Out of the expected 30 million units of video surveillance cameras to be shipped in 2007, a very small (but growing) number of 60,000-75,000 among them are expected to be Mega Pixel cameras, according to Pixim. That amounts to about 0.2 -0.25% of the total expected shipments.

Nothing major is expected in this area for at least 3-5 years till IP camera installations get a real kick. I am not actually convinced that IP camera installation and mega pixel camera trend are correlated so much. But that is what some industry players think. However, to make use of the latest applications of video surveillance, such as video analytics, the capturing devices will have be improved.