Forecast: 200% Growth IP Video Surveillance 2010-2012
Over the next 3 years, attacks against analog CCTV will accelerate on all sides. We forecast IP video surveillance product sales will increase by 200% total between 2010 and 2012, significantly disrupting and overtaking analog CCTV sales.
We are now bullish on the growth of IP video driven by recent widespread advances in product offering and pricing.
From IPVideoMarket, November 02, 2009
IPVision seeks to bypass the NVR for IP video
IPVision Software has a new approach to video management and video recording which throws out the server model we’re all used to.
From Security InfoWatch, October 29, 2009
Dallas: Smile, Uptown! You're on Surveillance Camera
Uptown Dallas has joined Downtown and Fair Park as neighborhoods under constant video surveillance.
Dallas police have 11 new surveillance cameras trained on McKinney Avenue between Pearl and Blackburn streets.
From NBC Dallas Fort Worth, October 28, 2009
San Francisco Transit: half of Muni surveillance cameras fail in audit
The onboard video surveillance equipment on more than half of Muni's buses and trains was not fully operational when an emergency audit was ordered by the San Francisco transit agency after the stabbing of an 11-year-old boy on a city bus last month.
From San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2009
Red-light cameras yield: City of Chicago decides against expanding program, instead will relocate some of the devices to trouble spots
Red-light cameras have hit a red light in Chicago -- and it's all because of a shortage of green.
Chicago's worst budget crisis in modern history has put the brakes on plans to expand the city's Big Brother network of red-light cameras to more than 330 accident-prone intersections by 2012.
From Chicago Sun Times, October 26, 2009
Atlanta: Cameras may police city streets
Atlanta’s other reality show is taping today outside CNN Center, at Woodruff Park and in Midtown.
What you might call Real Pedestrians of Atlanta is a rather modest video surveillance: a few dozen cameras monitoring select locations in the city every second. But the city has applied for millions in federal stimulus funds so it can train about 500 more cameras on city streets.
From Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 26, 2009
$44.1 billion Homeland Security bill passes Congress and heads to president
A $44.1 billion FY 2010 Homeland Security spending bill has now passed both houses of Congress.
The $44,137,241,000 authorized by the new legislation represents a decrease of $230,507,000 from the funds authorized in the 2009 legislation, according to a joint Committee of Conference estimate.
From Government Security News, October 23, 2009
Bosch tops in EMEA CCTV market
According to a new report from UK-based IMS Research, Bosch Security Systems leads in CCTV market share for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
The report states that Bosch holds a 3 percent advantage over its closest competitor in the EMEA region with a 9.1 percent market share in CCTV and video equipment. In addition, the company has a nearly 10 percent edge in the region’s video encoder market, holding a reported 19.4 percent market share.
From Security InfoWatch, October 23, 2009
Raytheon to be net systems integrator for Army’s Expeditionary Warrior experiment
Waltham, MA-based Raytheon Company reports that it has been selected as the network systems integrator for the Army’s Expeditionary Warrior experiment.
According to the company, this experiment will integrate more than 25 technologies from more than 20 different companies and government agencies to operate on a single integrated backbone network.
From Government Security News, October 22, 2009
Harris Poll Shows 96 Percent of Americans Support Uses of Video Surveillance to Counteract Terrorism
A recent Harris Poll survey indicates that 96 percent of U.S. citizens feel the federal government and law enforcement agencies should be able to use video surveillance in an effort to counteract terrorism and help protect U.S. citizens in specific public places.
From Reuters, October 22, 2009
