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 - 4 days 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 ex...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 12 days 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 - 13 days 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, A...
By John Honovich - 17 days 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 - about 1 month 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 r...
By Ethan Ace and John Honovich - about 2 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 search. ...
By Brian Rhodes - about 2 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 IPVM. Scree...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - about 2 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, tell...
By Charles Rollet - about 2 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 8...
By Charles Rollet - 2 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 - 2 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 t...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 2 months ago
Health leaders around the world are increasingly speaking out about the problems of using temperature screening. IPVM has verified statements from the US, UK, Canada, Israel, and Ireland health leaders. This comes while temperature / 'fever' ...
By Charles Rollet and Zach Segal - 2 months ago
Deploying a fever camera outdoors, in the rain, with no black body, is clearly dangerous. Nonetheless, one Chilean city is celebrating its donated Hikvision system by driving it around town to find those who have coronavirus. Despite this, Hi...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 3 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 - 3 months ago
The mayor of one of Colombia's largest cities has promoted a faulty Hikvision 'fever' camera setup in local bus stations that violates various international fever scanning standards and exposes the public to health risks. IPVM obtained and re...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 3 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 - 3 months ago
Dahua has promoted Buenos Aires bus deployments as "solutions that facilitate community safety". However, they violate IEC standards and, ironically, Dahua's own installation instructions. This is a second in a series of new posts covering La...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 months ago
ZKTeco and integrator The Protection Bureau are marketing an installation that violates IEC febrile screening standards, FDA correct operation, and ironically ZKTeco's own installation instructions. This is a risk to public safety, as these m...
By John Honovich and Joey Walter - 4 months ago
Colombia's President Iván Duque has promoted a haphazard Hikvision fever camera setup that violates international fever scanning standards and is likely to be little more than security theater. Nonetheless, Hikvision promoted this as a "great...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 4 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 - 4 months ago
Omnisense Systems is marketing a "Mass Fever Screening and Pandemic Control" Sentry Mk4 System, an update to their "performance-proven of Sentry MK3, that protected many organizations and institutions from H5N1 to COVID-19 coronavirus." In th...
By Sean Patton - 5 months ago
Dahua and Hikvision fever cameras are being used at, respectively, French and Scottish nursing homes, violating international fever scanning standards and endangering the lives of the elderly at these facilities amid ongoing coronavirus deaths. ...
By Charles Rollet - 5 months ago
