Year: 2022

360 Vision Technology, the UK manufacturer of rugged HD, hybrid, radar and thermal PTZ imaging cameras, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dani Townsend to the role of Sales & Marketing Executive.

In her new role at 360 Vision, Dani will join the company developing new customer relationships, new business leads and maximising sales through new and existing customers, whilst helping to maintain the high level of service and support 360 Vision customers have come to expect.

Joining 360 Vision from AMG Systems, Dani brings a wealth of experience in account management, sales support and customer relationship support.

“Throughout my experience in the security industry, I have seen the tangible benefits and commitment British technology manufacturers can bring to the security market,” says Dani. “In this domain, 360 Vision stands out for its commitment to quality, customer care and offering the very latest camera surveillance technology for deployment across an ever-expanding mix of applications. I can’t wait to start my journey with this highly respected British brand.”

The latest market report from Berg Insight show that the North American market for home and small business security systems is proportionately more than three times larger than the European market.

The overall penetration rate among the around 150 million households and businesses in North America was 21.5 percent, compared with an overall penetration rate of 6.8 percent among the around 245 million households and small businesses in Europe.

There were, according to the researchers, an estimated 32.3 million active monitored alarm systems in the US and Canada at the end of 2020, and about 16.8 million active monitored alarm systems in Europe (EU27 + 3) at the end of 2020.

Growth potential in Europe

This market data, says Berg Insight, thus indicates a significant growth potential for alarm systems in the European market, especially in the residential segment where the current penetration is only 5.6 percent. However, growth on The European market is anticipated to vary considerably from country to country in the next few years. The Nordic market is forecasted to grow the fastest, while other major markets in Europe will show less growth due to high market fragmentation and fewer specialist alarm service companies that actively market solutions. In both Europe and North America, interactive security services and smart home products are key growth drivers in the home security market.

Diverse range of players

Companies from a wide range of industries offer home and small business security systems on the European and North American markets. The traditional home security systems market is served by specialist home security companies such as ADT, Verisure, Brinks Home Security (Monitronics) and Sector Alarm; security service companies such as Prosegur, Securitas and G4S; telecommunications and cable television companies such as Comcast, Telus, Cox Communications and Bell Canada; as well as utilities, banks and insurance companies such as EPS (Crédit Mutuel), Crédit Agricole and Groupama. The DIY home security systems market is led by start-ups such as Frontpoint, Simplisafe, Ajax Systems, Ring (Amazon) and Wyze Labs. DIY security systems typically include self-monitoring as a standard feature and professional alarm monitoring services are offered as an option.

The leading players

ADT is the leading provider of professionally monitored alarm systems in North America with 6.5 million residential and business customers at the end of 2020. ADT is followed by Vivint, Comcast, Simplisafe and Brinks Home Security (Monitronics), all with between 900,000 and 1.7 million monitored alarm system customers at the end of 2020. In the US, only a few market players offer services nationwide. Instead there are several smaller home security providers with a strong local presence. In Europe, Verisure is the clear market leader with 3.8 million residential and small business customers. The company is active in 12 European countries and four countries in South America. Other leading players in Europe are Sector Alarm and EPS Télésurveillance, a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel, both with more than 500,000 monitored alarm systems at the end of 2020.

Morse Watchmans will join TouchPoint’s Intelligent Inventory Management platform, which focuses on developing inventory management solutions that enable the secure, accurate and efficient management of consumable inventory and high value assets in a variety of end markets. Morse Watchmans provides customized, technologically advanced key control and asset management systems that integrate with access control and other physical security systems. Morse Watchmans proprietary software, RFID technology and innovative hardware configurations provide businesses with proven security products.

Morse Watchmans serves a variety of end markets including security, hospitality, education, gaming, property management and data centers. As the market leader, they have earned an outstanding reputation for quality, innovation, customer service and loyalty.

“We are excited to add the Morse Watchmans technology, expertise and solutions to our Intelligent Inventory Management business, as this expanded offering further enhances our ability to create value for our customers,” said Brian McNeill, chairman, president & CEO of TouchPoint. “Morse Watchmans is a terrific addition to TouchPoint’s growing Intelligent Inventory Management platform. It strengthens our global position in the growing security and asset management markets.”

Assa Abloy has acquired approximately 85.7% of the shares in Małkowski-Martech S.A. from the Małkowski family, through an off-market transaction. The purchase price for the 85.7% of the shares in the company amounts to approximately MEUR 7,28.

Małkowski-Martech is a Polish producer of fire rated curtains and gates.

“The addition of market leading fire rated curtains and gates from Małkowski-Martech strengthens our commercial fire rated door product portfolio. The combined offering allows us to even better address the customer needs for flexibility in building design and ease of installation,” says Neil Vann, Executive Vice President of Assa Abloy and Head of EMEIA Division.

Małkowski-Martech was established in 2000 and has some 150 employees. The main office is located in Czołowo, Poland.

Sales for 2020 amounted to about MEUR 11 with a good EBIT margin. The acquisition will be accretive to EPS from the start.

When Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) launched the first commercial SIM card 30 years ago, its success could not have been predicted. Since then, however, the smart card has come to be used billions of times every day around the world and has an indispensable part of almost everyone’s mobile life.

The success story began in 1991, when G+D delivered the first commercial SIM to a telecommunications company in Finland. Originally, it was just an authentication tool that enabled simple cell phones to communicate. Since then, the SIM has evolved into a multifunctional security tool that supports numerous applications: from mobile banking to the connected car.

Simply put, the SIM enables secure access to the mobile network, since users must authenticate themselves to use a given network. Via a SIM card, users are granted the right to use a network from the network operator.

G+D has played a key role in shaping the design and possible uses of the SIM: for example in the further development of SIM cards for new network technologies through the early GSM standards to today’s 5G, or in the increasing miniaturisation of the SIM, from credit card size to micro and nano SIM cards to chips soldered directly in the device. G+D’s leading role in the SIM segment can also be seen in numbers: Over the past 30 years, the company has sold nearly 10 billion SIM cards to mobile network operators.

Life changing technology

The success of the SIM is inevitably linked to the triumph of the mobile phone. Without a SIM, telephones would be unable to function on the go, and mobile apps would not be possible.

But the SIM success story does not end with the ever-present smartphones. Other application scenarios that would never be feasible without SIM include:

• The smart home with control of door locks, heating systems, washing machines or kitchen appliances
• The connected car, where services such as infotainment and navigation systems, eCall emergency call systems or digital car keys are provided through network connectivity
• Wearables, such as smartwatches, fitness and health trackers.

The list of possible applications supported by SIM technology goes on – and development is not stopping. The embedded SIM (eSIM for short), which is permanently installed as a chip in devices, plays a key role in these new fields of application. An eSIM management solution supports simple remote activation of mobile connectivity. The fact that the latest smartphones, smartwatches or tablets are increasingly being equipped with eSIM technology brings far-reaching advantages: from the simple and fast digital activation of a mobile communications contract to the use of a local mobile communications provider for making phone calls and surfing while travelling.

SIM and the IoT

But it is not only the consumer market that is benefiting from the new eSIM technologies. The Internet of Things (IoT) sector in particular is growing dynamically. More and more devices are being networked, such as simple sensors, meters, fleet containers or agricultural monitors, which need to exchange information with each other.

This SIM technology plays a critical role in IoT devices and end-to-end management of IoT applications. Dedicated IoT SIM products are required to successfully deploy the vast number of devices in the IoT, since IoT scenarios cannot be meaningfully implemented with classic plug-in SIM cards.

G+D continues to work actively on new solutions. With the so-called integrated SIM, the already small card becomes even smaller, because it is connected as a component directly to the baseband module of the device. Its space requirements and power consumption are therefore even lower, which means it meets the key requirements of IoT manufacturers.