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Wireless Infrastructure for Video Surveillance Hit $175 Million in 2009
WELLINGBOROUGH, ENGLAND: The market for wireless infrastructure used in video surveillance
during 2009 is estimated to have reached $175 million in the Americas and in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), according to IMS Research, which
conducts market research and provides consulting services on a range of global
electronic markets, including on video surveillance.
In addition, during 2010 the markets for wireless infrastructure used for video
surveillance is expected to grow by 20 percent in those regions, IMS Research
says in a written statement on their report on that arena.
“The main advantage of wireless infrastructure over a wired network is fairly
clear,” Niall Jenkins, IMS Research senior analysts, said in the written
statement. “Trenching and cabling over long distances can be expensive and
wireless networks provide a cost-effective alternative,” he said. That is a “main
reason why the technology has done so well in the city surveillance market
where cameras are required across a large area in locations which already have
power but no network connection,” he added. In that situation, “wireless
infrastructure is an ideal solution.”
However, the penetration of wireless infrastructure into other vertical markets
in the video surveillance industry has been “less successful,” Jenkins said.
“The commercial and transportation markets have seen some uptake in the use of
wireless infrastructure,” he said, but in vertical markets such as banking and
finance, the use of wireless infrastructure is “extremely niche.” A leading
reason for diminished use of wireless infrastructure used in video surveillance
by the financial industry is there is “a perception that the security system
can be breached through the wireless network.”
In addition, data collected from security system integrators and installers of
wireless infrastructure indicate “that wireless solutions are rarely the first
option (of a client),” Jenkins said. Nonetheless, most integrators see the
potential for wireless infrastructure in the commercial, transportation and
education markets, he added. – from
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