RTI, a leading control and automation manufacturer for residential and commercial settings, announced integration with Channel Vision Technology’s Elite Series SI-8000 front door station, allowing it to be used with RTI control devices featuring intercom capabilities.
Lenel is making available LifeSafety Power’s ProWire Unified Power Systems for Lenel OnGuard-connected devices. ProWire is an innovative, next-generation access system that integrates power and panels and is pre-wired for system power, lock power and communication to eliminate hours of installation labor, the company described. Available with capabilities for Lenel OnGuard power monitoring, ProWire’s real-time data monitors the performance of network-connected power, ensuring optimal system operation and up time. Lenel is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
If responses from more than 30 manufacturers, integrators and other industry practitioners are any indication, share-of-revenue from access control may be picking up.
The battle for the future of biometric modalities in consumer electronics is expected to become fiercer with each passing year as face and iris recognition are continuously gaining strength, threating to soon cannibalize on fingerprint technologies. ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies, posits that as ASPs for iris modules drop, and the once timid face recognition is continuously honed with more sophisticated machine learning algorithms, they will both slowly start to eat away at fingerprint implementations.
When deployed under an Infrastructure-as-a-Service model, this latest version can reduce or eliminate the need for onsite OnGuard server hardware along with the need for multiple software installations and updates.
Johnson Controls’ C•CURE 9000 v2.70 from Software House is a security management system that provides mission critical security and safety protection for people, buildings and assets.
Dortronics 4800 series intelligent door interlock controllers feature 12 field-assignable inputs and 17 configurable relay outputs for various input/output configuration and added flexibility.
Camden Door Controls’ newest strike, the CX-ED1410, is a Grade 1 ANSI fire strike for UL fire-rated doors/frames with cylindrical locksets that is designed to provide optimum electric strike quality and performance.
ProdataKey (PDK), a cloud-based networked and wireless access control products and services provider, and Dwelo LLC, provider of smart home solutions purpose-built for apartment owners, managers and residents, announced a partnership that seamlessly integrates PDK’s cloud access control technology into the Dwelo smart apartment platform.