Siliconization

Video analytics has eaten a few free lunches over the last 15 years. Whilst it has certainly added some value to video installations, there has been much debate about exactly ‘how intelligent’ the technology really is and whether it provides satisfactory ROI. But in 2018, there is now a growing belief that video analytics could […]

Please Join us on Friday 23rd March 11:00 Central Europe Time (CET) for our 3rd FREE Webinar in the 2018 Smart Buildings Series, sponsored by Project Haystack. Are Chips on the Menu? Will Embedded Artificial Intelligence Deliver the Video Analytics we’ve been Promised? Memoori Talks to Martin Gren, Co-Founder of Axis Communications. We will be […]

Driven by the latent demand for innovative and better performing products growth in Video Surveillance increased in 2017. The competitive environment has been challenging for Western and Asian manufacturers as the two major Chinese manufacturers Dahua and Hikvision continued to drive down prices in order to rapidly gain market share and volume and pulled in […]

Our New 2017 Physical Security Report shows that products at factory gate prices in 2017 were valued at $29.2Bn, an increase of approximately 5% on 2016. The report delivers market sizing data on 3 major product groupings; Access Control, Video Surveillance and Intruder Alarms. Of these 3, still largely independent businesses, Access Control has maintained […]

There are two main criteria which set the competitive landscape in the physical security business and they are scale/economics & technology/performance. In the first category the top two Chinese manufacturers of Video Surveillance equipment (Hikvision and Dahua) have during the last few years taken control here. They now dwarf their western competitors and have dramatically […]

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 […]

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 […]

The last two years has seen a slowing down in revenue growth of the world’s video surveillance business, whilst at the same time the supply structure has become unbalanced as two Chinese companies that were only formed relatively recently (and not even regarded as serious competitors by most suppliers only six years ago), are now […]