Physical Security Industry

This is the first of a two part article that analyses what the customer of physical security equipment wants today and what they needs in the future. We have in the Part 1 set out the 2 major stages in the development of the business over the last 20 years and reviewed what customers will […]

Memoori’s 2016 Annual report shows that the total value of world production of Physical Security products at factory gate prices was $28.44 billion an increase of 4.5% on 2015. Over the last 5 years the market has grown by a compound annual growth rate of 8.2% showing a significant fall in growth over the last […]

The Video Surveillance manufacturing business with the exception of a minor blip in 2009 has delivered consistent profitable growth over the last decade. This is a great achievement considering the difficult trading conditions brought about by the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. Fortunately latent demand was there to be exploited by an industry that […]

Last month, various media outlets started reporting on distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attacks. These involved a cabal of hacked video surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), routers and other Internet of Things devices. These attacks are significant for a variety of reasons, not least their sheer size and scale. One of the most serious attacks […]

A secure access control system comes with a premium price tag. That’s the commonly shared ‘fact’ in the access control industry. Arguments to strengthen this belief are of course, easy to envisage. Robust hardware using premium materials and lots of clever security features must be expensive. Continuously tested software, able to withstand ever-increasing cyber security […]

Our recent article “Are Western Manufacturers of Video Surveillance Cameras Ready for Commoditization?”, explained why we think Western companies are running out of options in meeting the Chinese “Video Surveillance threat” and that unless they find a quick solution many will struggle over the next five years. The two major Chinese manufacturers Dahua and Hikvision […]

Our next annual report on the Physical Security Industry due to be published late in the 3rd Quarter of 2016 will show that western manufacturers of video surveillance cameras are not only rapidly losing market share in their home markets to the major Chinese manufacturers but also cannot penetrate China, which is the largest single […]

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