“While the PSIM acronym continues to be widely used by many firms in the physical security management systems market, the leading players have moved away from the term in order to differentiate themselves from the competition”, suggests our most recent report. Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) may have been around for a few years now but the Video Surveillance sector has not been particularly excited about its mass market potential. Consequently PSIM has only achieved a relatively small market value, primarily serving major projects due to its high initial cost. Until now this has been provided through software products given the name PSIM, which bring together a variety of services to deliver more intelligent and valuable solutions to both life safety and security. In many cases, these systems have modelled themselves on the command, control and communications systems in the military sector and indeed some projects are using software originally developed in that industry. This […]