Some of the largest smart home surveillance camera brands – Arlo, Blink, Nest, Ring, and Wyze – remain in control of the surveillance camera market, though a sea change is imminent, according to the latest research published in Strategy Analytics’ Smart Home Camera Market Analysis and Forecast – October 2021.

As differentiators other than the lowest camera selling price begin to fade for most brands it is becoming clear that device-only business models will become unsustainable. The hardware-first business model that has spurred tremendous growth in this smart home device segment for brands such as Wyze, Xiaomi, Reolink, and Eufy, as well as dozens of Chinese companies over the last five years is showing signs of winding down. Companies already well down the path towards software, such as Amazon (Blink and Ring), Arlo, and Google (Nest), will further entrench themselves at the top of the market, as well as enjoy a head start on earning them new customers and protecting their installed bases. Cameras from brands that either cannot or choose not to enhance their software offerings will be viewed as commodities, at best relegating these brands to the sidelines, at worst knocking them out of the camera market altogether.

Bill Ablondi, Director, Smart Home Strategies, added, “Strategy Analytics’ research into the consumer smart home surveillance camera market shows specifications, such as 1080p or greater video resolution, advanced night vision capabilities, and integration with digital assistant ecosystems are still important to consumers, though to a much lesser degree than in the past. Competitors in the smart home camera arena know that leadership in this market will soon be based on software and services more advanced than simply enabling cloud storage or remote viewing. The challenge ahead for camera companies will be determining how to successfully transition from selling camera hardware to selling security, monitoring, and safety features.”

Teledyne Flir has recently released new additions to its perimeter security portfolio for critical infrastructure – the Elara R-Series Commercial Ground Security Radars and the Triton FH-Series Multispectral Fixed Cameras.

A first for Teledyne Flir, the Elara R-Series is the ideal commercial radar system for industrial commercial applications, increasing detection coverage, auto-tracking, dynamic mapping and position intelligence of intruders. Part of the Teledyne Flir premium Triton family of cameras, the Triton FH-Series delivers both intrusion detection and video verification through its high-resolution thermal and visible imaging capabilities. These features plus the ability to capture vital details using 4K imagery enables security personnel to properly identify and assess situations, significantly improving response time.

The Elara R-Series introduces compact ground radars built to work within larger security systems to provide advanced warning of both human and vehicle intrusions beyond the fence line, while continuously tracking and precisely locating multiple targets. This series consists of two models, each designed with regional certifications in mind: the Elara R-290, which is compliant with United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines, and the Elara R-190, which is Conformité Européenne (CE)-compliant for Europe. The Elara R-290 features a 90-degree field of view, up to a 400-metre range for vehicle tracking, a 200-metre range for human tracking, and provides wide-area protection as well as situational awareness beyond the fence line; the Elara R-190 offers a 300-metre range for vehicles and 125 metres for humans. These products are designed for reliable detection in all weather and lighting conditions. The radars’ auto-tracking feature helps to direct pan-tilt-zoom surveillance sensors in the right direction; the radars also help expand coverage area and significantly minimize false alarms. In addition, both models can provide security personnel with precise, real-time data, 24/7.

The Triton FH-Series are ruggedised, multispectral fixed cameras that integrate industry-leading thermal imaging for detection with 4K visible imaging to help identify intruders in harsh perimeter security settings. Critical infrastructure facilities will benefit from technological advancements, such as highly-accurate convolutional neural network (CNN)-based video analytics for both thermal and visible spectrums, which minimize false alarms and aid in geo-locating threats for superior situational awareness. The on-board scheduling tool gives the operator the ability to select the type of analytics used to make detections based on time of day, business hours, and seasonality. Additionally, radiometric versions of the Triton FH-Series can be used for early fire detection applications to help critical sites operate safely and efficiently.

“Teledyne Flir is committed to equipping security directors with technologies that empower them to protect their facilities and personnel at mission critical sites,” said Kai Moncino, Global Business Development Manager, Security at Teledyne Flir. “The Elara R-Series and Triton FH-Series are built to enhance perimeter protection, providing accurate detection and alerting of threats. As with all of our new products, the Elara R-Series and Triton FH-Series are designed with the latest cyber-hardening features for added security and peace of mind.”

Multifunctional terminal Partizan STD-2MP helps businesses to work in a pandemic. At many European places where visitors need to measure temperatures and verify COVID certificates, the device has already shown itself to be at its best. Due diligence is quick and hassle-free.

The “quarantine” rules are constantly changing, so Partizan developers continue to expand the capabilities of STD-2MP. Of the most recent innovations, it is worth highlighting:

• Updating the database of European certificates
• Introduction of additional indication of the check mode

What does it mean? Now, when verifying a COVID certificate, STD-2MP will generate three types of color notifications. Here are the situations:

• If someone tries to use an invalid certificate, STD-2MP will signal with the red light.
• If the certificate is valid but the visitor or employee does not present an ID, the STD-2MP will give a yellow notification. This means the certificate is in order. But whether it belongs to the one who showed it – is still a question.
• Finally, if a valid certificate and passport are presented and their details match, the STD-2MP will give a green notification. All is OK!

The terminal will additionally send reports with PUSH notifications to Partizan mobile application and letters to the admin’s email.

In addition to the verification of certificates, Partizan STD-2MP is able to remotely measure the body temperature of visitors.This significantly saves time at checkpoints. The device also detects the presence of a mask and is able to memorize 22,400 faces and 100,000 events. An important option if you need to keep track of visits or create a database of guests/staff.

Few people like anti-COVID constraints! But realities demand responsibility from us if we want to return to normal life as soon as possible. Partizan STD-2MP terminal is one solution that will allow most types of businesses to comply with government regulations and remain alive.

Partizan specialists continue to work on expanding the STD-2MP functionality. Follow the news!

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Bosch Building Technologies is planning to acquire Protec Fire and Security Group Ltd., headquartered in Nelson, UK – one of the leading system integrators for security and fire detection technology with an innovative product portfolio.

Protec employs around 1,100 employees at its nine European locations in the UK and the Netherlands and generated sales of GBP 125 million (around 142 million Euro) in the fiscal year 2021 according to preliminary figures. “With the acquisition of Protec, Bosch Building Technologies aims to expand its business and grow further in the European market,” says Thomas Quante, president of Bosch Building Technologies. It has been agreed that the purchase price will not be disclosed. The acquisition is subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities.

“With Bosch, we found a great partner who values our history, brand and our extraordinary team. I believe this cooperation will open up great opportunities for our company as well as our employees and lead into a successful future,” says Barrie Russell, founder and chairman of Protec Fire and Security Group Ltd. The company’s services and products are used in numerous sectors, for example in industry, airports and railway stations.

Alongside the UK, the Netherlands is another important market for Protec, accounting for the largest share of its overseas sales. Here, the company is mainly active under the brand Hacousto Protec. “In the Dutch market, Protec and its complementary customer and competence structure is an excellent expansion of Bosch Building Technologies’ current business. The acquisition will significantly strengthen our joint market position in the security and fire detection technology sector, create a broader service offering for our customers and expand the product portfolio in the Security & Life Safety area,” adds Quante.

Research company Marketsandmarkets has released a new report predicting that the global IoT Security Market size will grow from USD 14.9 billion in 2021 to USD 40.3 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 22.1% during the forecast period. The drivers for spurring this competitive and diverse market, include, the rapid increase in the number of Industry 4.0 IoT security incidents, stressing the need to strengthen cyber resilience; the growth in IoT security regulations; and security concerns for critical infrastructure. The development of smart infrastructure and the roll-out of the 5G network could also accelerate a new wave of IoT security applications.

By market type within the IoT sector, it is the network security segment that is expected to register the larger market size in 2026. Every enterprise today needs a degree of network security solutions to secure it from the ever-increasing cyber threats. The network architecture is complex and always under threat. The network environment is always changing, and attackers are trying to find and exploit vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are found in a large number of areas, including devices, data, applications, users, and locations. There are several network security tools and applications that address the threats and vulnerabilities across the IoT ecosystem. The key trend contributing to the growth of the network security segment is the rising adoption of IoT applications among various industries.

Large enterprises hold the lion’s share
By organisation size, large enterprises are expected to hold the biggest share, as they reshape their security policies and architectures to incorporate big data for protecting critical assets from various cyber attacks. They majorly adopt the IoT security ecosystem to safeguard networks, endpoints, data centres, devices, users, and applications against unauthorised usage and malicious ransomware attacks. With the increasing sophistication of cyber attacks, the demand for advanced IoT security solutions is growing in large enterprises to secure their networks.

Cloud deployment is the way forward
The cloud deployment mode is the fastest-growing segment in terms of mode, because organisations are beginning to understand that they can avoid costs related to hardware, software, storage, and technical staff by using cloud-based IoT security solutions. Cloud-based platforms offer a unified way in the form of SaaS-based security services to secure business applications. These platforms are beneficial for organisations that have strict budgets for security investments. SMEs deploy their solutions in the cloud as it enables them to focus on their core competencies rather than investing their capital in security infrastructures. The cloud deployment mode is growing as cloud IoT security solutions are easy to maintain and upgrade.

Smart homes and wearable tech
By application area, the smart home is an integrated IoT-enabled living, security, comfort, entertainment, and overall home. Smart homes and consumer electronics consist of devices, such as wristwear, eyewear, neckwear, and bodywear, and smart home appliances. In addition, consumer wearables include ring scanners, body-worn cameras, and special-purpose footwear. Consumer electronics and smart home appliances are vulnerable and susceptible to cyberattacks. This vulnerability and susceptibility provides IoT security vendors with a great opportunity to address the security needs of these consumer wearables.

The US leads the way
North America is expected to hold the largest market size in the global IoT Security market during the forecast period. North America has witnessed significant growth in the IoT security market, and it leads the market in terms of market share. North America has led in witnessing cyber attack incidents globally. It is regarded to be the most advanced region with regards to information technology security adoption and infrastructure. The rising concern to safeguard critical infrastructure and sensitive data has enlarged government intermediacy in recent years. Numerous government industry-collaborative efforts have been considered to boost the IoT security market. Budget allocation, along with mandated information consulting policies and collaboration with the private sectors, is expected to make North America the most lucrative market.

The key and emerging market players in the IoT Security Market as named by the Marketsandmarkets in relation to the report include: Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Ericsson, Thales, Allot, Infineon, Atos, Magiccube, Dragos, Claroty, Karamba, Vdoo, Forgerock, Ordr, Newsky, Trend Micro, Sophos, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Kaspersky and Entrust (US).

The Italian multinational ISEO, with headquarters in Pisogne (BS), has acquired the majority shareholding of the company Sofia Locks, with operational headquarters in Milan and specialised in cloud native access control solutions.

ISEO has been a leading Italian multinational in the security and access control sector for over 50 years. At the core of the business are products and systems for home and buildings security and access control, technologically innovative and reliable. Today the ISEO group has over 1,200 employees worldwide, and operates through 13 companies: it develops, manufactures and markets its products and solutions in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa and South America.

Sofia Locks is a Proptech company (technologies for real estate) that was created to serve the new demand for safe and flexible space management. Sofia Locks solutions have been designed to meet the needs of workspaces, such as coworking and flexible workspaces, residential spaces and of co-living, cohousing and social housing, as well as the world of retail and logistics.

Sofia Locks solutions are integrated into the increasingly complete offer of digital platforms for the control of flows and accesses of the ISEO group: the Argo, V364, SDK and Locken systems. They aim to accelerate the digital innovation process and to allow even greater flexibility in electronic control through apps of various devices that guarantee the safety of buildings and homes.

“We are happy to start this journey with the Sofia Locks team, made up of brilliant young people projected into the world of technology and digitization, to the building and access sector. – says Roberto Gaspari, CEO of ISEO group

“We founded Sofia Locks with the aim of bringing innovation to the real estate sector. Sofia Locks is a PropTech, property and building technology, leveraging the experience of her team in creating digital and cloud native (IoT) products. Our path has made us today an essential element for innovative projects of top players in the real estate sector, to which we offer agility, flexibility, and automation in the management of physical spaces. We have decided to continue our journey with the ISEO group which, thanks to its international presence, will help the initiative to have an even broader scope,” adds Alessandro Nacci, Sofia Locks Founder.

Motorola Solutions has acquired Envysion, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise video security and business analytics solutions for the quick-service restaurant and retail industries.

Founded in 2006, by Level3 Communications executives, Envysion, offers cloud-based solutions which integrate video systems with sales data to proactively identify potentially fraudulent transactions and highlight sales patterns and in-store activity without the need to monitor hours of video footage.

“The combination of video and analytics continues to play a powerful role in supporting enterprise security,” said Greg Brown, chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions. “With Envysion, we will bring greater operational efficiency and safety to the vast restaurant and retail industries across the U.S., expanding our presence and reinforcing our strategy as a global leader in end-to-end video security solutions.”

“We are excited to join Motorola Solutions and look forward to advancing the innovative solutions we deliver to our customers,” said Matt Umscheid, CEO, Envysion. “Together, we will continue investing in and building upon Motorola Solutions’ portfolio of video security and access control solutions and equip enterprise customers with unparalleled security capabilities.”

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The 2021 Thales Global Cloud Security Study reports that 40% of organisations have experienced a cloud-based data breach in the past 12 months. Despite increasing cyber-attacks targeting data in the cloud, the vast majority (83%) of businesses are still failing to encrypt half of the sensitive data they store in the cloud, raising even greater concerns as to the impact cyber criminals can have.

Pandemic accelerated cloud transformation
Cloud adoption is on the rise and businesses are continuing to diversify the way they use cloud solutions. Globally, 57% of respondents reported they make use of two or more cloud infrastructure providers, whilst almost a quarter (24%) of organisations flagged that the majority of their workloads and data now reside in the cloud. In fact, according to a recent study by McKinsey & Company, companies globally have accelerated their cloud adoption by three years compared to pre-pandemic adoption rates. This marks a significant shift in the use of cloud-based solutions, from being purely data storage solutions, to environments in which data is used transactionally and supports day-to-day business operations.

Security in the cloud is mixed
According to the study, one fifth (21%) of businesses host the majority of their sensitive data in the cloud, while 40% reported a breach in the last year. There are some common trends as to where companies turn when considering how to secure their cloud infrastructure, with 33% reporting multi-factor authentication (MFA) as being a central part of their cyber security strategy. However, only 17% of those surveyed have encrypted more than half of the data they store in the cloud. This figure drops to 15% where organisations have adopted a multi-cloud approach. Even where businesses protect their data with encryption, 34% of organisations leave the control of keys to service providers rather than retaining control themselves. Where large numbers of organisations fail to protect their data sufficiently with encryption, limiting potential access points becomes even more critical. However, nearly half (48%) of business leaders globally admitted their organisation does not have a Zero Trust strategy, and a quarter (25%) aren’t even considering one.

Complexity as a concern
Businesses share common concerns about the increasing complexity of cloud services. Almost half (46%) of global respondents claimed managing privacy and data protection in the cloud is more complex than on-premises solutions.

Hybrid models are common with many organisations not moving entirely to the cloud. 55% of businesses have indicated a preference for a ‘lift & shift’ approach to cloud adoption over re-architecting, as cloud becomes a more integrated part of the business infrastructure.

Sebastien Cano, Senior Vice President for Cloud Protection and Licensing activities at Thales comments: “Organisations across the world are struggling to navigate the increased complexity that comes with greater adoption of cloud-based solutions. A robust security strategy is essential to ensuring data and business operations remain secure. With nearly every business reliant on the cloud to some extent, it is vital that security teams have the ability to discover, protect, and maintain control of their data.”

Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence added: “Protecting customer data is always the priority, and organisations should strongly consider reviewing their strategies and approaches to proactively protect data in cloud. This includes understanding the role of specific technologies including encryption and key management, as well as the shared responsibilities between providers and their customers. As data privacy and sovereignty regulations grow, it will be paramount that organisations have a clear understanding of how they remain responsible for data security and make clear decisions about who is in control and who can access their sensitive data”

The 2021 Thales Cloud Security Study was commissioned by Thales and conducted by 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence and includes the viewpoints from more than 2,600 executives with responsibility for or influence over IT and data security. Respondents were from 16 countries.