Two UK security firms have paid over $200,000 in fines for illegally making hundreds of thousands of calls to people registered on a government no-call list. Some of the calls included dubious claims of local crime waves or “free” equipment wi...
By Charles Rollet - 2 days ago
Gorilla Technology is a Taiwanese video analytics manufacturer that recently announced a $15 million investment from SBI Group, saying this "strengthens our position as an Edge AI leader" In this report, based on a conversation with Gorilla Techn...
By Sean Patton - 3 days ago
IPVM was at CES 2019 for the second year (see our CES 2018 Show Final Report) and is reporting on announcements and interesting news from the show floors. This show report includes: Review of major new announcements at the show Drop in Chin...
By IPVM Team - 8 days ago
Each year, IPVM summarizes the main advances and changes for video surveillance cameras, based on our industry-leading testing and reporting. This is the 4th year we are doing this, compare to: 2018 Video Surveillance Cameras Overview 2017 ...
By IPVM Team - 11 days ago
CyberExtruder offers 3D modeling face recognition software that they say provides quicker and more accurate matches than other 2D face recognition solutions. We spoke with CyberExtruder to better understand their approach and how their offerings...
By Sean Patton - 14 days ago
Hikvision has joined a growing number of video surveillance manufacturers marketing their trustworthiness. In a recent trade magazine full page ad, Hikvision declared that they 'build trust': It is a sensible move. Hikvision wants to sell secu...
By John Honovich - 15 days ago
European intrusion detection startup Ajax Systems proclaims: How are they standing against evil? And what are the differentiators and potential roadblocks for this self-described "disruptive" company? Based on our interview with the company, w...
By Dan Gelinas - 15 days ago
2019 will be the year that VSaaS finally becomes a real factor for professional video surveillance. While Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) has been around for more than a decade, it has always been relegated to the fringes of the market and...
By John Honovich - 16 days ago
Scam. The most widely cited research numbers in many, if not most, industries come from a growing number of Indian 'market research firms'. We first covered this in Beware Scam Market 'Research'. Here is another prime example in a new 'Reuters...
By John Honovich - 30 days ago
Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference is an event matching industry executives with financiers that frequently leads to future funding and acquisitions. Among the 60+ companies presenting this year were ADT, Resideo (i.e., Honeywell Home...
By John Honovich - about 1 month ago
Almost as 'hot' as face recognition marketing right now is OEMing facial recognition. Last year, they were a who's who of company's with backdoors, now they are world leading computer vision experts. The strategy now though is OEM face recogniti...
By John Honovich - about 1 month ago
Taiwanese manufacturer AV Tech's revenue declined ~70% since 2012. Planning a comeback, AV Tech spoke to IPVM about their opportunities and challenges. This profile will cover the following: Brief company history Revenue Decline Product Lin...
By Robert Shih - about 1 month ago
Eric Fullerton became one of the most famous people in the industry as the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Milestone as Milestone became the most widely known VMS globally. Then he took one of the hardest jobs in the industry, in 2014, becom...
By John Honovich - about 1 month ago
Can 27-year-old Jake Voll disrupt the security distribution giants? He has positioned his company SS&Si as the 'NEW FACE' of distribution: Inside this note, based on an interview with Voll, we examine: Unconventional social media marketi...
By Dan Gelinas - about 2 months ago
In September 2017, Longse bought and opened their USA office. As one of the largest South China surveillance manufacturers, they have previously been covered for spam email marketing, cloning Hikvision's embedded user interface and login screen...
By Robert Shih - about 2 months ago
"Do It Yourself" (DIY) is a popular expression and has become such a common word that it has even made the Cambridge English dictionary. But why do it yourself when you can have someone "Do It For You" (DIFY)? If ADT has its way, DIFY may beco...
By Dan Gelinas - about 2 months ago
Vintra is a Silicon Valley startup focused on AI-based video analytics. They had booths at IACP and ISC West demonstrating their hosted or on-premise solutions. We spoke Vintra, to better understand their approach, and how they position their ana...
By Sean Patton - about 2 months ago
Axis is bad at marketing. Recall last month - Axis: "No One Wants To Buy A Camera" and, more generally their 2018 production introductions. But this one is especially good bad. Axis released "The Heist" a commercial about how a bank vault is rob...
By John Honovich - about 2 months ago
Manufacturers often want to know what industry people think about trends and, in particular, the segments and product they offer. ASIS and its publication Security Management offer what they call 'Custom Research' that allows manufacturers to pa...
By Dan Gelinas - 2 months ago
Axis has, in its own description, made a bold declaration: The industry is changing so rapidly that the following statement might seem bold but it’s true. No one wants to buy a camera. This statement underscores a number of material proble...
By John Honovich - 2 months ago
Wyze, a company founded only in 2017, is poised to disrupt the consumer IP camera market by combining American marketing and Chinese manufacturing to deliver far lower prices for IP cameras (starting at $19.99). The company recently announced sel...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
IPVM is launching its own Best New Video Surveillance Product Awards in 2019. The goal is to provide the industry with a legitimate program, based on testing, transparent analysis and no pay to play. This will help buyers make better decisions and...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
Geutebrück has been in business for nearly 50 years, but they are not well known within the US surveillance market. In this report, we profile Geutebrück, based on a conversation with Geutebrück's majority owner, Katharine Geutebrueck and Geuteb...
By Sean Patton - 3 months ago
While Knightscope's new financials show the company only winning 11 new customers in the past 12 months, the company continues to win new investors. Two of the notable positive moves for the company are its NYC showcase and its participation in t...
By Dan Gelinas - 3 months ago
A fascinating article from the Chinese government's Global Times: Huawei’s AI ambition to reshape industries. While the Global Times talks about Huawei 'unveiling' their AI strategy, Huawei was showing this at IFSEC 2018, e.g., see our Huawei S...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
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