Industry outlook points to intelligence-led shift in India’s video surveillance landscape by 2026

“As we transition into 2026, the video surveillance industry is experiencing a transformative shift that goes far beyond incremental technological upgrades. We’re moving from an era of overwhelming data collection to one of genuine, actionable intelligence, an evolution that will fundamentally redefine how organisations approach security operations.

In 2026, we will see transformative trends that move video surveillance beyond data capture toward actionable, intelligence-driven security. These are some of the trends that will define the future of video surveillance going forward:

1. Semantic Convergence of Data
   AI agents will actively collate semantically connected information across multiple video systems, generating collective intelligence rather than isolated data streams. This represents a paradigm shift from traditional surveillance architectures that operated in silos.
2. Contextual intelligence replaces basic Analytics:
   Advanced multimodal AI systems will enable true situational understanding, accurately distinguishing genuine threats from normal behaviour patterns and dramatically reducing the false alarms that have historically ...