Latch Acquires Property Management Business, Pursues Vertical Integration
As the latest of a series of turnaround moves, Latch has purchased a property management firm to vertically integrate property management...
As the latest of a series of turnaround moves, Latch has purchased a property management firm to vertically integrate property management...
The risks posed by classroom locks are known by security professionals, and now the DOJ has recommended replacing them. In this report, we...
While locks can look the same, they often function in significantly different ways. To make understanding them simpler, widely adopted industry...
Lock-in is a significant problem for high-frequency HID access control (SE, Seos, even HID DESFire, etc.), with the mega-manufacturer tightly...
Classroom lockdowns have become a very popular yet controversial response to school shootings. Now, the DOJ is recommending schools reconsider...
Multiple companies presented smart locks at CES 2024 this year, but some locks stood out as they are based on atypical technologies, such as palm...
ZKTeco announced the US 'factory' in 2020, but a lack of credible details, changing its proposed location twice, reducing its initial planned...
After facing a 90% decline in its stock price, de-listing from the NASDAQ, and lawsuits from investors, Latch announced it will rebrand itself as...
Assa Abloy is one of the largest access control manufacturers, recently settling with the DoJ over anti-trust concerns. Assa reported growth in...
Evolv has become one of the most widely reported physical security companies, in just 2 years after raising nearly a half billion dollars SPACing,...
Mechanical keys are one of the most fundamental forms of access control. 'Master Keying' can allow individually different credential keys to...
With backpacks increasingly being banned and IoT coming even to lockers, new-generation smart lockers may gain mass adoption, but how do they...
An Austrian company, Stiwa Group, is offering a lock fundamentally different than conventional ones, using shape memory alloys but what...
Having acquired 5 more companies in the last 2 years, Motorola is now consolidating its brands and platforms, but what do integrators think about...
In the March 2023 Nashville school shooting, the perpetrator entered by shooting the glass window raising questions about using security windows...
IPVM has finished covering the entire show with our largest and most comprehensive show report ever. In our final entry, we cover: 5 major...
A former Latch sales director filed an investor class action suit against the company, alleging that Latch misrepresented "nearly every key...
With concerns over Dahua and Hikvision rising in Europe, Partizan, a Czechia company, has gained ground and attention. However, questions remain...
Few terms carry greater importance—or cause more confusion—in access control than 'fail safe' and 'fail secure.' Access control professionals...
Mobile and cloud are the emerging trends in access control, but these systems will continue to be grounded in the appropriate selection and usage...
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Verkada has won a mega-deal with a small school district, bundling all of Verkada's 5 product categories at strong profit margins, with an emerging...
Mega providers such as Allegion, Assa Abloy, and Dorma Kaba are widely used but who are integrator's favorites? We asked integrators: "What is...
Single-point bolted doors are notoriously vulnerable to forced entry, and even hardware that costs thousands of dollars can still leave doors...
The simplicity of duplicating keys worries security professionals. Worse, the popularity of 3D printing has exacerbated this: bad actors using...
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