Surveillance technologies go beyond just security since CCTV is also necessary for analytics and operational improvements. With the help of video surveillance, businesses can study consumer behavior going around them to help in optimizing layout, bettering experiences of customers, and bumping up the sales. Surveillance in production operations can be used as well to keep a close check on the production process and thus helping with quality control and detecting potential equipment defects in time to prevent them from becoming more massive failures. Moreover, remote access allows them to operate machines from nearly anywhere in the world. Thus they gain a close control of their operations.

Modern CCTV systems are becoming smarter, incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. These make relatively high features possible such as facial recognition, license plate reading, behavior prediction among many more. Both security and just some access applications need to be incorporated into different formats since many avenues remain available to these types of applications in areas like retail, healthcare, education, and public safety. Moreover, their scalability and flexibility can allow their implementation in large as well as small deployments.