TKH Security And Siqura Network Cameras. What Do You Know?

We have a long relationship with TKH and partnered with them on a large installation in Africa. The products work well but the VDG Recorders and VMS is not user or installer friendly. They are Netherlands based and do have manufacturing capabilities although some of their cameras are clearly Mastercolor models being re-branded. Great leadership structure from the corporate side. Most of the brands offered under this group come by way of acquisition, VDG, KeyProcessor, Optellicom...They recently acquired a large stake in Commend. All in all, solid group that in my experience stands behind its products. 

We did a brief update call with TKH. 

Short summary: part of a Dutch company with ~$1B in total revenue across multiple brands and industries. Among their security products, TKH acquired Optelecom in 2005, and Siqura in 2012. There were other acquisitions as well, the overall result being a lot of brands under TKH, causing some branding confusion. These products are in the process of being rebranded as TKH Security Solutions.

Their product portfolio is made up of in-house designed/built products, as well as some OEM/ODM products. TKH provided the following list that breaks down their major products/categories, including the fiber cameras and products that were the initial comment of this discussion:

Cameras:

All 800 and 360 series (except for 840) – Developed in Netherlands with ODM/OEM partners

600 series – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

840 – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

1000 and 1100 series – Developed in Netherlands with ODM/OEM partners

TrafficPTZ Ultimo – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

TunnelCam Ultimo – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

MultiCam Ultimate – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

TC620-PID/TC840R1 – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

Safe Area – Developed in Netherlands with ODM/OEM partners

Encoders:

C-series/S-series/EVE – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

Video over Fiber

9000 Series – designed and manufactured in Germantown, MD

Network Switches/Media Convertors – OEM Taiwan 

VMS

Sense – designed and developed in the Netherlands

Access Control:

FORE!/iProtect – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

Intrusion Detection:

Alphatronics – designed and manufactured in the Netherlands

so it's SFP for IP (not replacing coax analog with fiber analog);  p.s. not obvious from the website which ("new!") camera has SFP.

Still old fashioned - the box camera designs, the mis-use of the term "interoperability" to mean "see how many proprietary VMS'  we can code for".  No evidence of OnVIF support for example.  

I have 2 Siqura cameras in my office for testing right now.  They do support ONVIF, but the SFP's did not work with our Cisco switches.  Their support staff says HP switches also have trouble with them, but I do not have one in my office to prove or disprove that.  We also have some Trendnet, Comnet and Netgear stuff in the field, but I have not had a chance to test with them yet.  They do offer their own managed switch with all SFP slots, which might be an easier/ smarter way to move forward with a large scale migration.   

Since we have a fairly large inventory of analog cameras that need to be migrated, this seemed like a reasonable and cost effective way to accomplish it.  We use nearly all American Dynamics NVR's integrated with the Victor VMS, and these two cameras have worked well (one box, one PTZ) so far. 

Our institution's Parking and Transportation Services office is looking into a parking management system that uses the FD820M1IR camera.  We use Genetec for our overall security camera and access control.  I don't see TKH or Security Solutions on the list of Genetec supported devices.  Our network security concerns dictate that we won't install anything that is a Hikvision manufactured camera.  I understand that some TKH cameras either are or were possibly Hikvision made.  While the FD820M1IR looks like a very well featured camera I don't want to let them proceed if they are going to run into problems with Genetec (or our network) compatibility.

Short and to the point:

Who is the manufacturer of the FD820M1IR?

Thank you,

James Gowan

I had a catch up call with them yesterday for other things but I asked about this camera model and clarified it is not Chinese made.