Description
Other than enterprise and industrial use of FWA for general bandwidth needs, video is the obvious application for a variety of purposes including government usage. The 5G market will replace and/or augment fixed network video. This will be especially the case for video surveillance and monitoring. It will allow anytime, anywhere video by way of the ease of camera placement – as long as there is line of sight with a 5G antenna, there will be a good signal for high bandwidth and low latency.
5G Video Market Dynamics
We anticipate that smart cities will increasingly become highly surveilled cities. For example, there are so many CCTV cameras in the UK that the average Londoner is caught on camera 300 times per day. It is estimated that there is one CCTV camera for every thirteen people in London, meaning that there are approximately 700,000 cameras in this dense urban environment. Mind Commerce anticipates that one of the highest ROI smart cities market solutions will be 5G and AI enabled intelligent surveillance.
In fact, Mind Commerce sees a few dominant trends driving the 5G video market. One factor is commercial in nature relating to physical-cyber convergence as realized by the emerging global social credit market. Other factors include health and well being needs in light of COVID-19, such as the social distancing solutions market, and the need for improved public safety solutions, especially in light of concerns over terrorism as evidenced by the Christmas 2020 explosion in Nashville, Tennessee.
Traditional surveillance solutions are typically overseen by humans and are prone to error. 5G video market solutions allow for new approaches to video/image capture, including those that are completely automated and can actively blur individual details of those being recorded, while also monitoring their activity for crime or suspicious activity. This is possible due to the processing and analysis of these video feeds being done locally through 5G edge clouds. Therefore, the software’s decision making can be done with no human involvement.
Mind Commerce anticipates substantial opportunities to leverage the high-bandwidth and low latency capabilities of 5G new radio (5GNR) based on millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. Fixed wireless approaches involving 5GNR will facilitate certain high ROI solutions such as mmWave enabled intelligent video. The 5G video market will be democratized in many ways such as deployment in virtually any location in which power may be derived including access to public utilities as well as private PV solar and battery supported deployments.
By way of example, innovative companies like Cawamo are developing smart video solutions that allow existing equipment to become more intelligent. Their solution involves onsite edge and cloud AI technologies that work together to generate alerts that integrate with existing Digital Video Recorders (DVR) and Network Video Recorders (NVR). This is important as DVR and NVR systems require different types of cameras owing to how the former processes video data at the recorder, whereas NVR systems encode and process video data at the camera for streaming to the NVR recorder, which stores the data and allows for remote viewing.
5G Video Market Report
This report evaluates the 5G video market including vendor strategies, solutions and applications. The report assesses video service delivered by provider type and application type with forecasts for consumer, enterprise, and industrial verticals. The report also analyzes the key technical aspects of 5G video including next generation radio based on millimeter wave spectrum.
