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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Axis 4MP Camera Tested (M3046-V)

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By Ethan Ace - about 8 years ago | 10 Comments

Hiring Spree At Aimetis 6 Months After Being Acquired

Aimetis was acquired in April 2016, and is now expanding almost all of their departments, hiring employees from Axis and other industry...

By Brian Karas - about 8 years ago | 9 Comments

Hikvision Chairman Tours With Chinese Government Boss

Two China Communist senior officials toured Europe this summer, one was Hikvision's Chairman and the other was his boss, SASAC Director. In this...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 36 Comments

Camio Natural Language Processing Tested

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By Ethan Ace - about 8 years ago | 16 Comments

Hacked Dahua Cameras Drive Massive Mirai Cyber Attack

Cyber attacks are accelerating and IP cameras are behind many of them. Worse, last week, a 'massive' attack was carried out using numerous Dahua...

By Conor Healy - about 8 years ago | 70 Comments

Axis Secretly Paid Anixter Sales People To Push Axis NVRs

Internal Axis communication shows how Axis paid Anixter and Tri-Ed sales people with secret bonuses to push Axis NVRs. In this report, we examine...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 44 Comments

VLANs for Video Surveillance Tutorial

Many people confidently say to 'use VLANs' as an answer to IP video networking problems and as a way to signal expertise. But how should VLANs be...

By John Scanlan - about 8 years ago | 16 Comments

Ambarella CEO Admits H.265 and 4K Not Popular

Ambarella is the main chip provider for high-end surveillance cameras driving higher resolution and new CODECs. While Ambarella has been pushing...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 9 Comments

Nest Cam Outdoor Tested - Analytics Strong, Installation Weak

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By John Scanlan - about 8 years ago | 4 Comments

ACTi Refuses Race To The Bottom, Shifts To Solutions

The original low cost IP camera disruptor was ACTi. Back in the 2008 - 2010 time frame, Taiwanese manufacturer ACTi challenged the Western and...

By Brian Karas - about 8 years ago | 4 Comments

You Get Robbed, Canary Will Pay You Up To $1,000

Canary is trying to break the status quo in DIY security, first by raising over $40 million, and now a revamp of their monthly services package...

By Brian Rhodes - about 8 years ago | 4 Comments

Milestone Ends Development of "Enterprise" VMS

Milestone 'Enterprise' was one of the first enterprise video management software offerings, selected by many early adopters of IP video. However,...

By Brian Karas - about 8 years ago | 14 Comments

Totally Wireless IP Camera (IPVideo Corp NomadHD)

Wireless battery powered cameras have been a surveillance pipe dream for years, limited by camera power consumption, battery technology, and...

By Ethan Ace - about 8 years ago | 5 Comments

Axis Launches IP Speakers

First, Axis introduced an IP horn, then it was video intercoms, and now it is Networked Speakers? While IP-based Public Address systems are not...

By Brian Rhodes - about 8 years ago | 11 Comments

March Network's Tagged RFID Object Search Recorded Video

Video analytics has gotten fairly good at tagging people in video, but it does not solve the problem of finding items like specific merchandise or...

By IPVM Team - about 8 years ago | 5 Comments

FLIR and Geovision Join the Hikvision Price Cut Race

Hikvision's price cuts are clearly a trend setter. After numerous and increasingly large cuts, the destructive cycle is accelerating. Last month,...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 5 Comments

Axis Touts Positive IPVM Coverage and Canon 'Reverse Takeover'

Axis NA sales leader Larry Newman rallied his troops on the ASIS show floor, touting positive IPVM coverage and bragging about Axis 'reverse...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 12 Comments

Panasonic Launches H.265 i-Pro Extreme Camera Series

Panasonic is releasing new cameras with H.265, improved night vision, and secure communications, in its "i-Pro Extreme" product lineup. They are...

By Brian Karas - about 8 years ago | 7 Comments

Weak ASIS 2016 Upsets Manufacturers, ASIS Working On Improvements

Manufacturer dissatisfaction with ASIS intensified this year. With survey results from 80+ manufacturers, the trend of diminishing returns from...

By Brian Karas - about 8 years ago | 17 Comments

Arecont's Fully Motorized Multi-Imager Examined

Arecont is taking repositionable mutli-sensor cameras a step further, with a unit where everything is motorized. Not just zoom and focus, but the...

By Brian Karas - about 8 years ago | 13 Comments

How to Measure Video Quality / Compression Levels

Two cameras have the same resolution, frame rate and scene monitored but camera A consumes half the bandwidth than camera B. Is Camera A better?...

By Ethan Ace - about 8 years ago | 18 Comments

Times Investigates Hikvision's Chinese Government Control

The Times of UK, founded in 1785 with 1.6 million daily readers, has published a 2 part investigation into Hikvision's government...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 126 Comments

Dahua: "We're Not Owned By The Chinese Government" 2016

Discover the Dahua Difference. This was Dahua's theme for ASIS 2016. They were quite clear with their response to our question: How is...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 46 Comments

PTZ Camera Guide 2016

Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras remain critical parts of many surveillance systems, especially in large security operations. Because of this it is important...

By Ethan Ace - about 8 years ago | 4 Comments

Hikvision Big Hire - Ex Ingram Micro Exec

Hikvision has made another major hire. [link no longer available] This time is it Tom Burns [link no longer available], previously VP at Pivot3...

By John Honovich - about 8 years ago | 10 Comments

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