How will the access control card market in the future be developed in the future?

One card for access control is the integration of access control and the one-card system. Its scope penetrates into all areas of society and plays an increasingly important role. In addition to access control, attendance, and other necessary integration and linkage with other intelligent systems, such as anti-theft alarm, building automation system and so on. 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. Then, what is the status quo of the access control market and what direction should the access control be heading towards?

Through technological innovation and market upgrading, the traditional magnetic stripe card technology and proximity card technology have been difficult to meet market demand. Customers expect to subvert the technology of access control card market and gain greater market space and product profitability. With the popularization 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.

At the same time, IP-based access control technologies have 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 means of access control, which will allow us to connect with wired and wireless devices, locks, and switches. We will combine basic cards and wireless smart cards with multiple voucher technologies to make our first line of defense " The door has become more secure and reliable.

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. Then, 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 do everyone think?

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, and 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 the access control products. The access control system is more flexible and convenient to operate, enhance product responsiveness, and enhance the user experience are all innovative directions, and also make breakthroughs in the following aspects:

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 the machinery. Each of our manufacturing processes is ahead of international standards, and each part is manufactured through sophisticated technology and can stand the test of time." Each product must 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 access control. The access control card is a set of software and hardware compatible platforms. It adopts the architecture model 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, visitor systems, and consumption, the card platform can also ensure that the system can be easily accessed (including hardware and software) such as elevators, visitors, conference sign-in, and electronic patrols. 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 is 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.

In the context of smart cities, in connection with objects or identification, the access control system was originally applied to RFID or related technologies. Therefore, the access control system can be said to be a small, practical application version of the Internet of Things. The breadth of application development is now the Internet of Things that people in various fields talk about, and the Internet of Things is also a core foundation for the construction of smart cities.

With cloud computing and deep application of big data in the industry, we can foresee that more products in the future will support big data analysis, cloud storage, and other functions. It will be more convenient to connect other devices as the node of the Internet of Things and the future of the access control market. Can be expected.

1, near-field technology to achieve access control remote control

The biggest change is the huge change in the carrier of the card market. Everyone prefers to operate the access control system with a mobile phone. Using the 3G/4G communication capabilities of mobile phones, it will further expand the use of mobile phones as an alternative to "one-card" application scenarios (access control, visitors, attendance, consumption, parking, vehicle search, third-party payment, etc.). Simultaneously with the mobile phone Bluetooth technology or NFC to achieve the interaction with the device. For example, the "access control card" mode, which can be opened by the mobile phone "shake", has been popularized by the market.

In the future, mobile phones are access control cards. For example, in Central's smart product line, you can open the door by swiping the QR code at the channel gate through the mobile phone APP. When a guest visits, the owner directly uses the APP to generate a “two-dimensional code pass” through WeChat. Or send a text message to the other party, eliminating a series of tedious processes such as registration at the front desk, and even making a cell phone call directly upstairs.

2, biometric explosive growth

The biometric technologies represented by face recognition, iris, finger veins and other technologies have broken through the scope of the industry to the public view, and can be said to be the most approachable, high-tech, high-tech people through personal experience, media campaigns, Internet BBA giants The application of wild bombing has long been well known.

The access control gradually evolved from the management of access rights to personnel to a management of people and provided data applications such as personnel density statistics/track tracking analysis/gender identification. Biometrics from the biological point of view, the characteristics of the person to be positioned to more accurately determine the identity of the personnel, which is the accuracy of any password and RFID card can not be compared. This fully explains why biometric applications are used in the field of access control management, and they have become more and more important, and can become an important means of business analysis.

3, standardization construction long way to go

The industry has circulated such a saying: The standard is not uniform, and it is difficult to use a single card. The lag in standards has plagued the openness of access control systems, affecting the interface protocols of various subsystems and the functions that can be achieved through interfaces. Mainly in:

First of all, the format between the card and the reader is various. Commonly there are EM, Mifare 1, etc. Cards of various formats are incompatible with each other and need to be configured accordingly. Secondly, there are many ways to transmit signals between card readers and access controllers, including Wiegand, RS485, ABA (Megnetic), and RS232. Among them Wiegand's commonly used ones are divided into Wiegand26, Wiegand32, Wiegand34 and so on.

In addition, the communication methods between the access controller and the PC software include RS485, RS232, and TCP/IP. Although the current trend is TCP/IP, no unified standard has been formed.

In addition, there is also a lack of uniform standards among the various subsystems of the access control card. Unlike the BAS system, there are industry-standard OPC protocols, so it will take more human and material resources to start system integration.

4, Internet + product form formation

Last year we talked about the phenomenon of the cloudization of access control/entry products. In order to adapt to this new change, companies have transformed their Internet forms and innovative models. The product form continues to move toward the Internet, miniaturization, and standardization. We look at the product category:

The structure design of the reader is more concerned with the combination of the environment, the demand for customized products, and the products that are compatible with multiple protocols are more popular. At the same time, products with WIFI function appear to facilitate Internet connection management.

The access control host uses an IP-based access control system and a convenient wireless solution to achieve higher security and multi-system integration capabilities for electronic access control systems. The IP-based access control system brings many benefits, including simple system operation, expansion and customization, and the ability to combine physical access control systems with solutions in many other identical networks.

Smart door locks are integrated products that combine electronic technology, integrated circuit design, and a large number of electronic components, combined with a variety of innovative identification technologies (including biometrics, built-in software cards, network alarms, and mechanical lock design).

When various IT technologies and mobile phone technologies began to integrate more with access control products, users are more concerned about the product's experience. At present, the interaction between reading and writing devices and people, experiential touch buttons and multi-functional voice recognition have become very popular design solutions for reading heads, attendance machines, and integrated access controllers. In addition, the access control read head design integrates security and interactive functions in functions and concepts, such as integrated intercom, human-machine interface, clock display, and wireless communication. These will continue to be the development direction of access control system products after 2016.

Under the influence of Internet+, Internet of Things and mobile intelligence, the access control card technology and these concept innovations and integrations have entered a new stage. The third-party service and operation of the emerging security service industry are unprecedentedly active. These have raised the level of customization of product services. The request. In 2017, the domestic access control market will continue to face new technological upgrades and technological revolutions. The access control card market is still in a transitional period and an opportunity period. When access control companies with a certain technological outlook and open-minded vision grasp new opportunities in industrial technology development It will have the opportunity of rapid development.