ONVIF now supports over 20,000 products, but how well do integrators think of the organization? Inside, we examine statistics and commentary from ~200 security integrators on ONVIF's positioning, pros, and cons.
By Ethan Ace - 3 days ago
Inside the PRC (China), Dahua directly operates police video surveillance, significantly different from its Western common perception as a low-cost camera provider. In this post, IPVM investigates these activities, including: Dahua's large...
By Charles Rollet - 4 days ago
Hikvision and Dahua helped write Chinese police video surveillance standards which include tracking people's skin color - such as "black", "yellow" and "brown" - and ethnicity, IPVM has verified. Watch this short video for an overview: These...
By IPVM Team - 19 days ago
Arcules, the Canon / Milestone spinout, is violating ONVIF rules. We raised this with Arcules 3 weeks ago. We raised this with ONVIF last week. The issue is simple. Arcules is not ONVIF conformant but markets being so using ONVIF's logo in...
By John Honovich - 2 months ago
IPVM found a filing from the US Department of Veterans Affairs that replaced Genetec with Avigilon. In this note, we examine the VA's approval process and the impact of this move. Contract Details Limited IPVM found the contract on...
By Sean Patton - 3 months ago
Fever detection was a booming, comical, and dangerous market in 2020. While the market has now mostly busted, a new entrant has won a CES award for a doorbell that claims to detect fevers. In this note, we examine the fundamental problems of...
By John Honovich and Zach Segal - 3 months ago
An 'innovative' solution that detects temperatures 'in the middle of a crowd' is being promoted by Thales, a European technology company. Indeed, Thales says NHS Scotland is testing it. However, IPVM found significant concerns in the claims...
By John Honovich and Zach Segal - 3 months ago
Ripping out and replacing access control systems is hard for important reasons. Switching them can be tricky and prone to mistakes in database conversions, hardware configuration, and credentials support. However, in this post, we address...
By Brian Rhodes - 5 months ago
When the main power fails, many believe maglocks must leave doors unlocked. However, battery backed up maglocks are allowed according to IBC / NFPA code. It just needs to be done properly. We examine the five critical steps for using backing...
By Brian Rhodes - 5 months ago
[Por favor haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en español.] While Uniview has touted its bus-mounted fever screening solution as a "success case", IPVM's testing showed that false readings are a fundamental problem, with Uniview admitting that...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 5 months ago
7 Hikvision fever cameras, without black bodies or climate control, were found by IPVM in malls in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city. They are endangering the public and promoting a false sense of safety. This is the sixth in a series of posts...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 5 months ago
IPVM worked with the Security Industry Association (SIA) on a letter sent to the FDA calling on them to take action "protecting public health and safety by enforcing the guidelines." This 1-minute video explains the issues involved, and why a...
By Conor Healy - 6 months ago
Faulty Hikvision fever screening systems are spreading despite prominent UK experts in government and academia criticizing fever cams as 'more marketing than medicine' and recommending they not be purchased. This 1-minute video overviews the...
By Charles Rollet - 6 months ago
First IBM, then briefly Clorox, and now Nokia becomes the latest Fortune 500 company to enter the fever analytics market. Inside we examine what the Nokia solution to "Advance Fight Against COVID-19" is, how it works, and how much it costs.
By Zach Segal - 6 months ago
Donated Hikvision fever cameras (claiming screening of 1,800 people/min. with no black bodies at open-air entrances) are promoting a false sense of security at two of Mexico City's most important religious landmarks. Inside this post, IPVM...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 6 months ago
Remote monitoring by alarm companies since COVID-19 is bringing cost savings but threatening security and reliability. Will UL Standard updates make it safer? The UL Standard body recognizes at-home monitoring as a less preferred option, but...
By Joey Walter - 6 months ago
Forehead only fever screening violates global standards and increases error risks but Hikvision alleges that it is 'smart'. It is not. This 43-second video explains it: To the contrary, this Hikvision blog post declares they "Provide Safe,...
By John Honovich - 6 months ago
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 months ago
Many China fever camera manufacturers have rigged algorithms dynamically adjusting temperatures to more 'normal' results, IPVM has concluded from 6 months of testing 20+ devices. See the 80-second video below overviewing this: This raises the...
By Ethan Ace and John Honovich - 7 months ago
Finding applicable codes for security work can be a costly task, with printed books and pdf downloads costing hundreds or thousands. However, a number of widely referenced codes are available free online if you know the right places to...
By Brian Rhodes - 8 months 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...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 8 months 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,...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
A thermology expert tells IPVM "95 to 99% of people" are doing fever screening "wrong" and said "unjustified" compensation algorithms are "unacceptable" and "insane" (many new fever camera vendors, such as Dahua, deploy such algorithms). UPDATE...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging facial recognition regulation in a 65-page report. IPVM has reviewed this report, offers analysis on it, and the 3 main steps we recommend they take to achieve this.
By Zach Segal - 8 months ago
These $80,000+ South Korea bus stations have gained world-wide attention but IPVM verified they use cheap temperature tablets outdoors, endangering the public. This is the fifth in an ongoing series of flawed fever camera deployments adding...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 8 months ago
