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US-China Trade Tensions Driving Video Surveillance Market Bifurcation
October 6th, 2023Exploring M&A Trends in the Physical Security Market
May 10th, 2022
Robust Market for Smart Buildings M&A in 2021
A record number of acquisitions (286) in the smart buildings space in 2021 accounted for a 31% increase on 218 deals in 2020 and a 10% increase on the previous record of 259 transactions in 2019. There was a robust market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among both security product manufacturers and systems integrators last year, […]
COVID-19 Lockdown Leaves Empty Smart Buildings to Ponder their Failings
Through the latest Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, our smart commercial buildings promise to improve the health, wellbeing, and safety of their occupants like never before. Yet, as Europe goes into lockdown, the majority of the continent’s commercial real-estate sits empty, offering few answers to the novel dangers brought up by the COVID-19 pandemic. While […]
Building the Physical Security Business Through Merger & Acquisition
Based on M&A data collected over the last 17 years on the Physical Security industry, our annual report shows a general upward trend in consolidation of the industry over this period with 4 cycles of rise and fall sometimes exaggerated by a number of billion dollar mega deals. In 2017 mergers and acquisitions at $6.213Bn […]
Major Trends in the Intruder Alarm & Perimeter Protection Markets
Our recent report on Physical Security found that the world market for Intruder Alarm & Perimeter Protection products reached $6.62 Billion in 2016 and is grow at approximately 3.3% (CAGR) to 2022. This is a mature sector of the Physical Security market and is more dependent upon the fortunes of the industrial market. In terms […]
Would you like some Chips with that Sir?
The brain of the video surveillance camera is the chipsets that integrate the functionality of complex megapixel cameras. Traditional chipset providers, such as Ambarella and Hisilicon, are able to deliver their customers megapixel and sophisticated camera functionality in silicon today. The world’s major producers Intel and Qualcomm are also now taking notice as they see […]
Reviewing Future Technology Drivers in the Physical Security Industry
The shift from analog to IP has accelerated through the last 5 years, as both manufacturers and consumers focus their spending on technology that can be scalable and deliver not just better security but add on services to improve the operation of their business. However, as we show in our Research Report, growth in IP […]
The Milestone Acquisition and its Importance to the Video Surveillance Business
When the world leader in open Video Management Software (VMS) is acquired it’s not surprising that it results in many hundreds of column inches of widely differing opinions; usually surrounding the impact it could have on VMS and the wider implications for the IP Video Surveillance industry. Some of this discussion has focused on “Why […]
High Growth in the Video Surveillance Market can no longer Feed all the Manufacturers
The news that 2 under performing companies, Vicon and IQinVision are merging, is surely evidence that life is getting tougher in the Video Surveillance business as prices fall and niche opportunities evaporate due to the majors steadily increase their range. World demand is strong but it is skewed by high demand in China and Asia, […]