Hikvision has just welcomed the China Communist Party's second-in-command, the most powerful state visit since Xi Jinping visited in...
By Charles Rollet - 7 months ago
Axis is expanding its India presence but faces challenges as a premium brand operating in a large and cost-conscious market. To examine Axis'...
By Charles Rollet - 7 months ago
While dozens of integrators have been acquired over the past few years, Tech Systems Inc. (TSI) has gone against that trend, making its employees...
By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 7 months ago
One of the largest VMS providers over the past 20 years, Milestone's route to the cloud has been complex and challenging, including spinning out...
By Angelique Chen - 7 months ago
The entity formerly known as ADT Commerical wasted no time moving on from the ADT brand, less than two months after announcing the sell-off,...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
No organization has been impacted directly as much as PSA Security, whose integrator owners are regularly acquired by mega-integrators. Most...
By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 7 months ago
In the last two years, BCD has received private equity investment and broke up with Genetec. Now, BCD's founder and CEO is out, and they have...
By Sean Patton - 7 months ago
Raymond James, one of a few bankers specializing in deals for physical security companies, is bullish about the future of remote video...
By Angelique Chen - 8 months ago
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By John Honovich and Mert Karakaya - 8 months ago
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
A brand that did not even exist a year ago aims to be among or larger than the world's largest security integrators, including ADT Commercial,...
By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 8 months ago
A US-based startup, Liberty Defense, released its Hexwave, which, unlike Evolv and other competitors, detects both metallic and non-metallic...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 8 months ago
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By Nikita Ermolaev and John Honovich - 8 months ago
Edge Impulse reduces the cost and time for custom analytics development and offers to streamline and accelerate AI development, and claims they...
By Mert Karakaya - 8 months ago
Acquiring integrators is one of the largest trends in physical security, with Bosch making a major acquisition earlier this summer. Now, Konica...
By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 8 months ago
After two decades as an executive at the industry's largest distributors, including ADI and Anixter, James Rothstein is now an operating partner...
By Angelique Chen - 9 months ago
Long-time Milestone Systems executive, Keven Marier, has become CEO of Irisity, best known for its 2021 acquisition of Agent VI. Atypically,...
By Sean Patton - 9 months ago
Hikvision says it has frozen PRC hiring as investors and analysts push the firm to cut costs. This comes as Hikvision's PRC revenue stagnates...
By Charles Rollet - 9 months ago
The cloud will be a net negative for integrators as it transfers power to manufacturers that are becoming large cloud service providers while...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
After years of acquisitions, Motorola has now consolidated its partner program across them, the latest step in its effort to consolidate its...
By Angelique Chen - 9 months ago
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
A Silicon Valley drone start-up, Skydio, which raised more than ~$560 million in funding, announced that it "sunset" its consumer sales and will...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 9 months ago
For decades, physical security technology has been driven by manufacturers, but they will be replaced or transformed into mega cloud providers,...
By John Honovich - 9 months ago
While ACRE was built by a series of acquisitions, including Feenics, Matrix, RS2, and more, this resulted in 11 different access control...
By Angelique Chen - 9 months ago
While Hanwha Vision (formerly Techwin) was, at best, a tertiary surveillance competitor in the 2010s, the company has surged in the last five...
By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 9 months ago
