Home Automation Spurs ‘Realistic’ Integration in the Intruder Alarm Industry
The elusive goal of integration in the intrusion industry is beginning to gain “realistic momentum” with the growing trend to combine home automation and home security systems, on a single platform, according to a recent study titled “The World Maker for Intruder Alarms – 2013 Edition” by Austin, Texas-based IMS Research, now part of HIS.
The residential sector accounted for 40.7 percent of the $2.7 billion global intruder alarm market in 2012, and is forecast to be one of the fastest-growing verticals with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 5.3 percent from 2012 to 2017.