SDM EXCLUSIVE State he of t M 2018 STATE OF THE MARKET: ACCESS CONTROL 2017 was a very strong year for the access control industry, with many market forces working in its favor; 2018 and beyond looks even more promising. By Karyn Hodgson, SDM Managing Editor et ar k Access Control here is a frequently used analogy when it comes to the access control space, partic-ularly at the larger, enterprise level: Big ships don’t turn around quickly or easily. For the last several years access control manufac-turers have continued to innovate and promote new solutions and technologies (from wireless readers to big data, mobile credentials to cloud solutions, and more). But unless they were interested in being early adopters or living life on the “bleeding edge,” cautious end users seemed to adopt a wait-and-see attitude, for the most part remaining happy with their existing systems. But this year, for the first time, manufacturers and security integrators that work in that space reported a refreshing change in attitude, and an increased interest in hearing about and actually buying and implementing new solutions to solve their pain points. Jimmy Dearing, lead analyst for electronic access control for the research firm IHS Markit, London, U.K., says his company measures the access con-trol market performance at a steady but modest 6 percent growth between 2016 and 2021. And SDM ’s own research, the 2018 Industry Forecast Study (conducted in November 2017) also shows a relatively steady impression of the access control market with 75 percent of respondents describing it at the time as good to excellent, and 74 percent PSA’s Bill Bozeman says high-end integrators in particular are doing well with access control sales, a change for the better. 46 June 2018 T PHOTO COURTESTY OF PSA SECURITY NETWORK
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