A multi-national African Hikvision distributor is marketing dangerously incorrect Hikvision fever camera setups. This adds to the long list of poor Hikvision fever camera deployments, from Scottish nursing homes to an Alabama school district ...
By Charles Rollet - 7 days ago
While Dahua and Hikvision, helped by fever camera sales, are recovering from COVID-19 shocks, Infinova, is still experiencing significant decreases in sales and profits. However, Infinova's results are mixed. The US/China video surveillance m...
By Isabella Cheng - 20 days ago
The Alabama school district which spent $1 million on Hikvision fever cameras did so based on a false claim that the Hikvision system could take the temperature of 30 people per second, according to a school meeting video found by IPVM. Scree...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 21 days ago
InVid Tech is showcasing an open violation of FDA fever screening guidelines by touting "simultaneous detection of fevers" despite explicit FDA instructions to "measure only one" person at a time. InVid Tech stood by this open violation, tell...
By Charles Rollet - 25 days ago
While Hikvision faces global scrutiny over its connections to the PRC government, the world's largest security camera manufacturer bought the Baltic region's largest distributor, BK Group. Inside this note, we examine the details of the Hikvi...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 1 month ago
First H.264, now H.265, is H.266 next? H.266 was recently announced amid fanfare but how well does it work and how soon will H.266 make an impact in video surveillance? In this note, IPVM examines: How H.266 differs from H.265 Patent Lice...
By Zach Segal - about 1 month ago
Most China manufacturers are going to be impacted by the NDAA 'Blacklist Clause' going into effect on August 13, 2020, as it covers not only Dahua and Hikvision but devices using Huawei Hisilicon chips. Now, one China manufacturer, Sunell, most kn...
By Isabella Cheng - about 2 months ago
A US company marketed a 'thermal temperature scanner' as its own, selling this to schools, despite it being relabelled from China YCX while stealing Dahua's marketing. In this report, we examine Ink Labs and its offering, including responses ...
By Sean Patton - about 2 months ago
An enterprising 20-year old is mass marketing medical devices on Facebook and Instagram, selling the K3 (tested here) at a ~600% markup. Inside this post, we examine who he is, how he told IPVM he "wakes up at 5 am and works until midnight", ...
By Joey Walter - about 2 months ago
Video surveillance is not the only market that has pivoted to medical device sales (admitted or not). Kiosk suppliers, hard hit by COVID-19, have also joined this emerging segment. Inside this note, based on an interview with Craig Keefner, t...
By Isabella Cheng - about 2 months ago
The first half of 2020 has been shocking, for the world generally, and for the video surveillance industry, with temperature screening / fever cameras becoming the industry's hottest segment. Now, we release the 595-page Mid-Year Guide aggreg...
By IPVM Team - about 2 months ago
Coronavirus faked marketing is regrettably commonplace right now but Anixter has taken it to another level of absurdity by running watermarked Shutterstock images. Anixter is marketing a 'SOLUTIONS THAT PROTECT' brochure whose front cover has 2...
By John Honovich - 2 months ago
FLIR, one of the largest thermal screening manufacturers, is marketing installations that violate IEC febrile screening standards, FDA correct operation, and even their own installation recommendations. As we covered in our report on The Prot...
By Ethan Ace - 2 months ago
NBCUniversal told IPVM that Hikvision UK's ongoing coronavirus marketing campaign using NBCUniversal's assets was not allowed. Hikvision mass deleted the marketing after IPVM inquired with the company. Inside this note, we examine what Hikvis...
By Conor Healy and John Honovich - 3 months ago
Dahua USA has issued a press release admitting a controversial point in the industry but an obvious one to the US FDA, that the thermal temperature screening systems they are selling indeed 'qualify as medical devices'. Inside this note, we exa...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
The UK government's medical device regulator, MHRA, told IPVM that fever-seeking thermal cameras are "unsuitable for this purpose" and recommends "caution" buying such products, saying they are "unlikely" to be compliant with UK medical device req...
By Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
A UK security firm falsely claimed its Hikvision-based thermal solution could be used for "accurately detecting fever in any person", even claiming it would "ensure that fevers such as coronavirus do not enter your premises". Protect Group UK, ...
By Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
83% of US companies selling temperature screening devices, aka 'fever' detectors, claim they are not medical devices, contrary to FDA definition, showing widespread abuse and undue public risk. Executive Summary – FDA Positions, Seller Respon...
By Joey Walter - 3 months ago
A full-page advertisement in a national Australia newspaper for Dahua's temperature cameras faked temperature screening. Meanwhile, the Australian government told IPVM that Dahua's devices are not included in the country's medical device database...
By Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
Since Convergint has refused to fix their faked fever camera marketing, IPVM has filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission which regulates false advertising. While Convergint claim to be 'thermal camera solutions experts' in resp...
By Conor Healy and John Honovich - 3 months ago
ISC News, the Reed publication behind the ISC East and West trade shows, has run a faked fever camera illustration and falsely quoted the FDA. This ISC News illustration rivals Dahua's faked marketing and Convergint's faked 'expert' marketing...
By Joey Walter - 3 months ago
Dahua hit the market hard with its original 'fever' camera (tested here). Now, they have a temperature measurement station, that costs just a fraction of the camera / blackbody system. But how well does it work? We bought and tested the Dahua...
By Ethan Ace and Rob Kilpatrick - 3 months ago
Convergint touts they are "THERMAL CAMERA SOLUTION EXPERTS" while faking their main marketing image. This continues a trend of manufacturers, such as Dahua's faked marketing, that sets unrealistic and improper expectations with the public. Ins...
By John Honovich and Joey Walter - 3 months ago
ZKTeco SpeedFace+ series products are medical devices as defined by the US FDA. Contrary claims made by ZKTeco are false. In May, IPVM published Fever Cameras Are Medical Devices, Per The FDA, Dahua, Feevr, Hikvision, InVid Contrary Claims Ar...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
For years Mobotix has struggled but now sales are surging driven by Mobotix's thermal camera sales as a response to coronavirus, with both their parent company Konica Minolta and US giant Dell marketing Mobotix. But how well does it work? We ...
By Ethan Ace and Rob Kilpatrick - 3 months ago
