Having your salespeople be aggressive and go after big accounts is a virtue, mostly. On occasions, it can cause problems. A new case involves Amazon calling on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). The Daily Beat headline a...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
Setting up IP cameras has historically been challenging, with techs often precariously using a laptop on a ladder or lift. Some options for install tools were available but limited in speed, screen size, and usability (e.g., see previous IPVM test...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
Hikvision's growth continues to decline in 2018 going from: Q1 - 33% Q2 - 22% Q3 - 14.6% In this note, we examine Hikvision's newest Q3 2018 financials to better understand what is happening to Hikvision, who is dealing with declining Chin...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
IPVM has been blocked by the Chinese government without any notice or explanation. This means IPVM.com is no longer officially accessible anywhere in China. The move comes as Hikvision and Dahua face a global pushback over their track record on...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
The US Security Industry Association has released its 10 "Security Megatrends" for 2019. SIA declares that these megatrends, such as "Advanced Digital Identities" and "Security Integrated in Smart Environments": are expected to have sweeping im...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
Newsroom NZ has issued a report: "NZ Govt uses Chinese cameras banned in US": This comes after the US federal government banned purchases of Hikvision equipment and the Australian military promised to remove all Hikvision cameras in use on its ...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
Honeywell hides selling US government banned Chinese video surveillance as their own 'Honeywell' products, deceiving buyers and putting US security at risk. The 86-second video below shows proof: While Honeywell claims to "invent and manufactur...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
What are the best and worst cameras from an installation standpoint? Which manufacturers make it harder or easier to install their cameras? We tested 25 cameras from 8 manufacturers, as overviewed below: Our test included multiple series from ...
By John Scanlan - 8 months ago
An incident causing an international uproar is hitting home in the video surveillance industry as a Bloomberg report, "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies", uncovers how hacks, attributed to the Chinese governme...
By IPVM Team - 9 months ago
The US Commerce Department is considering its own sanctions for businesses alleged to be enabling repression in the Chinese region of Xinjiang such as Hikvision and Dahua, potentially making it near-impossible for American companies to export ke...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
IPVM reveals as-yet unreported details about Hikvision’s activities in Xinjiang - a region of China where massive human rights abuses are being alleged - including: Contracts won by Hikvision to install surveillance systems in a re-education ca...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
Genetec is taking aim at 'untrustworthy' 'foreign government-owned vendors'. This is not a new theme for Genetec as nearly 2 years ago, Genetec expelled Hikvision and Huawei, banishing them to a restricted, untrustworthy category requiring a sp...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
4MP usage continues to climb, especially for low cost fixed lens models. To see who was best, we bought and tested seven 4MP models from Axis, Dahua, Digital Watchdog, Hanwha, Hikvision, Uniview, and Vivotek. Inside this report, we rank perform...
By Ethan Ace - 9 months ago
OEMs widely pretend to be 'manufacturers', deceiving their customers and putting them at risk for cybersecurity attacks and, soon, violation of US law. Unfortunately, the Security Industry Association (SIA) is playing dumb about OEMs in its att...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
A surprise move: In July, when the most recent tariff round was first announced, the tariffs were only scheduled for 10%. However, now, the US government has finalized this round, announcing that “starting January 1, 2019, the level of the additio...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
The Chinese government council responsible for managing China's state-owned companies praised Hikvision’s obedience to China’s authoritarian leader Xi Jinping and the Communist Party at a recent meeting at Hikvision’s headquarters. The comments...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
An Australian National TV investigation on Chinese video surveillance has put a spotlight on Hikvision, including a promise from Australia's defense department to remove all other identified Hikvision cameras across Australia's military. The in...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
The Trump administration is considering sanctions against Dahua and Hikvision for their involvement in human rights abuses against minorities inside of China reports the NY Times. The NY Times explained: Noting that Dahua and Hikvision have ...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
Ambarella, a widely-used video surveillance component supplier, is betting on the rise of computer vision and is already seeing a sales impact from the US government ban of Dahua and Hikvision, according to a recent investor's call. In this not...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
China is 'bar none', the 'largest threat to [US] national security' plus China has declared 'economic war' on the US, according to William Evanina, the head of Counterintelligence (CI) for the U.S. Government. Evanina's remarks were made in an ...
By John Honovich - 10 months ago
17 US Congresspeople sent a letter to the Secretary of State and Treasury urging sanctions against Chinese officials plus Dahua and Hikvision, that, if applied, would shut down Dahua and Hikvision USA, among other ramifications. This comes as t...
By Charles Rollet - 10 months ago
This directory provides a list of Video Management Software providers to help you see and research what options are available. Listing Format The listing is in the layout of: Company Name, Product Name, Home Country, Notes, IPVM Tests/Report ...
By IPVM Team - 10 months ago
The US House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Communications Director has confirmed to IPVM that if a company sells Dahua or Hikvision at all, they will be banned from selling to the US federal government. However, this interpretation / implemen...
By IPVM Team - 10 months ago
Consumer IP camera usage is growing significantly driven by large companies including Google (with Nest), Amazon (with Ring), Netgear (with Arlo) and Hikvision (with Ezviz). Plus, analytics are an increasingly standard component of such systems bu...
By IPVM Team - 10 months ago
Here is a case against the US government ban of Dahua and Hikvision. IPVM collected 160+ responses from integrators, dozens of which opposed the ban. Below is a collection of key themes and these integrator's case of why they are against the ba...
By IPVM Team - 10 months ago
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