Market Analysis

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”.

A new end-user and systems integrator study of the critical success factors, key risks, decision processes, market trends and technology trends in the retail market. IMS Research has recently published a new report providing end-user and systems integrator feedback on security in the retail market. The quotes provided are an example of the content covered

Austin, TX, 15 September, 2011 – Sales of Explosives, Weapons, and Contraband (EWC) Detection equipment to the world’s airport authorities, amassed a significant $834.9 million in 2010, according to a recent study published by IMS Research, a leading provider of market research in the homeland security industry. In its study, IMS Research estimates aviation purchases

Wellingborough, UK – 7th September 2011. It seems that the price sensitive world of retail security has an emerging creative side, according to IMS Research’s latest end-user research on video surveillance and security in the retail market. Historically, the retail market has been characterised by low prices and basic, easy-to-use security solutions. Although these remain