nexkey might be new to the security scene, the company has already made a name for itself, earning a coveted New Product Showcase Award from the Security Industry Association in the wireless access control device and peripheral category at ISC West last year.

While REMO Security Doors has only been around for two and a half years, it’s already making headlines — just last week, the company was covered by FOX News, The New York Post and more for installing metal bullet-resistant security doors in a Jewish all-girls school in Brooklyn in the wake of so many mass shootings. And that’s just the first of more than 50 Jewish schools and synagogues in Brooklyn where REMO has door installation jobs lined up. 

When the CrucialTrak team won the grand prize for Best New Product at the Security Industry Association’s New Product Showcase in 2017, they knew they had created something special: the world’s first 4-in-1 touchless multi-biometric reader.

When Jack Wu and John Hsu founded Nightingale Security in 2014, protecting premises with drones serving as eyes in the skies was pretty much off the radar for most commercial and industrial enterprises. Now, as Nightingale’s visionaries prepare to celebrate the company’s fifth anniversary in June, they’re also celebrating an innovation whose time has come.