In this issue, emerging technologies and applications – such as multi-dimensional perception, UHD, low light imaging, artificial intelligence, and cloud technology – are opening new possibilities in the video surveillance space, and in its analysis of what to expect in 2020 and beyond Hikvision lists its top seven trends. With the government’s gun buyback scheme’s amnesty period now passed, Dr John Battersby of Massey University makes a sober assessment of the efficacy of the gun buy-back scheme, arguing that a starting point should have included identifying gun owners posing a risk to society. With the uneasy relationship between security and privacy becoming increasingly, well, more uneasy, ADT in the US recently published findings of its survey of 1,230 consumers, which reveals significant concerns over smart home privacy. This, and much more in the February issue of NZSM!
