Market Analysis

The residential security market will never be the same. In 2012, several MSOs (multiple-system operators) in the USA began offering home automation in conjunction with security which has altered the perception and demand from end-users. Prior to this paradigm shift, the use of a residential burglar alarm system was often a purchase to protect a […]

It’s no secret that the security and fire industry is home to hundreds of suppliers, each competing for a slice of a global $100+ billion market. In niche industries such as oil and gas, where IHS sizes the market for security and fire equipment and services to be more than $1 billion, increased competition has

Anixter announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Tri-Ed. Tri-Ed is a distributor of video surveillance equipment, access control, intrusion detection, and fire products. Our Take Anixter is already one of the world’s largest video surveillance equipment distributors and has been heavily promoting migration from analogue to network equipment. Most of

The Latin American video surveillance equipment market is forecast to see annual average growth rates of over 14%. This is despite ongoing economic uncertainty and civil unrest in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy according to recently published estimates from IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS). The Brazilian market remains the largest, accounting for 40% of revenues in Latin

Shipments of embedded vision devices in the automotive, industrial automation, physical security and business intelligence markets are forecast to exceed 14 million units in 2018, up from almost four million units this year. Utilizing a combination of embedded systems and computer vision, embedded vision enables devices to use video inputs to better understand their environment,

The installed base of cloud-based home management services is projected to grow from 5.6 million at the end of 2013, to 44.6 million at the end of 2018. Cloud-based home management systems are aimed at mass market adoption, and allow users to remotely control their devices when away from the home, using smartphone or tablet

MEMS and sensors now constitute 23.4% of the cellular handset and tablet market, second only to digital baseband's 28% of the $65 billion (non-memory) cellphone chip market. The sensor category includes touch controllers, camera image sensors and numerous MEMS sensor types. The MEMS and sensor component sales portion grew by 36% to $5 billion in

Canon announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Milestone Systems. Milestone Systems is a major supplier of video management software. It is planned that Milestone will continue to operate as an independent organization. Our Take Canon is currently a small player in the video surveillance market but it has big ambitions. Back