Industry Findings: Major event-driven investments and transport upgrades have concentrated demand around scalable, temporary-to-permanent vision deployments. The market seeks suppliers who can rapidly mobilise high-throughput camera networks for major events and then transition those assets into permanent infrastructure, favouring vendors with modular hardware, fast commissioning playbooks, and proven post-event integration plans for security and transport authorities.
Industry Progression: Public-sector deals to source high-quality labelled data and annotation services are catalysing government-scale computer vision programs because reliable training datasets unlock enterprise-grade model accuracy; Qatar’s five-year agreement with Scale AI announced (Feb 2025), to supply labelled datasets and build AI applications directly for government services is enabling faster, more accurate video-analytics pilots for transport and civic services, and it materially raises the bar for vendors who cannot match enterprise data-quality and annotation pipelines.
Industry Players: The market comprises many players, and a small portion of them includes NEC, Huawei, Dahua Technology, G42, IBM, Milestone Systems, and Aspire Zone partners etc. Investment in high-fidelity labelled datasets and applied safety analytics is driving demand for annotation-to-deployment pipelines; for example, in 2022–2023 major event-related sensor programs increased emphasis on dataset quality and fast retraining cycles, creating opportunities for vendors that provide end-to-end annotation, model ops and secure edge inference, and raising the bar for pure-play analytics suppliers without data capabilities.