Since September 11th, access control has been one of the leading categories of products purchased, or a top priority for security personnel looking to bolster their facility security. Depending on the size of the facility or the magnitude of security, access control can range from a single door lock to Web-based features to multiple readers and door panels.
"There is a good match between today's hardware advances and development side. Unfortunately, for advanced features to be leveraged, customers might need to step up to new, higher capacity machines. This is even a bigger issue as a company's database grows. In good economic times this might not be an issue. Today it takes a little more convincing. Still, options do exists to buy complete bundled systems as well as software-only options," says Andy Lowen, former product manager, Software House, Lexington, Mass.