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Trend 4:
The demise of pure server-based analytics
Trend 5:
New markets for body-worn cameras
the estimated 1,200,000 security guards in the United States. In such a
litigious country, there is a clear benefit in an officer activating a body
camera with a simple push of a button to provide a real-time recording of
an event and creating an objective record of events as they happen.
Again as with police officers and correctional officers, the ability to
quickly and decisively understand what happened during an incident or a
complaint allows companies to save both money and time.
IHS can foresee opportunities for security companies to offer tiered
pricing for providing security guards with body cameras, and the storage
and management of the video data.
VSaaS or Priority?
There are two main methods for storage and data management: local or
priority (on-site storage on a physical server owned, controlled and main-
tained by a private server), or third party "VSaaS" (off-site "cloud" storage
and management through an external data centre such as Amazon Web
Services or Microsoft Azure).
There is still much debate as to which storage method is the best op-
tion within the law enforcement market. However, with the two examples
of correctional facilities and private
security guards, the decision whether
to use a VSaaS or priority method is
much more clear cut.
For correctional facilities a local
or priority data storage method
offers the best and most affordable
solution. The ability to have a dedi-
cated server within a jail, where the
number of cameras and the amount
of data generated will be fairly easy
to forecast, and the physical distance
between all of the users and the server is minimal, there would be little
point in having any other solution.
Manned guarding however, is a market that is much better suited to a
third party "VSaaS" method. This method would offer the flexibility and
scalability that would be needed for this market, and allow security guards
spread all over a country to access and download their videos to a central
storage site very easily with just a computer and an internet connection.
Trend 6:
Heightened concern over public safety
In the wake of tragic terror attacks on high profile
cities, notably two mass shootings in Paris, one at the
start of 2015 and one at the end, public safety is once
again at the top of the agenda.
The public safety market will benefit in 2016 from a number of major
technical developments that are starting to make their mark on the
wider security market. The most important for the public safety market
is the ability to take interactive, wired or wireless metadata and process
it with analytics to provide "actionable intelligence" in cities. This has
become increasingly important, as 2015 brought new threats to cities
in the form of mass shootings. Previously, when it came to terrorist th-
reats, cities had focused on the threat of suicide bombing. This required
emergency services to be able to respond quickly, police to cordon off
an area, ambulances and paramedics to treat the wounded, etc. The th-
reat of mass shootings requires a far more rapid response; as the threat
itself is fluid, it becomes more difficult to coordinate the emergency
services response.
The technological advances
seen in video surveillance with
video analytics, as well as in
public safety command and
control centres with enhanced
integration between sub-systems,
are allowing cities to improve
their response times to incidents
of all kinds.
IHS expects development
of safe cities will continue into
2016, with an increased urgency
from those cities yet to adopt a
safe city approach. The safe city concept is based on a consolidated IT
platform which combines public-safety information from different ty-
pes and sources obtained through sensors, and multi-agency collabora-
tion. Safe city projects have three aims: intelligence gathering before an
event; the ability to take effective action during an event; and making
video feeds and other sensor data for post-event analysis.
Cloud-based technology, such as video surveillance as a service,
is yet another technological advance cities will use in 2016; since it
gives them a flexibility that would otherwise be unavailable. Cities
using cloud-based technology benefit in two ways. First is the tech-
nological aspect, with benefits from: rapid elasticity, meeting high
demand without new hardware; broad network access from any device,
anywhere; and resource pooling, being independent of hardware or
location. Second is the budgetary aspect, with benefits from: the city
only paying for the capacity it needs at the moment, scaling up or
down as required; no need for major capital expenditure, as projects
can be funded through an operational budget; and the city being able
to make multiple investments across the city as capital is not tied up in
one large project.
The combination of a heightened awareness of a potential terrorist
event in cities and advances of technology in both video surveillance
and command and control systems will lead to more cities undertaking
safe city projects, to increase the size of the public safety market.
The most im-
portant for the
public safety
market is the ability to
take interactive, wired
or wireless metadata
and process it with ana-
lytics to provide "actio-
nable intelligence" in
cities.
By Paul Bremner
135,000 body camera units shipped to the
law enforcement market.
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