If security robots can not replace guards, perhaps the next best thing is a robot the guard can actually ride. Turing Video has raised $5 million, and is bringing to market a robot security guard that can not only detect security violations, usi...
By Brian Karas - 7 days ago
The UK's largest broadcaster, BBC, recently featured Digital Barriers (also based in the UK) on a segment highlighting face recognition technology. The TV segment showed Digital Barriers' SmartVis Face being used to monitor public spaces for appea...
By Brian Karas - 21 days ago
Nvidia is making a big push into the security market, claiming more than 50 partners, investing heavily in industry events, positioning their GPUs as the workhorses of deep learning applications. However, Nvidia offers multiple product platforms...
By Brian Karas - 28 days ago
The hype for deep learning in video surveillance is accelerating. Between the race to the bottom and dearth of a 'next big thing', certainly pent up demand exists. But now is the time for a healthy skepticism about when and what deep learning ca...
By John Honovich - about 2 months ago
Hikvision has become a common choice for super low cost NVRs. Now, Hikvision is aiming to move up market, with deep learning NVRs that claim far greater intelligence and accuracy. In this note, we examine the line, share feedback from Hikvision a...
By John Honovich - 2 months 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 - 2 months ago
The undeniably good news for the video surveillance market is that we are seeing the rise of more startups than in many years. The cause of this is clear - deep learning / 'artificial intelligence' / the next wave of video analytics. While video ...
By John Honovich - 3 months ago
RADAR is gaining momentum within physical security. Two months after Axis announced a network radar detector, Avigilon has announced a RADAR-Based Presence Detector. We analyze Avigilon's latest product, and compare it to Axis' Network Radar Dete...
By Brian Karas - 3 months ago
PureTech's analytics were chosen for a US border protection system (see related post), which the company claims no other analytics vendor was able to meet the requirements for. PureTech is using deep learning techniques in portions of their produc...
By Brian Karas - 5 months ago
US Customs and Border Protection has been rolling out a video analytics-based detection system along the US/Mexico border, with detection ranges reaching up to 7 miles. Deployments began in 2015, and were recently declared to be at Full Operating ...
By Brian Karas - 5 months ago
IPVM went to Las Vegas, examining what vendors are showcasing and what is new. Attendance was up, according to the show, and was certainly well attended. This is our final edition of the show report covering all 3 days of exhibits and key takeaw...
By IPVM Team - 5 months ago
Deep learning for $2 a day for a system that automatically detects guns and masks, alerting the police to robberies and threats? A US startup is launching such a service, based on the work of its founder/CEO, Dr. Sean Huver, and previous work fro...
By Brian Karas - 6 months ago
Once potentially the most recognized name in video analytics, ObjectVideo has effectively been sold for pieces. Alarm.com has now acquired what remained of the company following Avigilon's 2014 acquisition of ObjectVideo's patents for $80 million...
By Brian Karas - 6 months ago
People counting has historically been a difficult task, requiring specialized cameras, expensive software, and careful camera placement. But in the past few years, low cost camera manufacturers have begun offering this analytic in their cameras at...
By Ethan Ace - 6 months ago
376 manufacturers and integrators revealed their outlook on the future of the video surveillance industry in a recent IPVM survey. Both groups are strongly positive about the future with integrators even more so: Factors cited as influencing o...
By Brian Karas - 7 months ago
Deep learning interest is rising in video surveillance. 2016 saw: Hikvision's partnership with Nvidia Movidius launch a neural networks chip for video surveillance Hikvision winning a deep learning challenge China manufacturers showing gr...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
2017 should be an active, if not rocky, year for the security industry, according to predictions from IPVM integrators. We surveyed integrators, asking them "In 2017, what major shifts do you anticipate? Why?", and their answers show that they ha...
By Brian Karas - 9 months ago
Can video analytics be used to improve the care of the elderly? Axis and a video analytics startup, Smartervision, are working together to do so. In this note, we examine the solution, its pricing, objectives and potential limitations.
By Brian Karas - 10 months ago
The top 3 surprises of 2016 for integrators surveyed by IPVM were: The race to bottom, repeating 2015's Top Surprise Result New - Cybersecurity concerns growing (related, see our Cyber Security For Video Surveillance Study) Mergers and ac...
By Brian Karas - 10 months ago
Hikvision is pushing hard to move up market and win at video analytics. One notable sign is Hikvision touting their #1 ranking for an ImageNet challenge. We hired a computer vision academic, expert at ImageNet, to review the results and assess H...
By John Honovich - 10 months ago
The clear top theme at the 2016 Security China show has been intelligent video. This is a big shift from past years, and China's historical focus on hardware. In this note, we examine what is happening, why this is a response to the race to the ...
By John Honovich - 11 months ago
The world's largest camera manufacturer is partnering with the worlds largest semiconductor company to create a series of intelligent cameras. Hikvision is partnering with chipmaker Movidius (soon to be acquired by Intel) to add Deep Neural Netwo...
By IPVM Team - 11 months ago
The ex-Googler led team from Camio has advanced its video monitoring offering to include natural language processing. Camio ingests video, automatically determines what objects are, labels those objects and then allows users to search for them wi...
By Ethan Ace - 12 months ago
After years of claiming an outdoor model was "coming", addressing their biggest user demand, Nest has finally released their Outdoor Camera, an IP67 1080p model, along with improvements to their Nest Aware analytic platform, aptly named Person Ale...
By John Scanlan - 12 months ago
This is a concise history of video surveillance covering the past decade. The goal is to help professionals newer to the industry understand the important business and technology shifts that impact the market today. It is not intended to cover...
By John Honovich - 12 months ago
