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According to the latest annual Centre for Retail Research (CRR) survey into the use of CCTV in retail – commissioned by Axis Communications, the global market leader in network video – over 60 percent of UK retailers are planning to adopt network IP in the next three years and nearly a third have adopted it already, up from a quarter in 2012. Of the 278 UK retailers that responded, encompassing some 20,350 stores, the data showed that 92.8 percent currently use CCTV. Of these, 32.1 percent have already upgraded to network IP technology – representing a 2.5 percent rise in take up from the previous year’s figures. This trend is even more pronounced across the wider northern European region, with 58.5 percent (weighted average) of analogue users now planning to switch to network IP – representing a significant increase of 17 percent on 2012 figures.
The survey, now in its fourth year, polled 2,200 retailers, and received 673 respondents from across northern Europe. The results of the survey were recently presented at the Retail Fraud Show in Leicester by Atul Rajput, regional director, northern Europe at Axis Communications and Professor Joshua Bamfield, director at the CRR. (Source: Security Today)
Reacting to the results, Atul commented: “The migration from analogue CCTV to network IP continues to be of huge importance to the retail industry with the majority of UK retailers (60.3 percent) now planning to convert in the next three years, with over three quarters (77.1 percent) of those owning a retail estate of between 26 and 500 stores. This is therefore likely to be the biggest single factor impacting on retail security as digital surveillance and network video become the standard. Certainly for the UK, I believe that the migration to network IP has become the norm and it is no longer a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’ the technology will be adopted.
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Survey reveals strong trend towards IPOf the 278 UK retailers that responded, encompassing some 20,350 stores, the data showed that 92.8 percent currently use CCTV. Of these, 32.1 percent have already upgraded to network IP technology : representing a 2.5 percent rise in take up from the previous year's figures.
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