Following the steps of Big Brother into a surveillance society, where we will be able monitored from morning to night, birth to death.
Surveillance World
Surveillance in Society
Watching you, watching them - tracking the developments of CCTV, and other forms of population and personal monitoring and surveillance used by governments around the world.
Credit crunch to stop CCTV industry?
The credit crunch is hitting companies hard at present, but how much are security companies being impacted?
Certainly the IT sector is taking things badly, with regulation, budget cuts, and new technology threatening a number of companies on the one hand - though on the other, green IT is seeing improved investment.
So which way will all of these CCTV security companies go that are offering IP Networks for surveillance and security to power their spy cameras?
Well, the verdict seems to be - not very far, because technology is more accessible.
Simply put, despite the credit crunch, companies are looking for cheaper solutions, and the technology exists to already provide that.
We’ve already seen the CCTV security industry move towards IP surveillance, and a key drive behind that technology is the improved costing by running a network.
While not yet a mature technology, we could see cloud computing help reduce costs further, as new technologies already existing to support emerging technologies.
The sad fact is, that while the credit crunch is crippling most industries, the surveillance industry is not one of those.
In fact, with increasing unemployment, more adverse economic conditions, one would be tempted to think that security is one area that will see further investment, not least where the “haves” protect against the “have-nots”.