General Information

Market Information 2009 - 2010

In Argentina, the security industry has gone through a sustained growth period in all the following areas: hardware, software and services.

This is translated in an exponential improvement of the main services that a community needs: social attendance, communication, education, health, security, work, etc..

The expansion of the applications of the electronic security (video-monitoring, control of access, detection of intrusion and fire detection) was gradual, in sync with the economic growth of the country. This favored a reactivation in technological input development, deployment capabilities and professional know-how. 

At the moment, our country counts with a set of companies, whose greater part is associated to CASEL, Argentine Chamber of Electronic Security, with high technological capacity that provides a complete cover in all the fields of the electronic security.

It is considered that in Argentina exists around 1,400 companies that employ 9,500 people, most of the them have qualified personnel (engineers , technicians, system analysts, etc.) and export equipment, systems and services to all Latin America and some countries of Europe, Africa and Asia.

Positive Aspects of this Sector

• Large investment in R+D
• A growing market on the basis of the technological development
• Good products and services quality
• Argentina stands out for its remarkable technological development in the Security area.
• The forecast for the next few years shows growth in the domestic market. This will be supported by new technologies and more possibilities of accessing this type of products by both companies and consumers alike.