With more easy-to-install products coming to market, most U.S. homeowners (51%) are using some form of surveillance technology in or around their homes. This figure rises to 72% among millennial homeowners and homeowners with children under the age of 18. I want to compare our guesses with those from the consumer survey. Are you differentiating webcams from “surveillance” cameras? Good question, Marty.
With the elimination of webcams, I'm guessing about 2%. You can differentiate between the two if you want. I think that only 16 out of 1000 are actually being watched, but 10 people will lie and say yes. I hate to be fussy here, but you have to define this better.
If you ask them, they would say yes, they are using a surveillance camera. What about those who use their USB webcam to look at their house when they are away? If we limit ourselves to using real surveillance systems, such as those that most of the people participating in this debate have in their homes (perhaps 0.01%). In general, 3 to 4% of households are likely to have some type of basic CCTV. The growth rate is probably around 25%.
If we analyze some of the ups and downs that Home Depot and Lowes have made with several home camera systems made by yourself, it seems that there is a lot of demand (relatively speaking), but it is spread among too many providers for any of them to be very successful. I assume that between 10% and 1% have a true IP configuration with storage and email notifications. It's just an assumption, of course, but I can think of a few times when I've mentioned surveillance cameras to people, only to find myself staring blankly, until I rephrase them as security cameras. Most people seem to see the two terms interchangeably, but not all of them.
Anyway, I suppose it would be around 5%. They seem to be popular items. I know a lot of people who talk about buying a system (usually something from Costco), but not many who actually have one. I think it will be low, but I know it will grow as IP increases and prices go down, and wireless technology improves.
Between 5 and 10%, and it has probably doubled in the last 3 years. People who choose intellectual property in their homes represent far less than 1% of the total, and many of them are probably members of this site. In Sydney (Australia) I would say less than 5%; I walk a lot of streets without any cameras. However, new homes are using video intercoms and CCTV cameras at a rate that I would say about a third of alarms.
I would say that alarms are being installed in 50% of new homes, so there is no doubt that the growth is there, perhaps at a rate of 10% per year in general? I believe that new housing is the main driving factor: people seem to think that a new home requires new protective technology. Bohan, I don't see a lot of streets with cameras. However, outdoor cameras in homes are more expensive and complex, which means that someone is a technology buff (e.g.I wonder how many cameras are installed indoors, either monitoring indoors or looking out of a window. Frankly, I find the results interesting, but not too surprising.
Despite what I previously thought about Joe Average's interpretation of terms such as surveillance cameras versus security cameras or CCTV cameras, some may have ever bought cameras or systems that no longer work. Or you bought a house that came with cameras that may or may not work. Of course, if it's an online Google survey, I suppose there's a chance that the people who respond already have, at least, technical knowledge; the numbers could be lower if you include people who aren't online or who don't connect to the Internet for anything other than reading grandchildren's emails or something like that. Evidently, 78% of Americans use the Internet.
Assuming that everyone who does not use the Internet does not use a surveillance camera, the real figure would be 10 to 12% in the case of home surveillance. A slight difference, but still noticeable. Don't forget that those who use the Internet, but for one reason or another, would never meet or participate in the Google survey. I have several older family members, a few friends, and a couple of clients who don't use social media but just send emails to family (maybe once or twice a week) and do very little else online, but they would still be counted among Internet users.
Of course, we could debate Google's methodology forever; Twain's words (or Disraeli's, depending on who you ask) are still valid;) Perhaps 10% of the people who answered are simply liars. Matt, it's fair to discuss the methodology, but you should look for it before making assumptions. Google says it partners with publishers and publishes it on several websites, not necessarily on social networks. I doubt that people will lie about it, but I suspect that the sampling is biasing the results. I just don't know how much and how to overcome that.
A lot of people want to associate themselves (even if only in their minds) with things that are “new”, “cool” or “trendy”. For example, if you surveyed 100 anonymous, random drivers (of whom 5 were real owners of a Corvette) if they were driving a Corvette, I bet 7 or 8 would say yes. Do the results come only from the U.S. UU.? There are many countries where “home security” means much more than just an intrusion alarm.
Central America, South Africa and the Baltic States come to mind. Internet users in those regions also tend to be wealthy, so I can easily imagine that they would deploy some form of video surveillance. Therefore, my instinct has a hard time guessing above my initial estimate, between 5 and 10% in the US. UU.
I didn't mean that they did the survey through social networks. In fact, I was distracted halfway through thinking about it and didn't complete it properly. The main point is that some people don't do ANYTHING with the Internet other than occasional email, maybe a little Skype with family, etc. These would qualify as Americans with the Internet, but they are not a segment that can respond to online surveys anyway, regardless of where or how they are presented. It's not often you find images of a crime in a residence, said the sergeant.
Of the more than 29,000 reports of robberies and robberies last year, only a dozen had a home surveillance video as evidence. That's something like. There's no need for babysitting cameras either, etc. That said, that's the kind of percentage that seems more realistic to me than even 5%. This matches the number from our Google survey.
By the way, given that 70% of homes have broadband, assuming 0% for households that don't have broadband, that would mean that approximately 12% of all homes have a network security camera. I would have thought less than 1% in Canada. No one in my circle of friends has a CCTV system at home. Ask questions and get answers to your questions about physical security from IPVM team members and other subscribers.
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