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July/August 2015 • SECURITY TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE 25 www.SecurityInfoWatch.com Ignite Growth Wireless solutions have become more accessible, more affordable and easier to install in recent years. Today, they no longer require a wire to the door and there are fewer configuration steps than before. Image Courtesy of BigStock.com they offer a real-time solution that's compatible with nearly all brands of access control. Wire- less systems can be applied anywhere a lock is installed. But there are certain applications that lend themselves particularly well to wireless, such as older buildings that would be difficult or impossible to hardwire. Julian Lovelock, HID Global: In the net- worked access environment, wireless intelligent locksets are the first step to untethered connec- tivity and will become more prevalent as new lower-cost, energy-efficient models are intro- duced to the market. Along with the move to wireless electronic locks, we also are seeing the adoption of mobile access control with phones and other smart devices that can act as trusted credentials. By using interoperable, open-archi- tecture IP-based intelligent controllers, users will have a broad range of both basic and wire- less intelligent readers to choose from, that pro- vide access to multiple credential technologies on cards and mobile devices. Jennifer Stack, Salto: The penetration rate of wireless systems depends of course on what one considers as the total market size. If the reference point is the overall market of total access control, then six percent for wireless sys- tems may be the figure. However in SALTO, we have both our pioneering wire-free system of offline locks using the SALTO Virtual Network, as well as our wireless system providing real- time access control. In terms of market drivers that are most important to increasing the use of wireless systems, what we have seen is that it depends greatly on awareness of security pro- fessionals towards new technologies and func- tionalities. In many markets, especially where labor costs are relatively low, security managers still think that access control equals hard-wired solutions. In these types of contexts the chal- lenge is in educating the market in seeing that hard-wired access control is not the only type of access control. Wire-free and wireless solutions are both outstanding alternatives and can also be used very successfully in combination with