Lux Rating / Minimum Illumination Guide
Lux ratings are often used by manufacturers to market their cameras' low light abilities, but in reality, these specs cannot be trusted. In...
By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago (Info+)
Lux ratings are often used by manufacturers to market their cameras' low light abilities, but in reality, these specs cannot be trusted. In...
By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago (Info+)
For a year Dahua marketed and deployed fever screening on buses. Now, after IPVM inquired about recent Dahua promotions of this, Dahua admits this...
By Robert Wren Gordon - over 1 year ago (Info+)
Four Russian facial recognition firms (AxxonSoft, NtechLab, Tevian, and VisionLabs) who supply the Russian government offer ethnicity analytics,...
By Donald Maye - over 1 year ago (Info+)
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has expelled Dahua for ethics violations. In 2020, SIA adopted Ethics Principles that members agreed...
By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago
The FCC is now proposing to ban new equipment authorizations of Hikvision/Dahua gear and is also seeking comment on "whether we should revoke"...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago (Info+)
Making accurate labor estimates is difficult, and having good numbers to base quotes on is a challenge for many integrators. In this guide,...
By Brian Rhodes - over 1 year ago (Info+)
For access-controlled doors, especially those with maglocks, 'Request to Exit', or 'RTE' devices are required to override electrified locks to...
By Brian Rhodes - over 1 year ago (Info+)
ONVIF now supports over 20,000 products, but how well do integrators think of the organization? Inside, we examine statistics and commentary...
By Ethan Ace - almost 2 years ago (Info+)
Inside the PRC (China), Dahua directly operates police video surveillance, significantly different from its Western common perception as a low-cost...
By Charles Rollet - almost 2 years ago (Info+)
Hikvision and Dahua helped write Chinese police video surveillance standards which include tracking people's skin color - such as "black", "yellow"...
By IPVM Team - almost 2 years ago
Arcules, the Canon / Milestone spinout, is violating ONVIF rules. We raised this with Arcules 3 weeks ago. We raised this with ONVIF last...
By John Honovich - about 2 years ago (Info+)
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...
By Sean Patton - about 2 years ago (Info+)
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...
By John Honovich and Zach Segal - about 2 years ago
An 'innovative' solution that detects temperatures 'in the middle of a crowd' is being promoted by Thales, a European technology company. Indeed,...
By John Honovich and Zach Segal - about 2 years ago (Info+)
Ripping out and replacing access control systems is hard for important reasons. Switching them can be tricky and prone to mistakes in database...
By Brian Rhodes - about 2 years ago (Info+)
When the main power fails, many believe maglocks must leave doors unlocked. However, battery backed up maglocks are allowed according to IBC /...
By Brian Rhodes - about 2 years ago (Info+)
[Por favor haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en español.] While Uniview has touted its bus-mounted fever screening solution as a "success...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 years 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...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 years ago (Info+)
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...
By Conor Healy - over 2 years ago
Faulty Hikvision fever screening systems are spreading despite prominent UK experts in government and academia criticizing fever cams as 'more...
By Charles Rollet - over 2 years ago (Info+)
First IBM, then briefly Clorox, and now Nokia becomes the latest Fortune 500 company to enter the fever analytics market. Inside we examine...
By Zach Segal - over 2 years ago (Info+)
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...
By Robert Wren Gordon - over 2 years ago (Info+)
Remote monitoring by alarm companies since COVID-19 is bringing cost savings but threatening security and reliability. Will UL Standard updates...
By Joey Walter - over 2 years ago (Info+)
Forehead only fever screening violates global standards and increases error risks but Hikvision alleges that it is 'smart'. It is not. This...
By John Honovich - over 2 years ago
A multi-national African Hikvision distributor is marketing dangerously incorrect Hikvision fever camera setups. This adds to the long list of...
By Charles Rollet - over 2 years ago (Info+)
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