Abstract Access control solutions are the cornerstone of numerous organizations’ physical security measures, allowing them to safeguard all entry and exit points around their premises and protect their employees, customers, and assets from potential risks. Due to their longstanding use, these solutions have not evolved much in the past few decades, despite digital advancements in the security industry. People often still need to present a physical token, whether an ID badge, card, or key, to a reader or lock to verify their access rights to a facility.
Although digital solutions—such as biometric readers and scanners—and enhanced integration of access control data with other physical security system data have emerged, the shift has been gradual compared to other physical security technologies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the swift move to hybrid workforces catalyzed the access control solution industry. Organizations began seeking solutions that could better facilitate remote monitoring, provide integrated views of multiple work sites, support digital onboarding, utilize biometric credentials for identity verification, and offer numerous other functions.
The global access control solutions market comprises a small group of established vendors that have consistently provided hardware and supplementary software as digitalization took root. However, the evolving demands for physical access systems have opened the market to new vendors and driven additional innovation among competitors aiming to maintain their long-term advantage. This benefits customers by offering more choices, enhanced functionality, and a faster pace of technological development that the industry lacked.
Author: Dolores Aleman
The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Global Access Control Solutions Industry
Competitive Intensity
Why
- With security technologies converging, vendors must ensure their solutions work with other systems across the security ecosystem.
- Access control systems must integrate and seamlessly share data with surveillance, incident detection, and security operations centers.
Frost Perspective
- The access control solutions market was reluctant to integrate with the broader security ecosystem, but the COVID-19 pandemic drove vendors to ensure access control data became more remotely accessible.
- Legacy integration and remote capabilities are important for vendors with limited budgets who cannot afford to invest in new security systems.
Disruptive Technologies
Why
- The adoption of biometric authentication methods, such as fingerprints and facial recognition, is increasing. These technologies provide higher security, and users are integrating them into traditional access control systems for better identification.
- Increasing cyberthreats are leading access control vendors to develop solutions that users can manage quickly and effectively.
Frost Perspective
- AI advancements enhance biometric systems’ accuracy and efficiency by improving pattern recognition and anomaly detection.
- Introducing user-friendly access control systems will allow customers to understand and manage information and avoid possible incidents.
Industry Convergence
Why
- The ongoing convergence among security technologies of all types compels vendors to ensure that their solutions work with other systems across the security ecosystem.
- This will require access control systems to easily integrate and share data with surveillance, incident detection, and security operations centers.
Frost Perspective
- Access control solution vendors need to integrate physical and cybersecurity solutions to avoid possible organizational incidents because of emerging threats.
- For budgetary reasons, organizations seek to integrate new digital solutions into legacy systems and avoid making large investments.
Scope of Analysis
- Access control solutions can include specialized access points within a facility to create more secure areas or zones that users fortify further and are only accessible to specific personnel.
- Hardware components include access point readers, locks, and the machinery necessary to open or close entrances and exits and fortify the access points.
- Software solutions include system management platforms that display access logs and system data that entry points gather throughout the facilities. The solutions offer detailed logs of who accessed these areas and where and when this occurred.
- Access control solution vendors and system integrators specializing in software technology and the specific design characteristics of the hardware components within these systems sell them as combined hardware and software solutions.
- Introducing AI increases an access control system’s accuracy and security. AI and machine learning algorithms quickly synthesize information and analyze data from all access control sources, generating thorough and timely reports on building patterns and use cases and making recommendations for improvement.
- The access control market does not include key cards and fob tokens, which users present to access the system, or physical barriers such as bollards, fencing, and gates.
Vertical Segmentation
Access Control Solutions
Law Enforcement
This segment includes local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies that provide public safety operations and criminal justice enforcement. The segment includes facilities that these agencies own, such as precincts, jails, training centers, and storage locations.
Retail
This segment includes businesses specializing in purchasing and selling tangible goods in a physical location or a network of physical locations. The segment includes business headquarters, product warehouses and distribution centers, operational offices, and customer-facing stores.
Enterprise
This segment includes small-, medium-, and large-scale businesses with a single corporate campus, multiple physical sites, or locations across multiple geographies. The segment comprises a wide range of industry subsets, such as B2B and B2C businesses and other service-based organizations.
Utilities
This segment includes water and power utility organizations that provide resources to the general population within a specified geography. The segment comprises central grid and distribution sites, power generation hubs, and additional distribution nodes.
Banking and Financial Services
This segment comprises banking facilities, including retail locations and central offices, requiring access control systems to secure buildings and areas within a facility from the public.
Airports
This segment includes the airport security operations that airports manage. The segment excludes areas of the airport that other organizations (e.g., federal agents and law enforcement) operate.
Regional Segmentation
- Access Control Solutions
- Asia-Pacific
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East
- North America
- Africa
- Central Asia
Competitive Environment
| Number of Competitors | More than 50 with revenue greater than $1 million |
| Competitive Factors | Open integration, legacy connectivity, cost, cloud and hybrid architecture, service options, digital advances |
| Key End-user Industry Verticals | Law enforcement, retail, enterprise, utilities, banking and financial services, airports |
| Leading Competitors | Genetec, HID, Acre, IDEMIA, Identiv, ASSA ABLOY, Motorola Solutions |
| Other Notable Competitors | Brivo, Zwipe, Alcatraz AI, ZKTeco |
| Distribution Structure | System integrators, direct sales |
| Notable Acquisitions and Mergers | BioConnect acquired MedixSafe, HID Global partnered with Inner Range |
Key Competitors by Region
Global
- Arc security
- Brivo
- HID global
- Motorola Solutions
- ZX Tec
- Kisi
- Nuki
- Allegion group
- Nedap
- Suprema
- Kastle Systems
- Thales group
- IDEMIA
- AMAG
- Salto Systems
- Genetec
- Alert Enterprise
- 3X Logic
- Idcube
- Sentry Interactive
- Giesecke+Devrient
North America
- Alcatraz AI
- Dormakaba
- Biconnect
- Lenel S2
- ASSA ABLOY
- Alocity
- Parabit
- Prodata key
- Reconasense
- Safetrust
- Sielex
- Sointrol
- Autel Mobility
- Arc Security
- Brivo
- HID global
- Motorola solutions
- ZX Tec
- Kisi
- Allegion Group
- Nedap
- Suprema
- Kastle Systems
- Thales Group
- IDEMIA
- AMAG
- 2N
- Salto Systems
- Honeywell
- Genetec
- 3X Logic
- Identity
- Sentry Interactive
- Giesecke+Devrient
Europe
- Zwipe
- Deister Electronics
- Arc Security
- Brivo
- HID Global
- Motorola solutions
- ZX Tec
- Kisi
- Nuki
- Allegion Group
- Nedap
- Suprema
- Kastle Systems
- Thales Group
- IDEMIA
- AMAG
- 2N
- Salto Systems
- Honeywell
- Genetec
- 3X Logic
- Sentry Interactive
- Giesecke+Devrient
Asia-Pacific
- Giesecke+devrient
- Arc Security
- HID Global
- Motorola Solutions
- ZX Tec
- Allegion Group
- Nedap
- Suprema
- Kastle systems
- Thales Group
- IDEMIA
- AMAG
- Salto Systems
Central Asia
- Zwipe
- Deister Electronics
- Acre Security
- Brivo
- HID Global
- Motorola Solutions
- ZX Teco
- Kisi
- Nuki
- Allegion Group
- Nedap
- Suprema
- Thales Group
- IDEMIA
- AMAG
- 2N
- Salto Systems
- Honeywell
- Genetec
- 3X Logic
- Identity
- Sentry Interactive
- Giesecke-Devient
Middle East
- Zwipe
- Deister Electronics
- Acre Security
- Brivo
- HID Global
- Motorola Solutions
- ZX Teco
- Kisi
- Nuki
- Allegion Group
- Nedap
- Suprema
- Thales Group
- IDEMIA
- AMAG
- 2N
- Salto Systems
- Honeywell
- Genetec
- 3X Logic
- Identity
- Sentry Interactive
- Giesecke-Devient
Africa
- Zwipe
- Deister Electronics
- Acre Security
- Brivo
- HID Global
- Motorola Solutions
- ZX Teco
- Kisi
- Nuki
- Allegion Group
- Nedap
- Suprema
- Thales Group
- IDEMIA
- AMAG
- 2N
- Salto Systems
- Honeywell
- Genetec
- 3X Logic
- Identity
- Sentry Interactive
- Giesecke-Devient
Key Competitors by Vertical
Law Enforcement
- AMAG
- HID Global
- Identiv
- LenelS2
- Salto Systems
- IDEMIA
Enterprise
- Alcatraz AI
- Arcules
- Brivo
- Galaxy Access Control
- LenelS2
- Motorola Solutions
- Alert Enterprise
- Acre
- Kisi
- Nuki
- Kastle Systems
- Zwipe
- Bioconnect
- Genea
- ASSA ABLOY
- ID Cube
- Safetrust
- Sentry Interactive
- Spintly
Retail
- Alcatraz AI
- Arcules
- Brivo
- Genea
- Motorola Solutions
- Salto Systems
- Acre
- Parabit
- Kisi
- Nedap
- Bioconnect
Airports
- AMAG
- LenelS2
- Thales Group
- ZK Teco
- Alert Enterprise
- Acre
- IDEMIA
Banking and Financial Services
- ASSA ABLOY
- Brivo
- IDEMIA
- Identiv
- LenelS2
- Motorola Solutions
- ZK Teco
- Alert Enterprise
- Acre
- Parabit
- Kisi
- Kastle Systems
- Zwipe
- Bioconnect
- Silex
Utilities
- AMAG
- Galaxy Access Control
- HID Global
- LenelS2
- Salto Systems
- Alert Enterprise
- Acre security

Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
The Strategic Imperative 8™
The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Global Access Control Solutions Industry
Scope of Analysis
Vertical Segmentation
Regional Segmentation
Competitive Environment
Key Competitors by Region
Key Competitors by Region (continued)
Key Competitors by Vertical
Growth Metrics
Access Control Technologies
Types of Access Control Systems
Growth Drivers
Growth Restraints
Forecast Considerations
Forecast Considerations (continued)
Spending and Growth Forecast
Spending Forecast by Customer Vertical
Spending Forecast by Region
Spending Forecast Analysis
Forecast Analysis by Region
Forecast Analysis by Region (continued)
Forecast Analysis by Industry Vertical
Forecast Analysis by Industry Vertical (continued)
Pricing Trends and Forecast Analysis
Growth Metrics—Law Enforcement
Spending and Growth Forecast—Law Enforcement
Spending Forecast by Region—Law Enforcement
Forecast Analysis
Forecast Analysis by Region—Law Enforcement
Forecast Analysis by Region—Law Enforcement (continued)
Growth Metrics—Airports
Spending and Growth Forecast—Airports
Spending Forecast by Region—Airports
Forecast Analysis
Forecast Analysis by Region—Airports
Forecast Analysis by Region—Airports (continued)
Growth Metrics—Enterprise
Spending and Growth Forecast—Enterprise
Spending Forecast by Region—Enterprise
Forecast Analysis
Forecast Analysis by Region—Enterprise
Forecast Analysis by Region—Enterprise (continued)
Growth Metrics, Retail
Spending and Growth Forecast, Retail
Spending Forecast by Region—Retail
Forecast Analysis
Forecast Analysis by Region—Retail
Forecast Analysis by Region—Retail (continued)
Growth Metrics, Banking and Financial Services
Spending and Growth Forecast—Banking and Financial Services
Spending Forecast by Region—Banking and Financial Services
Forecast Analysis
Forecast Analysis by Region—Banking and Financial Services
Forecast Analysis by Region—Banking and Financial Services (continued)
Growth Metrics—Utilities
Spending and Growth Forecast—Utilities
Spending Forecast by Region—Utilities
Forecast Analysis
Forecast Analysis by Region—Utilities
Forecast Analysis by Region—Utilities (continued)
Growth Opportunity 1—Adopting Cloud-based Architecture for Access Control Systems
Growth Opportunity 1—Adopting Cloud-based Architecture for Access Control Systems (continued)
Growth Opportunity 2—Convergence of Legacy Systems with New Access Control Capabilities
Growth Opportunity 2—Convergence of Legacy Systems with New Access Control Capabilities (continued)
Growth Opportunity 3—Improving Cybersecurity Measures Due to Growing Emerging Threats
Growth Opportunity 3—Improving Cybersecurity Measures Due to Growing Emerging Threats (continued)
Growth Opportunity 4—Increased Use of Mobile Credentials and Biometrics
Growth Opportunity 4—Increased Use of Mobile Credentials and Biometrics (continued)
Growth Opportunity 5—Implementing Two-factor Authentication to Enhance Security Protocols
Growth Opportunity 5—Implementing Two-factor Authentication to Enhance Security Protocols (continued)
Best Practice Recognition
Frost Radar
Benefits and Impacts of Growth Opportunities
Next Steps
List of Exhibits
List of Exhibits (continued)
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- Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics, Global, 2023
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Drivers, Global, 2024–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Restraints, Global, 2024–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast, Global, 2023–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Spending Forecast by Customer Vertical, 2023–2030?
- Access Control Solutions: Spending Forecast by Region, 2023–2030?
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Law Enforcement, Global, 2023
- Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Law Enforcement, Global, 2023–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Spending by Region, 2023–2030?
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Airports, Global, 2023
- Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Airports, Global, 2023–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Enterprise, Global, 2023
- Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Enterprise, Global, 2023–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Retail, Global, 2023
- Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Retail, Global, 2023–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Spending by Region, 2023–2030?
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Banking and Financial Services, Global, 2023
- Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Banking and Financial Services, Global, 2023–2030
- Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Utilities, Global, 2023
- Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Utilities, Global, 2023–2030
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| Deliverable Type | Market Research |
|---|---|
| Author | Dolores Aleman |
| Industries | Aerospace, Defence and Security |
| No Index | No |
| Is Prebook | No |
| Keyword 1 | Access Control Solutions |
| Keyword 2 | Global Security Market |
| Keyword 3 | Access Control Innovations |
| List of Charts and Figures | Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics, Global, 2023~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Drivers, Global, 2024–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Restraints, Global, 2024–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast, Global, 2023–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Spending Forecast by Customer Vertical, 2023–2030?~ Access Control Solutions: Spending Forecast by Region, 2023–2030?~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Law Enforcement, Global, 2023~ Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Law Enforcement, Global, 2023–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Spending by Region, 2023–2030?~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Airports, Global, 2023~ Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Airports, Global, 2023–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Enterprise, Global, 2023~ Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Enterprise, Global, 2023–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Retail, Global, 2023~ Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Retail, Global, 2023–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Spending by Region, 2023–2030?~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Banking and Financial Services, Global, 2023~ Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Banking and Financial Services, Global, 2023–2030~ Access Control Solutions: Growth Metrics for Utilities, Global, 2023~ Access Control Solutions: Spending and Growth Forecast for Utilities, Global, 2023–2030~ |
| Podcast | No |
| Predecessor | K760-01-00-00-00 |
| WIP Number | KA8F-01-00-00-00 |
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