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Dahua Navigating 60% Profit Decline and Strategic Shift After US Divestiture
November 14th, 2025What’s Driving Growth in the Video Surveillance Market?
November 13th, 2025
Geopolitics and Trade Barriers Are Reshaping the Video Surveillance Market
The global video surveillance market is in a new era. Where technology once flowed freely across borders, driven purely by cost and innovation, today’s vendors navigate a fractured landscape carved by geopolitics fault lines. Trade restrictions, procurement mandates, and diverging national security frameworks are no longer peripheral concerns; they are core business drivers reshaping where […]
Video Surveillance Market 2025: Ongoing Shift towards Software Drives Growth
The video surveillance industry is undergoing its most significant transformation since the shift from analog to digital. What was once primarily a reactive security tool, cameras recording footage for post-incident review, is evolving into a proactive intelligence infrastructure. The traditional model of video surveillance centered on cameras, on-premise storage and software. That era is coming […]
Halma Achieves Solid 9.5% Safety Sector Growth Reaching £902m
This Research Note examines the fire detection and suppression businesses of Halma plc, part of the Safety Sector of the UK public company. This analysis is based on financial releases, investor presentations, year ending 31 March 2025, announced on 12th June 2025, and Memoori analysis of the major companies and estimated revenue mix of the Fire Safety […]
Technovator Reports $36.4m Loss in Challenging 2024 Performance
In this Research Note, we examine Technovator, a Chinese building automation firm, based on their 2024 Annual Report and financial results, published on 26th March 2025. This article updates our previous coverage of the company in June 2024. Technovator Profile Founded in Singapore in 2005, Technovator is listed on the Main Board of the Hong […]
Trade Tensions in 2025: Smart Building Market Fragmenting?
2025 has so far been a year defined by international trade tensions, triggered by the economic policies of US President, Donald Trump. The consequences of these tensions go beyond the daily headlines, and we are continuing to see major impacts across the global economic landscape, including all major smart building markets. Recent macroeconomic indicators highlight […]
Hikvision’s Strategic AIoT Shift & 2024 Financials Explored
In this Research Note, we examine the Chinese video surveillance giant, Hikvision (Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd), focusing on their strategic repositioning and business organization, before highlighting their 2024 results. This article is based on an IR presentation, October 2024, Hikvision’s 2024 Annual Report, 19 April 2025, associated press release, and Memoori analysis. See […]
SenseTime Transformation: Gen AI Powered 64% of Revenue in 2024
In this Research Note, we examine the Chinese AI company, SenseTime, in the context of the smart buildings sector. We assess the group’s strategic pivot away from smart city business towards generative AI and digital transformation initiatives before highlighting 2024 results by business segment, based on 2023 and 2024 annual report announcements and investor presentations. […]
Trump Tariff Era: How 2025 Policies Could Reshape Smart Building Tech
“I always say ‘tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” said US President Donald Trump on numerous occasions. Barely three months into his second term as president, Trump may have made more tariff changes than any period in modern US history. Today, on “Liberation Day”, Trump is set to make a […]
