GIT SECURITY: How does STid’s growth in the ­Middle East ­compare to the rest of the world?

Bastien Castets: STid is active worldwide and has over 700 clients and partners in 55 countries around the world. In the Middle East, STid’s local team has shown tremendous growth: our turnover has increased fivefold in five years, resulting in a CAGR of 40 % since 2017. This regional success has led us to open a brand new office in Dubai. This new office enables us to provide the best possible sales and technical support to existing and new customers in the region. We are equipped with a training and demonstration area, centered around our high security solutions for vehicle and people identification.
We are now able to welcome our clients, provide the best possible local training and demonstrate great levels of responsiveness and a proactive attitude to supporting their projects. We have always tried to carefully adapt to the needs and the requirements of our clients throughout the Middle East region. This has already resulted in great installations being deployed.

How do you explain this great international success?

Bastien Castets: Current trends in society are beneficial to the security industry. Companies all over the world and across all industries are faced with increased security threats. STid has been able to establish a solid market position by combining two seemingly contradictory needs: the requirement for flawless security from security departments and the necessity for a seamless user experience by removing identification restraints. With STid, access control becomes instinctive and ensures proper data protection. Our access control solutions are future-proof and can be easily adapted to changing customer needs. In total freedom.

What does “in total freedom” mean?

Bastien Castets: STid promotes open technology and is opposed to so-called “vendor lock-ins”. The access control market is anticipating the end of outdated, proprietary solutions. Since the inception of STid, we made the explicit decision not to ever lock our customers into their own security solutions. This is another strong differentiator for STid in this access control market. When you install a new lock at home, you don’t hand over a duplicate key to your lock-installer. This should be exactly the same in corporate security. You must be able to operate your security systems autonomous and independent from suppliers, so that you are in total control of your security strategy and have ultimate freedom in choosing the technology and solutions that suit your needs best.

Intersec 2023: Spotlight of STid’s high security solutions

Make Access Control Instinctive
STid Mobile ID is a solution that simplifies managing and issuing virtual cards by storing them on smartphones. The system can be used in combination with conventional access cards. The system manages physical employee access, the reception of visitors, access to a parking area and it can grant access to any type of service. Access privileges to buildings are based upon corporate user profiles. Administrators can issue, update or revoke thousands of access cards with just one click of the mouse. STid guarantees flawless communication based on end-to-end security between the credential and the reader (with Mifare Desfire EV2/EV3 technologies or STid Mobile ID), and also between the reader and the controller/local processing unit while supporting Wiegand, OSDP and SSCP protocols

Best Choice to Secure Parking Access
The Spectre nano is the compact mid-range reader (up to 6 meters reading distance) of STid’s Spectre UHF reader portfolio. By offering the best size/performance ratio on the market, it helps to reinforce security levels by supporting identification of both the vehicle and its driver. This solution is made possible by combining UHF RFID with Bluetooth technology. Completely intgrated into the STid Mobile ID ecosystem, the Spectre nano allows the use of virtual badges for both vehicle and people access. The device is extremely robust (IK10 and IP65) and it has an anti-tamper feature: the security keys are automatically destroyed in the event of attempted vandalism. Spectre nano has recently won the ESX Innovation Award, the Detector International Award and SecurityInfoWatch.com Readers› Choice Award and is on display at Intersec.