Look for SIA's 'Top 8' technology advancements on the ISC West showroom floor

Times are exciting and abuzz here at Security Systems News, with thoughts of ISC West and preparation taking place for booth visits, video interviews, happy hours and dinners, and connecting/reconnecting with industry professionals to learn about new trends and offerings available for security. Personally, I enjoy talking about industry trends, new technologies and where people predict the industry to be heading in the future. It's quite fascinating when you stop to think about just 10 years ago and how far the security industry has come since.

The Security Industry Association (SIA) shared the top eight technological advancements the organization feels is most significantly impacting physical and cybersecurity and public safety. Here's what to look for on the showroom floor:

1. Cloud - Video surveillance as a service (VSaaS), specifically recording, storage, management, analytics and monitoring solutions in the cloud, especially residential video with low camera counts, according to Joseph Gittens, director of standards, SIA, via ISC West's website.
2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) - analytics applications for automated motion and trespassing detection, advanced algorithms performing identification and categorization within scenes and systems, and leveraging data from multiple sensors to help reduce false alarms and enhance home automation.
3. Robotics/autonomous systems - improvements in robotics and drones around AI, power storage and mobility, in which many companies are allowing users to pay for services provided by these security solutions.
4. Mobile credentials - SIA predicts the public will become comfortable using these credentials to complete transactions other than access control. In turn, more commercial security installations should be seen along with systems migrating into unified systems that grant and manage access.
5. Security audio - specialized solutions that monitor and apply analytics to audio. Audio can also be a lucrative value add-on to video security systems.
6. Facial biometrics - look for solutions that provide acute verification accuracy and more affordability with these solution offerings.
7. 5G LTE - glimpses of mobile video security solutions with public safety and smart cities applications.
8. Voice control - new home security and home automation products with existing or “coming soon” integration with voice control/smart speaker providers.

Let's go on a treasure hunt at ISC West 2019! When you see one of these technologies in action on the showroom floor, take a picture or short video and tweet it to our hashtag #SSNTalks and tag our editors @SSN_Editor and @SSN_Ginger!