Bosch has long had a hole in its lineup for, as it describes, "competitively-priced cameras". Now, Bosch has released its 3000i series cameras offering "Essential Video Analytics" in a lower-cost line. We bought and tested three 3000i models, t...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 4 days ago
When we originally tested Wyze's free person detection deep learning analytics in July 2019, they performed well, with few false alarms, but a long 5-minute cooldown period which caused missed alerts. [UPDATE: days after releasing this updated te...
By Ethan Ace and Rob Kilpatrick - 14 days ago
170+ Integrators answered: What do you think will be the top industry trend in 2020? Why? For the 4th year in a row, AI/video analytics was the top response, with over half of the responses. Additionally, cloud-focused solution responses ...
By IPVM Team - 18 days 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 - about 1 month 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 - about 1 month ago
nFlux, an Amazon, Google, and Microsoft funded AI startup told IPVM their mission is to build the most intelligent video analytics platform in the industry. We spoke with nFlux, to better understand their video analytics offerings, go-to-market...
By Sean Patton - about 1 month ago
RealNetworks entered the surveillance market by giving away their analytics to schools for free, and is now targeting large commercial users with their live face recognition analytics, SAFR. We spoke with SAFR, to better understand their offeri...
By Sean Patton - 3 months ago
Hikvision touts "The Magic Behind It All" in their new Acusense line are 'deep learning algorithms' inside these cameras and recorders. But how well do these new models work? We bought and tested the Hikvision DS-2CD2346G1-I/SL camera and DS-76...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 3 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. 2019 State of Video Surveillance Startups In the past year, the number and funding of video surveillanc...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
Vivotek has released "a neural network-powered detection engine", named Smart Motion Detection, claiming that "swaying vegetation, vehicles passing by, or animal activities in the scene will no longer trigger" events. IPVM tested this on Vivote...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 3 months ago
While video surveillance analytics has been promoted, hyped and lamented for nearly 20 years, next year, 2020, will be the year that it finally goes mainstream, marking a major advance for the industry and security users. In this report, we exp...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
Scylla, an AI analytics startup, says they are targeting 1 Billion dollar valuation in 5 years and it "is not rocket science" to detect weapons and threatening behaviors with AI video analytics. We spoke with Scylla to better understand their o...
By Sean Patton - 3 months ago
Anyvision is aiming for $1 billion in revenue by 2022, backed by $74 million in funding. But does their performance live up to the hype they have built? We tested Anyvision's Better Tomorrow platform examining: How does it perform in real w...
By Ethan Ace and Rob Kilpatrick - 4 months ago
This week, Verkada released "People Analytics", including face analytics that they describe is a "game-changing feature" that "pushes the boundaries of enterprise video security". To see how these new analytics perform, we tested them with our ...
By Ethan Ace, Rob Kilpatrick, and Sean Patton - 4 months ago
Dahua's analytics have performed poorly in past shootouts. But now, they claim their new Analytics+ "algorithms significantly improve accuracy and reliability." To see how these new analytics perform, we bought and tested the N45DL7Z 4MP dome, ...
By Ethan Ace and Rob Kilpatrick - 4 months ago
For years, Honeywell has depended on Dahua, a company with a poor cybersecurity track record and now banned by the US NDAA, for the development and manufacturing of 'Honeywell' branded IP cameras. Now, after years of silence, Honeywell has spok...
By John Honovich - 4 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 - 5 months ago
Ivideon was an early VSaaS entrant, initially focusing on the consumer market, claiming massive growth to IPVM in 2014. We spoke to Ivideon, to discuss their status in 2019, their current offerings, and expansion plans in the US and Europe, inc...
By Sean Patton - 6 months ago
Repositionable multi-imager cameras are one of the fastest growing segments in video surveillance, with a slew of new offerings being recently released but who is the best and worst? To see who stands out, we bought and tested 10 repositionable...
By Ethan Ace and Rob Kilpatrick - 6 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 - 6 months ago
Sighthound is now rapidly expanding its R&D team, building an enterprise AI service. This may come as a surprise given their origins 6 years ago acquiring a small residential analytics offering (Vitamin D). Why the change? We spoke with Si...
By Sean Patton - 6 months ago
An embattled 12,000 camera surveillance system project that will cost ~$400 million will proceed. The project contract was awarded, had its funding blocked by the Senate and that block subsequently vetoed by the president. In this note, based...
By Dan Gelinas - 6 months ago
Zensors is a startup formed by Carnegie Mellon graduates from a Carnegie Mellon research project, offering customized models per camera that they claim delivers significantly higher accuracy. We spoke with Zensors to better understand their app...
By Sean Patton - 6 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 - 6 months ago
In 2018, Hikvision's DeepinMind AI NVR performed terribly, recognizing vehicles, animals, and other objects as humans, misclassifying demographics, completely missing humans in the scene and more issues. Now, after a year of firmware updates, H...
By Rob Kilpatrick - 6 months ago
