Johnson Controls has made its most comprehensive physical security product announcement in recent memory, unveiling a sweeping suite of next-generation access control and video security upgrades across its entire enterprise and commercial portfolio at ISC West 2026, held at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas from March 23 to 27. The announcements, made from Booth 18019, span every major platform in the Johnson Controls security ecosystem and represent what the company describes as first-to-market advances that deliver faster implementation, more accurate threat response, and industry-leading connectivity between physical security domains that have historically operated in isolation from each other.
Johnson Controls announced a series of advancements across its access control and video security portfolio at ISC West 2026 in Las Vegas. These latest releases reinforce the company’s leadership in open, scalable, and future-ready security platforms. The innovations represent first-to-market upgrades across the Johnson Controls security platforms, further differentiating the Johnson Controls ecosystem by offering faster implementation times, more accurate responses, and industry-leading connectivity between access control and video security functions.
The scale of what Johnson Controls presented at ISC West 2026 is notable not only for the technical depth of individual product announcements but for the consistency of the strategic vision that connects them. Every update, whether to C•CURE IQ, Illustra, exacqVision, or Kantech, advances the same overarching goal: a unified, intelligent, open security ecosystem that gives commercial and enterprise security operators the tools to move from reactive monitoring to proactive, automated incident management at scale.
Faisal Pandit, President of Building Management Systems at Johnson Controls, set the tone with a statement that captures the urgency behind the announcements: “Awareness isn’t optional; it’s mission critical. With new solutions, upgrades, and integrations across C•CURE IQ, Exacq, Illustra, and Kantech, we are delivering smarter access control and video systems to elevate the intelligence, speed, and accuracy of commercial and enterprise security operations.”
C•CURE IQ 3.2 with Embedded VMS and Incident Management: The Flagship Evolution
The centrepiece of Johnson Controls’ ISC West 2026 announcements is the continuing evolution of the C•CURE IQ platform from Software House, arguably the most widely deployed enterprise access control system in North America and a platform that serves some of the most demanding mission-critical security environments in the world, from federal facilities and healthcare campuses to global corporate headquarters.
The continuing evolution of C•CURE IQ from Software House empowers enterprise security operators by simplifying the integration of video surveillance, access control, and automated incident workflows. The updates deliver a practical, accessible platform for monitoring, investigation, and response for organisations of varying security complexity levels. Johnson Controls Security Products will debut C•CURE IQ 3.2 in mid-summer 2026 and introduce C•CURE IQ VMS, a next-generation video management capability embedded directly within the C•CURE IQ ecosystem.
The strategic significance of embedding a native VMS directly within C•CURE IQ cannot be overstated. For decades, the integration of video surveillance and access control systems has been the defining challenge of enterprise physical security. The two domains have traditionally been served by separate platforms, from separate vendors, requiring complex middleware integrations that introduce latency, points of failure, and the kind of operational friction that slows incident response at precisely the moments when speed matters most.
By embedding VMS capabilities directly into the access control environment, the system provides a single interface for monitoring and investigation. This architecture is specifically engineered for enterprise resilience in mission-critical settings where rapid event verification is mandatory.
The C•CURE IQ VMS offers three specific value propositions. First, a simplified video interface experience within the C•CURE IQ platform that is immediately familiar to existing users. Second, a practical and easy-to-deploy solution for existing Victor and VideoEdge customers who want native video within their access control environment without a full platform migration. Third, a streamlined first-time experience for new customers seeking connected video, access control, and event management within a single integrated platform from day one of their deployment.
Alongside the VMS capability, Johnson Controls is introducing C•CURE IQ Incident Management, a capability that represents a meaningful step forward in how enterprise security operations handle the full lifecycle of a security event. Streamlining the full incident lifecycle, the solution enables automated event-driven incident creation, guiding teams with dynamic workflows and decision trees, significantly reducing manual steps while improving audit readiness. These upgrades elevate the C•CURE platform capability to deliver uncompromising protection, intelligent threat response, and enterprise-grade resilience for mission-critical settings. KHQ
The combination of automated incident creation with dynamic decision tree guidance is technically sophisticated and operationally transformative. In a large enterprise security operation centre managing hundreds of access points and camera feeds across multiple buildings or sites, the difference between a system that generates an alert requiring a human operator to manually initiate a response workflow, and a system that automatically creates a structured incident record with guided response steps already populated, is measured in minutes of response time and hours of investigative efficiency. C•CURE IQ Incident Management closes that gap systematically, not through operator skill or training, but through platform intelligence.
Illustra Multisensor Panoramic Upgrades: AI, Resolution, and Wide-Area Coverage
Johnson Controls’ Illustra camera brand, already established as one of the most capable commercial video surveillance platforms in the physical security market, received three significant additions to its Multisensor portfolio at ISC West 2026.
Johnson Controls has released three new products within its Illustra Multisensor camera portfolio, including video capabilities that deliver high-resolution, advanced imaging and flexible deployment for end-users to operate in commercial infrastructure applications. The Panoramic Camera delivers built-in AI detection to help enable more proactive monitoring and faster incident response, combined with a 188 degree horizontal field of view for complete situational awareness from a single camera, without compromising video quality or increasing infrastructure complexity.
A 188-degree horizontal field of view from a single camera is an engineering achievement with direct operational and economic consequences. In a conventional camera deployment covering a large commercial space, a wide corridor, or a complex intersection, achieving comprehensive situational awareness might require two or three fixed cameras with their associated cabling, power infrastructure, storage licensing, and maintenance overhead. A single panoramic camera delivering equivalent or superior coverage at the same or higher resolution directly reduces the total cost of ownership of a video surveillance deployment while simplifying the system architecture.
The Multisensor Fixed is built on business intelligence capabilities focused on smart surveillance with ultra-low light sensitivity up to 65 feet to improve imaging in dark conditions. The 360 Varifocal Cameras are integrated with AI analytics, one-touch autofocus, and remote zoom and focus to allow better, customised views of wide-area coverage.
The ultra-low light sensitivity of the Multisensor Fixed, rated to 65 feet in dark conditions, addresses one of the most persistent challenges in commercial building security: maintaining image quality in the transitional lighting conditions common to parking structures, loading docks, emergency stairwells, and other spaces where reliable illumination cannot be guaranteed. Buildings that have historically accepted degraded night-time video quality as an unavoidable limitation now have a camera option that maintains investigative-quality imaging regardless of ambient light levels.
The AI analytics integration across all three new Illustra Multisensor products reflects Johnson Controls’ consistent commitment to on-device intelligence that reduces the bandwidth and storage demands of centralised analytics processing. When a camera can detect and classify behavioural anomalies, object types, and movement patterns at the edge, only the relevant events, rather than continuous raw video streams, need to be transmitted to the central management platform for operator attention. This architectural efficiency is increasingly critical as large commercial deployments scale to hundreds of cameras across distributed campuses.
exacqVision 26.0 and Kantech EntraPass 9.10: Advancing Interoperability at Scale
The latest releases of Johnson Controls’ flagship video management and access control platforms deliver capability improvements across three dimensions that matter most to enterprise security system operators: investigation speed, deployment scalability, and identity ecosystem integration.
The newly released exacqVision 26.0 and Kantech EntraPass 9.10 build on the brand’s legacy as leading video and access control solutions connecting cameras and access control points across enterprise environments. The updates enable market-recognised capabilities through enhanced in-platform search capabilities that accelerate investigation workflows and deliver faster, more precise event verification, improved scalability through streamlined credential and door management workflows supporting deployments from single sites to multi-location enterprises, and unified insights through integrated video and access control for better decision-making.
The advanced search capabilities in exacqVision 26.0 deserve particular attention from security managers who have experienced the frustrating reality of post-incident video investigation in large systems. Finding the relevant footage from a specific camera, at a specific time, in a system managing hundreds of video streams across multiple recording servers, has traditionally been a time-consuming process even for experienced operators. When minutes matter in a live incident response or hours matter in a forensic investigation, faster and more precise video search translates directly into better security outcomes and reduced operational costs.
On the access management side, EntraPass 9.10 delivers a capability that reflects the convergence of physical and logical security domains that has been a stated industry goal for years: EntraPass 9.10 enhances third-party credential integrations, including Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, to streamline identity and access management.
Native integration with Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, the two most widely deployed enterprise identity and access management platforms in the corporate technology ecosystem, enables security administrators to synchronise digital corporate identities with physical access credentials automatically. When a new employee joins and their corporate identity is provisioned in Microsoft Entra ID, their physical access rights can be automatically configured in EntraPass 9.10 according to predefined policies. When an employee’s corporate account is suspended, their physical access is simultaneously revoked. The manual processes that have historically introduced delays, errors, and security gaps in the management of joiner-mover-leaver workflows are replaced by automated, auditable, policy-driven identity lifecycle management.
Meanwhile, exacqVision 26.0 expands device compatibility with new integrations, including support for Illustra Multisensor cameras, creating a unified foundation for customers who want the full performance of the new Illustra panoramic and multisensor products within their existing exacq VMS environment.
Ecosystem Expansions: SALTO and Scylla Integrations Broaden the Johnson Controls Universe
Beyond the core platform updates, Johnson Controls used ISC West 2026 to announce two strategic ecosystem integrations that extend its security capabilities into domains where in-house development would be slower and more costly than partnership.
Kantech SALTO integration combines online, offline, and wireless door locking solutions within a single unified platform. It adds support for a broader range of door types and retrofit scenarios across commercial applications, while reducing system complexity for installers and operators.
SALTO Systems is a globally recognised specialist in electronic locking technology, with a particular strength in offline and wireless access solutions that serve the retrofit market, where the installation of traditional wired door controllers is not practical or cost-effective. The integration of SALTO’s locking portfolio within the Kantech access control platform dramatically expands the range of door types, entrance configurations, and building environments that can be managed within a unified Kantech system. For commercial real estate owners, hotel operators, and educational campus managers looking to modernise access control without the cost and disruption of full infrastructure replacement, the Kantech SALTO integration provides a retrofit path that previously required a separate system.
The Scylla integration takes the exacq VMS into the frontier of AI-driven behavioural analytics: The exacq Scylla integration introduces AI-driven threat detection into the exacq VMS, enabling users to identify objects, actions, and behavioural anomalies across commercial environments at scale.
Scylla is a specialist AI video analytics company whose technology applies deep learning models to live video streams to detect specific threat indicators, including object types, person behaviours, and situational anomalies, at the kind of accuracy and speed that human operators monitoring multiple video feeds simply cannot match. Embedding Scylla’s AI threat detection within exacqVision transforms the VMS from a recording and playback platform into an active intelligence layer that continuously analyses what cameras are seeing and alerts operators to potential threats before they escalate. For large commercial deployments in retail, transportation, education, and healthcare environments where the volume of camera feeds exceeds the practical monitoring capacity of available security staff, this capability shift is operationally significant.
The Smart Building Connection: Physical Security and Building Intelligence Converge
Johnson Controls’ ISC West 2026 announcements do not exist in isolation from the company’s broader positioning as a building technology leader spanning HVAC, energy management, fire safety, and physical security. The convergence of physical security with smart building operations is a theme that runs through every aspect of the 2026 security portfolio update.
These solutions are designed to improve security visibility and outcomes across enterprise and commercial applications, within business, government, education, healthcare, infrastructure, retail, and industry.
In modern smart buildings and critical infrastructure facilities, the physical security system is no longer a standalone domain managed by a separate security department with its own isolated technology infrastructure. It is increasingly integrated with the building management system, the energy management platform, the fire safety system, and the operational technology environment in ways that create genuinely new capabilities. A door forced open event in the access control system can trigger an automatic lockdown of adjacent HVAC zones. A tailgating detection event in the video system can initiate an automated visitor management workflow. An occupancy reading from the access control system can inform the energy management system’s lighting and conditioning decisions.
Johnson Controls’ focus is on helping customers manage security systems that are easier to operate and better connected across their facilities, a mission statement that acknowledges both the operational complexity that security system managers currently face and the direction in which the industry must move to address it.
Market Context: Why These Announcements Matter Now
The timing of Johnson Controls’ ISC West 2026 announcements reflects a physical security market under significant transformation pressure. According to Precedence Research, the Electronic Control Access Systems market size was calculated at USD 59.12 billion in 2025 and is predicted to increase from USD 65.13 billion in 2026 to approximately USD 155.59 billion by 2035, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 10.16% from 2026 to 2035, driven by increasing security requirements and the increasing use of intelligent access control systems.
A market growing at a 10% compound annual rate, driven by increasing security requirements and accelerating AI integration, is a market in which the ability to deliver a fully integrated, AI-enhanced, open-ecosystem physical security platform is a decisive competitive advantage. Johnson Controls’ ISC West 2026 announcements are a direct response to the competitive dynamics of a market where customers are moving beyond standalone product procurement toward platform relationships that can grow with their evolving security needs.
The breadth of sectors addressed by the 2026 portfolio, spanning government, healthcare, education, data centres, commercial real estate, retail, and industrial environments, reflects Johnson Controls’ strategic ambition to serve the full spectrum of commercial and enterprise security requirements from a single integrated technology platform. No segment of the commercial building market faces a security challenge that the C•CURE IQ, Illustra, exacqVision, and Kantech ecosystem, with its new ecosystem integrations, cannot address.
What Comes Next: Mid-Summer 2026 and Beyond
With the ISC West 2026 announcements now public, the attention of the security industry turns to the commercial availability timeline for the new capabilities. Johnson Controls will debut C•CURE IQ 3.2 in mid-summer 2026. The exacqVision 26.0 and Kantech EntraPass 9.10 updates, along with the new Illustra Multisensor camera products, are available or imminently available for specification and deployment. The Kantech SALTO and exacq Scylla integrations extend the ecosystem capabilities available to existing Johnson Controls customers immediately.
Johnson Controls plans to showcase the latest C•CURE IQ, Illustra, exacqVision, and Kantech solutions at upcoming industry events and through direct customer engagements to highlight their enhanced capabilities for enterprise and commercial security applications.
For security specifiers, system integrators, and enterprise security directors evaluating their access control and video security roadmaps, the Johnson Controls ISC West 2026 portfolio represents a compelling set of answers to the most pressing questions in commercial physical security today: how to unify video and access control without a rip-and-replace project, how to integrate AI threat detection without replacing a functioning VMS, how to extend access control into retrofit environments without rewiring buildings, and how to manage physical identities as an extension of corporate identity governance rather than a parallel administrative burden.
Johnson Controls has answered all four questions at ISC West 2026. The physical security industry will be watching closely as the mid-summer 2026 launch of C•CURE IQ 3.2 transforms those answers from demonstration booth capabilities into deployed reality across the commercial and enterprise buildings that define the modern built environment.