Despite being neighbors, there are key differences between the U.S. and Mexican video surveillance markets. IPVM investigates. IPVM recently spent 10 days in Mexico City meeting and speaking with video surveillance professionals ahead of this...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 1 day ago
Watrix is the world's only gait recognition surveillance provider IPVM has found. And, inside of China, Watrix has gained significant attention for its claimed capabilities. Gait recognition interest has increased as coronavirus and privacy c...
By Zach Segal - 5 days ago
RapidSOS has raised $100+ million providing dispatchers free software and caller locations from mobile apps, but is it competing with central monitoring and will they make money? In this report we examine the company's background and business...
By Joey Walter - 9 days ago
As part of our expanded Latin America coverage, IPVM is profiling regional industry players. While Multilaser is not well known globally, they are a notable Brazil-based security provider. In July, we profiled Brazil’s biggest CCTV camera man...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 16 days ago
Zhejiang Dali, one of China's original thermal technology developers, has seen significant growth in the last half-year due to booming fever camera sales overseas. In this report, based on speaking on Dali, we examine the company's: Origin...
By Isabella Cheng - about 1 month ago
Doors vary greatly in how difficult and costly it is to add electronic access control. Bad assumptions about them can cost thousands. Often the door is inadequately or inaccurately described resulting in avoidable specification mistakes. In t...
By Brian Rhodes - about 2 months ago
While Intelbras is not widely known outside of Latin America, Intelbras is a major player in Brazil, backed by Dahua, with nearly $500 million USD annual revenue. We spoke with Intelbras to better understand their positioning and approach. In...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 3 months ago
French Start-Up Digeiz is marketing 'shopping centre analytics' with, most notably, person re-identification, so if a shopper moves from one part of the mall to another, Digeiz claims to be able to track them, without using facial recognition. ...
By Sean Patton and Zach Segal - 3 months ago
This directory provides a list of video surveillance startups to help you see and research what companies are new or not yet broadly known. 2020 State of Video Surveillance Startups In the past year, the number and funding of video surveilla...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
Brivo presented its first integrated reader and controller, the ACS100 at the April 2020 IPVM New Products show. Inside this report: A 30-minute video from Brivo including IPVM Q&A Background on the company and the combo controller Key...
By Brian Rhodes - 6 months ago
NetApp is increasing its efforts in video surveillance and told IPVM surveillance storage is the fastest-growing segment of its $6+ billion business. In this note, based on a discussion with NetApp about their product offerings, go-to-market, a...
By Sean Patton - 8 months ago
HID Global is releasing a new line of readers called Signo they claim read farther, are mobile-ready, and automatically adjust for better reads on difficult surfaces. But are they better than the line they replace, the iClass SE? In this report...
By Brian Rhodes - 8 months ago
BluB0X is running an ad campaign labeling Lenel, S2, Software House, Honeywell, AMAG and more as dinosaurs: In a follow-up email to IPVM, BluB0X's CEO told us they were inspired by Elon Musk and how he sees BluB0X like Tesla in access control. ...
By John Honovich and Brian Rhodes - 8 months ago
This directory provides definitions and explanations for over 90 common video surveillance industry terms, including links to related IPVM tutorials and guides. This directory will be continuously updated. If there is a term you want to be in...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
ROG Security is offering cloud-based AI analytics to remote guard companies, by touting having "nothing to install" to "add virtual guards." We spoke to ROG (pronounced "Rogue") to better understand their approach with remote guard companies, a...
By Sean Patton - 9 months ago
Brivo has been doing cloud access for more than 20 years. Is the 2020s the decade that cloud access becomes the norm? CEO Steve Van Till recently briefed the Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference and talked to us about Brivo's positive gr...
By John Honovich and Brian Rhodes - 9 months ago
UK-based Ipsotek is one of just a few surviving independent video analytic developers from the 2000s. We covered them back in 2011 when they first started marketing their tag and track. We spoke to Ipsotek to understand what differentiation the...
By John Honovich and Sean Patton - 10 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 - 10 months ago
Viisights, an Israeli AI analytics startup marketing "Behavioral Understanding Systems", announced $10 million Series A funding. We spoke to Viisights, to better understand their target markets, how they train AI to recognize behaviors, and how...
By Sean Patton - 11 months ago
European analytics-startup Ultinous pitches customers to "Have your own video analysis service!" We spoke to Ultinous to better understand their OEM offering, go-to-market, and analytics differentiation. In this note we look at: Who is Ulti...
By Sean Patton - 11 months ago
Startup Multi-Mount claims it makes installing access readers 'Fast', 'Secure,' and fit 'any size frame.' The company states its bracket 'fits most major brands, including HID, Lenel, Keyscan, Isonas, Schlage, Kantech, and many more!' In this p...
By Brian Rhodes - 11 months ago
Here's how to get started and get the most out of your IPVM membership. Books for Members All members can download the 4 member-only books below - just click on the books you want to download: Getting Started Video Presentation You can w...
By IPVM Team - 11 months ago
Vunetrix boasts that they make the integrators the 'HERO' by using Vunetrix's monitoring. We spoke to Vunetrix to better understand their offering, target customers, go-to-market approach, and what has changed since we last covered them in 2012...
By Sean Patton - 11 months ago
Border security is a common discussion in mainstream US news and politics, as is the use of banned Chinese equipment by US Government agencies. Gatekeeper Security says they have been focusing on secure borders, real-time analytic intelligence and...
By Sean Patton - 11 months ago
While IPVM covers the largest companies in the industry regularly (like Axis, Dahua, Hikvision, etc.), IPVM strives to do a profile post on each manufacturer to provide fundamental information and analysis. We have 100+ so far, shown below. H...
By IPVM Team - 12 months ago
