The EMEA and North America Control Room Market
The North American and Emea total command and control room market, including technology and services, is set to increase from an estimated $3.2 billion in 2013, to almost $4.4 billion in 2018 for public safety, transportation and utilities.
Consolidation in the North America remains a major trend, with IHS anticipating a fall in the installed base over the forecast period, as Jennifer Shortland, Market Analyst for IHS Inc. underlines. However IHS understands that growth in the North American market revenue will be driven by this consolidation of smaller control rooms, as agencies invest both into larger single and multiagency control room deployments.
The increasing uptake of data in the control rooms will become much more significant in the public safety market, with the impact of FirstNet, NG911, Social Media and CCTV Integration becoming much more significant over the forecast period and driving increased control room spending.
There is a combination of installed base trends occurring across the EMEA region with consolidation in Western Europe leading to a decreasing installed base; however this is cancelled out by the increasing new public safety control room deployments in Eastern Europe and MEA.
The services aspect on the control room is expected to change over the forecast period with increasing uptake of service packages particularly in the emerging markets.
Social media remains one of the biggest challenges to changing emergency response procedure and IHS expects new products aiming at integrating social media into the control room infrastructure as an intelligence tool, and longer term a reporting mechanism like the next generation call taking procedures.
by the Editorial Staff
