Continuing our series of articles on Innovation we talked to Steve Russell, CEO of Prism Skylabs, about how they intend to disrupt the Security Market in 2013 and what he thinks will be the major innovations over the next 5 years. Q. Where will the major innovations in the security industry come from in the next 5 years? A. Over the next 5 years, there will be a number of significant innovations in the security industry, many of which will stem from technology growth in the consumer sector. I see 3 key drivers of innovation on the horizon: sensor ubiquity, smarter devices, and cloud technology. The development of camera and mobile technology in the consumer sector has rapidly spilled over to the security video marketplace, which will lead to smaller, lower-cost sensors that business can deploy everywhere for both security- and non-security applications. And similar developments in the consumer space have allowed for cheap, local […]