Downturn realises modest growth in UK surveillance market
IMS Research's latest report, entitled: 'The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment 2009', forecasts that the world market for video surveillance equipment will grow by just 3% in 2009.
From Info4Security, September 01, 2009
Surveillance market growth forecast dips
New report says economic downturn has disrupted historical growth trends for market
From Security InfoWatch, September 01, 2009
Henry Bros. Electronics, Inc. Selected by Arizona State and Northern Arizona Universities.
Henry Bros. Electronics,
Inc. (Nasdaq: HBE), a turnkey provider of technology-based integrated
electronic security solutions, today announced that it has contracted with
Arizona State University (ASU) and Northern Arizona University (NAU) (the
"Universities") to provide security services, including the installation,support, training, upgrade, maintenance and warranty of their integrated access control and video surveillance systems.
From Reuters, August 31, 2009
Montreal company tries to take security surveillance to next level.
Feeling Software thinks it has a solution for monitoring multiple cameras feeds: take the feeds from all the cameras and superimpose them on a three-dimensional mock-up of the building. The result is a seamless, real-time bird's-eye view of the building that can be rotated and zoomed in on a computer screen.
From Canada.com, August 31, 2009
Red light cameras--money or public safety
In 2007, the city of Knoxville boasted that their red light camera program had brought 995,013 dollars into its coffers and reduced accidents by 18 percent. They had 15 intersections outfitted with Red Flex cameras at that time. Since then, Knoxvile has changed over to the Laser Craft company and is expanding the program to include more intersections and has generated 2.6 million dollars in fifty dollar fines in 2008.
From Knoxville Conservative Examiner, August 31, 2009
Axis Communications announces strong global market share
he 2009 annual IMS Research report ranked the company fourth in the world in the category of vendors providing video surveillance, whereas last year it took sixth place. Axis maintained its spot as number three in the world in the security cameras category, which includes analogue and network cameras.
From The Channel, New Zealand, August 30, 2009
Lisbon University uses IndigoVision technology in self-designed surveillance network
IndigoVision cameras, Network Video recorders and Control Center Security Management Software have been chosen by IST in Lisbon for building into an IP Video surveillance system to be designed by their own team of Engineers
From ProSecurity Zone, August 28, 2009
LA County untangles traffic snarls with M2M
In the world of M2M, not every machine-to-machine link necessarily involves a service provider connection. Local governments are starting to use unlicensed frequencies to create wireless telematics networks, giving them control of their own infrastructure as well as ready access to broadband speeds.
From Telephony Online, August 25, 2009
UK police: One crime solved a year by every 1K CCTV cameras
Just one crime is solved a year by every 1,000 CCTV cameras in London, a senior Scotland Yard officer has claimed.
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville warned police must do more to head off a crisis in public confidence over the use of surveillance cameras.
From Security InfoWatch, August 25, 2009
Report: Market for surveillance systems to reach $41B in 2014
Global sales of video surveillance systems are expected to reach $41 billion in 2014, up from $19.4 billion this year, a nearly 15% compound annual growth rate, says ABI Research.
New technology is sparking the rise. Familiar closed-circuit analog video systems with grainy pictures, long used by banks and others, are giving way to more costly systems that rely on Internet standards to transmit data, often wirelessly.
From Security InfoWatch, August 25, 2009
