Digital Video Driving Surveillance Forward

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As enterprise customers move towards securing their assets, digital video is the way forward  

At a time when most of the content is moving towards the IP domain, global studies of IT purchasing trends prove that there is an increased growth of digital video, even in a soft economy. Digital video surveillance systems exhibit significant growth, driven by heightened public and private security concerns in addition to a technology shift. 

As a result, the security industry is experiencing convergence as information technology slowly and gradually transitions to video services, although a complete convergence of physical and logical security – for most operations – still is many years away. However, a lot of enterprise customers are today more receptive to having a converged and digital friendly surveillance system in place.

Migration from analog to digital at this time often will mean coexistence, where analog and IP exist side by side. And system integrators who are firmly focused towards Security systems, with their interest towards IP, agree towards this convergence. In the integrators’ world, migration to a new technology is a gradual process but fortunately this shift has started and IP is the way forward. 

While IP-based solutions are likely to witness high growth rates over the next few years, the large installed base of analog surveillance solutions are an indication that analog will remain in existence for the foreseeable future. And experts agree on this point and calibrate that both solutions are expected to coexist for many years to come, while finding applications that they are best suited for. In the meantime, the enterprise customers are expected to further increase their interest towards having an end to end surveillance systems.