The future of AI integration with secured entrances
Integrated solutions using advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) bring expanded functionality and enhanced security to swinging doors and turnstiles
Security technology headlines this past decade have often been dominated by the flashy expansion of video-related devices that have evolved with advanced capabilities thanks to enhanced analytics. However, over the past year, due in part to the continued pandemic crisis, the once conventional access control sector is grabbing its own share of notoriety. Integrated systems are tapping into advancements in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solutions that are accelerating development of cloud integration platforms and a growing inventory of mobile access control devices, touchless and biometric options.
While AI is becoming an integral part of business operations in myriad market segments around the globe, security applications have been slower to adopt it into the mix. However, the added health risks organizations now face from COVID-19 have forced both security solutions providers and users to rethink how AI can help mitigate those risks. There is little argument that AI has the potential to substantially increase the security of exterior and interior entrances as applied in the short term during this crisis. But while AI will be able to help in many security-related tasks, such as discerning people from objects at a facility’s perimeter and interior entrances, detecting attempted piggybacking, spotting and analyzing potentially lethal objects and dangerous people, and more, AI analytics alone cannot take action to prevent unauthorized human entry or deny the entry of dangerous objects.