Las Vegas CIO Markets Verkada Despite City Ban on Endorsements
Las Vegas told IPVM that its attorney found no violations of the city's policy despite its CIO participating in Verkada's paid advertising, a...
By Christie Smythe - 8 months ago
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Secret Evolv New Setting Contradicts Marketing, Creates Security Risk, Addressing Cellphone False Alarms
While Evolv has long marketed frictionless screening with no stopping, emptying pockets, or opening bags, IPVM has obtained public records...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 8 months ago
Alarm.com's (NOT) "First Battery Free Video Doorbell" Examined
Alarm.com is touting the 'first battery free video doorbell, the VDB 750, but this is false. We spoke to Alarm.com about the claims, what...
By Brian Rhodes - 8 months ago
Evolv Violating FTC Rules, Refuses To Substantiate 10x Competitor Claim
Evolv is winning tens of millions of dollars in contracts from public schools grounded in quantitative competitive claims that it its products are...
By Conor Healy and William Howard-Waddingham - 8 months ago
ASIS GSX Hosts Criminally Charged, National Security Threat Hytera
ASIS' GSX conference, billed for "security leaders," is having a keynote from former President George W. Bush, while hosting a booth for Hytera, a...
By Conor Healy and William Howard-Waddingham - 9 months ago
Time Selects IPVM To TIME100 Most Influential People in AI
Time has selected IPVM Founder John Honovich to its TIME100 Most Influential People in AI alongside European, Taiwan, and US government officials,...
By IPVM Team - 9 months ago
Embattled Latch Rebranding To Door.com
After facing a 90% decline in its stock price, de-listing from the NASDAQ, and lawsuits from investors, Latch announced it will rebrand itself as...
By Christie Smythe - 9 months ago
Hikvision VMS Beats Genetec, Milestone and Verkada In "Gartner Peer Insights"
While Gartner is one of the oldest and most well-known names in IT, its lack of expertise in video surveillance and intent on being found in...
By Sean Patton and John Scanlan - 9 months ago
Verkada Paying Customers $1,000 Per Warm Lead
Verkada is famous for giveaways - from hundreds of thousands of Yeti Tumblers to $100 Gift cards. Now, Verkada has its most aggressive giveaway, a...
By IPVM Team - 9 months ago
Hikvision Admits Developed Countries "Rejecting Chinese Companies"
Hikvision has now admitted that they are being increasingly rejected by developed countries, blaming it on a US-led effort as the PRC state-owned...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
The Industry's Biggest Marketing Shift - Not Made In China
The industry's biggest marketing shift in the past five years has been a reversal from embracing PRC China-made products to marketing against...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
Kisi Access Control Favorability Statistics 2023
Kisi is one of a new generation of access control startups (see our Kisi profile), but now over a decade old, what do integrators think of...
By Angelique Chen - 9 months ago
Evolv Becoming More Of A Metal Detector With New "G" Sensitivity Setting
While Evolv has long denied being a metal detector, its new "G" sensitivity setting makes it work even more like a conventional metal detector,...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 9 months ago
Hikvision UK Employees Decrease
Hikvision UK employees have decreased noticeably this year as UK bans and UK media scrutiny have hurt the PRC China manufacturer's operations in...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
Verkada Vs Integrators: "Owning the Account"
Who "owns" the end user account? Verkada, the Silicon Valley cloud provider, or the local integrators they partner with? Or neither? From the...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
Fortinet CEO Sued, Alleges Charity Abuse
Fortinet has become one of the largest cybersecurity firms and even a video surveillance provider, with 13,000+ employees, $5+ billion in annual...
By Christie Smythe - 9 months ago
DHS Denies Corsight #1 Facial Recognition Claim
Corsight is the most aggressive marketer of video surveillance-based facial recognition (including DNA to Facial Recognition and recognizing faces...
By Mert Karakaya - 9 months ago
Hikvision And Dahua Restrictions Harming Ukraine's Military, Says Ukrainian Lawmakers
Ukraine's decision to declare Hikvision and Dahua "Sponsors of War" risks leaving the Ukrainian military "blind" due to widespread usage of their...
By IPVM Team - 10 months ago
FCC Replies To Dahua And Hikvision Lawsuit Analyzed
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By Christie Smythe - 10 months ago
Latch Favorability Statistics 2023
Latch experienced turmoil in the past year but now has Ring founder Jamie Siminoff as its incoming CEO. What do integrators think about the...
By Angelique Chen - 10 months ago
Dahua Confirms, Defends "Black", "White", "Yellow" Skin Color Analytics
Despite Dahua having repeatedly been caught with and then denying racial analytics, now Dahua not only confirms to IPVM it sells "black", "white",...
By Donald Maye and Charles Rollet - 10 months ago
LenelS2 Favorability Statistics 2023
While the Lenel brand was repeatedly deemed one of the worst access control manufacturers in 2020 and 2022's integrator results, its sister S2...
By Angelique Chen - 10 months ago
ONVIF Specifies "Slitty" Eyes, "Double" Chins, "Hooked" Nose Analytics, Co-authored By Sony and Hikvision
ONVIF's video analytics specifications feature "face value metadata samples" including "slitty" eyes, "double" chins, and "hooked" noses, in a...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - 10 months ago
Dahua Specifies Uyghur Man Whose Religion is Islam In Community Security API
Dahua specifies a person who is Uyghur, a man, and whose religion is Islam in its API guide for a residential security platform it offers in the...
By Charles Rollet - 10 months ago
Hikvision Starts Charging For "Remote Maintenance Package" Cloud Service
Cloud services are becoming increasingly important for video surveillance systems and while Hikvision de-emphasizes the cloud as bans against them...
By Ethan Ace - 10 months ago
