Items Tagged with 'managed access control'

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.

Speco Technologies announced the addition of a comprehensive Access Control product family into its growing product line. 

For decades the dominant story in access control has been that it was a victim of its own success: that is, customers were reluctant to change out what was still working — even 15 or 20 years on — and didn’t see the benefit in spending the money to upgrade, even for significantly new or different features.

Managed access control — as well as hosted access control — is an area many security integrators are showing a growing interest in exploring.

Alarm.com launched Smarter Access Control, a commercial-grade access solution for businesses. Available now, Smarter Access Control is part of the unified Alarm.com for Business platform, which combines access, intrusion, video surveillance and energy management into a single solution accessible through Alarm.com’s intuitive mobile app and Web dashboard. Fully integrated with Alarm.com’s cloud platform and connected device ecosystem, Smarter Access Control equips service providers with a scalable solution that generates RMR by simplifying and solving common access control challenges for new and existing customers alike.

Paxton Inc. announced the launch of Paxton BLU, a cloud-based access control solution, to the U.S. market.