IMS Research has predicted 18 percent annual growth for the utilities and industrial sectors for the next five years.

     Infrastructure security, consists of many submarkets, such as access control, intrusion, services, video, trace detection and others. Each market has shown growth rates ranging from 10 percent to 20 percent in the past two years. Others, however, have calculated this far higher. "It is my estimate that this sector grows at about 40 to 50 percent annually," said some export.

      One novel way of protecting critical infrastructure is use of robots. Although studies show that the market for security robots is only in its early stages, and the market share of applications for security and defense currently average only 5 percent, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) anticipate a quadrupling of the number of units sold with the market growing to $350 million in 2007.And in 2008 will be an increasing and larger demand amount.