New research from Omdia has found that 51% of leading Chief Security Officers (CSOs) are already using video surveillance systems for facility safety applications. This response rate increased to 89% when CSOs were asked whether they expect to be using video surveillance for this application within 3 years.
Author of the report and Principal Consultant at Omdia, Niall Jenkins, provides further insight.
The research comes from a Chief Security Officer Insights report, where Omdia partnered with the International Security Management Association (ISMA) to gain unique insight from 163 currently practising CSOs.
Video surveillance is an increasingly flexible solution for CSOs. It can be used to support facility safety with applications such as video fire alarms. It can also be used in people safety applications, for example, providing virtual guarding to protect remote employees.
In fact, 49% of respondents stated that people safety functionality is currently supported by their video surveillance system.
According to the research, operational management, such as the monitoring of staff activity, and operational efficiency for process optimisation, are other functionalities that will be important use-cases for video surveillance in the future.
Profit generation, such as building marketing data, was the least important use-case for video surveillance systems with only 20% of CSOs expecting to use their video surveillance system for this function within the next three years.
At the other end of the scale, frictionless interaction, including haptics and audio control, as well as wireless networking, were the least common responses.