The overwhelming consensus among security professionals interviewed for this first in SDM’s 2018 series of State of the Market articles, is that the video surveillance market remains strong and will continue to grow. Several factors driving that growth are a greater number of applications for video, or increased integration, and several technologies that are starting to become more mainstream, such as analytics, big data, and others.
“It’s been a terrific industry,” says Tony Varco, vice president of the security division for Convergint Technologies, Schaumburg, Ill., “and I don’t see this slowing down anytime soon. The industry is incredibly healthy right now.”