Security integrators and manufacturers talk about the similarities — and differences — in designing, implementing and servicing access control solutions in five key vertical market sectors.
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.
Electric Guard Dog’s unique RMR-generating electrified fence model has propelled the company to annual double-digit growth, resulting in both an acquisition by Snow Phipps last June and of its sole local direct competitor in July — just two of many reasons it earned SDM’s 2016 Dealer of the Year Award.
Technology advancements, customer demand and regulations combine to give integrators and end users more emergency communication choices than ever before.
As a new entrant to the market in 2011 Securadyne Systems saw an opportunity to build something different, fill an existing “gap” in the market, and create a company that would be both unfailingly consistent in its focus and forward-thinking in its approach. Just five years on these efforts have earned it SDM’s 2016 Systems Integrator of the Year award.
SDM’s Systems Integrator of the Year honoree is just four years old, but in that time has grown its annual revenue remarkably, received SAFETY Act designation, and is about to move into a brand new headquarters building.
The SDM Systems Integrator of the Year award is based on a host of criteria including unmistakable success, a high level of innovation, best practices, growth and the unique ways they’ve approached their business, the industry, and the community around them.