
SDM Magazine’s annual market report examines key trends shaping the video surveillance industry. Eagle Eye Networks CEO Dean Drako shares insights on the shift toward cloud-based solutions and AI-driven security.
The video surveillance market remains extremely strong, both according to SDM’s 2025 Industry Forecast, where 94 percent of security professionals consider the state of the video surveillance market to be very good or excellent, as well as multiple manufacturers and integrators contacted by SDM for this report.
While 2024 wasn’t a banner year for everyone — with comments generally consolidating around the election uncertainty and inflation/interest rates as a drag on sales last year — individually almost everyone noted it was still overall a good year in the video space, with technologies such as analytics, AI and cloud cited as the driving force.
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Since 2012, Eagle Eye Networks has provided smart cloud surveillance solutions, leveraging AI to drive natural language search, automation, and more. Eagle Eye’s camera-agnostic approach heightens security while saving money, time, and resources.
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