160+ Integrators answered: What do you think the top industry trend will be in 2019? Why? AI / video analytics was the run-away winner with half of all respondents, with no other trend coming close. However, IPVM forecasts that, while ana...
By IPVM Team - 3 days ago
Alarm.com has announced what it calls an "artificial intelligence (AI) architecture and video analytics service", touting that Alarm.com's computer vision research team trained the AI engine with millions of frames of video donated from field-...
By Brian Rhodes - 13 days ago
Vintra is a Silicon Valley startup focused on AI-based video analytics. They had booths at IACP and ISC West demonstrating their hosted or on-premise solutions. We spoke Vintra, to better understand their approach, and how they position their ana...
By Sean Patton - 16 days ago
Genetec has built Kiwi Security's Intrusion Detection analytics into Security Center, aiming to simplify deployment compared to separate camera based analytics. We tested Intrustion Detector to see how this compared against leaders from our IP ...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 16 days ago
This is the 5th year IPVM has tracked manufacturers gaining and losing: Top Manufacturers Gaining and Losing 2014 Top Manufacturers Gaining and Losing 2015 Top Manufacturers Gaining and Losing 2016 Top Manufacturers Gaining and Losing 2017 ...
By IPVM Team - 17 days ago
AI is a major trend in video surveillance with manufacturers paying significant attention to Intel's Movidius Myriad chips. Indeed, Avigilon has announced that their next generation AI H5 cameras will use the Myriad X. But how well do these Myria...
By IPVM Team - 22 days ago
Arcules is a big bet, or as they describe themselves a 'bold company', spun out and backed by Milestone and Canon. But how good is Arcules cloud VMS? They recently started general availability and, in this test, we examine their capabilities. ...
By Sean Patton - 24 days ago
IPVM's trip to and testing of Amazon Go's San Francisco store shows a number of significant operational and economic issues that undermine the hype. While the press has overwhelmingly fawned at Amazon Go's store and the report that Amazon will ...
By John Honovich - 30 days ago
Genetec has built Kiwi Security's Privacy Protector into Security Center, an analytic which anonymizes individuals in cameras' fields of view without obscuring actions and movements. We tested Privacy Protector in multiple scenarios to see how it...
By Rob Kilpatrick - about 1 month ago
Kogniz is a Silicon Valley company that aims to bring AI analytics to security and surveillance, centering on their own smart cameras: We spoke with Daniel Putterman, Co-CEO at Kogniz to better understand their approach and how they aim to diff...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
Avigilon is opening up. The company historically famous for advocating its own end-to-end solutions and making it harder for 3rd parties to integrate is now opening up. Inside this note, based on speaking with Avigilon, IPVM examines: Histo...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
A fascinating article from the Chinese government's Global Times: Huawei’s AI ambition to reshape industries. While the Global Times talks about Huawei 'unveiling' their AI strategy, Huawei was showing this at IFSEC 2018, e.g., see our Huawei S...
By John Honovich - about 2 months ago
Dahua has been one of the industry's most vocal proponents of the value that AI creates: As part of this, Dahua has released a facial recognition camera, the DH-IPC-HF8242FN-FR, claiming: Artificial Intelligence at the edge – performing comp...
By Rob Kilpatrick - about 2 months ago
IPVM went to Orlando to cover the 2018 IACP conference, the country's largest police show (about as big as ASIS), examining the 700+ exhibitors: It is a big show floor: With President Trump shaving spoken at the show, as our shot of security...
By IPVM Team - 2 months ago
Avigilon will be showcasing "next-generation AI" at next week's ASIS GSX. In an atypical move, the company is not actually releasing these products any time soon but they "announced the development of its future H5 camera line." Based on speakin...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
When crimes, accidents or problems occur, exporting video from one's video surveillance system is critical to proving incidents. But who does it the best and worst? We tested 6 manufacturers - Avigilon, Dahua, Exacq, Genetec, Hikvision and Miles...
By Sean Patton - 3 months ago
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is granting more than $2 Billion to companies developing new AI technologies. The money will be awarded via the AI Next Campaign with multiple awards given to companies innovating AI syste...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
Luxriot is more popular than Hikvision and Milestone products according to ASMAG which was probably even surprising to Luxriot. The company has been offering VMS software for many years but has never become one of the top used offerings. Luxriot...
By Sean Patton - 4 months ago
Video analytics is hot again (at least conceptually) but integrating video analytics with VMSes can be challenging. This is especially significant when using 'smart' IP cameras or 3rd party server-based analytics that need to sent their results / ...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
Who is ISS? In the past few months, they had one of the craziest ISC West promo items in years. Then, they hired industry veteran and ex-Dahua Director Janet Fenner as CMO, who promptly took over Hikvision's abandoned GSX 2018 booth in the middl...
By Sean Patton - 4 months ago
Video analytics are hot again. But whose analytics really work? IPVM bought and tested Avigilon, Axis, Bosch, Dahua, Hanwha and Hikvision cameras, focusing on their core intrusion / people detection analytics. First, we tested each analytics s...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
Eagle Eye has become one of the most significant players in the industry in the past few years: Eagle Eye's Owner Acquired Brivo Eagle Eye Acquired CameraManager From Panasonic Hired Ex-ADT Exec As Eagle Eye President Eagle Eye Boasts Big ...
By Sean Patton - 5 months ago
Avigilon is a popular choice for video analytics, offering "self-learning" analytics built into their cameras as well as appliances. We tested their self-learning analytics indoors and out on Avigilon's H4 dome cameras, as well as their standard ...
By IPVM Team - 5 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 - 5 months ago
Axis 'high security' video analytics offering is Perimeter Defender, OEMed / developed with Digital Barriers. But how good is Perimeter Defender? And how does it compare to Axis VMD4 and Guard Suite analytics? We tested Perimeter Defender in ind...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
