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Free IPVM Info+ Limited Subscriptions For The Unemployed

IPVM is giving 3-month free Info+ Limited subscriptions (historical price $99) for the unemployed. To get it, just contact us; your request...

By IPVM Team - about 2 months ago

Dahua CEO Bemoans COVID Outbreak And "Unjust" US Sanctions

Dahua CEO Fu Liquan bemoaned the impact of the COVID outbreak inside the PRC and what he described as "extremely unjust" US...

By John Honovich - over 1 year ago

This Fever Camera Relabler Increased Revenue 7X And Profits 250X

Spectacular profits from selling fever tablets have been revealed, ironically in a lawsuit where a relabeller is suing its supplier for...

By John Honovich - over 1 year ago

Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview Sells Smart COVID Test Stations in PRC

PRC China's Zero COVID policy is spurring domestic security manufacturers to offer 'smart' COVID test stations across the country. This...

By Charles Rollet - almost 2 years ago

Axis Kickoff Required Vaccination, Mass COVID-19 Infections

Axis Americas vaccine requirement has caused controversy and many employees to resign. Now, numerous attendees at Axis Kickoff contracted...

By IPVM Team - about 2 years ago

Belgium Fines 300,000 Euros For Privacy Violating Fever Screening

The Belgian government has fined two airports 300,000 euros (~$327,000) for violating the GDPR by using fever cameras, marking the first such fine...

By Charles Rollet - about 2 years ago

FDA 2022 Study Warns Against High Risk, High Traffic Fever Screening

FDA scientists published a new fever camera study which found strong performance when strict standards are maintained. However, the study warned...

By Conor Healy - about 2 years ago

Axis Vaccine Policy Causes Culture Crisis

While Axis and its employees pride themselves on Axis' culture (see our 2021 report), this is facing a crisis over increasing pressure over...

By John Honovich - about 2 years ago

WDC Networks Brazilian Distributor Profile

WDC Networks, the largest Brazil-based video surveillance distributor, spoke with IPVM about its business, including Latin America expansion plans...

By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 years ago

Axis USA Requires Vaccination For All New Employees And Many Existing Ones

Vaccination mandates have become polarizing across the world and now they are impacting one of the industry's largest companies - Axis...

By John Honovich - about 2 years ago

Fever Tablet Fraud Lawsuit (SpinTouch Sues Outform)

A fever tablet relabeller has sued its supplier, another relabeller, for allegedly lying about the sensor quality, though the supplier blames it on...

By Isabella Cheng - about 2 years ago

Reed / RX Sued by CompuSystems Over COVID-19 Show Postponements

Many exhibitors were angry at Reed (now RX) the owner of the ISC shows for repeated postponements, some exhibitors thought of suing, but none did....

By Isabella Cheng - over 2 years ago

Multi-Factor Access Control Authentication Guide

Unauthorized users gaining access with someone else's credentials is one of the most fundamental risks of access. Multi-factor aims to mitigate...

By Brian Rhodes - over 2 years ago

SentryCard Embedded Fingerprint Reader Card Examined

Biometrics are growing in popularity for access control as a replacement for cards but one developer Sentry Enterprises has embedded biometrics...

By Brian Rhodes - over 2 years ago

Colombia Drops Temperature Screening, Fever Camera Market Crashes

Colombia's government has dropped its temperature screening mandate. IPVM examines the impact on the local 'fever' camera market. For previous...

By Robert Wren Gordon - over 2 years ago

Eagle Eye's Mexico Business Examined

Eagle Eye has had some big wins in its two years in Mexico City but the company is still largely unknown and far smaller than its incumbent rivals...

By Robert Wren Gordon - almost 3 years ago

64 Video Surveillance Startups Directory 2021

This directory provides a list of video surveillance startups to help you see and research what companies are new or not yet broadly...

By IPVM Team - almost 3 years ago

AxxonSoft Russia Business and International Expansion Examined

AxxonSoft tells IPVM that they plan to IPO in the US within 3–5 years; however, today, AxxonSoft is not widely known in the Americas. IPVM...

By Robert Wren Gordon - about 3 years ago

Amazon Responds to US Senators On Dahua

Amazon has responded to the US Senators who questioned its purchase of Dahua fever cameras, saying "we do not intend" to purchase the products...

By Charles Rollet - about 3 years ago

Woman Dies After Screened By Faulty Hikvision Fever Camera System

A 27-year-old woman died with COVID-19 hours after a Hikvision open-air, low-resolution, no-black-body fever camera gave her the all-clear with a...

By Robert Wren Gordon - about 3 years ago

Directory of 241 "Fever" Detector Suppliers

This directory provides a list of "Fever" scanning providers to help you see and research what options are available. While the once-booming...

By IPVM Team - over 3 years ago

Brazil's Multilaser Factory/HQ Visit & Expansion Plans

IPVM visited the HQ and factory of Multilaser, Brazil's second largest domestic CCTV company. Multilaser says its security/surveillance...

By Robert Wren Gordon - over 3 years ago

Wearables For Coronavirus Screening Examined

Fever Screening is widely used to detect coronavirus as a fast but much less accurate alternative to actual coronavirus tests. Can vital signs...

By Zach Segal - over 3 years ago

Temperature Screening Ineffective, CDC Study Shows

A new CDC study confirms what global public health officials have said: temperature screening is ineffective. This 80-second video explains...

By Gurami Jamaspishvili and Zach Segal - over 3 years ago

IPVM Visits Brazilian Guard Company / Integrator

Fort Knox Tecnologia de Segurança Ltda., originally founded as a security guard company, has over two decades’ experience as an integrator in the...

By Robert Wren Gordon - over 3 years ago

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