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Brian was appointed Editor of Security Management Today (SMT) in November 2000. In 2005, he received the BSIA Chairman's Award for Promoting The Industry and, a year later, the Skills for Security Special Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Security Business Sector.
In 2008, Brian was nominated for the ASC's Imbert Prize and was a finalist in the 2012 George van Schalkwyk Award.
An Honorary Fellow of The Security Institute and a judge for numerous industry awards, Brian became the Editor of SMT Online in late 2008 and was also promoted to Group Content Editor for UBM Live's Security Portfolio (focusing on the IFSEC SELECT end user programme, the Security Excellence Awards, conferences and webinars).
Now the Media Solutions Manager for UBM Live's Security and Fire Portfolio, Brian is actively pioneering developments in live events and digital media.
Last August witnessed the introduction of a new Surveillance Camera Code of Practice from Surveillance Camera Commissioner Andrew Rennison, who two months later signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Information Commissioner Christopher Graham.
Undoubtedly one of the most popular subjects for discussion in security circles, CCTV commands the frequent attentions of privacy lobbyists, law enforcement bodies, politicians and the national media.
In recent times there has been heated debate in the UK around the alleged ‘Rise of the Surveillance State’. Are there too many cameras watching over us, and are those same cameras perhaps too intrusive?
From an operational standpoint, how many CCTV systems are actually non-compliant in relation to the Terms and Conditions of the Data Protection Act?
Surveillance trends
Closer to home, what’s actually happening in the CCTV marketplace without which these high level debates and publications would never have seen the light of day?
Are there any key trends emerging? What path will solutions development take, and is there a sense of what direction general market progression will look like throughout 2014?
IHS – the specialist market analyst that has been researching the CCTV space for over a decade – recently issued a White Paper focused on major trends for the video surveillance sector in 2014. Authored by security research manager Niall Jenkins, this excellent document is both interesting and thought-provoking in equal measure.
According to IHS, it’s going to be 180/360-degree network cameras that steal the show in 2014. Such cameras are predicted to gain market share in the transport (ie airports) and retail sectors where, of course, wide area surveillance is a prime deliverable for practising end users.
Speaking of panoramic views, the seemingly unstoppable rise of social media – and a parallel increase in the quality of, for example, smart phone cameras – has inevitably encouraged an uptake in what’s being dubbed ‘crowd-sourced data collection’.
You’ll recall last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, for example, and the collation of images taken by members of the public in order to assist the authorities’ subsequent investigations.
Does this mean the UK’s police service – not to mention policing bodies around the globe – will dedicate specific resources to this form of information collection? What of the data analysis challenges energised by such a move?
IHS is adamant that software vendors and security system integrators alike will need to keep an eye on this situation.
Video analytics
A central theme tends to emerge at each edition of IFSEC International and, a few years back, the show was characterised by exhibitors demonstrating a raft of video analytics.
As IHS rightly points out, for some time now CCTV solution developers have been embedding analytics in their products as an ‘added value’ element that’s free of charge. IHS states that vendors “can no longer charge for basic algorithms” but also reports: “In 2014, the market for video surveillance devices with chargeable video content analytics will remain a viable market in applications where the end user needs advanced reliable analytics.”
With the move to network video surveillance increasing apace, recent developments in Power-over-Ethernet (POE) standards and products are, suggests IHS, “rendering this technology viable” for practising security managers.
IHS fully expects that camera manufacturers will enhance their low-powered camera portfolios such that all solutions within duly conform to the POE+ standard.
Continuing the network-centric theme, IHS reports that over 70% of such surveillance cameras sent to market last year featured multidirectional or unidirectional audio facilities. As awareness of these embedded audio analytics increases, IHS speculates that market penetration may well increase.
Key verticals
IHS forecasts that the global CCTV market will grow by more than 12%. The aforementioned 180/360-degree network cameras sit alongside fixed domes as the product types predicted to be fastest-growing by volume.
As far as key verticals are concerned, the utilities/energy sectors and city surveillance are likely to be the ones to watch.
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