International. HID Global recently sponsored a study exploring how access control infrastructure combined with trusted IDs is able to connect disparate systems for optimal monitoring and a better user experience. According to the report, 60% of the people surveyed consider that having the possibility of accessing all services and spaces using a single card or a mobile device will give them greater operational efficiency.
Most people want to work in smart, connected spaces and have agile business applications that respond to and integrate into those spaces. The ideal, for many, is to have access to integrated solutions and venues that allow employees to take full advantage of the technological benefits available without incurring onerous expenses. These were some of the conclusions of the study conducted by IFSEC Global with the sponsorship of HID Global.
According to Ashish Malpani, Director of Product Marketing at HID Global, "The study reveals how trusted IDs offer a viable alternative to achieving a connected building at a lower cost, with a better return on investment and a better experience for users, all by providing identification systems and their access authorizations to enter elevators, garages, vending machines, printers and other systems."
The vast majority of respondents (60%) said they had integrated their access control systems with other building systems, while 45% said that for the near future they would be interested in integrating asset tracking systems, converged physical and logical access control systems (40%), multi-factor authentication systems (46%) and the use of several simultaneous identification formats such as mobile devices and cards (41%).
Another important finding in the study is that people are increasingly familiar with the Internet of Things (IoT): 86% of respondents said they had "a lot of knowledge" or "modest knowledge" about the subject. Trusted IDs can help organizations take a first step toward integrating building systems, securing, customizing, and enhancing IoT applications that help connect people, places, and things, to achieve a more connected workplace.
IoT: growing trend in Latin America
This study is especially relevant in Latin America if one takes into account that, according to data available on the network, this region will reach 200 million users of mobile devices with smart applications for everyday tasks in 2017.
Countries such as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico have already presented different initiatives, plans and government policies to promote the advancement of the IoT with the aim of transforming the main cities of the region into smart, supporting and improving the construction of smart buildings and protecting technological tools and processes such as transactions, identification and interaction.
According to the consultancy IDC, in Latin America the IoT is a market that exceeds US $ 250,000 million. Brazil and Mexico rank first with 18 and 10 million connected devices, respectively, followed by Argentina and Colombia with four and three million connected devices, respectively, according to the Digital Economy Outlook report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
