Fever tablet suppliers heavily rely on the accuracy and specs of medical-grade sensors, from Melexis and others, to elevate their tablet marketing and support their use. We spoke with Melexis and in this report, examine: Who is Melexis Wh...
By Sean Patton - about 21 hours ago
As Six Flags scrambled to reopen parks amid plummeting revenues caused by the pandemic, it deployed Dahua fever cameras outdoors that violate FDA guidelines, creating a false sense of security and increasing risk to guests. Despite that, Six Flag...
By Charles Rollet - 3 days ago
What impact does GDPR have on temperature screening? Do you risk a GDPR fine for using temperature screening cameras incorrectly? The answers are complex because each European country interprets the GDPR differently. In this post, IPVM exami...
By Charles Rollet - 7 days 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 - 7 days ago
The Australian government told IPVM that they are investigating a Hikvision fever screening system touted by a Sydney clubhouse despite Hikvision's lack of Australian medical device approval. They emphasized to IPVM that "it is a criminal off...
By Charles Rollet - 9 days ago
For almost one week, Clorox was marketing fever cameras. The booming market has attracted more than 200 entrants in just months. However, the 100+-year-old bleach and cleaning provider was arguably the biggest name yet to become a fever camera ...
By Zach Segal - 14 days ago
This directory provides a list of "Fever" scanning thermal camera providers to help you see and research what options are available. There are a growing number of providers around the world. The goal of this directory is to provide a single l...
By IPVM Team - 15 days ago
Bosch announced its "Human Skin Temperature Detection" system at the 2020 IPVM Fall New Products show. In this report we share: 30-minute Bosch video with IPVM Q&A and transcript Product Overview Where is Bosch measuring skin tempera...
By Sean Patton - 22 days ago
A Swiss company claims to have "fully designed and manufactured" the world's "most accurate" fever camera entirely in Switzerland and recently sold some to a United Nations agency for ~$30,500 each. But an IPVM investigation reveals the company -...
By Charles Rollet - 23 days ago
This show featured 25+ Manufacturers showcasing their latest new products. The full show is available on-demand at the bottom of this report. Watch On-Demand Watch recordings from Days 1, 2, and 3 below.
By Adam Tyson - 29 days ago
Guangzhou Bems (brand Benshi) is the manufacturer behind temperature terminals relabeled by over a dozen Western companies. But how well do they really work? We bought and tested Bems temperature measurement tablet, examining the following: ...
By Derek Ward - about 1 month ago
Avigilon has entered the temperature screening market with the release of their H4 Thermal Elevated Temperature Detection Camera. But how does it compare to others which have been on the market for months or even years? We tested the ETD came...
By Rob Kilpatrick - about 1 month ago
A Georgia school district touted buying Hikvision fever screening "about $2,000 cheaper per camera" with no blackbody for a total cost of a half a million dollars, despite the fact that these calibration devices are crucial for accuracy. More...
By Charles Rollet - about 1 month 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
Zhejiang Dali, one of China's original thermal technology developers, has seen significant growth in the last half-year due to booming fever camera sales overseas. In this report, based on speaking on Dali, we examine the company's: Origin...
By Isabella Cheng - about 2 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 r...
By Ethan Ace and John Honovich - 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
The original K3 model was lacking in features that the K7 model had and was the superior choice of the two. Now, there is a K3 "Pro" model from Testacy that looks to improve upon the K3, with a better UI and easier configuration. But how well did ...
By Derek Ward - 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 - 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
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
This 25-page guide provides a reference to the NDAA ban and blacklist. The US government has implemented wide-ranging prohibitions on using, buying, and selling video surveillance products including Dahua, Hikvision, and Huawei (Hisilicon) based p...
By Charles Rollet - 2 months ago
The Baldwin County School District has admitted it is not following FDA guidelines for its Hikvision fever camera system. This is in response to IPVM reporting such risks and CBS affiliate WKRG's investigation. The FDA declared, in May, that ...
By Charles Rollet - 2 months ago
Hikvision has received the most global news reporting of any video surveillance company, ever, ranging from the WSJ, the Financial Times, Reuters, the NY Times, SCMP and more. This directory catalogs and links to 100+ of them. October 2020 DW:...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
