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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Hybrid Option Launched

TimeSight, a VMS manufacturer best known for their storage optimization technology, has added on-board analog capture cards, enabling their NVRs to...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Alarm.com Examined

Alarm.com is expanding into the video surveillance market with a hosted video offering similar to Axis STS. With 200,000 current customers and 800...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

IP Camera Focusing Device Released

Veracity has released an appliance, called Pinpoint, that simplifies IP camera focusing. The appliance allows an installer to connect their laptop...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

HD Product Series Introduced

Dallmeier has announced an HD product series line including (no surprise) HD cameras [link no longer available] and HD recorders [link no longer...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

New Frost Sponsored White Paper

Mobotix has released a whitepaper by Frost & Sullivan. It's essentially a collection of Mobotix marketing material with the controversial Frost...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

IP Camera 2009 Mid Year Review

Megapixel was the most dominant trend in IP cameras over the first half of 2009. So dominant was megapixel, that not only did most manufacturers...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Cohu's CCTV/Surveillance Product Offering Examined

Cohu is a specialist manufacturer for high-end monitoring applications. They are probably best known for their traffic management product offerings...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Are Public CCTV Cameras an Utter Fiasco?

The UK's love-hate relationship with CCTV cameras continues. This time, the head of the UK's police video imaging division called their use an...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

New Investment frm ADT and Cisco

This week, both Cisco and ADT contributed to iControl's $23M USD in Series B funding [link no longer available]. ADT's contribution is not...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Lack of VMS Standards

One of the most common end user questions is: How do you watch video from multiple DVR/VMS systems in a singular interface? The options are poor,...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Japanese Video Surveillance Market Guide Released

Though the Japanese market is one of the largest in the world, it is one of the most difficult for Western companies to understand and succeed. Not...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

VMS / NVR / DVR 2009 Mid-Year Market Review

Over the first half of 2009, improvements in deployment simplicity was the strongest theme for video management systems. While few to no...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

SDM Top 100 US Integrators / US Market Weakens

This month, SDM Magazine released their 14th annual Top Systems Integrators list. The list ranks the top 100 integrators based on 2008 revenue. The...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Pixim and CSST Join HDcctv Alliance

Two fairly sizable companies are joining the HDcctv Alliance - Chinese video surveillance leader CSST [link no longer available] and Wide Dynamic...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

1st ONVIF Product Shipping

In June 2009, LILIN announced support for ONVIF in their camera lines and is shipping these cameras for production use. I have also received a...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

ACTI CMS Software Released

ACTi is expanding into larger scale video management with their release of a CMS solution that manages distributed ACTi NVRs. This provides...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

High End Hybrid DVR Launched

Verint has announced a high end Hybrid NVR, called EdgeVR that will complement their existing mid-level offerings, the NetDVR II, and small scale...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Genetec iPhone Application

A mobile monitoring product offering, called iGuard [link no longer available], has been announced for use with Genetec (see product demo video...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Only 5% market share for IP Surveillance Cameras?

A debate is emerging on what the 'true' market share for IP cameras. The generally accepted statistic is approximately 20% of cameras sold annually...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Video Analytics 2009 Mid-Year Market Review

The last six months were rough for video analytics. Little good news and lots of public recognition of video analytic troubles. In our own recent...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Top 5 IP Camera Problems: 2009

In the last year, IP cameras have made great strides and while there are still important barriers that constrain broader use, problems are...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Is the Worst of the Recession Over?

The PSA, a large consortium of US integrators is projecting that the worst of the recession is over. They state, "We are seeing noticeable,...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Proxim 300Mb/s Wireless Product Offering

Proxim has released two series of high speed wireless networking equipment targeted to the video surveillance market. These are basically the next...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Wireless Manufactuer Up for Sale

In July 2009, an anonymous wireless router manufacturer specializing in video surveillance has posted a LinkedIn message asking to be acquired...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

Risks of Video Surveillance Startups

In discussions with video surveillance startups and investors, both routinely over-estimate the size and the potential of the video surveillance...

By John Honovich - almost 15 years ago

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