Most industry professionals have never heard of Solink, a company whose tagline is: It's time to revolutionize the way business uses video. However, raised ~$12 million USD recently, a substantial raise for video surveillance standards, espe...
By Dan Gelinas - 10 days ago
A "strange narrative" is being spun, said Michael Barnes at the 2019 Barnes Buchanan Conference. However, despite that narrative, it is a "great time" to be in the industry. Barnes gave a 3-hour presentation on the current state of the industry...
By Dan Gelinas - 11 days ago
Less than a year after acquiring cloud video company Smartvue, Exacq has launched its 'cloud drive storage' offering. We see the VSaaS market expanding with many new competitors and incumbents such as Exacq adding new cloud services. How well...
By Sean Patton - 18 days ago
Canon / Milestone are putting tens of millions into Arcules - their bet on the future of the VMS market (see IPVM's Arcules test report). But over the past half year, Arcules has had a rocky road, with significant turnover including at the execut...
By John Honovich - 29 days ago
2019 will be the year that VSaaS finally becomes a real factor for professional video surveillance. While Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) has been around for more than a decade, it has always been relegated to the fringes of the market and...
By John Honovich - about 2 months ago
Milestone is now competing against... Milestone's own spinout Arcules. New IPVM testing shows that Arcules has incorporated a substantial amount of Milestone technology and is offering a VMS that is, in many ways, quite similar (and in parts id...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
Storing email and documents in the cloud have long been common, with on-site email or file servers increasingly eliminated. However, what about video surveillance? What percentage of new video surveillance deployments are integrators using cloud ...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
This directory provides a list of Video Management Software providers to help you see and research what options are available. Listing Format The listing is in the layout of: Company Name, Product Name, Home Country, Notes, IPVM Tests/Report ...
By IPVM Team - 6 months 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 entity in the market. 2018 State of Security Startups Today, most of the major companies in the industry...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
Decreasing exposure to fraudulent slip-and-fall insurance claims and lawsuits is one of the oldest selling points of video surveillance for retail. Providing video evidence of an incident that happened 4-6 months prior is a challenge for tradition...
By Sean Patton - 8 months ago
Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligent VSaaS startup Camio has announced it has won a 24,000 camera deal, a sizeable system for a small company. Camio is one of the most technologically sophisticated video surveillance startups (see our testing ...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
License Plate Recognition / Automatic Number Plate Recognition are a type of video analytics software that can identify and match license / number plates, without needing a human operator to read or lookup the plate. There are a number of provi...
By IPVM Team - about 1 year ago
Smartvue, a US company, has raised over $20 million to develop 'The IoT Video Network' but what does that mean and what does Smartvue offer compared to competitors like Eagle Eye and Genetec? In this note, we profile Smartvue, based on a conversa...
By John Honovich - about 1 year ago
VSaaS has been a 'next big thing' for more than a decade. The prospect of managing, storing and streaming video from the cloud rather than on-premise has been anticipated for years. But in 2016, IPVM stats showed less than 1/4th of integrators wer...
By Brian Karas - about 1 year ago
Eagle Eye CEO Dean Drako presented an investor-oriented corporate pitch at the 2017 Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference, highlighting metrics and elements of the business geared toward investors, instead of Eagle Eye's more typical "why ...
By Brian Karas - about 1 year ago
This directory provides a list of VSaaS / cloud video surveillance providers to help you see and research what options are available. 2018 State of VSaaS Market While overwhelmingly video surveillance is recorded locally / on-site, cloud recor...
By IPVM Team - about 1 year ago
Verkada says they are building an enterprise-class VSaaS offering, calling it "The new platform for video security". This is a departure from the consumer/SMB focus of many recent startups and companies like Nest, Canary, Ring, etc. Enterprise cu...
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
On-premise security systems are dead. But $75 print books are alive and well. Such are the lessons from Brivo's CEO new book "The Five Technological Forces Disrupting Security" to all of you 'server-huggers' out there. It does raise a fascinati...
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
Microsoft has released one of the most amazing video analytics marketing videos ever. In it, they detect oil spills, track individual people giving them specific directions to avoid oil spills, send alerts if patients have engaged in too much acti...
By Brian Karas - over 1 year ago
Milestone has spun off a business, Arcus Global, funded by their parent company Canon. The new company aims to transform the VSaaS market with an enterprise-class offering. IPVM spoke with Milestone about the new business. Inside this report, we ...
By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago
While many VSaaS companies might hope for one acquisition, Cameramanager has managed to get acquired twice. First they were acquired by Panasonic, and now Panasonic has sold Cameramanager to Eagle Eye. IPVM spoke with executives from Eagle Eye an...
By Brian Karas - over 1 year ago
One ISC West exhibitor had a very specific and clear pitch - cloud for Hikvision: In this note, we examine their offering, key differentiators, pricing and positioning.
By John Honovich - almost 2 years ago
Eagle Eye VP of Operations, Hans Kahler, posted a picture of himself sitting on top of a shipment of new servers, as a testament to the companies growth. IPVM spoke with Kahler about what exactly is in the boxes, Eagle Eye's growth, and factors...
By Brian Karas - almost 2 years ago
Comcast has more than 20 million subscribers and $80 billion in revenue. Now Comcast is partnering with Genetec and Axis to deliver a "surveillance package for all types of business" with SmartOffice to its large customer base. IPVM spoke with C...
By Brian Karas - almost 2 years ago
VSaaS has been a tough market, while Axis struggles with their business, Eagle Eye is filling out their executive team. Eagle Eye has hired an industry veteran as President to take over day to day operations and grow the business. The new Presid...
By Brian Karas - over 2 years ago
