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The security business hasn’t been the same since interactive services came along.

The last few years have brought significant advances in 180- and 360-degree panoramic camera technology, along with increasingly affordable price points.

Digital voice controlled assistants such as Amazon’s Echo and Dot offerings and Google Home were a hot item this past holiday season — and they will begin playing an increasingly important role in controlling security systems this year.

According to the IHS Markit Physical Security Equipment and Services report of September 2016, the global access control market is positioned to grow from $3.69 billion in 2015 to $5.16 billion in 2020.

It’s an access control service with many names: hosted, managed, cloud, shared.

It was the story of 2016: growth — sometimes stellar, sometimes slight, but mostly steady.

If the word “change” isn’t part of your business plan this year, you’d better rethink it.

According to the SDM Top Systems Integrators Report, published in July 2016, the top three vertical market sectors are corporate, education/campus and healthcare, all of which rely heavily on access control technology as part of their overall security solution.

The data center cloud already has brought big changes to the security business by enabling remote system control from users’ smartphones.

More than one-third of U.S. homeowners and 14 percent of renters have a functioning security system, research by Dallas-based Parks Associates shows.