Trends in video surveillance

By SearchSecurityAsia Editors | Jan 28, 2010

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With the heightened security consciousness generated since 9/11, governments and businesses have pumped huge resources into security infrastructure.

CCTV cameras that were once the dominant technology in highly secure installations are now giving way to digital network cameras. The latest developments enable targets to be zoomed on, tracked with infra-red and other x-ray type visuals, checked against a database, lip-read from a distance, and much more – all instantaneously, giving security professionals more intelligence at their fingertips.

We spoke to Lee Oh Tee, regional director for South Asia Pacific at Axis Communications, who highlighted the changing trends in the surveillance scene, particularly in the use of network cameras in the digital age.

What are some of the developments in the surveillance scene in the past three years and how has the business changed over the past years?

Lee: The rapid adoption of network video cameras is perhaps the most significant trend in video surveillance given the significant uptake in broadband networks, accelerating the shift from analog to digital video surveillance technology. The market dominance of CCTV (closed-circuit television) is quickly fading.

Today, digital network cameras are being deployed across the banking, retail, education, healthcare, industrial, transportations and government sectors to discourage, monitor, detect and prevent crimes.

While the Asia market comprises primarily of analog installations, network-based surveillance is fast gaining ground.

How has these new developments helped the business of surveillance?

Lee: IMS Research estimates that the market for CCTV and video surveillance equipment in Asia is worth US$2342.8 million in 2006, and is forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.0% to US$4122.8 million in 2011.

The advent of digital video is opening up new market opportunities beyond security applications – traffic management, people counting, access control, production process controlling in nuclear and chemical industries – intelligent applications is emerging as a tool for gathering critical business information.

After the past years’ rapid market growth, network cameras today represents 15-20% of all surveillance cameras sold on the global market. IP-based surveillance systems with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of network cameras have been successfully implemented within various applications such as retail, transportation, education, city surveillance and banking.

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