Hikvision is headquartered at Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Hikvision, is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance equipment for civilian and military purposes. Hikvision is an IoT solution provider with video as its core competency. Hikvision now has more than 42,000 employees, over 20,000 of which are R&D engineers. Hikvision advances the core technologies of audio and video encoding, video image processing, and related data storage, as well as forward-looking technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and deep learning.
