Teledyne Acquiring FLIR (Member Only)
By John Honovich
| 31 CommentsTeledyne has acquired FLIR for $8 billion but is this a good outcome for FLIR? Inside this note, we examine the combination and, in particular...
By John Honovich - 23 days ago | 31 Comments
Recruit poor and working-class young people. This is the best solution to the industry's "talent shortage.' In this essay, the successor to De...
By John Honovich - 23 days ago | 11 Comments
IPVM's unique introduction to video surveillance series is now available as a 124-page eBook. Designed for managers, salespeople, and engineers new...
By IPVM Team - 27 days ago | 4 Comments
Not all doors, even in larger facilities, can justify using electronic access control. And even for doors that do have electronic access control, m...
By Brian Rhodes - 28 days ago | 3 Comments
This is the best, most comprehensive access control book in the world, based on our unprecedented research and testing has been significantly updat...
By Brian Rhodes - 29 days ago | 4 Comments
While numerous publications reported Capella Space satellites can see through walls, the company flatly denies this. IPVM investigates the con...
By Zach Segal - 29 days ago | 8 Comments
French police are criticizing their Hikvision body cameras, with one police union official even calling them "junk" after the government purchased ...
By Charles Rollet - 29 days ago | 9 Comments
Each year, IPVM explains the main advances and changes for video surveillance cameras, based on our industry-leading testing and reporting. Th...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
While incumbents largely struggled to deal with the effects of COVID-19, SaaS focused startups raised over $300 million this year. This provid...
By John Honovich - about 1 month ago
This report examines major industry factors and how they could impact video surveillance in the next 5 - 10 years. This is part of our Video S...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago | 15 Comments
ZKTeco has filed for an IPO, seeking to raise ~$190 million, a massive amount for the physical access control industry. In this post, we exami...
By Isabella Cheng - about 1 month ago | 8 Comments
Manufacturers becoming integrators is a trend over the last few years. Now, one of the most notable names in access control manufacturing, Matt Bar...
By John Honovich - about 1 month ago | 3 Comments
LTS has grown rapidly over the last decade, as a major Hikvision OEM and now a distributor of varying products with varying offices. However, how t...
By Isabella Cheng - about 1 month ago | 13 Comments
Noonlight is offering verified video response with a 5 Diamond Central Station for just $3 a month and an API that lets you plug into any applicati...
By Zach Segal - about 1 month ago
Alibaba admitted its Cloud division developed racist AI software, saying it is "dismayed" while claiming it "never intended" to target "specific et...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago | 2 Comments
Exacq announces a new line of NVRs and has discontinued 4 series that were not NDAA compliant. Where does this leave their hardware offerings? ...
By Sean Patton - about 1 month ago | 4 Comments
The advance of AI promises more sophisticated recognition. For example, Dahua markets the ability to distinguish between angry, calm, confused, dis...
By Rob Kilpatrick - about 1 month ago | 11 Comments
It is true but self-destructive to care that 'no one grows up wanting to be in the security industry'. This is seen as a problem and something...
By John Honovich - about 1 month ago | 30 Comments
IPVM visited the HQ and factory of Multilaser, Brazil's second largest domestic CCTV company. Multilaser says its security/surveillance busine...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 1 month ago | 2 Comments
This report includes 5+ hours of video from 12 manufacturers showcasing their latest video surveillance software tools. Companies Presented ...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago | 7 Comments
This report includes 10+ hours of video from 21 manufacturers showcasing their latest storage solutions. The full show is available on-demand at th...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
Brivo is a veteran cloud access control provider who recently released its first combo reader / door controller. We bought and tested Brivo's ...
By Brian Rhodes and John Scanlan - about 1 month ago | 11 Comments
More pixels do not always mean higher quality. Many other factors impact image quality, including low light, back light, compression, lenses, and m...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
Alibaba, the NYSE-listed 'Amazon of China' with a $700 billion+ market cap, openly offers Uyghur/'ethnic minority' recognition as a Cloud service, ...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago | 12 Comments
Door position switches are frequently ignored or forgotten, yet can solve major access control problems. Access 'control' itself relies on the...
By Brian Rhodes - about 1 month ago | 16 Comments
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