According to the recently released 2023 Top Security Trends Report from Brivo, there are two leading access control outcomes desired by the respondents to the sixth annual report: experience and convenience. 

At the recent Barnes Buchanan Conference, held February 9-10 in Palm Beach, Fla., financial lenders, investors, security dealers and monitoring companies came together to discuss the state of the industry from a financial perspective. 

Ever since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, small business owners — among them, a good many security dealers and integrators — have contended with ever-changing rules and procedures, cash flow shortages and an economy mired in uncertainty.

Recurring monthly revenue, or RMR, does wonders for security integrators. Discover the obvious and less well-known benefits of why you should love RMR.

The Electronic Security Association (ESA) recently hosted a virtual town hall during which Michael Barnes capped the event with a lot of positivity during his alarm industry update.

Most security integrators today agree that offering services to customers is more important than ever — both to create “stickiness” and the increase that all-important recurring revenue. 

There has been a decided push in both technology and interest — from both security integrators and customers — on the cloud-based services that bring recurring monthly revenue.

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.

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.

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.