Casino Surveillance Pro Interview: James Lathrop (PRO Only)
By Dan Gelinas
| 32 CommentsJames Lathrop has been working in casinos for almost 25 years. During that time, he says he has held "just about every job you can do in the casino...
By Dan Gelinas - 3 days ago | 32 Comments
Hikvision's annual revenue topped $7 billion for the first time in 2018, although growth slowed sharply. In this post, we analyze the latest figure...
By Charles Rollet - 3 days ago | 2 Comments
Hanwha's first repositionable multi imager PNM-9081VQ tested well, but was huge, over 12" wide and weighing in at over 10 pounds. Now, they have re...
By Ethan Ace - 4 days ago | 11 Comments
ADT's largest dealer, "The Defenders" has been the subject of a massive number of complaints over many years and many forums, most recently a CBS...
By Dan Gelinas - 4 days ago | 25 Comments
Hikvision’s controlling shareholder held a meeting last month praising the United Front, a Communist Party organization known for its secretive ove...
By Charles Rollet - 4 days ago | 2 Comments
Anyvision raised a $43 million Series A and according to their newest investor: what you need to do is push the gas pedal and build an organizat...
By John Honovich - 5 days ago | 23 Comments
Cisco Meraki says their cameras "bring Meraki magic to the enterprise video security world". According to Meraki, their magic is their management ...
By Sean Patton - 5 days ago | 5 Comments
Uniview / UNV, the self-proclaimed #3 China manufacturer, while starting late, has been working to make inroads internationally. In IPVM's 2019 fav...
By IPVM Team - 6 days ago | 18 Comments
Nortek's Linear access control division claims to make mobile credentials "more secure and easier to use than ever before" with their BluePass read...
By Brian Rhodes - 6 days ago | 9 Comments
Most industry professionals have never heard of Solink, a company whose tagline is: It's time to revolutionize the way business uses video. H...
By Dan Gelinas - 6 days ago | 7 Comments
A "strange narrative" is being spun, said Michael Barnes at the 2019 Barnes Buchanan Conference. However, despite that narrative, it is a "great ti...
By Dan Gelinas - 7 days ago | 34 Comments
Milestone has quietly dropped Hikvision from their 'Elite Partners', less than 3 years after adding the Chinese government-owned mega-manufacturer....
By John Honovich - 7 days ago | 38 Comments
Nighttime bandwidth spikes are a major concern in video surveillance, but do all manufacturers' cameras perform the same? Are some more consistent ...
By IPVM Team - 10 days ago | 17 Comments
FLIR has had a challenging past few years including FLIR Security business struggling, FLIR restructuring their security division and FLIR selling ...
By IPVM Team - 10 days ago | 5 Comments
Video intercoms are a growing market with video surveillance manufacturers expanding into this niche. IPVM is continuing its series of video interc...
By Brian Rhodes - 11 days ago | 12 Comments
Tom Cotton, Republican senator from Arkansas, has publicly called Hikvision and Dahua “puppets of the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Libe...
By Charles Rollet - 11 days ago | 10 Comments
For approaching a decade, the fundamental Object Video tripwire patent has been at the core of an industry debate over patenting and video analyt...
By John Honovich - 12 days ago | 15 Comments
Annual VMS licenses are a controversial practice in the video surveillance industry, with many questioning their need or value. However, enterprise...
By Sean Patton - 12 days ago | 32 Comments
HID is releasing Origo, an overhaul of its mobile credential platform, this time drastically restructuring the way it is priced and packaged. HID's...
By Brian Rhodes - 13 days ago | 16 Comments
After years of delay, Hikvision's Power Over Coax (PoC) HDTVI models are finally shipping, aiming to make HD analog installs as simple as PoE, with...
By Ethan Ace - 13 days ago | 7 Comments
Sony Favorability amongst integrators improved moderately compared to their 2017 favorability results, with a modest net positive favorability: ...
By IPVM Team - 13 days ago | 9 Comments
Less than a year after acquiring cloud video company Smartvue, Exacq has launched its 'cloud drive storage' offering. We see the VSaaS market expa...
By Sean Patton - 14 days ago | 15 Comments
Super Bowl ads are incredibly expensive, running $5+ million this year, but two of the security industry's most controversial companies ran ads thi...
By Dan Gelinas - 14 days ago | 25 Comments
3 UK members of Parliament, including 2 with direct comments to IPVM, have called for the UK government to investigate Hikvision's Xinjiang busines...
By Charles Rollet - 14 days ago | 17 Comments
The Seattle Startup that is disrupting consumer IP cameras with $20 pricing has just raised $20 million dollars (SEC Filing and company press rel...
By John Honovich - 17 days ago | 15 Comments