What do you think was the greatest game-changing technology for the ­security industry in the last 20 years if you had to choose one?
Thomas Dalleimer: Of course, the Dallmeier Panomera Multifocal-Sensor Technology: It allows customers to solve the physical problem of image resolution decreasing towards the back in the object space. But since one should not praise oneself: Surely the biggest “game changer” has been AI – with ever improving assistance systems making security tasks easier, better and safer. And it means one thing above all: video technology has once again moved one step further from “cost factor” to business enabler, saving businesses money instead of being something like a technology-based insurance without a clear Return-on-Investment.

“The next ten years will be dominated by AI applications.” Why would you agree or disagree?
Thomas Dalleimer: I agree with this statement for the most part. AI is already transforming the security industry as few developments before. But that makes it all the more important not to lose sight of other factors. These include the legal and juridical framework, but also important technical factors such as image quality, which has a major influence on the quality of analyses. In my opinion, however, the most important issues in this context are trustworthiness, ethical responsibility in dealing with AI and, above all, security and privacy issues.

Your company will have a great impact on the industry in the next ten years because…?
Thomas Dalleimer:...because we combine technological excellence with the three most important non-technical issues of our industry: Cybersecurity, privacy and ethical responsibility in dealing with technology. We can do this because we handle the entire value chain – first and foremost the development of our software – in-house, under “rule-of-law” conditions in Regensburg, Germany. And we combine these increasingly important factors with technology that solves customer problems with the know-how gained from almost 40 years of experience and with maximum cost efficiency.

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