Information and analysis company IHS Markit has made its predictions for electronic access control for the year 2017. According to its report, the access control market will increase this year by 6.8%, exceeding $4.2 billion. The company says deeper integrations with video surveillance, business processes and IOT will ensure that access control continues to play a larger role in enterprise. IT, integration and mobility (remote connectivity) specialists are expected to see more growth as logical/physical security integrations together with remote services such as access-control-as-a-service are expected to be some of the top trends. Mobile credentials and biometrics will be two of the top hardware trends to watch.