IMARK members who are participating in the IMARK/EDGE Alliance qualify for discounts and/or rebates when they purchase products from some of the leading companies in in the following product categories:
- Access Control
- CCTV/Security/Surveillance
- Connectivity
- Home Automation
- Telecommunications
One of the fastest growing supplier companies in the IMARK/EDGE Alliance is Hikvision Products.
A 28-person startup in 2001, Hikvision is 20,000 employees strong today and is the leading video surveillance provider in the world, producing 260,000 cameras and 36,000 back-end products on average each day.
The company manufactures network video recorders and digital video recorders, internet protocol and analog surveillance cameras, Codecs and switches, monitors and control room equipment, multiple video management system platforms, enhanced high-efficiency video coding compression technologies, access control solutions and complete security solutions for vertical markets.
When asked about the benefits of working with the IMARK membership, Gordon Lang, senior director of distribution, said, “Hikvision is very excited about partnering opportunities with IMARK. We believe there is a growing video market that many members are eager to engage. Likewise, for Hikvision, this partnership represents incremental opportunities in most markets served by the IMARK membership. There will also be an expansion of the offering to the membership customers as Hikvision provides an ever-expanding video portfolio.”
In support of participating IMARK members and their customers, Hikvision has well-established pre- and postsales engineering and tech support on the ground across the United States and Canada.
The company is unique in that it employs the largest research and development (R&D) department in the security industry with upward of 7 percent of its annual revenue reinvested into R&D. More than 8,000 of Hikvision’s employees are engineers, of which 2,000 are software engineers specifically. The company has more than 600 copyrights and more than 1,300 patents.
Hikvision aims to create superior products and services that help end-users secure people, places and assets, making the world safer. It also helps businesses run more efficiently by using intelligent video surveillance for more than security, i.e., in retail by providing business insights via video analytics, in critical infrastructure by providing safety information and in the natural environment using infrared radiation to protect wildlife.
Hikvision is pioneering artificial intelligence in the security world, along with deep learning, robotics and video surveillance applied to automation and manufacturing. Its solutions encompass new software tools that promote operational and installation efficiencies, vertical marketspecific solutions, integrated end-to-end solutions and future technology.
IMARK members who want to learn more about the IMARK/EDGE Alliance and Hikvision Products can visit the “Suppliers, IMARK/EDGE Alliance” section of the IMARK website (imarkgroup.com).
For more information, visit hikvisionusa.com.