IPVM's Reports

IPVM's independent reporting is divided into 3 categories: (1) Public, (2) Info+: news, profiles, tutorials, etc. and (3) Research: tests, shootouts, competitive and financial analysis.

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Synology Surveillance Station 9.0 Tested

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By Sean Patton - about 2 years ago | 7 Comments

"Charitable" Evolv Secretly Requires School To Market Evolv

While Evolv touts a "charitable organization" that grants "state-of-the-art weapons detection at no cost to schools," an IPVM investigation reveals...

By Donald Maye - about 2 years ago | 3 Comments

Hikvision Interrogation Solution For PRC Police

Hikvision has a custom PRC China interrogation solution that integrates with tiger chairs, metal restraining devices used by Chinese police to lock...

By Charles Rollet - about 2 years ago | 8 Comments

ADT Sued by Cabling Company, Alleges ADT Disabled Security System Against Terms

A fiber optic cabling company is suing ADT in connection with a 2021 Connecticut burglary, claiming ADT deactivated its security monitoring system...

By IPVM Team - about 2 years ago | 3 Comments

Brivo SPAC Losing $68 Million Funding, SPAC At Risk

Just 8 months ago, Brivo was going public, it declared, but now, with the markets sharply shifting and its SPAC losing $68 million in funding, the...

By John Honovich - about 2 years ago | 8 Comments

Significant Rising Prices / Product Shortages Statistics Summer 2022

Product and labor shortages, inflation, and a possible recession have integrators concerned. The biggest Western manufacturers (see the newest -...

By IPVM Team - about 2 years ago | 8 Comments

Tracing and Locating Network Cabling Guide

Tracing and locating network cabling for video surveillance can be a time-consuming and expensive task, especially when compounded by unlabeled,...

By John Scanlan - about 2 years ago | 2 Comments

Four "High" Dahua Vulnerabilities, "Not Responded", Says CISA; CISA Removes, Dahua Responds

The US government's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, has disclosed four new "High" level vulnerabilities for the Dahua...

By Charles Rollet - about 2 years ago | 4 Comments

Verkada Alarms Tested

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By Jermaine Wilson - about 2 years ago

Axis Raising Prices

Axis is raising prices, confirmed by multiple sources, in the midst of massive product shortages that have harmed integrators for approaching a...

By John Honovich - about 2 years ago | 46 Comments

NetPosa Delisted, Website Down

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By Charles Rollet - about 2 years ago

Uvalde Mass Shooting Surveillance Video Analyzed

Could the presence of advanced analytics, such as weapons detection and other surveillance solutions, have affected the outcome of the tragic...

By IPVM Team - about 2 years ago | 40 Comments

Dahua Considers Adding Product Warning Labelling, Tells FCC

Dahua told the FCC it would consider labeling and contract provisions to stop sales violating US bans. Three years in, these illegal sales have...

By Conor Healy - about 2 years ago | 18 Comments

Recession: 80% of Integrators Are Concerned

New IPVM statistics show 80% of integrators are concerned about a recession this year, though integrators are mixed over how much an impending...

By IPVM Team - about 2 years ago | 29 Comments

Ferrous vs Non-Ferrous Weapons Analyzed

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By Nikita Ermolaev - about 2 years ago

Evolv Misses Non-Ferrous Weapons

Evolv claims they have signatures of "all" the weapons in the world, but IPVM testing, plus information obtained via a public records request,...

By Nikita Ermolaev and Donald Maye - about 2 years ago | 15 Comments

Bosch Flexidome Panoramic Test

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By Rob Kilpatrick - about 2 years ago | 2 Comments

ZKTeco's Planned IPO Impacted By Slowing Growth And Lawsuit

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By Charles Rollet - about 2 years ago

The Poor Economics of Facial Recognition And Video Analytics

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By John Honovich - about 2 years ago | 2 Comments

Hotel Access Control Explained

Hotel access control does not work like typical commercial access control, because doors in hotels are not typically directly connected to a...

By Brian Rhodes - about 2 years ago | 2 Comments

Health Monitoring Usage Statistics 2022

IPVM statistics showed that typically health monitoring was infrequently used in 2018, but has the increase in cloud-connected cameras improved how...

By Sean Patton - about 2 years ago | 3 Comments