The 2016 Access Control Market Breaks Ten Billion Billion One Card Industry Rapidly Rising

The access control card market has undergone decades of evolution and development, and has evolved from simple physical protection and entry and exit management to integrated management. At the stage of diversified development, companies have spared no effort to develop functions with core competencies and create brand influence, pushing the access control card market to the era of Internet of Things. According to statistics, from 2015 to 2016, the output value of security products exceeded 180 billion, of which access control/access channels/intelligent locks accounted for 12% to 14% of the output value of products, and 2016 is expected to exceed the market scale of 10 billion.

Through technological innovation and market upgrading, the traditional magnetic stripe card technology and proximity card technology have been difficult to meet the market demand. Customers expect to subvert the technology of access control card market and gain greater market space and product profitability. With the popularity of smart phones, the access control market is undergoing a change that changes user habits. From an application perspective, there is a good demand for access control systems for financial, transportation, commercial office buildings, government units, large group companies, real estate, hotels, and education. According to the characteristics of the development cycle of the industry, it is expected that in the next two years, the financial system will have access control for a large number of outlets. The demand for access control is very large. It is estimated that the scale of access control card products will reach 6 billion in 2016, and the growth rate is expected to reach more than 6%.

At the same time, IP-based access control technology has matured and access control systems can be integrated into other security solutions. Intelligentization of access control systems and intelligent front-end video surveillance will bring good opportunities for the industry. In the future, smart phones will also be a way of access control, which will allow us to connect with wired and wireless devices, locks, and switches. We will combine basic cards with various wireless voucher card technologies to make our first line of defense " The door has become more secure and reliable.

Some opinions on access control card market

In recent years, the market for access control cards seems to be calm. Just like the nature of access control products, stable and reliable is the way to survive. Everyone mistakenly believes that market technology is iteratively slow and there are no technical highlights that can be discussed. In fact, the mature access control card system should have features such as high reliability, high scalability, and large capacity, so as to be suitable for complex application environments, unified management of multiple applications, and the ability to gradually introduce new application technologies. So, what directions should the future of access control be headed towards? The author visited dozens of representative access control card companies with doubts. What are we doing? What are everyone thinking?

For the future of access control, everyone has a consensus that as the first line of defense for physical protection, the robustness of access control products is the basis for all application requirements, and access control products do not require early warning analysis, alarm prompts, video image display, etc., as long as they can block In the event of a robbery, its protective effectiveness is continuous. Enterprises need to consider how to make the access control products provide 24 hours of uninterrupted protection. The access control system can still achieve protection functions in different environments and conditions.

The innovation of access control card products is how to make it easier for users to use access control products. Access control systems are more flexible and simple to operate, improve product responsiveness, and enhance user experience. These are all innovative directions, and they also make breakthroughs in the following areas:

The first is the standardization of industrial design. How to make a product that is higher than the standard, Yi Lin, general manager of Quan Lin, said: "The product process is the vitality of the enterprise. One of the most important components of the access control product is the lock core. There is no network security here, no software compatibility, only the most important The same thing is the manufacturing process of machinery. Each of our manufacturing processes is ahead of international standards, and each part is manufactured through sophisticated technology and can stand the test. "Every product has to withstand the test of the use of the environment, Such as high temperature environment, anti-lightning, anti-impact and so on.

The second is the openness of the access control. The access control card is a set of software and hardware compatible platforms. It adopts the architecture pattern of “service layer + application layer + device layer”. Distributed application and centralized management are its constituent and operating principles. Therefore, in addition to supporting unified management of access control, attendance, parking lot, visitor system, and consumption, the card platform can ensure that the system can be easily accessed (including hardware and software) such as elevators, visitors, conference sign-in, and electronic patrol. And other subsystems.

The third is the security and stability of product networking. Today's access control products are basically equipped with TCP/IP and RS485 protocols, and because the system is based on TCP/IP network transmission, network security has been valued by enterprises.

In the access control card, you can often use IT's network transmission security measures. For example, industry experts recommend the use of VPN network channel technology. This method solves the threat of illegal attacks outside the VPN tunnel. If the network access control device uses SSL high encryption technology, it will All communication with the controller is passed through strict security detection mechanisms such as SSL encryption, decryption, and authentication.