Market analysis

Wellingborough, U.K. 5 February 2013. By the end of 2013 unit shipments of consumer analogue security cameras in the Americas region will surpass those in the professional market. In a recent market report titled The World Market for Consumer and DIY Video Surveillance Equipment - 2012 Edition, IMS Research (now part of IHS Inc.

Wellingborough, U.K. – 13 December 2012. It isn’t easy being a distributor of video surveillance equipment. They usually finance the supply chain, bear the commercial risk of stock being unsold, and, according to new reports from IMS Research (now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS)), face increasing competition. Still, at least their market is growing quickly.

Wellingborough, U.K. 28 November 2012. In its first edition report on the South East Asia video surveillance market, IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS)) forecasts that the Vietnam is fastest growing market between 2010 and 2015, at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 22.3 percent. However, it should be noted that the market in Vietnam was estimated to account for less than 10 percent market share in this region in 2010.

Wellingborough, U.K.  (20 November 2012) --  The world market for PSIM (Physical Security Information Management) software is estimated to have more than doubled between 2009 and 2011, according to a new report from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS). However, it remained below $100 million in 2011, with limited awareness identified as the greatest inhibitor of market growth.

Wellingborough, UK, 30 October 2012; Video surveillance as a service (VSaaS) must provide more for less – a key takeaway from this year’s MVaaS Summit hosted by Envysion, and held in Boulder Colo., U.S. from the 7th to the 9th of October.

IMS Research Market Analyst Sam Grinter attended the Summit and states, “A VSaaS solution must return on the initial investment as soon as possible by incorporating multiple applications and functions to add value over a ‘traditional’ video surveillance system.”

Wellingborough, U.K. - 25 October 2012. In its recently published, second edition report on the Latin American video surveillance equipment market, IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS)) estimates that the analogue equipment market accounted for nearly 60 percent of total video surveillance equipment revenues in 2011.

Wellingborough, 25th July 2012, IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS), estimates that the tipping point when network video surveillance sales overtake analogue video surveillance sales has already happened in the Middle East. Its recently published report on this market, estimates that network video surveillance equipment accounted for 53% of video surveillance equipment in 2011.

Northampton, 28 May 2012: IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS)), has just published the second edition of its Middle East Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment report. The 2012 edition forecasts that the market in Saudi Arabia will grow strongly to overtake that of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to become second largest in the region, after Turkey.

Wellingborough, UK – 17 May 2012. A new report from IMS Research  (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS)) has found that almost 40 percent of North American security systems integrators would prefer to deal with IT distributors when purchasing their IP-based video surveillance products. In Europe this figure surpasses 50% of systems integrators and installers.

Wellingborough, UK (10 April 2012) –  In a recently published market report “The Indian Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment,” IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), forecasts that city surveillance will be the fastest growing vertical market in the country over the next five years. Such city surveillance projects have received much media attention due to their size with projects typically involving thousands of cameras. However, suppliers should not overlook opportunities in other vertical markets.

Austin, TX  – March 19, 2011 – As more and more consumer electronics devices incorporate cameras, embedded vision applications are set to change the way consumers interact with their devices. Augmented reality is one of the most interesting applications, with Sony’s recent release of the game Reality Fighters for the PS Vita portable gaming platform providing a small example of the potential for this rapidly-growing technology.

Austin, TX  – March 13, 2011 – The release of the new iPad brought a number of incremental upgrades but also raised interesting questions, as Apple’s competitors aggressively incorporate a number of advanced user interface technologies at a faster pace. IMS Research believes Apple will need to embrace embedded vision-based technologies in its next product releases in order for the company to maintain its competitive edge.

It is almost three years since the United States “Kids & Transportation Safety Act” was passed to prevent accidents while reversing, prompted by consistently high numbers of fatal accidents involving young children. Despite some initial rapid progress, the National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA) ran into problems when the new regulations were presented in December 2010, which delayed the whole process.

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.

By William Rhodes
IMS Research

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 video surveillance equipment market.

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 is forecast to exceed 25%.

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 combined market share by nearly 10 percentage points in 2011.

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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 critical success factors for the market, increasingly loss prevention managers are looking for creative, customised solutions to the key risks they deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Wellingborough, UK – 28th July 2011. “The growth in machine vision revenues shows signs of slowing”; so says John Morse, Senior Analyst at IMS Research. He continued that this was not entirely unexpected following the dramatic recovery during 2010 from recession. Quoting from IMS Research’s Machine Vision 2011 report, he continued by saying that he had estimated that during 2010 global revenues grew by nearly 40%, fully recovering from the devastating fall during 2009.

by Bob Perez, IMS Research