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| Top 5 technology trends for the security industry |
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| As we mark the tenth year of tracking the technology trends shaping the security sector, we’re reminded of how quickly time moves—and how rapidly innovation continues to accelerate. Rather than a sudden shift in direction, the trends emerging for 2026 represent a steady evolution of the developments we’ve seen in recent years. |
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| 1. “Ecosystem-first” becomes an important part of decision making |
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| At a fundamental level, the greater influence of the IT department is changing the perspective regarding security technology purchasing decisions. The first decision is increasingly defined by the solution ecosystem to which they want to commit. This ecosystem-first approach makes a lot of sense. With today’s solutions including a greater variety of devices, sensors, and analytics, seamless integration, configuration, management, and scalability is essential. In addition, product lifecycle management, including, critically, ongoing software support, becomes more achievable within a single ecosystem. |
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| 2. The ongoing evolution of hybrid architectures |
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| A hybrid architecture as the preferred choice isn’t new. What’s changing is the balance of resources, as capabilities are enhanced and new use cases emerge. Edge and cloud are becoming much more significant, with the need for on-premise server computing resources reduced. This is largely a result of enhanced computing power and capabilities within both cameras and the cloud. |
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| 3. The increased importance of edge computing |
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| Enhanced capabilities mark the beginning of a new era of edge. Thanks to the enhanced AI within devices. The focus has been put on the capabilities of cameras and the increasing variety of edge AI-enabled sensors. Edge processing generates both business data – actionable insights derived directly from the scene – and more metadata, which describes the objects and scenes within it. This information has become the basis for efficient scaling of system functionality, such as smart video searches, and for generating system wide insights. |
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| 4. Mobile surveillance on the rise |
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| Mobile surveillance has already seen significant growth and is set to explode over the next year. From a technological perspective, improved connectivity has helped unlock the ability to employ more advanced, higher-quality surveillance cameras in mobile solutions. Remote access and edge AI has further enhanced the capabilities of mobile solutions. Power management has also advanced, resulting in lower power utilization without a compromise in quality. |
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| 5. Technology autonomy: Easier said than done! |
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| Less a new trend, and more a reflection on one of our trends from last year where we highlighted how companies across many sectors were looking to gain more control over technologies essential to their products. However, extending an organization’s focus from its traditional business to a fundamentally different and potentially highly complex area is easier said than done. Designing our own system-on-chip (SoC), ARTPEC, which Axis started doing more than 25 years ago, has given us ultimate control over our product functionality. |
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