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 surveilla...
By IPVM Team - 6 days ago
Avigilon presented Avigilon Cloud Services, which supports cloud-connected ACC at the April 2020 IPVM New Products show. Inside this report: A 30-minute video from Avigilon including IPVM Q&A Background on the company and the new prod...
By Sean Patton - 13 days ago
Micron presented its 1TB MicroSD for VSaaS at the April 2020 IPVM New Products show. Inside this report: A 30-minute video from Micron including IPVM Q&A Background on the company and the new product Key Positive factors to consider ...
By Sean Patton - 18 days ago
IPConfigure presented Orchid Fusion VSaaS at the April 2020 IPVM New Products show. Inside this report: A 30-minute video from IPConfigure including IPVM Q&A Background on the company and the new product Key Positive factors to consi...
By Sean Patton - 26 days ago
OpenEye presented its cloud-to-cloud integrations designed for remote alarm monitoring and video verification at the April 2020 IPVM New Products show. Inside this report: A 30-minute video from OpenEye including IPVM Q&A Background o...
By Sean Patton - 27 days ago
VSaaS is starting to become mainstream but who are integrator's favorite? 200+ integrators told us their choices. The top choice? No one. But 4 North American companies are fairly close together. Inside this report, we review the rankings and ...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
Micron has boldly proclaimed their latest 1TB microSD "eliminates the need for network video recorders", targeting the growing market of cloud-managed video surveillance. In this note, we examine this offering, with technical feedback from Mi...
By Sean Patton - about 2 months ago
This report examines major industry factors and how they could impact video surveillance in the next 5 - 10 years. This is part of our Video Surveillance 101 course. In this report, we examine the following: How will AI impact the surveilla...
By IPVM Team - about 2 months ago
Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) is the common industry term for cloud video. But what does it mean? How does it all work? Inside this guide, we explain the fundamentals step by step including: SaaS vs VSaaS Hosted vs Managed by Hy...
By IPVM Team - 2 months ago
The 2-day event has concluded. Thanks to everyone who accessed the IPVM community and saw why IPVM is the world's leading authority on video surveillance. Our objective of this first-ever offering is to give the broader security community the o...
By Donald Maye - 2 months ago
VMS is ending. Soon every VMS will be a VSaaS. Competitive dynamics will be redrawn. What does this mean? VMS Historically On-Site Historically, VMS meant video management software that was deployed on-site. To the extent that it could be wa...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
Milestone is going to the cloud, becoming one of the last prominent VMSes to do so. Milestone is clearly late but how competitive do these new cloud solutions make them? At their annual MIPS conference and with their sister company Arcules, Mil...
By John Honovich and Sean Patton - 3 months ago
Use the existing network or deploy a new one? This is a critical choice in designing video surveillance systems. Though 'convergence' was a big theme of the past decade, deciding what to do has been much harder in practice. In this guide, we b...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
This directory provides definitions and explanations for over 70 common video surveillance industry terms, including links to related IPVM tutorials and guides. This directory will be continuously updated. If there is a term you want to be in...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
Avigilon is shifting its cloud strategy, phasing out its Blue web-managed surveillance platform as a stand-alone brand and merging it with its ACC VMS. In this note, based on a briefing with Avigilon, we examine: Avigilon's shifted cloud str...
By Sean Patton - 4 months ago
IPVM spent all 3 days at the Intersec 2020 show interviewing various companies and finding key trends. We cover: Middle East Enterprise Market Challenges Strong Demand for AI Impact of Lack of privacy regulations VSaaS Shift Slow Axis In...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
While VSaaS suffered from inflated expectations in the 2010s, 2020 marks a new decade and a much stronger competitive position for VSaaS vs VMS. We examined the Battle for the VMS Market Begins in 2019. Now, a year later, and with significant p...
By John Honovich - 4 months ago
An Arcules employee called out a recent 'security breach', however, Arcules CEO disputed this as 'inaccurate' and threatened to sue IPVM. Inside this note, we examine: What the Arcules employee claimed was a 'security breach' Arcules CEO re...
By John Honovich - 6 months ago
Rhombus boasts they have created "the new standard in Enterprise, cloud-managed video security" and told IPVM in January 2019 they offer twice the features of Verkada at half of the price. We purchased 2 R2 Rhombus cameras and Enterprise licens...
By Rob Kilpatrick and Sean Patton - 7 months ago
While IPVM covers the largest companies in the industry regularly (like Axis, Dahua, Hikvision, etc.), IPVM strives to do a profile post on each manufacturer to provide fundamental information and analysis. We have 100+ so far, shown below. Her...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
Alarm.com is targeting commercial expansion and now they have a commercial cloud VMS with the acquisition of OpenEye. In this note, based on speaking with executives at both companies, we examine the pros and cons of the acquisition, how it imp...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
Milestone has problems. While the company previously excelled in the shift to IP cameras, as IP has matured and competitive differentiation has shifted to AI and VSaaS, the company is now struggling to find its way. Inside this note, we examine...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
While AI and VSaaS is the future of video surveillance, these are obstructed to foreign firms in China (the PRC), where authorities are tightening implementation of rules, as demonstrated by 2 recent examples of major PRC surveillance companies th...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months 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 - 9 months ago
Windows 7 updates are causing VMS servers to fail to boot. After running the update, impacted systems do not boot as normal, instead display this warning screen: In this note, we examine: Which systems are impacted What is causing the issu...
By Brian Rhodes - 9 months ago
