Global video surveillance market revenues are set to reach $24 bn by the end of 2021 according to Omdia’s latest Video Surveillance and Analytics Intelligence Database.
This marks a quick recovery for the video surveillance market as demand that was suppressed in 2020 will return and revenues will be bolstered by projects getting the green light in 2021 that were postponed in 2020 due to Covid. Omdia forecasts that total video surveillance market revenues will grow to $31.9 bn by 2025 with a total CAGR of 7.1% between 2020-2025.
Thermal body temperature solutions
The size of the thermal body temperature solutions market has rapidly grown to $1.3 bn globally in 2020. Driven by Covid-19 precautions, this technology has been adopted by several regions, in particular China, East Asia, India and the Middle East. However, without the growth in thermal body temperature solutions, the global video surveillance equipment market declined 3.8% globally in 2020.
Despite being a driving growth factor in 2020, Omdia forecasts the thermal body temperature solutions market will decline rapidly in 2021 to just $137 million, an 89.8% decline, ultimately limiting overall video market surveillance market growth.
Geopolitics, supply chain constraints and AI
Omdia expects average selling prices of video surveillance equipment to increase in the short term as US-China geopolitical tension and supply chain constraints from the Covid-19 pandemic increase pressure on vendor margins.
Oliver Philippou, research manager for physical security at Omdia commented: “The semiconductor shortfall driven by geopolitics and the Covid impact has affected all industries and video surveillance is no exception. This disparity between supply and demand is expected to last until mid-2022.
Longer term, Omdia expects that there will be a greater adoption of the network camera products using AI deep learning acceleration and inference at the endpoint. This will result in higher average prices of network cameras.
Chinese Impact on global market revenues
The Chinese video surveillance market is estimated to have grown 6.4% in 2020 compared to the global average of 2.2%. This growth is mainly attributed to thermal body temperature solutions. The market, excluding these solutions, is estimated to have declined by 0.8%. As such, China now accounts for 50% of the global market revenues. However, a combination of Covid-19 and the completion of Xue Liang Programme has resulted in declining government investment in video surveillance in China. Even so, government investment will continue to grow, albeit at a slower rate.
Tommy Zhu, senior analyst for physical security at Omdia, commented: “One of the major factors that drove China’s market growth in the past few years was government investment. Although the year of 2020 marks the completion of Xue Liang Programme, the government will continue to enhance the construction of Safe China during its 14th five-year plan. In addition, as China is rolling out trillions of dollars investment in new infrastructure construction, the demand for video surveillance equipment is expected to continue to grow.
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