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Original Research

Residential
Access

ASCENDS

While the pandemic
proved problematic
in 2020, access
control profıts
continued for many
pros. The best
news came from
the home market,
with commercial/
industrial being
more restricted. SSI's
2021 Access Control
Deep Dive tells the
full story.
By Scott Goldfıne
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ith the pandemic vaccines in
full rollout as of this writing, the
hope is that America's collective
COVID-19 immunity will be
improved immensely. While to widely varied
degrees this ordeal has left scarcely any aspect
of life as we know it unscathed, the majority of
those doing business in the electronic security
industry are feeling especially thankful. That's
because the decades-old adage that security is
in demand when things are good because people are willing to spend money and also when
things are bad because they want to safeguard
what they have once again proved true during
2020. Time and time again, security has shown
itself to be resistant if not immune to economic
and societal crises.
Drilling down more finely to one of the leading security systems sectors, access control, the
latest research backs up that premise with the
market continuing to exhibit growth - albeit
less robust than pre-pandemic. Respondents to

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Security Sales & Integration's 2021 Access Control Deep Dive survey indicated around 9%
growth, but that is down 7 percentage points
as compared to 2019 and off a whopping 16
points from the cumulative total of the past five
years. Nearly one in five reported an actual decline for 2020.
For some, the pandemic in fact served to
stimulate their access control business. That is
because devices that control where people are
permitted to go and when they do so - one of
security's fundamental and already most in-demand facets - were even more vital as contactless, contract tracing and occupancy monitoring solutions. Some of those trends will be
more profound and longer lasting than others.
From an overall market perspective, solutions ranging from basic, single-door mechanical locks to sophisticated, multibuilding
electronic and networked systems - and everything imaginable in between - have in recent years led to access control becoming one
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