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C O M • T H E G L O B A L S E C U R I T Y M A G A Z I N E • P R O D U C E D B Y A R M E D I A I N T E R N AT I O N A L A B • N O 4 • NOV/DEC 2015 Publisher´s Comment China takes the fast track to the future Voice of the Security Technology Industry How to reduce bandwidth and storage requirements in IP-video surveillance systems Business News Diebold security business acquired by Securitas for 350 million US-dollars Product News Hikvision’s 4K Total System International Outlook Detektor meets up with leading security product providers from China, Taiwan and South Korea The Interview Pierre Racz, CEO and founder of Genetec Security exhibition reports · Sicurezza, Milan · CPSE, Shenzhen · Security User Expo Copenhagen The securiTy producTs of The year DETEKTOR InTERnaTIOnal awaRD PRESEnTS THE TOP 12 PRODUCTS In 2015 Omslag1_Det_Int_4_15_.indd 1 2015-11-10 15:26 Lennart Alexandrie, Publisher China takes the fast track to the future isiting CPSE – the largest security show in the world – is always an experience. As was the case even this year when the event took place in Shenzhen from the 29th of October to the 1st of November. It was the third time I have visited this exhibition and as in previous times I was impressed by the quantity of exhibitors (more than 1 100 companies) and the number of visitors (more than 100 000 according to the organiser). It is an overwhelming experience – both visually and audibly. Wow, it is colourful and noisy, fascinating and – at times – unbearable, but at the end of the day, CPSE never offers one dead moment and that is – in itself – very impressive. The Chinese industry is said to be slowing down. That may be true. Economic growth cannot be sustained at the same pace year after year. But at the CPSE show there was no indication of this. China and Asia are very much the factory of the global security market, no matter which brands the products carry. However, other than the video surveillance products from the giant Japanese consumer electronic companies, Asian security manufacturers have so far been more the followers rather than the leaders in product development. But they follow fast. Over the last few years the gap between leading Japanese or western brands has decreased dramatically in all aspects, as companies like Hikvision and Dahua have emerged. At the CPSE show, cameras or security products in general were not the main issue. The interesting thing was that so many exhibitors used the exhibition to address their solutions based on a society heading for smart building and smart city solutions customised for user needs. And it seems obvious that the government of Shenzhen and many of the other big cities in China are not just supporting the process towards smart cities, but they are ready to act to make it happen. At CPSE the exhibitors did not just show their strength in producing hardware products but also advanced software based solutions where big data can be handled and controlled. The subject was also brought up on different oc- V casions during the conference and seminar sessions. Amongst the western speakers discussing the Internet-of-Things and the smart city trend at the event was Jim Mchale from Memoori Business Intelligence. China’s eagerness to adopt the ideas and the concepts of smart homes, smart buildings and smart cities may be grounded in the fact that the country has transformed from a relatively poor and underdeveloped society, both in terms of economy and in technology to a superpower in both aspects. This has happened over a period of just 15 years. With a growing economy and without a tradition of having a highly developed infrastructure, based on investments in analogue technology, the natural progression was to step into the world of digital technology and embrace the opportunities it offered - especially as the economy has grown dramatically over the last ten or fifteen years and made huge government investments possible. And the drivers towards a smart city infrastructure are many. The rapid growth of industries and the urbanisation that came along with it has led to severe problems with infrastructure logistics, extreme exploitation of natural resources and caused well known environmental problems. All these factors have played an important role in China’s choice of taking the fast track route to smarter cities with effective logistics of societal functions. And within these concepts, security plays a vital role. For the security industry in China, being an exporter of hardware products is no longer enough. The cost for employees has increased substantially over the years and product sales margins are declining, which in turn has a strong impact on the development of the Chinese security industry. Security services, based on technology will become paramount, and the Chinese response to this will already be visible at security exhibitions to come. China has entered a new era, where software will be the next big export product, meanwhile the big cities of the huge countries in the west will become smarter and smoother, both from a general infrastructure perspective and in terms of security. Security News Every Day – www. securityworldhotel.com