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Verkada Video Quality Problems Tested

Verkada suffers from numerous video quality problems, not found in commercial IP cameras, new IPVM testing of Verkada vs Axis and Hikvision shows. ...

By Ethan Ace - about 6 hours ago | 11 Comments

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Average Frame Rate Video Surveillance 2019

What is the average frame rated used in video surveillance systems? In IPVM's 2011 statistics, the average was 6-8fps increasing to ~10fps in ou...

By IPVM Team - about 7 hours ago

Access Control Job Walk Guide

Significant money can be saved and problems avoided with an access control job walk if you know what to look for and what to ask. By inviting in...

By Brian Rhodes - 1 day ago

ASCMA / Monitronics Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Plan

Monitronics is entering into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company, also called Ascent Capital Group Inc., aka ASCMA, aka Brinks Home Security, former...

By Dan Gelinas - 1 day ago | 6 Comments

US Considers Sanctions Against Hikvision and Dahua

The US government is considering blacklisting "up to 5" PRC surveillance firms, including Hikvision and Dahua, Bloomberg reported, with human right...

By Charles Rollet - 1 day ago | 30 Comments

Dahua USA Celebrates 5 Years of Errors

Dahua USA is, in their own words, 'celebrating' 5 years in North America or as trade magazine SSN declared: Dahua Technology finds success in th...

By John Honovich - 2 days ago | 4 Comments

Axis ~$150 Outdoor Camera Tested

Axis has released the latest in their Companion camera line, the outdoor Companion Dome Mini LE, a 1080p integrated IR model aiming to compete with...

By Rob Kilpatrick - 2 days ago | 4 Comments

Covert Facial Recognition Using Axis and Amazon By NYTimes

What if you took a 33MP Axis camera covering one of the busiest parks in the US and ran Amazon Facial Recognition against it? That is what the N...

By John Honovich - 3 days ago | 18 Comments

Amazon Ring Public Subsidy Program Aims To Dominate Residential Security

Amazon dominates market after market. Quitely, but increasingly, they are doing so in residential security, through a combination of significant di...

By Dan Gelinas and John Honovich - 3 days ago | 15 Comments

LifeSafety Power NetLink Vulnerabilities And Problematic Response

'Power supplies' are not devices that many think about when considering vulnerabilities but as more and more devices go 'online', the risks for the...

By John Scanlan - 3 days ago | 17 Comments

Facial Recognition Systems Fail Simple Liveness Detection Test

Facial recognition is being widely promoted as a solution to physical access control but we were able to simply spoof 3 systems because they had no...

By Brian Rhodes and Charles Rollet - 6 days ago | 24 Comments

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