Texas Instruments is expecting to ship about 5 million video surveillance and security chip devices in 2007. These will mainly come from TI’s DaVinci product family. Video surveillance and security solutions have seen a boom since the 9/11 incident.
But the issue is that TI has higher end programmable DSPs on offer and these are mainly used in IP cameras, DVRs and other storage devices. Reaching 5 million figure this year seems an uphill task. Out of the total 15 million estimated cameras video surveillance cameras shipped per year, only about 2 million are IP cameras where TI solutions could go in. If TI estimate is to believed IP cameras market must see an exponential growth for the remaining months of 2007.
Although video surveillance and security market has been growing over the past 7 years or so, the growth rate has not exactly been explosive in B2B market. B2C segment has just started to take off and IP cameras won’t see much deployment in this segment till costs come down.