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• Video Surveillance Dollars Not Just for Security, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-10-08

  NEW YORK -- Security is the best-known application of video surveillance, but by no means the only one. Transportation systems and retail are both promising markets for video surveillance, where its uses extend to legal liability prevention, customer behavior analysis, and store design. Global spending on video surveillance for...

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• Compliance Remains King among Consumer Goods Manufacturers Says ABI Research, but Other Benefits Begin to Prompt RFID Adoption

  - 2008-10-01

  NEW YORK -- Consumer goods manufacturers and retailers continue to adopt RFID largely for the sake of compliance with mandates from the likes of Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, and METRO in Germany. However according to a survey recently conducted by ABI Research, topline results of which are available in a free...

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• RFID Moving Into the Data Center, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-09-30

  LONDON -- IT managers are increasingly finding value in using RFID within their own IT operations. This is spurring adoption of RFID in data centers and across corporate campuses. IT assets are key infrastructure for any modern business and IT managers need to be certain that equipment is documented,...

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• Real-time Intelligence Visualization Is Becoming the New RTLS, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-09-22

  NEW YORK -- Recent decades have seen the widespread adoption of short-range wireless communications, including wireless LANs (Wi-Fi), ultra-wideband UWB, and RFID. All of these can be used as part of real-time location systems RTLS. But according to a new Research Brief from ABI Research, a preoccupation with the technologies...

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• Security Biometrics Spending Will Reach $7.3 Billion in 2013, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-07-25

  LONDON -- Broad interest and investment in an array of biometrics technologies around the world will drive spending to $7.3 billion by 2013, up from around $3 billion in 2008. Interest in biometrics was kick-started by the new wave of terrorism in the early years of this decade, but...

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• Security Alarm Backhaul Lines Going Wireless, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-06-05

  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Traditionally, security alarm systems used fixed telephone lines to pass information from the security alarm panel to a central monitoring facility. Today, however, that communication is increasingly being delegated to a digital cellular link. ABI Research forecasts that the 2007 number of just fewer than 2.5 million...

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• Cargo Container Security: According to ABI Research, It's Not "One Size Fits All"

  - 2008-04-09

  NEW YORK -- Tracking of cargo containers and their contents from departure to delivery has clear benefits for the industrial and transportation sectors: increased visibility and security of goods in transit. A further potential benefit - greater public safety and security - is a subject of debate. But it is...

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• Home Automation and Security Going Mainstream, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-03-12

  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Home automation products have long existed in small numbers, but a new study from ABI Research says that a technology shift now under way is opening up a new mainstream consumer market and creating a new opportunity for broadband and telephone service providers.

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• Cargo Tracking and Security Market: Two Themes in Need of a Major Catalyst, Says ABI Research

  - 2007-12-19

  NEW YORK -- While there is healthy activity in cargo tracking and security, it is difficult to determine where the market is headed, as it hinges on whether or not a set of requirements and mandates is placed on shippers. Which entities will provide the push when there is little...

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• Active RFID is the Leading Technology in Cargo Container Security, but the Match Isn't over Yet, Says ABI Research

  - 2007-10-08

  NEW YORK -- Although the ISO committee concerned with cargo container security has finally released a standard based on active RFID, many end-users would prefer to employ passive RFID solutions, or none at all. In the absence of a mandate from the United States government, amid continuing questions about the...

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