Interesting meeting during this week
An integrator was looking for ways to increase sales of Electronic Security Systems, mainly CCTV.
End user customer base is predominantly agricultural……not many cows get stolen methinks!!
But, it turns out that in fact, the farming community is actually a prime target for CCTV based system solutions……why?
CCTV helps farmers
40K CCTV system.
I Recently spoke to sales guy who had a fantastic result in selling a £40 k CCTV system to one of his existing clients based up in London. He retold me the storey of how he had managed to upgrade a customer who’s system was actually less than 3 years old! Quite an achievement in this day of austerity and generally making do when it comes… Continue reading
CCTV for Xmas?
How things turn around. For the last 18 months the CCTV security industry has been eerily quiet. The reasons are obvious. The recession has driven many areas of business to cut back and one of the casualties of this has been the security budget. A make do situation arose where by end users were happy to cancel service agreements and ignore faults that would have… Continue reading
CCTV software.
Over the next few years we will begin to see hardware recording solutions in the CCTV security industry slowly disappear and be replaced almost exclusively by CCTV software.
Cost of CCTV hardware.
The high production costs of hardware have in the past always been able to be offset because most end users networks struggled to cope with the high amount of bandwidth taken by… Continue reading
CCTV the state of the industry
Plimsoll analysis have recently produced an interesting report on the financial health of the CCTV and security industry. They carried out an in depth study of 391 leading UK security firms and found that the majority of companies are coming under increasing threat of failure. Their study found that of the 391 companies only 159 were in a good or strong position, a… Continue reading
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