Market Analysis

The touch-less sensing and gesture recognition technologies enable a user to interact with a device to perform a specific task sans the need of touching it. The touch-less sensing can be divided into two broad markets based on the applications, namely touch-less sanitary equipment and touch-less biometric market. The report deals with the analysis of […]

Image sensors are used effectively in a range of applications, from photographic to medical. One sector in which image sensors are currently experiencing particularly impressive growth potential is in automotive, specifically in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). ADAS use image sensors to improve a driver's safety on the road by offering features such as parking

Gesture control is separate from motion control, in that there is no physical device needed on the person for the controlled device to recognize commands. The most recognizable implementation of gesture controls to consumers is Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360. Most gesture controls are implemented either using time-of-flight infrared sensors (like the Kinect) or

The machine vision market is complex, composed of myriad niche applications that are either industrial or non-industrial. To simplify the machine vision market’s structure and dynamics, we’ve created a novel market segmentation that cross-references technical and behavioral criteria. By cross-referencing technical and behavioral needs, nine homogeneous groups of key machine vision customers have been defined.

In 2014 the total African market for video surveillance equipment is forecast to be worth over $200 million. The African market represents a small chunk of the global market which will pass $15 billion this year, but with on-going difficulties in several other regional surveillance markets, more vendors have applied resource to Africa to take

Changes to legislation are significantly impacting the market for enterprise data storage in video surveillance globally. For example, in Germany the maximum retention time for video surveillance has been increased from 24 hours to 48 hours, this effectively doubles the maximum capacity requirement of video surveillance data storage systems. In the Andhra Pradesh state of

The growing adoption of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) technology is having an adverse impact on the vehicle entrance control industry, specifically the vehicle barrier and off-street parking systems markets. According to IHS, the presence of ALPR technology is increasing the most for toll ways and off-street parking garages, which is negatively impacting the growth

Protecting the perimeter of airports remains a difficult task across the US. On December 25th 2013, perimeter fence breaches occurred at two separate airports, Newark, New Jersey, and Phoenix, Arizona. In 2013, IHS estimated electronic perimeter security at airports in the US to be worth about $25 million for the hardware and software alone, or

The recent train station bombing in Volgograd Russia has once again focused attention on the vulnerabilities of rail infrastructure. According to a recently published report by IHS, purchases of explosives, weapons, and contraband (EWC) detection equipment at rail stations worldwide is expected to increase by 3.3% in 2014, and 8.8% in 2015. A large amount