Open platforms and IP drive ISC West announcements
Partnership between HID and Lenel underscores interoperability push
Day 1 of ISC West saw plenty of new IP security solutions rolled out as well as business plans and partnerships formed with an eye on open platforms. Despite the fact that the physical security industry still has a reputation for being "fragmented" and "proprietary," strides are being made to standards and open architectures allowing for vendor interoperability and increased flexibility for end users to design new projects and scale existing ones.
In that theme, HID Global held a press conferences on the first day of the show to announce that the company's Edge access control solutions (an IP-based access control solution that the company first previewed last year) would be incorporated into Lenel's OnGuard 2008 Plus. Denis Hebert, president and CEO, HID Global, and Luis Orbegoso, president, Lenel, made the announcement together on Wednesday afternoon.
"Customers are looking for flexibility," said Lenel's Orbegoso, noting that doors will be controlled at a lower installed cost per door. Orbegoso noted that scalability was part of this initiative, and he noted that HID's Edge products give customers the chance to grow with Lenel as their needs change.