Most Recent Reports on Wireless

Testing AvaLAN's Wireless Video Surveillance on Jan 24, 2010
Wireless IP video surveillance has plenty of hype (claims of 300 Mb/s city wide meshes) and also significant challenges (repeated deployment nightmares). Recently, we helped an integrator friend of...

Translating Wireless IP Video Hype into Reality on Aug 26, 2009
Combining video and wireless creates a perfect storm of over-hyped expectations. Numerous technical challenges need to be considered for video – especially when architecting over wireless. T...

Why Wireless Video Surveillance Systems Fail on Dec 11, 2008
Wireless video surveillance systems fail almost as frequently as video analytics - and that should tell you something. Let's examine a fascinating case of anger and frustration for one US municipal...

Wireless Video Surveillance Tutorial on May 26, 2008
While wireless can uniquely solve certain challenges, it is far riskier to deploy and use than wired networks. As such, it is critical to understand when to use wireless systems and the key risks ...


Most Recent Industry Updates

Features IP Video Market's analysis on Wireless's recent events and is only available to subscribers of the Video Surveillance Professional Service.

Are Integrators at Fault for Wireless Video Surveillance Problems? on Jan 26, 2010
A common theme from manufacturers of emerging physical security technology is problems caused by security integrators. Firetide presents a very interesting case where an integrator was at fault for...

MicroPower Ultra-Low Power Wireless/Solar Video Surveillance on Jan 06, 2010
MicroPower Technologies is a startup aimed at eliminating power wiring for wireless video surveillance cameras through radical reduction of power consumption for the wireless camera. Their first tw...

Abandoning Wireless for Fiber? on Aug 17, 2009
Two recent examples of cities - one in the US, one in the Africa with complaints about wireless video surveillance performance. Philadelphia switched from wireless to fiberand a South African ...