Tag: telecoms
Hikvision, Dahua feeling the squeeze as Australian audit removes cameras
February 10, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
SYDNEY – Hikvision and Dahua are off to a bad start in 2023 as sanctions from the prior year and accusations of human rights violations continue to produce repercussions for the Chinese telecoms.
In an audit released on Feb. 9, the Australian government found as many as 900 pieces of surveillance equipment manufactured by those companies were installed at government locations, on over 200 buildings, and in every department although numbers per department could not be verified. In an interview...
Security Systems News poll results: February 2023
January 23, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – We asked, and you answered as we share the results of the February 2023 Security Systems News Poll.
We asked readers to chime in on the state of the security camera market in consideration of recent legislation against Chinese telecoms and expansion of U.S. chip production. We found that over 75% of poll participants were satisfied with their current security camera network and the level of transparency they received with their service. In contrast only 12.5% either...
Study: Cablecos, telecoms stake claim in resi market
August 12, 2015Amy Canfield
DALLAS—Forty percent of new security monitoring subscribers are signing with nontraditional providers, according to Tom Kerber, Parks Associates director of research, home controls and energy.Cablecos and telecoms have made big inroads into the residential security market, and they're in it for the long run, according to new research about competition in the industry from Parks Associates. Although traditional security companies still are responsible for more than 75 percent of the monitored...
'We are providing something completely different'
April 21, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
LAS VEGAS—Bob Harris, owner and president of Attrition Busters, warned an audience of Digital Monitoring Products' security dealers that he was going to “speak about that dirty little word: cable.”Harris, a security consultant who conducts training sessions for large and small alarm dealers, was one of the featured speakers at a DMP Owners Forum, held here in early April. It was the third year the Springfield, Mo.-based manufacturer of network solutions has held the annual forum...
Global home automation market poised to expand dramatically
March 26, 2014Leif Kothe
WELLINGBOROUGH, England—The global home automation market is trending toward significant growth in the coming years, with the $9 billion market projected to reach $14 billion by 2018, according to a report from ABI Research, a technology market intelligence firm with locations around the world.The North American market, fertile already, will remain robust during the forecast period, rising from $5 billion to $7 billion. North America currently holds 64 percent of the market, but its share is...
This Blog's on Fire (And Other Stuff)
In your face, telecoms!
December 7, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
I've been writing a lot recently about telecoms—Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Frontier Communications and AT&T—entering the security space.
The industry experts I've talked to about their new competitors have all been polite, saying that basically, the telecoms don't have the security expertise or the reputation for good service that security companies have earned with their customers.
So I had to smile at the more in-your-face way that a consumer expressed that same idea in a...