Vishwanath Kulkarni, Director – South Asia, HID Global

“Rising security concerns are propelling the growth and demand for access control and authentication solutions across industry verticals globally. According to Transparency Market Research, the global wireless access control market is likely to be worth USD 1,657 million by the end of 2025. In the Asia Pacific, the market is expected to surge at the highest CAGR of 9.3% in terms of revenue as services industry seeks to invest in better security measures.

India continues to remain a key market for HID Global worldwide. With increased demand for a holistic security and the proliferation of smartphones, we are seeing a strong upward trend for deploying advanced, more secure access control solutions in India. We are also seeing a huge enterprise focus around IoT and the convergence of physical and digital security.

HID is focused on offerings that help organizations create more connected and smart environments, including solutions, services, investments and alliances that expand the capabilities of trusted IDs and cloud-based solutions across a growing range of access control, authentication and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

HID believes that increased cloud and mobile access adoption, more focus on securing the Internet of Things (IoT), and data analytics are some of the top trends that will take the centre stage in developing more intelligent, connected experiences in 2018.

HID has always focused on bringing in new technologies that can power trusted identities of people, organizations and things. Our channel partners are one of our core strengths. We are focusing extensively on scaling our existing partner network and enabling their growth in the security domain by building their capabilities according to the current market demand as well as trends.”