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Motorola / Vigilant Sued By Partner Over Facial Recognition Agreement

Motorola's Vigilant, while better known for LPR, also provides facial recognition. However, a recently-filed $40 million lawsuit alleges that...

By Christie Smythe - about 9 hours ago | 3 Comments (Info+)

Vivotek Favorability Statistics 2023

Vivotek's revenue has surged, driven by growing ODM deals, but what do integrators think of the Taiwan manufacturer? Inside, we examine...

By Angelique Chen - about 10 hours ago (Info+)

2+ Million Views Viral Tweet On IPVM Dahua Protester Report, Boosted By Tech Investor

As fears about AI and the PRC rise, an IPVM reporter's tweet went viral, amassing over 2 million views, boosted by a prominent tech...

By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - about 10 hours ago | 2 Comments

Layoffs At Visitor Management Startup Envoy

While just a year ago, Envoy raised $111 million, touting they "can't stop, won't stop", the startup has now conducted significant...

By Angelique Chen - 1 day ago | 4 Comments (Info+)

Oosto CEO Interview 2023

Nearly 2 years ago Oosto (then AnyVision) raised $235 million but now the VC market has chilled and facial recognition acceptance is slower than...

By Charles Rollet - 1 day ago | 3 Comments (Info+)

Omnilert Visual Gun Detection Profile

Visual gun detection company, Omnilert, claims to "save lives through early threat detection" and "identify gun threats at first sight." In...

By Mert Karakaya - 2 days ago | 22 Comments (Info+)

Dahua Selling Protestor / Banner Alarms, Deletes Evidence

Political protests are quickly suppressed in the PRC, most famously with the recent Beijing Bridge Man banner. Dahua is offering a technological...

By Charles Rollet - 2 days ago (Info+)

Hanwha 1 High and 2 Medium Security Vulnerabilities 2023

IPVM discovered 3 vulnerabilities, 1 high and 2 medium severity, during cybersecurity testing of Hanwha IP cameras. We reported to Hanwha...

By bashis mcw - 2 days ago (Info+)

Canon Leasing And Axis/Milestone Special Rates Examined

Leasing is uncommon for video surveillance systems but Canon is trying to change that. While it has owned Axis and Milestone for nearly a decade,...

By Angelique Chen - 6 days ago (Info+)

Video Surveillance History, 2000 - 2023

The video surveillance market has changed significantly since 2000, going from VCRs to now AI and the cloud. The goal of this history is to...

By IPVM Team - 7 days ago | 71 Comments

Low-Tech Access Control: Master Keying Explained

Mechanical keys are one of the most fundamental forms of access control. 'Master Keying' can allow individually different credential keys to...

By Brian Rhodes - 7 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

Uniview Favorability Statistics 2023

PRC-China-based Uniview has become an alternative to Dahua and Hikvision after the US NDAA ban and sanctions against its top rivals. However, the...

By Angelique Chen - 7 days ago (Info+)

Massive Leak Found For AJCloud, Top Provider for Amazon Sold IP Cameras, AJCloud Pushed Us to Hide Leak

IPVM discovered a massive data leak in Ajcloud's Gitlab open-source development platform. When we notified the company, they asked us to hide their...

By bashis mcw and Sean Patton - 7 days ago

Storage Competitor Lawsuit: MBX Vs. Tom Larson

Tom Larson has been a leader at 3 notable storage competitors in the last 3 years, leaving BCD as CTO, briefly becoming director of safety and...

By Christie Smythe - 8 days ago | 7 Comments (Info+)

Oosto Cuts Execs, Expands to Cloud And Reidentification

Oosto is going through a major management shake-up, while also announcing a significant shift in architecture and analytics offering. Oosto...

By Sean Patton and Charles Rollet - 8 days ago | 6 Comments (Info+)

Hikvision And Dahua AI Plans Examined

Hikvision and Dahua are touting new AI plans to their PRC investors as ChatGPT sparks an AI frenzy in the PRC. The manufacturers face...

By Charles Rollet - 9 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

Ubiquiti Favorability Statistics 2023

Ubiquiti has been one of the most commonly complained about manufacturers in our product shortage surveys but how would this impact the...

By Angelique Chen - 9 days ago (Info+)

Weak IFSEC 2023, Now 2024 Show Moving 6 Months Back

IFSEC International's show traffic was widely criticized, with a senior manager at Hikvision, one of its largest exhibitors, even calling it a...

By Charles Rollet - 9 days ago | 10 Comments (Info+)

Critical Vulnerabilities In Hikvision Hik-Connect, Hikvision Hides From Public

IPVM discovered vulnerabilities that allowed taking over any Hik-Connect user's account simply by listening to network traffic. Hikvision...

By bashis mcw and Sean Patton - 10 days ago | 2 Comments

Monitronics / Brink's Home Security Chp 11 Bankrupt, $500 Million Burned

Just 4 years ago, Monitronics declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, burning lenders for nearly $900 million. Now, Monitronics is doing it again, burning...

By John Honovich - 10 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

Evolv Coaches School to "Get Ahead" of "Misinformation" and Critics

While Evolv deceives the public with its marketing and hides performance limitations, a new disclosure of public records obtained by IPVM shows...

By Donald Maye - 13 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

Nightingale Security Drone Profile 2023

They were the first security drone company (we profiled them first in 2015) and now the company is publicly traded but it is still facing...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 13 days ago (Info+)

Cobalt Claims Majority of Security Robot Market (2023 Profile)

While Knigthscope has dominated media attention for years and ADT is touting its 1X/Haoldi partnership, Silicon Valley-based Cobalt Robotics tells...

By Mert Karakaya - 13 days ago (Info+)

Flock Expands Into General Surveillance

Flock is building upon its market-disrupting quick deploy LPR cameras (tested), and hundreds of millions in funding, now taking on general...

By Sean Patton - 14 days ago | 18 Comments (Info+)

Milestone Revenue Up, Profits Down

While Milestone's revenue grew significantly in 2022, the ~25-year-old company's profits plunged. The company told IPVM that it would sacrifice...

By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 14 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

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