Market Analysis

In December 2011, IMS Research hosted the inaugural Touch Gesture Motion Conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Downtown Austin. The goal of the event was to discuss how the human machine interface was evolving using touch, gesture & motion (with a little discussion on voice) technologies. The event was a roaring success with more […]

By William Rhodes IMS Research At the end of 2010, IMS Research forecast the increased traction of cloud-based video surveillance, also known as Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS). The market certainly picked up in 2011, with notable sales growth at some of the vendors in this space. Overall, the market grew by around 20-30%.

By Gary Wong IMS Research With a press release from Axis Communications announcing their latest generation ARTPEC-4 SoC, IMS Research ponders on what this means for the industry. The release from Axis highlights the two key advantages of this new chip: “…a powerful CPU and a coprocessor for accelerating video analytics…. boasts more processing power

Wellingborough, UK – 2/02/2012. IMS Research forecasts that despite police department budgets coming under increasing pressure across the USA, the HD (High Definition) camera market onboard police cars is set to grow at over 20% over the next four years. This is just one of the findings from IMS Research’s latest report on the mobile

MS Research is pleased to present its video surveillance trends for 2012. The top 10 predictions are: Refocusing on Image Quality in 2012 Focus to Shift from the BRICs to the CIVETS? HD over Coax—What Will Happen in 2012? Increased Processor Power to Push Analytics to the Edge M&A in 2012: Video Companies Under Surveillance

Wellingborough, UK – 6th December 2011. Whilst the worst of the first global recession has subsided, another, potentially larger and deeper downturn looms on the horizon. Despite this fairly terrifying spectre, IMS Research remains confident that demand for CCTV & video surveillance equipment will remain strong through 2012; growth for network video surveillance equipment sales

Wellingborough, UK – 2nd December 2011. The transition from analogue video surveillance equipment to network video surveillance equipment is forecast to drive growth of over 7% for the mobile video surveillance equipment market in trains and trams, over the next five years. This is just one of the findings from IMS Research’s latest report on

Wellingborough, UK – 18 Nov 2011. Whilst the automotive camera module market is growing rapidly, the supplier base is consolidating so that not all suppliers are benefiting from this growth. The latest market share numbers from IMS Research <http://www.imsresearch.com> show that the two leading suppliers of front camera modules, Gentex and Continental, will increase their

Wellingborough, UK – 14th November. Despite the continued penetration of “free” video content analysis (VCA) in video surveillance devices, the market for “chargeable” VCA applications will continue to grow quickly. This is one finding from a recently published IMS Research report entitled “The World Market for Video Content Analysis in Security & Business Intelligence Applications”.