Ongoing and emerging trends
Mature and suitable: edge storage (3), edge analytics (4), hybrid-cloud architecture (5) and 5G wireless communication (6); Not as mature nor as suitable: digital twins (1) and augmented reality (2).
5G and edge computing are two technologies that work hand in hand, 5G (voted not mature last year) increases speed while edge computing reduces latency. Users want more processing on end devices, facilitated by advances in edge analytics and edge storage. Digital twins and augmented reality still have room to grow but their potential for optimizing security applications appear quite promising.
Access control
Mature and suitable: Multimodal biometrics (3), Mobile access control (4) and Multifactor authentication (5);
Not as mature nor as suitable: cloud access control (2);
Mature but not as suitable: Unimodal biometrics (1)
With smartphones always on hand and touchless authentication on the rise, mobile credentials have become increasingly mainstream, but readers feel cloud access control still has room to grow and mature. Multimodal and multifactor authentication trumped unimodal biometrics as users can benefit from better accuracy and speed.
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Video Surveillance
Mature and suitable: Low light color cameras (4), AI video search for people/vehicles (5), bi-spectrum camera- thermal + visible light (3);
Not so mature nor suitable: 8K resolution (1), cloud video surveillance (2)
Advances in low light color technology lead to their popularity over bi-spectrum cameras. AI video search for people/vehicles was voted the most mature and suitable out of all AI features. Cloud surveillance adoption is still slow but should pick up as it matures; while 8K may face issues with price and distribution.
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