Integrators are overall strongly positive for 2020, according to new IPVM statistics: This continues the trend for integrator sentiment in 2019 and 2018. Inside this note, we examine the main reasons for the positive sentiment, including dozen...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
The 300-page, 2020 Video Surveillance Industry Guide covers the key events and the future of the video surveillance market, is now available, group members can request a PDF copy be emailed to them, all personal members can access all reports link...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
This directory provides a list of video analytics providers to help you see and research what options are available. Deep Learning / AI Mainstream in 2020 While video surveillance analytics has been promoted, hyped and lamented for nearly 20...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
Hikvision's CEO Hu Yangzhong is under investigation for suspected illegal activities, according to the PRC's securities regulator. This has become the source of notable analysis and discussion within the PRC. Inside this note, we examine the al...
By Charles Rollet - 7 months ago
Most major manufacturers have been acquired over the last decade. But which have been good deals or not? In this report, we analyze the results. Here is a list of acquisitions in the past 2 years, in reverse chronological order: Alarm.com Ac...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
What are the best and worst cameras to install? Which manufacturers make it the hardest or easiest to install their cameras? We tested 35 total models, with 16 new for 2019, including: Axis New P32 series Axis Q36 series Bosc...
By John Scanlan - 7 months ago
At least 8 PRC China police projects require NVIDIA and Intel chips to power their Uyghur-detecting analytics, according to procurement documents found by IPVM. Intel promptly condemned the usage while NVIDIA remains silent to IPVM inquiries. I...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
Credential Readers are one of the most visible and noticeable parts of access systems, but installers often stick with only the brand they always use. What other options are in the market? This directory tracks 30+ players in this market and ...
By Brian Rhodes - 8 months ago
IPVM has found 12 recent government projects across China (PRC) that require Uyghur analytics and a general government guideline requiring such analytics. This exposes that Uyghur persecution and discrimination goes far beyond Xinjiang and is b...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
IPVM has finished in New York City covering both days of the ISC East 2019 show. Here is a 6+ minute general walkthrough: Inside this report, we cover: Overall Show Traffic Size / Layout Biggest Booth Surprise Hikvision Touts Lowes Hi...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
The video surveillance industry suffers from cowardly, greedy 'leaders' focused on maximizing easy money while undermining public trust. The explosive arrests of industry executives and human rights sanctions underscore these issues and the cen...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
2019 has been an explosive year for video surveillance, with the world's two largest manufacturers, Dahua and Hikvision, being sanctioned for human rights abuses and banned for US government use. How would it impact their usage amongst integrator...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
In a surprising and globally covered move, Hikvision CEO Hu Yangzhong and Vice-Chairman Gong Hongjia are being investigated by China's securities regulator for "suspected information disclosure violations", Hikvision disclosed in a brief letter to...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
Hikvision has marketed an AI camera that automatically identifies Uyghurs, on its China website, only covering it up days ago after IPVM questioned them on it. This AI technology allows the PRC to automatically track Uyghur people, one of the w...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
The US government has made an unprecedented move on the video surveillance supply chain, charging a US company, Aventura for "having conspired with PRC [China] manufacturers" primarily Hikvision, "by falsely claiming that AVENTURA manufactured its...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
Which manufacturers offer the best or worst mounts? We bought and tested ~50 IP camera mounts and related components from Axis, Bosch, Dahua, Hanwha, Hikvision, and Vivotek: Our test includes multiple mount scenarios like pendant, pole, rece...
By John Scanlan - 8 months ago
Senator turned China lobbyist David Vitter has become a self-proclaimed 'proud member of the Hikvision team', a China (PRC) government-owned company banned and sanctioned by the USA. IPVM obtained an audio recording of a Hikvision USA employee ...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
Despite Dahua doing nearly a billion dollars of projects in Xinjiang, including building and operating police stations, Dahua not only denies 'any factual basis' of human rights abuses but their Vice Chairman contends these sanctions are a point o...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
Covert elevator facial recognition has the potential to solve the cost and complexity of elevator surveillance while engendering immense privacy concerns. This month, in Caixin China's reporting, this issue blew up as reports of such a deployme...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
'Politics' made Hikvision the goliath it is today. It was PRC China 'politics' that created Hikvision, funded it, and blocked its foreign competitors. However, Hikvision is now upset that 'politics', in the form of US sanctions for human rights...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
A senior DoD official said the US is "concerned" with the cybersecurity of Hikvision, Dahua, and Huawei due to "CCP" (China Communist Party) influence and the potential military/intelligence applications of their products, particularly in case of ...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
Hikvision has dissolved its North American Business Unit, splitting up US and Canada operations as the PRC-government owned manufacturer faces fierce pushback from the US government. Inside this note, we examine: What the 'dissolution' invol...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
Dahua celebrated the PRC's 70th anniversary with a video of various Dahua employees wearing China Communist Party hammer and sickle pins as shown below: The Dahua employees walked and talked wearing the Communist Party pin, such as: And: ...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
In a groundbreaking move that will have drastic consequences across the video surveillance market, Dahua and Hikvision have been sanctioned by the US government for human rights abuses. Dahua and Hikvision are two of 28 entities added to the US...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
NetPosa, which bills itself as the PRC's largest VMS provider, is in a crisis. The firm is pursuing huge unpaid bills from clients, and its chairman is being sued for over $220 million of unauthorized loans, resulting in banks freezing NetPosa cas...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
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