Video Surveillance
Where and How does Physical Security fit into the IoT Landscape?
April 24th, 2017Demand for Physical Security Products is Buoyant but Margins are Reducing Growth
April 10th, 2017
Direct New Investment in the Physical Security Industry Fell in 2016
Our recent Report on the Physical Security industry identified 9 transactions by venture capital and notable security companies investing some $96.3m into physical security companies. Venture Capitalists have invested an average of $275m per annum in the physical security industry over the previous 4 years, so it’s rather disappointing to see it fall to $96 […]
Will A Truly Smart Building Be Emotionally Intelligent?
“Imagine your fridge working with you to eat healthier, or your wearable and TV team up to get you off the couch! Your bathroom mirror senses that you’re a bit stressed and interacts with your lighting to adjust it while turning on the right mood-enhancing music,” it states on the website for emotional recognition firm […]
Amazon S3 Outage Reminds Us The Cloud Is Not Perfect
On the 28th February 2017 the cloud went down. Or at least a large section of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) went down, taking a lot of things down with it. The list of affected sites is long but the outage points to a much bigger problem; what does an outage […]
I Know You’re There but I’m Not Watching: Smart Lighting Reconsidered
“If I sit at my desk and I don’t move, after 15 minutes the lights go out. Some offices are like that,” says Thomas Little, a BU professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Engineering Research Center (LESA ERC). In another annoying scenario, if Little was […]
VSaaS & ACaaS Move into the Mainstream
VSaaS (Video Surveillance as a Service) and ACaaS (Access Control as a Service) services realized substantial growth in 2016 and now look set to finally achieve the much vaunted predictions made in previous years about their potential to become multi-billion markets. The global market size for VSaaS in 2013 was approximately $300m but since then […]
AI Employee Monitoring: Security Measure or Privacy Concern?
Artificially intelligent robots could, in the not too distant future, make human labor obsolete, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. To counter the threat to jobs and freedom, Musk co-founded a nonprofit organization to promote safe artificial intelligence (AI) research and has begun advocating for the benefits of a universal basic income to assist displaced […]
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 […]
2016 was a Mega Year for Security M&A but how will it Impact Business Structures?
The value of Merger and acquisition deals in the Physical Security Industry in 2016 went into the stratosphere on account of one deal. This deal of $16.5 billion between Johnson Controls and Tyco International will have a very significant impact on the wider Building Internet of Things (BIoT) business. Data we have collected from 2000 […]
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