Industry Findings: Urban safety initiatives and transport modernisation programs have made cross-system interoperability and rapid deployment the critical buyer criteria. The market prefers vendors that can deliver turnkey solutions—camera, inference, and dashboard—alongside clear operational playbooks for municipal teams. Systems that reduce operator training time while delivering actionable insights for traffic control and public safety scale faster across mid-sized cities.
Industry Progression: City-scale smart-city consortiums are creating immediate pockets of demand for turnkey camera analytics and integrated operations platforms, as shown by the January 2025 Santa Marta MoU with Gorilla Technology, NC Digy Smart Cities and Aecom to build an AI-powered smart city; this development provides a clear procurement path for vendors offering rapid commissioning, cross-system interoperability and local support, accelerating municipal adoption across similar mid-sized Latin American cities.
Industry Players: The ecosystem includes many companies; a few among them are Genetec, Bosch, Hikvision, SIEMENS Colombia, Carvajal Tecnología y Servicios, Securitas Colombia, and Dataplace etc. Infrastructure and urban-safety programs are driving demand for turnkey video-analytics stacks; for instance, during 2022–2023 several mid-sized cities scaled pilot CCTV-to-analytics deployments to support traffic and public safety, prompting municipal buyers to favour suppliers that combine analytics subscriptions, local installation capacity and predictable maintenance SLAs — a shift that benefits integrators with strong regional channel networks.