A recent whitepaper by Andy Billingham, MD, EMKA, discusses how a range of advanced technologies have come together under the EMKA umbrella to meet the needs of applications as diverse as Data Security and vehicle manufacturers - which nonetheless share many common areas of background expertise. Advances in locking technology may often appear difficult to spot since their rate of development can be quite slow by the standards of the computer technologies which they frequently protect. However, among the most recent rapid developments for locking systems are a number of high end electronic lock technologies specifically aimed at the Data Centre or co-location environments where data security is a quickly increasing concern.