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Embracing the Evolution: How Proptech Is Transforming the Security Industry

SIA’s Built Environment Advisory Board defined proptech, or property technology in its long form, as “Technology connecting people and information to simplify how commercial real estate is owned, sold, managed, operated, researched, rented or bought and invested in.” The security industry historically protected commercial real estate (CRE) assets (how CRE owners refer to buildings) and…

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Making the Connection Between Smart Buildings and Physical Security Solutions

Coming from a long background in the physical security space, I have found it remarkable to learn that residing in every commercial building alongside the video management system is an adjacent building management system (BMS). Even more amazing is the majority of these systems are installed, serviced and managed by different companies, departments and people.…

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The Added Value of Security Data for Proptech

According to Snowflake Inc., a data warehouse usually consists of data sources from operational and transactional systems. But wait, doesn’t that describe an access control system? And if so, why is it taking companies so long to consider security systems as one of the fundamental data sources for any data warehousing solution?  I mean, the data has always been there – right? There are in fact…

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