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A Business Owner’s
Demand
New report offers guidance, flexibility as video surveillance is on the rise By Dean Drako
Business owners are making the move to higher resolution cameras at a pace that defies the influ- ences of the pandemic, supply chain challenges, and labor shortage, according to a new 2022 worldwide security camera report.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, business activity slowed and many products—including some security cameras—were un- available. One might logically assume that the installation of high performance cameras would have decelerated during this time as well, but that’s not the case. In fact, the recently released Eagle Eye Cloud Video Surveillance Camera Worldwide Statistics 2022 report shows that organizations of all kinds installed higher-res- olution cameras at an increasingly rapid rate in 2020 and 2021. The swift adoption of higher resolution cameras is just one of the metrics in the report that point to business owners’ preference for maximum flexibility in their video surveillance systems.
Offering a global view of how organizations are deploying se- curity cameras, the report is based on a sample data set of 200,000 security cameras from more than 158 manufacturers connected to the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS. The report reveals security camera usage trends and how they’re shifting from 2016 to present.
METEORIC RISE IN HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA USAGE
Over the past five years, there has been a three-fold increase in the number of high-resolution cameras (defined as 2 MP or greater) globally. Back in 2016, only 10 percent of cameras were 2MP or
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greater, but in 2022, a full 30 percent of security cameras were high resolution.
According to a Federal Reserve report, about 600,000 busi- ness establishments close annually. From March 2020 to February 2021, however, an estimated 200,000 additional establishments closed due to the pandemic. Interestingly, the adoption of higher resolution cameras accelerated in 2019 and did not decline–even as the pandemic hit in early 2020.
The report confirms that all regions across the globe are rap- idly moving to higher-resolution cameras. Security professionals prefer the clearer images that come with higher megapixel camer- as, and these cameras are much more affordable today than they were a decade ago.
In 2021 we saw the biggest increase in high resolution cameras
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