Acre Via Wins the 2026 Detektor International Award in ID & Access Control

Acre Security has won first prize in the ID & Access Control category at the 2026 Detektor International Awards. The award recognizes Acre Via, our generative AI assistant for the Acre security platform, which starts with a focus on access control.

The winners were announced in Stockholm on October 20, 2026, during the Skydd international security event.

About the Detektor International Award

The Detektor International Award has been running since 2000, and it is one of the most respected prizes in the security industry. What gives it weight is how it works. Manufacturers can’t apply.

Detektor’s editors find products through their own reporting and trade show visits, then choose 12 finalists across four categories:

• Alarm & Detection
• ID & Access Control
• Video Surveillance
• IoT & Security Solutions

This year, four of those finalists took first prize: Optex, Acre Security, IQsight and Brivo. The other eight received Innovative Achievement Awards, including STID Security and HID in our category.

What the award recognizes

Acre Via is a generative AI assistant for the Acre security platform. Access control is where it starts.

Via lets operators work in plain language. They ask a question, see a visualization and keep going. An investigation might start with how door forced open events are trending. From there, the operator drills into specific hardware and events and exports the results. Each question builds on the last.

Via can also take action. An operator can ask it to create a cardholder or change an access level. Via completes the task, but it asks for explicit human confirmation before any change goes live. The operator stays in control.

For customers, that means security that is proactive and data-driven, administration that is automated, and better workplace analytics.

Via is part of Acre Intelligence, our purpose-built AI for security. Acre Intelligence is the intelligent layer that connects and elevates your security systems. It turns traditional monitoring into proactive insight and answers natural-language queries with precise, actionable information. It is built to unify insights across access, intrusion and visitor systems. The goal is to support operators, not replace them. It cuts manual effort and shortens the path to an answer.

AI in physical security should be shaped by the people who run these systems every day, so their feedback guides what we build next. Early response from partners has been very positive, and it will help shape how Via extends beyond access control across the Acre platform.

What Detektor said about AI this year

Detektor International’s editor-in-chief, Lennart Alexandrie, said the award aims to highlight solutions that bring true innovation and real customer benefits. He added that this year’s award reflects how the industry has embraced AI-powered solutions. In his view, they simplify management, improve the user experience and add more advanced functionality. Three of the four first-prize winners are built around AI.

That is the idea behind Acre Via. Security teams should spend less time navigating the system and more time using it.

“Acre Via and generative AI add a whole new dimension to access control.”

Alex Holmström, Executive Vice President, EMEA/APAC, Acre Security

A history with Detektor

This is not our first time on the Detektor stage. Acre was recognized with an Innovative Achievement Award in 2023 for Feenics by Acre. In 2024, Acre Access Control was recognized in the ID & Access Control category. In 2026, Acre Via took first prize.

Thank you

Thank you to the Detektor editorial team for the recognition. Thank you to our customers and partners, whose feedback shapes what we build. And thank you to the teams at Acre who made Via possible.

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Source: SecurityWorldMarket, “DI Award 2026 - The winners revealed!”