Network Optix released Nx Witness 4.0, proclaiming new features like a deep learning analytics metadata SDK, increased H.265 support, and UX improvements made the software "stronger and more full-featured than ever before." We tested Network Op...
By Sean Patton - 9 days ago
AI analytics are hitting the mainstream in the consumer camera market, with entrants Wyze and Yi Home releasing free people detection on their super low cost cameras. This is a significant threat for higher priced offerings like Arlo, Google Ne...
By Ethan Ace - 23 days 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. 2019 State of Video Surveillance Startups In the past year, the number and funding of video surveillanc...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
The VSaaS market is rapidly expanding in 2019, with Verkada, Meraki, Eagle Eye, Avigilon and numerous startups growing their market share. When we tested Genetec Stratocast in 2015 there were significant limitations compared to Security Center and...
By Sean Patton - about 1 month ago
Even as the GDPR strictly regulates biometrics, a UK company called Facewatch is selling anti-shoplifter facial recognition systems to hundreds of retailers. Facewatch even keeps a database of suspects, only deleting profiles after two years "if y...
By IPVM Team - about 2 months ago
Proactive CCTV is claiming to offer "the only affordable video archiving solution on the market", reducing the storage typically required for H.265 by 89%. Where did Proactive come from? What are they providing, and how affordable is it? We spo...
By Sean Patton - 2 months ago
Razberi says they have doubled their revenue in the first half of 2019, citing their proprietary camera hardening and cybersecurity capabilities which are included with their Made In the USA appliances. In this note, based on a discussion with ...
By Sean Patton - 2 months ago
Avigilon says Blue is a "powerful integrator cloud service platform", easy to set up and configure, quickly scale business, by leveraging cloud connectivity. But as cloud startups grow in number and size, how much better does Blue work, and where ...
By Sean Patton - 2 months ago
The video surveillance market has changed significantly since 2000, going from VCRs to ab emerging AI cloud era. The goal of this history is to help professionals newer to the industry understand the important business and technology shifts th...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
The highest-level EU data protection authority has issued a new series of provisional video surveillance guidelines. While GDPR has been in effect for more than a year, how it applies to video surveillance has often been unclear, as we explaine...
By Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
An EU / USA video surveillance startup, Vaion, founded by ex-Cisco Senior Directors is launching an end-to-end VSaaS platform with $20 million in funding. We spoke with Vaion to understand why they started a surveillance company, their offering...
By Sean Patton - 4 months ago
This directory provides a list of VSaaS / cloud video surveillance providers to help you see and research what options are available. 2019 State of VSaaS Market While overwhelmingly video surveillance is recorded on-premise, cloud recording is...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
Closed cloud systems may be the fastest growing segment of video surveillance with Meraki and Verkada. Now another California company is joining the market, startup Rhombus Systems who says they offer twice the features and half the price of Verka...
By Sean Patton - 5 months ago
Smart codecs are now nearly a standard feature in IP cameras, but our statistics show integrator adoption has not increased at the same rate. In this note, we examine adoption rates of smart codecs, and share integrators' feedback on why they d...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
OWAL, a NYC-based startup developing AI video analytics, is aiming to "improve the quality of life" within high-rise apartments, and commercial property management markets. We spoke to OWAL (pronounced like the bird), to better understand their...
By Sean Patton - 5 months ago
Verkada has taken the industry by storm with the fastest growing video surveillance sales organization ever and a half billion dollar valuation. Now, it has achieved another milestone, in new IPVM integrator statistics, its net favorability of -28...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
What is the average frame rated used in video surveillance systems? In IPVM's 2011 statistics, the average was 6-8fps increasing to ~10fps in our 2016 statistics. Now, in 2019, the average has increased significantly to 15fps. Inside this repo...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
Bank security contends with many significant threats - from fraudsters to robbers and more. In this interview, IPVM spoke with bank security manager Damon Hood [link no longer available], who served in the Navy military police and in the privat...
By Dan Gelinas - 5 months ago
Verkada is arguably the most ambitious video surveillance startup in many years. The company is developing their own cameras, their own VMS, their own cloud management software and their own video analytics, offering what they describe as the "Sec...
By Sean Patton - 6 months ago
For years, S2's video management platform, the NetVR, was based on Exacq. Now, after years of internal development, S2 has launched its own internally developed VMS that the company says is 'pushing the boundaries of video management': [link ...
By Sean Patton - 6 months ago
H.265 has been available in IP cameras for more than 5 years and, in the past few years, the number of manufacturers supporting this codec has increased substantially. However, major manufacturers including Avigilon, Axis, and Bosch still only ...
By Sean Patton - 6 months ago
The IPVM team has finished at the Sands looking at what companies are offering and how they are changing their positioning. See below for 50+ manufacturer booth videos: Coverage includes: Top Trends In and Out of the Show Biggest Develop...
By IPVM Team - 6 months ago
189 integrators answered this question: "What is your favorite storage device / server manufacturer for recording video? Why?" In general IT, the top-selling server manufacturers are Dell, HP, Lenovo, but would those 3 be favored by securi...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
BCDVideo says they have more than tripled revenue in the past 5 years and are continuing to grow, powered most recently by switching their lead provider from HP to Dell. In this note, based on our talks with CEO Jeff Burgess [link no longer ava...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
Arcules has amazing advantages. Tens of millions of funding from Canon. Unlimited access to Milestone's source code (see our test results). But most integrators have no idea who they are or care about them, as new IPVM statistics show: And the...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
