Security locks and door hardware aren’t as cut-and-dried as they used to be.

Imagine what you would do if you had the opportunity to create your ideal security integration company from scratch.

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.

Age is just a number, right?

Cybersecurity concerns are everywhere. From Target to Home Depot, to the Social Security Administration, to the recent [possibly foreign] hacks of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, it is almost impossible to turn on the news or read a paper without seeing something about cybersecurity.

Enterprise access control clients are unique — even amongst themselves — in that their problems are often more complex, more difficult to solve and just bigger.

The emergency intercom is generally pictured as a metal box — frequently red or blue for easy identification — that allows someone in distress to push a button and call for help.

Talking about the connected home today can be a challenge when you are faced with the question “What is the connected home?”

The access control credential has for a long time been “stuck” — at least in the U.S. — on one particular technology: proximity.

A connected home cannot happen without the protocol or language to make everything work together.