When a university in Lincoln, Neb. needed updated technology to prepare for a potential move to mobile credentials, Inteconnex stepped in to install nearly 1,500 wireless locks on a new instance of ACRE AccessIT software in just over a months’ time.
Allegion launched Schlage NDE and LE mobile-enabled wireless locks with Si option, which now support HID smart cards and next-generation Seos credentials.
Co-owners Buckingham Properties and Butler/Till will install AMAG’s Symmetry Access Control system integrated with Allegion’s Schlage LE wireless locks.
Alarm Lock announced its Trilogy Networx wireless PIN and prox access locks and keypads are certified with Lenel version 7.6 OnGuard integrated access control and video security platform.
The access control market in 2019 and 2020 can best be described as strong, but in flux — with changing architectures, changing customer expectations and demands, and changing security integrator roles.
A continuing strong economy, end user desires to do more with their access control systems and increasing interest in new technologies, integrations and models all led to a positive outlook in 2019 and a general feeling of optimism for 2020, with a few notes of caution.
The SDC EntryCheck E75 Privacy is a low-cost, indoor/outdoor standalone electronic battery powered solution, providing controlled access for basic and multi-level high security requirements.
At the end of one decade and the beginning of another, security lock and hardware vendors reflect on the technologies that shaped the past 10 years, and those that will shape the short- and long-term market of the future.
They say that hindsight is 20/20. So as we go into the year 2020 it seems fitting to reflect back, while at the same time looking ahead at the most influential trends that shaped — or will shape — the security lock and door hardware market.