Samsung

The company was originally founded as Samsung Techwin in 1977. Under Samsung the company established a precision instrument laboratory in 1978, and started making cameras in 1979. In technical cooperation with General Electric, Samsung Techwin and its bigger sister company Samsung Electronics announced on October 2009 that in 2010 Samsung Electronics CCTV camera division would be unified with Samsung Techwin’s CCTV camera division. In recent years both companies appeared on the CCTV market with lineups that shared some technological underpinnings but in many ways differed (including incompatible PTZ control protocols), and in many markets they were direct competitors with overlapping distribution channels .