4. Will India's Video Surveillance Boom be as Big as China's?
The Chinese video surveillance market is the largest consumer of equipment and one of the fastest growing markets. Can India, with its fast economic growth, huge population, and burgeoning middle-class; mirror its neighbor?
The Indian video surveillance market is one-tenth the size of the Chinese market — US$165 million in 2010.However, much of China's growth is fuelled by its government's desire to watch over its population. It is unlikely India has the political or financial motivation to deploy large-scale public surveillance projects, reducing potential video growth.
Video surveillance spending typically follows infrastructure projects, and India is no exception. There will be sustained investment related to roads, airports and railways.
The sad reality of terrorist attacks has heightened the need for security and protection. While it is difficult to assess the budget for video surveillance, funds will be earmarked for transportation and critical infrastructure.
India has potential for video surveillance. However, the Indian tiger will not slay the Chinese dragon for some time to come.
5. Video Analytics : To Security and Beyond
The video content analysis (VCA) market endured a difficult year in 2010. There were successes, with new VCA project wins in transportation and critical infrastructure; and there were failures, with a number of analytics vendors choosing to focus on other product areas and the news that Vidient went under.
New potential for VCA lies outside of traditional security. “Visually intelligent devices” describes the use of analytics in automotive, defense, medical, consumer and digital signage. IMS Research predicts 2011 will be the year that VCA looks beyond security.
6. From HD to 3-D HD
was the hot trend in the video surveillance industry in 2010. Could 3-D be the next hot technology trend for video surveillance in 2011?
The benefit 3-D offers security is depth perception. IMS Research does not believe that 3-D technology will gain mass acceptance among vendors or end users in the security industry in 2011. However, it is believed that 2011 will herald the start of a trend towards 3-D in video surveillance.