ISC West interview: Hanwha Vision delivers innovation beyond expectations

An exhibitor at ISC West 2025, Hanwha Vision took to the show a range of cloud and AI solutions that the company said weren’t just security devices, but also business transformation tools. Below we take a closer look, based on an on-site interview asmag.com did with Hanwha.
 

Wisenet 9 SoC

 
Among the highlights at the Hanwha booth was the Wisenet 9 chipset that Hanwha Vision makes on their own. Already featured in Hanwha’s X and P series cameras, the SoC allows better power consumption, has an AI NPU neural processing unit built in it, and enables much better performance in various challenging conditions.
 
Aaron Saks, Director of Sales Enablement at Hanwha Vision, touts the benefits of making the chipset in-house as opposed to relying on other suppliers. “We found that between the processing power, the amount of power they draw, can they (chips made by others) handle multi-sensor? Can they handle the higher frame rates, analytics, and also the lifespan? When we make the chipset in-house, we are not dependent on another manufacturer discontinuing production. So with our chip, we can really control our destiny and really fine-tune everything we want,” Saks said.
 

Hanwha Vision Cloud Portal

 
Hanwha Vision Cloud Portal is a centralized resource for managing an organization’s surveillance assets and capabilities. What makes the portal unique is it stresses openness and flexibility.
 
“It's not locked down in that I can use my cameras, the regular cameras, if I want to take them off the cloud and bring them to a VMS, I can do that. If they're already on the VMS and I want to bring them onto our cloud, we can do that. Some manufacturers lock it down, so if you stop paying, the camera doesn't work. We don't do that. We also are going to have a gateway, a small appliance, that sits on the network. So if I want to take older cameras of mine that are not cloud native, I can still reuse them and not have to throw them away and do a forklift upgrade,” Saks said.
 
Hanwha’s cloud offers a full range of capabilities to help organizations fully reimagine their surveillance operations, which can now also be used for business intelligence. Take SightMind as an example.
 
“It gives you these really great visual dashboards that you can build. You can choose the widgets you want, drop and drag, and you can choose. I want to see the cameras on this site. I want to see the front door of all of my sites, and you can get that bigger picture. How many people came in? How many incidents I had? Slip and fall? Am I blocking the fire exits? Are my queue times at checkout too long? And it's enabling them to get that data and use it for other purposes,” Saks said.
 

Multi-sensor camera

 
Hanwha also displayed its 4-channel AI multi-sensor camera powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Platform. With Jetson, performance becomes the name of the game. “So a normal camera, typically, the way you measure the AI processing performance is TOPS (trillions of operations per second). Normally, a camera has maybe three or four TOPS in it. This camera here has 70 TOPS running on that NVIDIA board. So what that allows us to do is build an ecosystem together with other software companies that serve as analytics partners,” Saks said.
 

Beyond visible light

 
Finally, by customer request, Hanwha also introduced several solutions that go beyond visible light. One example is their audio beacon, which can detect and then provide notifications on things like screams and glass breaks. Also on display was their turret thermal camera which has a good cost-performance ratio.
 
“We've had a lot of requests for lower cost thermal cameras. So thermal cameras can be very expensive. They're often very large cameras. So we've been making some very more compact cameras, again, using our SOC for the chipset and to make it more affordable,” Saks said.
 
He added: “And it's enabling us to put thermal cameras in places where people wouldn't even think of. They used to be like, thermal, oh, that's for nuclear power plants. It's for fence line detection, big manufacturing. Well, now we can use it as, again, a sensor, as a detector. Detecting is machinery overheating, EV charging stations, batteries, things like that. So we're seeing a lot of customer request for thermals in application that we would never have thought of.”