IPVM Opens 12,000 Sqft Testing Facility
By Donald Maye, Published Dec 16, 2019, 09:02am ESTIPVM is proud to announce the opening of the world's first video surveillance testing facility that will allow us to significantly expand our industry-leading research and teaching.
Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, this 12,000sqft facility has 3 testing bays which allows us to conduct a wide range of controlled testing, such as the one shown below:
IPVM is increasing its video analytics testing and this facility gives us a variety of ways to test analytics:
In particular, we will be doing more facial recognition testing, such as the example below testing in low-light:
The new facility is also equipped with a fabrication workshop for developing custom set-ups for testing install and real-world usage.
We built a production studio inside the facility that lets us deliver high-quality videos, as the image below shows:
In particular, we now teach courses from this studio to deliver higher quality, live demonstrations, as shown below:
Events / Visit Us?
While we are not planning to host any events in the facility, for now, we are happy to have visitors come by and meet us, simply email us at info@ipvm.com or your IPVM preferred contact and let us know.
IPVM is proud to have this one of a kind surveillance industry facility, enabling IPVM to increase its world-leading research and testing.
Let us know what you think!
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Comments (75)
Looks really good John. Keep on pushing the envelope.
BRAVO IPVM- Great work you all are doing there!
If this is the world's first video surveillance testing facility, where were you doing your tests already? 🤔
But congrats, and I'm excited to see what you'll do with it. Wish I worked a little closer to Pennsylvania so I could drop by.
I am in Bethlehem regularly. I would love to stop by at some point. Also what ever happened to the IPVM event you where planing?
I am debating stopping by for a visit. Can you post more details on what kind of coffee and snack bar you have?
No way! You’ll tell us how much better your personal fabrication workshop is than ours ;)
When is the free air & accommodations wine tastings, golf outing, etc? Excuse me, I mean Consultant and Dealer Training?
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Would be cool to see the space in person, but the likelihood of me ever being in the neighborhood is unlikely, hah.
Congrats on the space!
Excellent investment!
Are you planning on hiring a 3rd party to audit your testing procedures?
I hope you will soon have a full video wall setup to simulate a GSOC mission control operations.
Woohoo!
Congrats guys, keep up the good work!
no pics of the breakroom to see what kinda snacks and drinks you guys have?
plus you could use the missing object detection analytic to see what snacks are popular and when
just an idea
Congrats John! Looks like a great place to also house a micro-brewery.
Will there be any booth babes for larger groups visiting?
Derek is the defacto IPVM booth babe in Bethlehem.
I thought Ari and Marty were first on the list....
| 12/18/19 02:28am
declined: I will not be any part of the objectification of 50+ yr old white men.
12/17/19 10:06am
Respect for running Ubuntu desktop on the camera calculator. I usually have 3x as many "how-to" tabs open ;-)
(1st video, ~37 second mark).
3x seems a little low...
I usually have maybe 5 tabs for Mozilla Web Docs, at least 10 for Stack Overflow, 2 for the FlexBox guide on CSS Tricks (because I forget that I left it open), 3 or 4 for test runs I forgot to close, 5 or 6 google searches, not to mention 5 or 10 tabs for library-specific docs (ie, Electron, jQuery, Angular, etc), and finally a scattering of random blog posts and Github pages.
That video clip was staged.
This is Duc from IPVM dev team and that was my Dell XPS 15 (2013) ;) The scene with me and Seth pointing at the screen is indeed staged to simplify visualizing development work, but that's my real dev machine :)
| 12/18/19 12:26pm
Have you grown attached to the old laptop, or is John just too cheap to get you some updated HW?
Lol, that was my reaction last night when I saw that he was using a 2013 laptop:
Morten, you ok with Macs?
| 12/18/19 12:30pm
I usually clean up my tabs and restart the browser. It offends me to see FireFox using 10+ Gb of RAM. Yes, yes.. I still have plenty physical RAM available, but it bothers me nonetheless.
I'm with Jonathan Blow on fighting the bloat.
But it's a fight we've already lost.
Congrats IPVM. Your honest evaluation and reporting have proven vital to avoiding the dodgy kit floating around in the vast surveillance gyre.
Ahh... more room to record the impending IPVM daily podcast.
How is this possible without doubling our yearly IPVM fee?
12/17/19 08:19pm
Congratulations!
I'm surprised you don't have the facility in Hawaii.
Congrats John and IPVM! May the odds be ever in your favor.
Shall we expect world class testing gear in your new world class shop?
What testing gear would you like us to have?
| 12/18/19 12:21am
Perhaps a lab for testing video analytics related to indoor cannabis grow markets?
Very impressive! I can't wait to see the test results.
Congrats to you and your team.
Great to see John, Congrats
Wow - Amazing. Congrats on the opening and keep up the great work!!
Congratulations John, you and your team have really built a great business with a noble purpose.
This is awesome! I think you need to add to your growing to do list a better website especially page layout for device reviews.
Can I order custom installation mount for outdoor camera from your workshop? :)
12/18/19 07:07pm
Thats a huge bitch!
Congrats!
