IDC Forecasts Solid Growth for the Video Surveillance Camera Market as Smart Camera Systems and Analytical Software Enable New Use Cases
“Video surveillance camera growth is being driven by the adoption of smart camera systems and the adoption of the video analytics applications that enable them,” said Mike Jude, research director for IDC’s Video Surveillance and Vision Applications practice. “Although the market has seen a short-term decline driven by COVID-19 impacts, the longer-term prospects will be driven by the increasing use of video surveillance in law enforcement and physical security.”
IDC’s Video Surveillance and Vision Applications practice follows the increasingly important applications of machine vision that augment physical security. While most data protection coverage begins and ends with data stored or carried by an organization’s IT infrastructure, IDC’s focus also includes the protection of data before it becomes data; that is, protecting the intellectual property that people carry around with them, by protecting the people. Physical security of the areas that creative people occupy, including, increasingly, from the exposure to biological threats like COVID-19, is critical to companies that increasingly depend on the introduction of innovative new services and products to drive revenue generation. Losing an employee with a good idea that hasn’t yet been expressed could be devastating to the future of a company.
Key findings from IDC’s forecast include the following:
- The North American market is still the top consumer of video surveillance cameras, followed closely by China.
- Currently, consumer video surveillance cameras present 32% of the world total, largely as a result of the use of home security systems and mobile cameras such as cameras in automobiles.
- The blacklisting of Chinese camera manufacturers by the US government will not slow down market growth but will open the market to many of the smaller camera producers.
- The use of advanced analytics such as AI to enable applications like facial recognition, may trigger regulations which could impede market growth.
