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has not undergone the same kind
of consolidation as the video sur-
veillance market it is still a quite
fragmented market with local and
regional players providing propri-
etary solutions. Thomas Schulz
thinks standards are a major driver
for integration and interoperability
but he also says that proprietary
solutions will continue for as long
as users demand them.
Ian Lowe thinks that eve-
rything will be much more
connected and that physical
access systems will be much more
intelligent and provide a more
mobile-oriented user experience.
Thomas Schulz forecasts
promising growth for the market.
He says: "Smart door locks will
become an essential part of the
smart home, initially for those
famous "early adopters" but also
already for the mass market. Com-
panies that specialise in residential
services -- parcel companies,
home care services, vacation
rentals providers, and many more
-- are already integrating smart
door locks and other smart home
technologies into an improved
service offering."
He also stresses the continued
success of wireless solutions in the
commercial field.
Finally, Adam Stroud points
out the future: "We will see
security systems consolidated into
a single platform, I think we will
see building automation coming
under the umbrella of the main
building system, which will be a
merge of the building automation
market and the security market.
And in the same way as we have
seen home automation starting
to gain traction, I think that level
of automation and that level of
convenience and efficiency will be
in great demand in office premises
and other work places and shops
all sorts of buildings like that."
Access control market a nd where it is heading
The future more connected, intelligent and a single platform
Adam Stroud, CEO for Paxton Access.
Jim Dearing believes the biggest
trend on the access control market
is the integration between logi-
cal and physical access. He says
biometric reader revenue sales have
developed well over the last five to
ten years, but they have not grown
to the point where they are actu-
ally replacing physical credentials
across the entirety access control
installations like many predicted
when biometric technology came
to the market. A big reason is that
they are much more expensive
than card readers.
Which has bigger potential,
fingerprint or face recognition?
"Fingerprint is much larger
in terms of sales, mainly because
fingerprint readers are used fairly
often in conjunction with time
and attendance systems. They are
also cheaper and at the moment,
more reliable when it comes to
securing a door. However, face
recognition has far more potential
because it covers quite a few of
the weaknesses that the adop-
tion of fingerprint has suffered
from during the past decade. Face
recognition is frictionless; techni-
cally it can identify a person before
he or she get close to the door.
It proposes a tremendous value
proposition in terms of conveni-
ence and it can be linked to other
security systems. There is a lot of
potential there."
And fingerprint has not?
"In my opinion, fingerprint
will not ever fully replace physi-
cal credentials, but there is still
a chance that face recognition
could do that. However, it will
take a very long time, barring an
extraordinary lead forward; there
is no chance within the next five
years. Physical credentials are good
at what they do and they are very
cheap."
What is your view on cloud
solutions and access control as a
service?
"The adoption of access control
as a service and cloud solutions in
general varies a lot by geographic
region. The US market is by far
the market leader in adoption of
cloud solutions. Selling a service is
always more profitable than selling
equipment in the long run. So you
will see more convergence around
that sort of business model in this
market in the future."
Is the access control market
becoming more open?
"Yes, there is a trend towards
open standards even though it is a
little bit behind the video surveil-
lance market. But many of the
suppliers of access control that are
doing well are working with open
standards. Access control systems
are being required to integrate with
other systems more than before."
How important is access control
within IoT?
"Access control is a really inter-
esting area for IoT because access
control can tell IoT building sys-
tem managers exactly who is where
and when, what authority they
have and what level they are on in
the corporate structure. It can be
leveraged, but it has not been lever-
aged yet. The providers have access
to large amounts of data but they
do not know what to do to make
money out of it yet."
How do you think the market
will look like in the future?
"There will probably be a wider
adoption of mobile credentials,
being able to open doors with your
phone. It is getting a lot of atten-
tion in trend shows.
Will that be the next technology
like biometrics in terms of not
being able to replace physical
credentials?
Maybe. I also think
we will see more adoption of
electronic access systems in schools
and universities."
The access control market is opening up and face
recognition has long term potential to succeed where
other biometrics have failed, according to
Jim dearing, Senior Analyst Security & Building
Technologies at IHS Markit.
Jim Dearing, Senior Analyst Security &
Building Technologies at IHS Markit.
The biggest trend is the integration between logical and physical access
Jim Dearing, IHS Markit:
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