Market Analysis

FLIR announced this week that it has agreed to acquire DVTel. FLIR is a supplier of sensing solutions including thermal imaging systems. DVTel is a supplier of professional network video surveillance solutions, particularly for enterprise-segment installations. Our take This move follows FLIR’s acquisition of another video surveillance equipment vendor, Lorex, back in 2012. This allowed […]

An economic downturn and exchange rate volatility are making business conditions tough for vendors of video surveillance equipment in a number of Latin American countries. As a result, the Latin American market is forecast to decline by 7.7% to $580 million in 2015. Brazil is the largest market in Latin America. Its economy has been

The world market for body-worn video surveillance within law enforcement is growing. In 2014 IHS estimated the total world market for body-worn video surveillance equipment and service in law enforcement was worth $60 million. However, interestingly the service portion of the market will grow to become a larger proportion than the hardware market by 2019,

What used to be a fairly straightforward (but regulated) industry is now increasingly convoluted. Since multi-system operators (MSOs) began offering security solutions in 2010, the residential security industry has been flooded with new products, solutions, protocols, marketing messages and new partnerships. Although these are all ingredients for a potential paradigm shift, the dust hasn’t yet

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, "Machine Vision Technology Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2015 – 2021," the market was valued at USD 15.70 billion in 2014, which is expected to reach USD 28.50 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 8.4% from

How to diversify your product range and find the best new markets to sell your products The U.S. market for intruder alarm equipment, which makes up 40 percent of the global market, reached $1.1 billion dollars last year. Numerous attempts have been made all over the world to replicate this success, ranging from home management

The key factors driving the video surveillance and video surveillance as a service (VSaaS) market include the development of data centers, IT cost suppression by major corporations, new technologies and features like field of view (FoV) and the IoT (Internet of Things), and the need for consolidated application and data management. VSaaS involves cloud-based recording

The European hyperspectral imaging technologies market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 11.4% from 2014 to 2019. Although the mature markets (such as Germany and the U.K.) hold larger shares in the hyperspectral imaging technologies market, Italy is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR of 12.7% during the given forecast period. The

After being a research technology for the past few decades, computer vision has become commercialized in the past few years and is being deployed in a wide range of application markets including security and surveillance, automotive, consumer, industrial, medical, and entertainment, to name a few. Rapid development of technology, falling chip prices, and greater ease

Markets & Markets forecasts the global facial recognition market to grow from $2.77 Billion in 2015 to $6.19 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 17.4%. In terms of regions, North America is expected to be the biggest market in terms of market size, while APAC and MEA are expected to experience increased market traction