Software has been a relatively minor contributor to overall growth in the Physical Security industry but its importance has gradually increased over the last 10 years and in the last two it is has become a major driver. The main application of software has been to provide an operating platform for video surveillance and access control systems. Major hardware companies and a number of specialists Video Management Software (VMS) suppliers have taken the biggest share of this business. VMS has been very much an internal affair and whilst in the last 5 years it has grown at a much higher rate than the video hardware market, today it still only accounts for 7% of the Video Surveillance product business. With time VMS has expanded its capability and now offers analytic services, but the longer-term solution requires artificial intelligence and this requires massive computing power to run Big Data Services, if it is going to provide […]