ISC East, by its own admission, is not a national or international show, billed as the "Largest Annual Northeast U.S. Security Convention". However, it has been on an upswing over the past few years after declining significantly earlier in the de...
By IPVM Team - about 6 hours ago
Huawei - China’s biggest networking gear and smartphone maker - plans to become one of the top three global video surveillance manufacturers in the next 3 to 5 years, it has announced at a conference in China. Huawei is effectively saying that ...
By Charles Rollet - 17 days ago
AxxonSoft has brought facial recognition to their Axxon Next VMS for free with the simply named Face Search, claiming to allow users to find subjects across multiple cameras to drastically cut search time. In this report, we provide our full te...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 20 days ago
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 - 23 days ago
Dahua has been one of the industry's most vocal proponents of the value that AI creates: As part of this, Dahua has released a facial recognition camera, the DH-IPC-HF8242FN-FR, claiming: Artificial Intelligence at the edge – performing comp...
By Rob Kilpatrick - about 1 month 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 - about 1 month ago
In the first major US show since the US government ban of Dahua and Hikvision was passed into law, the mega Chinese companies were in retreat and rivals happy to take advantage of it. Hanwha had numerous huge banners touting 'trust' and 'Made in ...
By IPVM Team - about 2 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 - 2 months ago
Video analytics is hot again (at least conceptually) but integrating video analytics with VMSes can be challenging. This is especially significant when using 'smart' IP cameras or 3rd party server-based analytics that need to sent their results / ...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
The company that created RealPlayer is moving beyond media delivery and into the security space with a new facial recognition platform they have developed. IPVM has written about the difficulties of FST, another face rec software provider that ...
By Dan Gelinas - 3 months ago
A new facial recognition controversy has arisen, with the ACLU cleverly using Amazon's Rekognition service to falsely match 28 Congresspeople to mugshot photos. However, the ACLU's results also show that the Amazon system was 99.9997% accurate a...
By John Honovich - 4 months ago
Anyvision is the most ambitious heavy-spending video surveillance startup in many years. And, now, the startup has raised $28 million led by Bosch to, as they humbly declare, "Lead the Global AI Industry". Who is Anyvision? What is Bosch doing...
By John Honovich - 4 months ago
FST was one of the hottest startups of the decade, selected as the best new product at ISC West 2011 and backed with tens of millions in funding. Now, the company is ceasing operations and looking toward something new. In this note, we share f...
By Dan Gelinas - 4 months ago
Hikvision has won a Chinese government tender which requires that facial recognition cameras be set up at the entrance of every single mosque (nearly 1,000 total) in a part of China under scrutiny for serious violations of religious freedom and hu...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
Belgium has effectively banned the use of facial recognition and other biometrics-based video analytics in surveillance cameras for private, non-police use, taking a strong stand and showcasing the impact of new EU privacy regulations on video sur...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
IPVM has filed a complaint against IFSEC’s parent company UBM based on our concern that the conference violates core GDPR principles on biometrics at its London conference. The complaint was filed with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
IPVM attended the IFSEC show for the first time this year. The Chinese took over the show, centered on Hikvision, flanked by Dahua, Huawei and a legion of other Chinese manufacturers. IFSEC is much smaller than ISC West, with about 50% fewer e...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
China is expanding its video surveillance network to achieve “100%” nationwide coverage by 2020, including facial recognition capabilities and a database that allows authorities to track and cross-check video data across the country. This progr...
By Charles Rollet - 5 months ago
Many fear that facial surveillance will be used against people by governments, such as the vast facial surveillance apparatus being built in China as well as the ACLU's complaints about US pilots. Now, the New York Times has built their own facia...
By John Honovich - 5 months ago
The ACLU has caused a stir, with a new report Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Face Recognition Technology, explaining: Powered by artificial intelligence, Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in rea...
By John Honovich - 6 months ago
Digifort, a Brazilian company, has a strong presense in their home country. In a crowded and mature Enterprise VMS market, will they be able to gain market share in Asia and North America against much larger incumbents such as Genetec, Hikvision, ...
By Sean Patton - 7 months ago
Biometrics are on the rise, or at least integrator opposition to them is declining, according to new IPVM integrator statistics. Almost half of integrators listed 'fingerprints' as their preferred biometric. Notably, while the second place ans...
By Brian Rhodes - 7 months ago
Dahua and Hikvision have won well over $1 billion worth of government-backed surveillance projects in China’s restive Xinjiang province since 2016, IPVM has verified from Chinese sources. Xinjiang has become an international controversy over huma...
By Charles Rollet - 7 months ago
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, but there is much confusion and no clear guidelines on exactly how these new regulations will impact the video surveillance industry. We have compiled th...
By Charles Rollet - 7 months ago
It is not just Hikvision's false advertising campaign. With marketing money being pumped into deep learning, we are returning to the bad old days of the 2000s where irresponsible hype aims to leave customers disappointed and frustrated with unr...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
