Dahua Global Launch LeChange

Author: John Honovich, Published on Mar 20, 2018

Dahua is getting into the consumer video surveillance market globally, with "LeChange", an offering long available inside of China is now being expanded around the world.

In this note, we examine the move, the offerings, impact on Lorex, including direct feedback from Dahua, concluding with an analysis of LeChange vs Hikvision's Ezviz and other consumer providers.

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Comments (6)

Sean Nelson

Nelly Security | 03/20/18 10:17pm

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IPVM | 04/09/18 11:30am

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