Verkada's fast growth has taken the industry by storm and their enterprise sales leader, Ryan Young, who popularized that the industry is full of 'dinosaurs' delivered a presentation this week that gave rare insights into how Verkada has been disr...
By John Honovich - 5 months ago
While Dahua's overall revenue is down, driven by challenges within China, the company's overall profitability is up more than 10%, driven by a successful sales expansion into fever cameras. Although revenue has recovered somewhat since plungi...
By Isabella Cheng - 5 months ago
Hikvision and Dahua are ramping up offerings in response to a PRC State Council directive aimed at renovating old neighborhoods. Renovations are projected to lead to $5-10 Billion USD in sales over the next 5 years. In this report, we examine...
By Isabella Cheng - 5 months 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 - 5 months ago
For the first time in 20 years, Milestone Systems has a new CEO and, notably, the incoming executive comes off a term as an EVP of a $5+ billion revenue IT systems integrator. We spoke with the new CEO, Thomas Jensen, and share our conversati...
By John Honovich - 5 months ago
The word "Pelco" and "grand slam" have not been said together for many years. But the PE Firm, Transom, who flipped Pelco to Motorola is celebrating just such a moment. At the same time, Motorola's CEO has disclosed more financial details abo...
By John Honovich - 6 months ago
Is the boom going to bust for temperature screening? FLIR disappointed investors with their Q2 results acknowledging decelerating demand for temperature screening. In this report, we examine why FLIR is already on the downswing of its Elevate...
By Joey Walter - 6 months ago
While ADI was hit hard in April, with revenue declining 21%, the company's executives said on an investor relations call that ADI has returned to growth. Inside this note, we examine a positive turnaround and look to what this means for ADI a...
By Joey Walter - 6 months ago
Verkada falsely declared to “3,000+ customers”, “300 school districts”, and “400 partners” that, with their NVR competitors, "If You Want To Remote View Your Cameras You Need To Punch Holes In Your Firewall". The statement is so obviously fal...
By John Honovich and Sean Patton - 6 months ago
While Hikvision's revenue fell in Q1 2020, it rebounded in Q2 attributed to Hikvision's overseas revenue growth as domestic sales remained down. The company acknowledged that 'fever camera' sales were improving its profits but did not disclos...
By Charles Rollet - 6 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 - 6 months ago
While Wyze failed to deliver their own onboard analytics to replace the removed XNOR.ai ones, Wyze has now launched a novel to the security industry, name your own price service for its new cloud analytics. Inside this note, we examine what h...
By Zach Segal - 6 months ago
While you have likely seen marketing for various temperature tablets, you most likely do not know the actual manufacturer behind more than a dozen of these. We spoke to the company, Guangzhou Bems, and in this report, we examine: The Bems ...
By Isabella Cheng - 6 months ago
This global directory tracks 400+ articles about thermal cameras used to detect fevers in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Articles are grouped into nine categories. Global USA Canada Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle Eas...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 6 months ago
The crosstown vape detection rivals are now in a legal battle. While IPVideo Corp is far better known, Soter says they pioneered this space and are suing IPVideo Corp alleging unfair competition, product disparagement, trademark infringement, and ...
By IPVM Team - 6 months ago
Openpath has raised $36 million as 2020 has become a boom year for access control investments, with $42 million to Proxy and $80 million to Verkada expanding into access control. For background, see IPVM's Openpath test. Inside this note, ba...
By Brian Rhodes - 6 months ago
Just 2 years after Motorola acquired Avigilon, concerns are growing among integrators about Motorola competing with them, as a recent Motorola / Avigilon deal to a North Carolina Utility shows. Inside this note, we examine the project, share ...
By John Honovich - 6 months ago
The "Kakon Brothers", William and Nathan, are self-described "south Florida Power Agents specializing in Luxury Real Estate" who "have closed over $2 Billions in sales". Now, the brothers, through their new endeavor, "SafeCheck USA" have sold $17...
By John Honovich and Joey Walter - 7 months ago
While facial recognition has gained greater prominence, a new IPVM study of security systems integrators shows weak sales, opposition to regulation, and no clear favorite provider. Inside this report, based on 200+ integrator responses, we ex...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
The first wave of the booming fever detecting market was $10,000+ cameras, now interest for ~$2,000 tablets is high and the next big thing may be $100 wall-mounted units. We have tested 18 "fever" / temperature screening devices including now...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
Vintra presented its FulcrumAI object recognition and mask detection offering at the May 2020 IPVM Startups show. Inside this report: A 30-minute video from Vintra including IPVM Q&A Background on the company and the new product Key ...
By Joey Walter - 7 months ago
While numbers of integrators very impacted by Coronavirus continue to drop, most are still moderately dealing with the pandemic's problems, June IPVM statistics show. Compare to our May results: Integrators Rising Against Coronavirus, April r...
By Brian Rhodes - 7 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 - 7 months ago
Solink has raised ~$17 million USD, a sizeable round for the company that raised $12 million last year. How fast have they grown? What do they aim to do with it and to the market? We spoke with Solink's Founder and CEO and examine these quest...
By Joey Walter - 7 months ago
Verkada's false claims continue, this time to be the first native cloud-based access and video solution. There are a number of manufacturers that already offer native cloud-based access control and video systems, so why make this claim? Verk...
By Sean Patton - 7 months ago
