In fact, the growth potential for the city surveillance market was highlighted recently by announcement that HIKVISSION, a China-based video surveillance equipment manufacturer, has been appointed general contractor on an $800 million safe city project in Chongqing, China.
In other regions, such as the Middle East, wireless infrastructure in also being used to stream video surveillance live from police vehicles to command centers. This intergration between mobile and fixed locations has the potential to improve crime detection and prevention, providing more accurate intelligence to the police agency using the technology.
The main issue, according to IMS Research, is the knowledge and skill set of the systems integrators that install wireless video surveillance. However, as the opportunities continue to increase in the city surveillance, more and more integrators will be "on board" wireless technology, and it looks set to be major growth area in the video surveillance industry over the nest couple of years.
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