Chinese Surveillance Companies to Be Banned in the U.S.

The Commerce Department of the United States is expected to take a decision of blacklisting around 28 Chinese public safety organizations as well as commercial entities, especially China’s utmost leading vendors in the security industry. Moreover, of 6 out of 8 commercial entities that have been added to the blacklist include China’s leading facial recognition, digital forensics and AI corporations. On the other hand, 2 of the surveillance manufacturers who made this ban would have a noteworthy impact over the global market extensively are Dahua & Hikvision.

Keeping the geopolitics issues aside, Dahua’s & Hikvision’s sites across the global digital surveillance industry making their blacklisting to a certain extent shocking, with instantaneous effects stirring off vital questions amongst the U.S. partners, supply chain partners as well as end-users.

According to a research conducted recently, Hikvision & Dahua holds second and third rank in entire global sales in the $20.48 billion worth global surveillance market nevertheless, are on the way of becoming top manufacturers of IP surveillance camera. Their unexpected rise amongst the providers of IP surveillance camera came almost because of the companies’ aggressive progression of pipelines, substantial libraries of high-quality surveillance cameras & new imaging technologies products as well as low-cost pricing models offering customers higher-level affordability.

This was not the first time when these 2 vendors had discovered themselves within the cross-hairs of the government of United States. In the year 2018, the U.S. instigated a ban over the sale as well as usage of Hikvision & Dahua camera equipment within the facilities owned by the government that included the military bases, Department of Defense and government-held buildings. Though, the elusive language of blacklisting made it tough for the end-users in determining the fact that whether they have been banned only from new purchases of Dahua & Hikvision cameras or else if they require to entirely rip-&-replace the prevailing tools with different available brand.