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