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2 SECURITY STATS www.securitysystemsnews.com MAY 2011 SECURITY SYSTEMS NEWS SECURITY STATS Emerging CCTV biometric market, $3.2b by 2016 A By Daniel Gelinas February report from the Homeland Security Research Corporation predicts a large growth area in an emerging mar- ket. According to the HSRC’s “CCTV-Based Remote Biometric & Behavioral Suspect Detection: Technologies & Global Markets— 2011-2016,” the current decade will be marked by the fusion of CCTV with biometrics and human behav- ioral signatures, which will create a new multi-billion dollar premium security market of CCTV-based remote biometric and behavioral suspect detection, growing from a value of $.593b in 2010 to $3.2b in 2016. Billions of dollars What is CCTV-based biometric suspect detection? What are some of its drivers for growth? What stands in the way of adoption for this emerging, converged solution and how can integrators best posi- tion themselves to benefit from the growth? According to HSRC chairman & CTO Dan Inbar, CCTV-based biometrics is a technology whose time has come. CCTV-based remote biometric detection technologies include: walk- by biometric terrorist identification; remote biometrics identification systems; remote behavior detection and tracking; video content analysis for CCTV surveillance; and stimuli- based behavioral detection. “The DHS and the DOD are intent on improving security in the United States and abroad ... by installing better remote screening technol- ogy … Most available biometric technologies require the detection system or some part of it to be in close proximity to the person being examined, thereby increasing the operator’s vulnerability and consider- ably slowing the rate of processing,” Inbar said. “The remote suspect detection market is in transition, replacing ‘old,’ legacy off-the-shelf CCTV-based technologies with a wave of new technologies and detec- tion protocols.” According to Inbar, this family of technologies results from the need to remove the bottlenecks of cur- rent CCTV and people-screening systems, the inability to provide reli- able real-time alarms when suspects are viewed by the CCTV camera, as well as the staggering cost of security officers required to operate 24/7 CCTV workstations. This fusion of technologies brings significant growth opportunities to CCTV, biometric and IT systems manufac- turers, security systems integrators and entrepreneurs, according to the HSRC report. However, the growing market is not without its stumbling blocks. “There are over 50 million CCTV public security cameras deployed globally, which depend today on hundreds of thousands of security personnel to monitor suspected behavior. These labor- intensive, problematic systems need an upgrade,” Inbar said. “Globally, there are over 12,000 transportation-related—for exam- ple, airports—people screening lanes. While over 80 percent of the screening lanes have some sort of CCTV surveillance systems, less than 5 percent of the lanes have advanced remote suspect detection capabilities.” SSN HSRC 2011