In 2024, the MEA industry amounted to USD 1.90 billion, showing a year-on-year increase of 28.9%.
The MEA AI Image Recognition Market will reach USD 16.72 billion by 2033, achieving an expected CAGR of 25.7% over the forecast timeline.
Diverse regulatory regimes and large public-service footprints drive adoption of vision solutions that blend privacy-preserving edge inference with centralized analytics, positioning integrators with strong device-management capabilities to win regional tenders.
Transportation and utility-grid pilots deploying object-detection for fault spotting are shortening outage durations, motivating governments to fund broader smart-infrastructure rollouts tied to local support and long-term model services.
DataCube Research Report (Nov 2025): This analysis uses 2024 as the actual year, 2025 as the estimated year, and calculates CAGR for the 2025-2033 period.
*Research Methodology: This report is based on DataCube’s proprietary 3-stage forecasting model, combining primary research, secondary data triangulation, and expert validation.
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