With promising market development prospects, the domestic software market is no longer dominated by traditional platform software vendors, and new enterprises continue to emerge in the security software market, changing the situation of the past few software companies.
From the current development situation, there are several main categories of domestic security software companies:
One is digital video equipment manufacturers. In the early days, these enterprises mainly developed auxiliary security management software to promote hardware sales. However, with the changes in the market, these enterprises are gradually strengthening their software research and development. For example, some large hardware equipment manufacturers in the industry, such as Hikvision, Keda, Hanbang High tech, have recently strengthened their software platform product research and development, and have launched their own software products, completely transforming into product and industry solution providers;
The second is system integrators, which are software developed by companies primarily to monopolize the supply of equipment for certain projects;
The third is an independent security platform software professional development enterprise, which mainly focuses on developing and selling security software;
The fourth is IT companies entering the security field, which utilize their advantages in network communication technology to provide users with a complete set of solutions to maximize profit margins.
At present, these types of software vendors are competing based on their respective advantages. Some companies choose to provide vertical industry solutions, with platform software as the core, expanding products and valuable applications, and profiting through sales integration solutions. In this regard, some manufacturers with mature sales teams and the ability to provide solutions have been relatively successful, such as NICE abroad, H3C and ZTE Liwei in China. Some manufacturers choose to use the operator channel, and platform manufacturers and operators provide customers with a comprehensive solution of product+bandwidth rental. Due to the significant investment and time required to complete the construction of the operator's "video private network", and the fact that the operator's network construction has not yet been fully established, the operator's own operation has not developed, but has turned into a large integrator to do government projects such as safe cities.
Future Development Trends
At present, with the rapid development of the industry and the emergence of new technologies, these factors have brought dawn to the security software industry. Under the trend of rapid development of digital video surveillance, the development of security software presents a diverse trend. Combined with the development characteristics of the industry, it can be seen that there are several main development directions for software:
（1） Software integration industry chain with multiple systems and products
Integration is already a clear development direction in the industry, and software, as an important element in the security industry chain, will definitely move towards this direction. From the current development situation, security software will no longer be satisfied with just one function of video surveillance, but will develop towards a comprehensive system platform that integrates multiple functions. From front-end video surveillance, access control, and environmental variable sensing to back-end massive storage, intelligent search, intelligent analysis, and professional management, this entire system can not only achieve monitoring, alarm, and management, but also achieve mutual information transmission and linkage effects between individual systems. For example, if a fire breaks out in an office building, the fire sensor will immediately send a message to the backend management platform upon sensing it. The management platform will then send instructions to the front-end monitoring camera to conduct real-time measurements of the disaster situation in the difficult area. At the same time, the management platform will send instructions to the access control system to automatically open a safe passage. This feature greatly saves users time and energy in dealing with problems.
（2） Business management is becoming increasingly complex and diverse
With the deepening of applications, each field and industry is no longer just satisfied with the basic functions of software, but needs to integrate with its own business. This requires management platform software to provide users with different management and business level security prevention management application service tools through perfect, flexible, scalable system management and maintenance capabilities. Therefore; On the one hand, the security management platform software manages and maintains equipment, and comprehensively utilizes network and various video, audio, alarm, and database resources; On the other hand, it is necessary to provide users with tools that comply with their security business management processes, improve the efficiency of security management, and even promote the process and mechanism innovation of user security management. Therefore, future software development needs to meet such business requirements.
（3） Software intelligent application
Faced with massive systems and massive amounts of data, customers now have increasingly refined requirements for the intelligent part of software. For example, in the Safe City project, inputting facial images of suspects and automatically comparing and analyzing video files through the software platform can quickly analyze the time and route of suspects' crimes, greatly saving manual screening time. From such applications, we can see that intelligent software platforms help people remove a large amount of junk information in terms of video information effectiveness, making it more efficient and easy for users to handle problems. Therefore, intelligence can be said to be an important factor for software platform products to achieve breakthroughs in the future.
（4） Software standardization, stronger developability
At present, when integrating multiple systems and devices, many customers often encounter the lack of unified interface standards for devices. To solve this problem, it often requires a lot of time and effort. Therefore, it is very important to ensure business standardization, interface standardization, protocol standardization, technical standardization, etc. In the future, software will develop in this direction, achieve standardization, and facilitate smooth interaction between systems and information. In addition, the software will provide a more open platform architecture, implementing efficient development methods in the form of middleware and componentization, meeting the needs of business expansion, deep development, and business integration. The componentized design approach can make system development and maintenance easier and more convenient.
Conclusion:
Hardware is the foundation of the security industry, while software determines the future trends of the security industry. Given the importance of software; Industry management departments have been working hard in this regard, such as in the "Eleventh Five Year Plan" for China's security industry, where "technical requirements for management platforms" are listed separately as an important standard; And implement it in practice. In the 12th Five Year Plan, it is mentioned that in future development, the industry will strengthen the integration of multiple information systems and technologies, research and develop platforms and key technologies that are suitable for urban alarm, monitoring, and integrated security applications, vigorously develop middleware products, realize the correlation, integration, collaboration, interaction, and on-demand services between various information resources, solve problems such as interoperability, reliability, and security between systems, and achieve the transformation of application systems from hardware core to software core. From this, we can see the attention and support given by government departments to promoting the development of the software market. At the same time, driven by market demand, we have reason to believe that the prospects of the software market are promising. (Source: http://security.zol.com.cn/303/3039858_all.html ）
