Last month in SDM we offered an outlook for 2020 for the security industry. This month begins our annual State of the Market article series to help you strategize about the types of products and services your company will offer to the marketplace. The cover story, “State of the Market: Video Surveillance,” is the first in the series of articles about the current viability and potential for future sales in four main technology categories: video surveillance, access control, security and smart home (with monitoring), and fire alarm.
In the article, which begins on page 34, Contributing Writer Maggie Shein writes, “The video surveillance market is ripe with opportunity. Many security integrators and manufacturers realized strong revenues for 2019 and are even more optimistic for 2020. A number of factors, including easier deployment, maturing technology and open, customized systems are making it easier for integrators to meet demand from technically savvy end users wanting to upgrade legacy systems or use surveillance to meet their security and operational needs.”