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2021 Could See the End of the Pandemic But Not a ‘Return to Normal’ Trading Conditions
February 8th, 2021Future Trends in the Global Video Surveillance Market
January 19th, 2021Progress Vs Privacy – A Tale of Smart City Development in China
The underlying premise of smart technology is that with enough data you can predict anything. Our smart buildings and cities are filled with sensors to gather as much information as possible in order to provide analysis that can fix problems, improve environments, and even avoid issues before they happen. The only real debate around this […]
Lockdowns Strikes a Big Blow to Bricks-and-Mortar Retail
The UK saw the biggest drop in retail sales since records began 30-years-ago, despite record increases in grocery sales, especially alcohol. In March, US retail sales also slumped to their worst monthly decline since records began in 1982, despite record grocery retail numbers. Both these markets delayed the start of their lockdown and have not […]
Will Mass Surveillance Become a Leading Epidemic Control Technology?
In China, hospitals that were overflowing a few weeks ago now have an abundance of empty beds, huge makeshift hospitals built for the coronavirus patients are being disassembled, and there is now a little more certainty about the projected end of the lockdown measures. The reduction of COVID-19 cases in the country where they first […]
Coping with COVID-19: Potential Impact on the Physical Security Industry?
The world is getting used to a new ‘C-word’, COVID-19. Less than a quarter of the way through 2020 and the global pandemic already has us evoking ‘fond’ memories of a simpler time in 2019; When we only had catastrophic bushfires and Climate Change to contend with. We are still in the beginning phase of […]
The 5 Most Important Factors Shaping the Future of Physical Security
This article has been taken from Memoori’s annual report “The Physical Security Industry 2019″ and identifies the 5 most important factors that are helping to shape the future of the business. 1. The Widening Gap Between Video Surveillance Suppliers The gap between the major suppliers of Video Surveillance equipment and the many hundreds of smaller […]
How Long will the Video Surveillance “Great Wall of China” Hold?
Our recently published 11th annual report shows that the world market for Video Surveillance products is split between China having approximately 45%, and the Rest of the World (RoW) sharing 55%. As it currently stands, The Chinese Government restricts foreign investment and business in specific key industries and there are certainly regulations on foreign ownership […]
Why Big Oil is Investing in Clean Energy & Smart Buildings
The statistic that 40% of energy consumption comes from buildings is well-used when highlighting the much-needed work of energy optimization solutions. However, on the other side of that coin is the fact that buildings, especially inefficient buildings, are the energy industry’s biggest customer group. Consequently, the thought of “big oil” supporting the growing energy management […]
Video Surveillance Will Open Up A Myriad Of Growth Opportunities Over The Next 5 Years
Memoori’s 2019 world report on the Physical security Industry shows that Video Surveillance product sales reached $19.15Bn in 2019 and could reach $35.82Bn by 2024. This growth is the highest we have ever forecast and is driven by a number of factors particularly the sales of AI Video analytics software now entering the commercial market. […]