Hikvision, Explained: China’s Surveillance Tech Titan
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Most people don't think about the surveillance cameras they see throughout their everyday life. They are everywhere. The United Kingdom for example has some of the most surveillance cameras in the world. For this video, I want to talk about the companies making those cameras.
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology (海康威视数字技术公司) is a Chinese state owned company. It dominates the surveillance technology market in both its native China and abroad. It is notorious for its close state ties, for being sanctioned by the American government and for some shoddy security hacks of its hardware.
But there’s another angle about Hikvision’s rise to prominence that interests me. And that is how did it get to be so big in the first place?
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Wow. Just discovered this channel. Great Asian focus that is hard to find on UA-cam for business content.
Just found you a couple of months back, still going through all of your research. You do great work, thanks for putting all of this information on Asia out in public. The details of how and why is invaluable.
I salute you!
So basically this company is like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, both had government support
Yes, you understand what government subsidized means, good on you. Glad that is what you took from a 15 minute video
Exactly
Great information. Have say from a consumer perspective, geopolitics aside, Hikvision does make amazingly sophisticated and robust products.
Amazing detailed content! Keep going mate
Without hikvision. The CCTV premium package available this month would be 720p.
Not really visit Shenzhen and see why they are so competitive in the west. They are overpriced in Shenzhen but the cheaper cameras are bought and sold by Western brands at high prices. Hik just happened to charge the Shenzhen price cutting out the middleman.
I have 4 cameras from Hikvision but had no idea about that company. Thanks for this review.
You explain Complete and brief. I Like your Videos Continue Mate :)
And this is why I as a security technician am currently ripping out Hikvision cams from every government agency and and government contractor within a thousand miles of them.
Sad racist.
@@richardscathouse LOL wat?
@@SomeDudeInBaltimore ignore the sad loser who fell for CCP propaganda on western media
@@SomeDudeInBaltimore Apparently removal of non-compliant gear is racist
Come rip them out of our apartment building in Eugene Oregon! The Commons on MLK!
Can you make a video on market monopoly you talked about in this video?
Awesome channel 💪💪
You've mentioned American fabless semiconductor firm Ambarella in recent videos. Given you're starting to profile fabless semiconductor firms like MediaTek (and maybe in the future HiSilicon, THATIC etc), it might be worth covering Ambarella. Unlike even MediaTek and Qualcomm, it's definitely not a household name that a consumer of Android devices would come across when they research the specifications of their next smartphone. Feel free to ignore this suggestion especially because the company not even based in Asia.
It’s a good idea and I am starting to see this company around in my research. I’ll file it away for a future idea.
@@Asianometry I guess Ambarella does have an Asia connection given that founder and CEO Fermi Wang is a Taiwanese immigrant. Though pretty much the entire US fabless semiconductor industry seems to be run by people with Taiwanese heritage (from AMD's Lisa Su to NVidia's Jensen Huang).
@@Asianometry: Can you do a research too on a Nokia phone ?... The ones by hmd oy. Since these kind of android phones are using video compressions as well. I want to know whether it has an actual satellite piece as well without the actual network or the Telco piece. I bet it goes direct to their global satellites. Cos why would a phone still work without a SIM card ?
Chinese government checking in on your local UK swimming pools
7:25 can anybody help? I can't spell the name of research head. The subtitle said Pusher Nyang but I am quite sure it is not the correct name
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So how does this tie into the "surveillance state" model?
There is a video about Chongqing I was watching the other day which shows you the city as one of China's premier "smart cities". The idea of the cameras is so the various government departments can fix any problems super fast, so they sit watching these cameras and have a time limit to go and fix the problem, say a water main bursts or there is some pileup on the roads. The claim is by being a smart city they can run the place cheaper and with a higher standard of service. The Chinese are like that - always competing to make their bit they do better and better each year. All the officials are in a meritocratic system of performance.
Actually all these china based surveillance products have made our local businesses hard to survive with extremely low margins and only good for customers and not all their products are polished some vms we still need to use european or american based. Recently china based surveillanve system have been removed from onvif, what do u think about this move ? Good for business people ?
The oligarchs love their Chinese slaves
What happens to the patents of a company when usa blacklisted them?
Can you speak to Turing Video?
this video hits way toooooooooooooooooo close to home WTF, I feel like somebody read my mind
could you make a vid about how tencent have high amounts of shares in epic games and discord, as many people on UA-cam are gamers and would most likely use discord or a form of epic games product.
i thought it was HK Vision
But all big companies depend on state. Boeing , Tesla.
Don't say state funding as a bad thing.
But other govts don't demand data and close control afterwards
@@fringeanomaly9284 They do. What Beijing did is what others do it's just that the West hate China because it mirrors their actions.
@@fringeanomaly9284 "Don't demand data" but demand backdoors instead to backstab people you say?
@@fringeanomaly9284You're a naive fool to think that the Western govs didn't do the same since the old days, China just learned those bs from the West itself.
@@xboxstudent ok get some proof tht US govt asked tesla or Boeing for their customer or user data .... Where as CCP example are tiktok, huewai, xiomi , etc etc 🙄🙄
The point isn't tht westerners do it or not the point is CCP is doing it at a greater scale 🙄
Nvidia is a major accomplice in all this.
Partner? Cut the race-baiting crap. Save it for the Trump bund meetings.
No mention of Hik’s notorious internet backdoors.
Oh really? Any proof? Or just another load of internet bullshit?
Like, everyone's backdoors.
@@remedy84 all chips have backdoors. I use a hardware-based security on the mainline to the internet and hope for the best
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I'm a Hikvision player, I really regret it, technologically it's almost the same as Axis IP Camera but not consistent in price, it even looks like players are allowed to have a price war
You mean some manufacturers prohibit a price war by artificially and illegally setting a retail price.
This is the company I've been looking fir since I first heard about their facial recognition tech. If it can pick out individuals in a crowd of Chinese.. It's got to be something special. 👍😉
In a crowd of Chinese, that are all made to wear masks.
what chinese ww2 victory?🤣
This is an great video. From what I can tell until now Hikvision has not had a large "moat" (some technology that differentiates itself from competitors) other than its manufacturing scale and associated low prices. In contrast, Huawei builds smartphones and deploys its own compatible 5G infrastructure (at least in the absence of external sanctions).
What's interesting to me is Hikvision's attempts to develop a moat based on AI + facial recognition. I'm sure it doesn't work too well yet but it might one day (the exact same technology is being tested on Uighers in Xinjiang).
Until now it's been possible (for an increased price) to develop trusted IP camera system using components sourced and assembled without any Made In China involvement. For those who don't know, typically IP cameras are just an easily mountable package containing a digital camera module (plus optics) attached to a small motherboard (over eg, an internal high-speed bus such as USB) with a "system-on-chip" that does video compression and provides Ethernet and Wi-Fi networking. The software typically runs Linux, but just like other "Internet Of Things" devices the manufacturers have often unlikely to provide security updates.
It would be great if sanctions against Hikvision lead to a more companies emerging with far fewer links to the Chinese Communist Party that produces IP cameras with guaranteed security updates for a competitive price.
That's not gonna happen as before the emergence of HikVision the industry is simply dominated by Japan and US companies with their duopoly for so many decades with zero innovation and they treat this industry as a niche with insanely and ridiculously high provit margin.
After HikVision ban indeed there will be more innovative surveillance companies emerge as a new player challenging HikVision and they will be predominantly Chinese companies.
Why...?
Because it has anything to do with a planet scale supply chain that China has and no other countries on the planet so far even come close to match them even for 1/5th of the scale.
Literally no hardware technology companies from everywhere producing everyday life goods spanning from home appliances, audio/video, machineries, chemicals, etc can be independently produced anything by themselves. Everyone have to put significantly high number of Chinese parts in all of their products to bring down cost to meet affordability, either assembled in China or elsewhere.
You just simply can't match the Chinese because their colosal supply chain system was built in the process of 3 decades in the making with unmatched slim profit margin and economies of scale and everyone across the globe becomes so spoiled for its easy access for their parts and instant availability and affordability.
The world is just too scattered where everyone had their own interests with no united goals to build such a supply chain system to challenge the Chinese one.
Lol. Chinese facial recognition systems are the best in the world. Of course Hikvision has a moat. The fact US is banning it, in other words, scared of it, is exactly because they recognized the company is becoming too dominant and advanced. Chinese facial recognition systems work not just on Asian faces, but all faces. Most American facial recognition systems don’t even work well domestically, let alone in other countries. You are clearly biased. The fact you are calling out CPC as if it’s some kind of evil shows how little you know about China.
@orinoco sula LOL I'm a Muslim and I don't even give a shit about US bullshit propaganda. They hate Chinese, they hate Muslim but love Chinese Muslim. Iraqis don't agree.
@Andrew Anderson haha. I don’t get offended by being called a shill or wumao. It’s actually a badge of honor. Ppl like us actually know a thing or two, like the Farmers Insurance guy says. Ppl like you bring knives to a gun fight, no bullets, just insults.
@Andrew Anderson no, you exposed nothing, as you know nothing. On the contrary, I exposed you as the real shill. No real argument to bring to the table, just name calling. You don’t even understand why there are so many pro China YTubers. To you, it’s just an army of 50 cents. In reality, there are many of us who are fed up by the MSM lies and the stupidity displayed by ppl like you when it comes to China related issues.
If you so hate to government making business, why you blaming on CCP faults & CCP threats, for US jobless & US homeless & US drug abuse on US skid row & Philadelphia street...???
take your schizo pills, big guy.