NDAA Video Surveillance Ban / Blacklists Guide
This guide provides a reference to the NDAA ban and blacklist. The US government has implemented wide-ranging prohibitions on using, buying, and...
By Charles Rollet - over 3 years ago
This guide provides a reference to the NDAA ban and blacklist. The US government has implemented wide-ranging prohibitions on using, buying, and...
By Charles Rollet - over 3 years ago
While Hikvision faces global scrutiny over its connections to the PRC government, the world's largest security camera manufacturer bought the...
First H.264, now H.265, is H.266 next? H.266 was recently announced amid fanfare but how well does it work and how soon will H.266 make an impact...
Most China manufacturers are going to be impacted by the NDAA 'Blacklist Clause' going into effect on August 13, 2020, as it covers not only Dahua...
A US company marketed a 'thermal temperature scanner' as its own, selling this to schools, despite it being relabelled from China YCX while...
By Sean Patton - almost 4 years ago
An enterprising 20-year old is mass marketing medical devices on Facebook and Instagram, selling the K3 (tested here) at a ~600%...
By Joey Walter - almost 4 years ago
Video surveillance is not the only market that has pivoted to medical device sales (admitted or not). Kiosk suppliers, hard hit by COVID-19, have...
The first half of 2020 has been shocking, for the world generally, and for the video surveillance industry, with temperature screening / fever...
Coronavirus faked marketing is regrettably commonplace right now but Anixter has taken it to another level of absurdity by running watermarked...
By John Honovich - almost 4 years ago
FLIR, one of the largest thermal screening manufacturers, is marketing installations that violate IEC febrile screening standards, FDA correct...
NBCUniversal told IPVM that Hikvision UK's ongoing coronavirus marketing campaign using NBCUniversal's assets was not allowed. Hikvision mass...
Dahua USA has issued a press release admitting a controversial point in the industry but an obvious one to the US FDA, that the thermal temperature...
The UK government's medical device regulator, MHRA, told IPVM that fever-seeking thermal cameras are "unsuitable for this purpose" and recommends...
A UK security firm falsely claimed its Hikvision-based thermal solution could be used for "accurately detecting fever in any person", even claiming...
83% of US companies selling temperature screening devices, aka 'fever' detectors, claim they are not medical devices, contrary to FDA definition,...
A full-page advertisement in a national Australia newspaper for Dahua's temperature cameras faked temperature screening. Meanwhile, the Australian...
Since Convergint has refused to fix their faked fever camera marketing, IPVM has filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission which...
By Conor Healy and John Honovich - almost 4 years ago
ISC News, the Reed publication behind the ISC East and West trade shows, has run a faked fever camera illustration and falsely quoted the...
By Joey Walter - almost 4 years ago
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Convergint touts they are "THERMAL CAMERA SOLUTION EXPERTS" while faking their main marketing image. This continues a trend of manufacturers,...
By John Honovich and Joey Walter - almost 4 years ago
ZKTeco SpeedFace+ series products are medical devices as defined by the US FDA. Contrary claims made by ZKTeco are false. In May, IPVM...
By John Honovich and Charles Rollet - almost 4 years ago
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The US FDA has now defined the correct operation of "Thermal Imaging Systems", colloquially known as "fever cameras". Many in video...
By Charles Rollet - almost 4 years ago
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While X.Labs announced the signing of a new agreement with FLIR on May 12, 2020, FLIR said, in response, on May 18, 2020, that they had cancelled a...
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