With 2025 drawing to a close and 2026 on the horizon, Security Sales & Integration released the annual Year-End Trend-Setting Technologies list. These solutions are reshaping the physical and electronic security sector.
For a second straight year, the editorial team consulted suppliers and distributors to determine which products earned a spot on this roster. The honorees will be revealed in three segments: an initial group today, followed by five more products on Wednesday and another five on Friday.
Criteria focused on alignment with recent industry shifts, including a growing focus on access control and visitor management, the rise of cloud-based systems, the application of artificial intelligence to streamline workflows and improve analytics, and tools designed to counter the escalating threat of gun violence.
Featured solutions span categories such as networked video cameras, smart door readers and unified platforms that combine alarm monitoring with visitor screening. Both startups and established vendors are represented, and each entry underwent review for scalability, integration ease and performance in real-world scenarios.
Several honorees offer gunfire detection systems that use acoustic sensors and real-time alerts. AI-driven visitor management platforms automate badge issuance and entry logging. Remote management dashboards and data redundancy are highlighted in cloud-enabled deployments, and mobile credential support appears across multiple access control solutions.
Readers can explore the editors’ selections for the 2025 SSI Year-End Trend-Setting Technologies initiative in the following pages. All product details, specifications and claims are supplied by this year’s honorees. Entries appear in alphabetical order by company name.
