While a school shooting investigation named 5 Oxford, MI school officials, including a now Evolv marketing director, as contributing to "failure"...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
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By Conor Healy - 5 months ago
One of the largest-ever Evolv projects has been criticized by the community, forcing one Principal to reassure parents that false alerts on "metal...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 5 months ago
While UK's Metrasens, founded by a group of PhDs, resisted selling into the booming school weapons detection market, they have now reversed,...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 5 months ago
Evolv was involved with multiple stabbings in the past year, and now CEIA has joined its main competitor, as two students were assaulted in one of...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 5 months ago
Legal issues are rising for Evolv, who has been sued for the first time by a student stabbed at an Evolv-equipped school and, last month, issued a...
By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 6 months ago
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By Conor Healy - 6 months ago
While Evolv apologized earlier this year, saying it "deeply regretted" misleading the public about "creat[ing] weapons-free zones," Evolv's CEO...
By Conor Healy and William Howard-Waddingham - 6 months ago
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By John Honovich - 6 months ago
The ACLU bluntly declared "The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling," but what deceptive practices should schools be...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 6 months ago
While Evolv prominently markets "AI" (Artificial Intelligence), we do not believe Evolv Express is actually intelligent because it struggles to...
By Nikita Ermolaev, Conor Healy, John Honovich, and William Howard-Waddingham - 7 months ago
Speed is a critical criterion for weapons screening buyers who hope not only to detect weapons but to do it with minimal inconvenience. This has...
By Nikita Ermolaev and William Howard-Waddingham - 7 months ago
Evolv raised its full-year outlook for the second time this month and announced its new chief commercial officer, but its stock continues to...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
While Evolv alleges it "eliminates the friction" that students experience, nine of Evolv's own customers show problems and "friction" despite...
By Nikita Ermolaev and William Howard-Waddingham - 7 months ago
After six years as an executive at HID, Stephen Carney has become the President of Shooter Detection Systems, which Alarm.com acquired in...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 7 months ago
After years of false marketing issues at Evolv, the company has for the first time admitted that its statements may have "generalize[d] our...
By Conor Healy and William Howard-Waddingham - 7 months ago
The biggest rising trend at GSX 2023 is weapon screening, based on increased exhibitors and floor space. There was more space taken for...
By Mert Karakaya - 8 months ago
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
With concerns over weapons entering airports, the US TSA has issued confidential guidelines requiring airports that most people travel through to...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 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
With school shootings causing insurance rates to soar, schools increasingly purchase weapons screening systems hoping to reduce the risk of...
By Christie Smythe - 8 months ago
While three fundamental approaches for detecting weapons exist (physical screening, video-based, and audio-based), a US-based startup, Syght, is...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 8 months ago
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
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By Nikita Ermolaev and John Honovich - 8 months ago
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By Nikita Ermolaev - 9 months ago
