This article originally appeared in Access Control Trends & Technologies 2021, a bonus publication to Security Business and Security Technology Executive magazines. In recent years, the access control ...

Mechanical locks secure doors as either deadbolts or door-handle devices. Keys serve as the means to unlock these mechanical locks, and possessing a working key determines who can access secured areas ...

It used to be that pulling wire to every access point was a given for any access control installation if it were going to be on the network. The trend moving forward will be an increase in the number ...

When I joined the security industry in the 1990s, most electronic access control systems were based on analog technology from the previous decades. By the end of the 90s, the industry introduced its ...

But have you ever come up against an electronic access control door system (ACDS)? An ACDS can be installed in a variety of styles and configurations, but their design and implementation are basically ...