In the recently completed SDM 100 article in SDM Magazine, top security dealers identified several challenges they had faced in 2022 and continue to face in 2023.

With many of this year’s SDM 100 companies expressing concerns about inflation, rising costs and price increases from their suppliers, Mike Barnes, president of Barnes Associates, addresses the need to consider raising installation AND monitoring prices.

Like the rest of the economy, the security industry is facing down a number of challenges during the second quarter of 2023.

SDM 100 companies reported a wide variety of experiences in 2022, very much depending on the path, location and unique set of challenges that made up their business conditions last year. As a group, however, they continue to rise to the challenges put before them and find their individual path to success.

Access Control as a Service offers a wide range of advantages over on-premises systems that help dealers and integrators close deals by providing end customers significant cost-savings, convenience and expanded security capabilities.

No longer a static product category, today’s high-tech power supply products are interactive and essential to ensuring the reliability of complex security systems.

Advancements in AI are fueling newfound capabilities in the video analytics arena, expanding use cases and deployments across a range of customer types.

Here’s how some of the security industry’s most well-known software companies are continuing to match the needs of security integrators and dealers.

HID, a trusted identity and physical security solutions provider, recently unveiled the results of its first “State of the Security Industry Report,”.

When NYC developer Macklowe Properties undertook the city’s largest-ever office-to-residential conversion, its time-tested relationship with ESCC made the integrator a natural fit for the project, which won the 2023 SDM Project of the Year Award.