6 Video Surveillance Trends VARs Need To Watch

By Vance Kozik, Senior Product Manager, United States, for Pelco by Schneider Electric

The security industry is constantly changing, and trends come and go. But for Value-Added Resellers (VARs), the challenge lies in simply keeping up with the latest and greatest offerings from a seemingly endless supply of manufacturers. For the video surveillance market in particular, the sheer amount of growth expected to take place is enough to make VARs take pause and think about what they would truly like to offer end users. According to research firm IHS, the global surveillance market is expected to reach $23.6 billion by 2018, and with this in mind, the world is the VAR market’s proverbial oyster.

But what are these emerging trends, and how do they play in to the video surveillance market? Here, we outline six of these trends and how the market is responding.

• Increasing popularity of immersive cameras. Both 180- and 360-degree camera technologies continue to grow in popularity in the security market — and many manufacturers are getting in on the action. This trend isn’t going away, and both single-sensor and multi-sensor technologies in these cameras offers end users a better way to record video, increase coverage area, gain situational awareness, and harness the ability to see a bigger picture than ever before.