Our smart buildings and smart cities are now being designed to sense and understand the world around them much like humans do. Networks of sensors hear via microphones in voice control, smell via air quality or gas monitors and feel via temperature, humidity, or pressure sensors. However, like in humans, sight is generally accepted as the ultimate sensing ability. In recent years we have seen a maturing of the video surveillance market led by advances in camera hardware and the emergence of intelligent cloud computing that is able to process the huge volumes of data that video surveillance produces. This month, record levels of funding are setting the stage for our buildings and cities to become visually smart. “In 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) technology applied to Video Surveillance has convinced the market that by 2020 it will become mainstream over the next 10 years,” states our report – The Physical Security Business 2020 to 2025. […]