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C O M • T H E G L O B A L S E C U R I T Y M A G A Z I N E • P R O D U C E D B Y A R M E D I A I N T E R N AT I O N A L A B • N O 3 • SEP/OCT 2015 Publisher´s Comment Access control in the limelight Technology in Application Bosch secures Turkish airport Security Technology Market Big changes ahead for access control market Business News Nice sells physical security business Product News Axis unveils Q86 PT camera series The Interview Martin Gren, co-founder of Axis Top trends for the access control market Sponsored by SECURITY ACADEMY How to minimize EMI impact on mission critical video surveillance How to minimize EMI impact on mission critical video surveillance 2015-08-26 10:15 Omslag1_Det_Int_3_15_NY.indd 1 Lennart Alexandrie, Publisher Access control in the limelight o the summer of 2015 is over. One might imagine that a few uneventful months have passed and that the security market is now beginning to wake up again. That is not the case. It seems there are no longer any uneventful months. We live in a globalised world where things are going on 24/7 all year around. This summer was no exception. Just take a look at all the acquisitions that took place during June, July and August. Some of them were more important than others. These are a few examples. The Vanderbilt Industries purchase of Security Products from Siemens was completed in June. That was no surprise, as the agreement was signed in the late autumn of 2014. More interesting, was that the Israeli software company Nice Systems recently signed an agreement to sell its video surveillance business unit for $100 million (of which $15 million is conditional) to the US-based investment company Battery Ventures, which confirms the increasing interest from investment companies for the IP video surveillance sector of the security industry. An attraction factor is of course the potential that scalable open platform IP video technology offers in terms of service-based business. But it was not in the video surveillance sector, where the most interesting acquisitions were made during the summer. Extremely exciting things have happened in the market for access control. An example of this is that the Irish company Allegion has signed an agreement for the acquisition of the Munich-based Simonsvoss. Simonsvoss, provider of electronic locks and access control, had sales of approximately 52 million Euros in 2014. The revenues of Allegion, a vendor providing security products, mainly based on mechanics, reached almost $2 billion in total. Now, this acquisition should be viewed in the light of the previous announcement in May, when Swiss company Kaba and Dorma announced their intentions to merge the two companies. At that point the unified company will become the second largest player S in the EMEA within the access control industry; only Assa Abloy will be greater. The above-mentioned business events within the security market are of course of great importance, but, in my view, they are probably not the ones that will have most impact on the development of the access control market. There is another transaction that should certainly be seen as a game changer, namely Dean Drako’s acquisition of the American access control company Brivo. The entrepreneur, Dean Drako, CEO of Eagle Eye Networks, has acquired the US Brivo, provider of cloud-based access control, for 50 million US dollars. Drako sees the opportunity to accelerate the cloud technology shift in the market for physical access control by combining Brivo’s cloud-based access control with the cloud-based video surveillance operations of Eagle Eye Networks. Blake Kozak, analyst at IHS commented on the acquisition, he stated that the startling aspect of this acquisition is that an owner of a big business in the cloud-based video is expanding into the market for cloud-based access control. This could provide a hefty push for access control services, initially in North America, where Brivo has its largest market. The fast growing North American market for access control as a service is estimated to reach revenues of $200 million in 2015. The Brivo acquisition should be seen as a signal to the security market that things are moving fast, even in the traditionally so conservative access control industry. Now autumn has just begun and it will be interesting to continue to follow the market developments. One can, for example, almost certainly expect more big acquisitions. 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