IMS Research: Network camera market to increase annually
by around 40 per cent up to year 2011
Mobotix advances to No. 4 worldwide and increases market
share in EMEA to 16.3 per cent (No. 2)
Kaiserslautern, February 6, 2008. The result of a recent
study on the video surveillance market done by market research specialist IMS
Research* shows that Mobotix, a manufacturer of digital, high-resolution and
network-based video security systems, was able to increase the share of the
EMEA market in 2006 by 3.7 percentage points compared to the previous year.
With this, Mobotix occupies the second place in the market share with 16.3 per
cent, right behind Axis.
Mobotix also managed to gain global market share, rising to
fourth place in the network camera manufacturer rankings with a market share of
6.6 per cent, behind Axis, Sony and Panasonic. This makes the
Kaiserslautern-based camera specialist one of only four companies around the
globe to increase its share of the market.
Strong growth predicted for megapixel cameras
The IMS study confirmed that the entire industry is
undergoing a period of sustained growth. The market for network cameras is set
to increase by an average of 40.1 per cent annually between 2006 and 2011, with
the market for network video surveillance software not far behind at 35.8 per
cent, according to IMS Research. As a complete solution provider, Mobotix
serves both markets, unlike its rival camera manufacturers. Digital network
cameras will continue to win against the analog surveillance cameras in the
coming years. Fix-dome models are enjoying particular popularity, and in the
past two years, Mobotix has successfully launched two new fixed-dome product
lines, the D12 and D22 dome cameras.
IMS is forecasting up to year 2011 even healthier growth for
the megapixel camera market, in which Mobotix has been active for years
already. The big advantage of megapixel technology is that more detail can be
recorded with fewer cameras. Not only does this save costs, but it also
enhances the systems’ visual impact in buildings with elaborate architecture. Megapixel
technology is where Mobotix strengths are: all of its camera models have
featured this technology for years, and now since October 2007, the cameras are
equipped with 3.1 megapixels. An unofficial estimate by IMS Research lists
Mobotix as the global market leader in high-resolution network camera
technology with a market share of over 60 per cent.
Efficient video codec is where the future lies
IMS gave special recognition to the importance of the Mobotix
MxPEG video codec for future market development. “Most of today’s megapixel
cameras use only the single frame-based Motion JPEG format for compression of
the video stream, and so require several times the bandwidth and memory than a
more efficient video codec,” explained Simon Harris, Senior Research Director
at IMS.
Megapixel cameras do not use MPEG4 in high-resolution
operation, as this format was originally developed only for running multimedia
applications and does not satisfy live camera requirements. In addition, the
immense computational complexity required by MPEG4, particularly in the
megapixel range, is neither available in the camera nor in the PC for
processing images from several cameras.
The licence-free Mobotix MxPEG format was developed
especially for megapixel live cameras. Not only does it allow short response
times from scene to display and moving images to be recorded in greater detail,
but it also offers cost-effective recording by a number of cameras in megapixel
quality thanks to its lower computing power requirements. If MxPEG is used, a
single standard PC can save high-resolution megapixel images from roughly ten
times as many cameras. In 2007, a system with around 1,000 Mobotix megapixel
cameras was installed in Singapore.
Well-known video software manufacturers have already adopted
the Mobotix video codec in their software systems.
*Source: IMS Research, The World Market for CCTV & Video
Surveillance Equipment, 2007 Edition
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