Hikvision upgrades Guanlan video AI

Hikvision said on September 8 that its Guanlan AI applications now let video systems do more than capture footage, describing systems that can interpret live scenes, search recorded video and respond to users through natural-language interaction. The Hangzhou-based company framed the update as the next stage for Guanlan, its suite of large-scale AI models introduced more than a year ago. The company said the latest Guanlan applications are aimed at “higher accuracy, lower cost, smarter interaction,” language it used to describe improvements in how its systems detect events, reduce manual review and handle user queries. Hikvision’s product materials describe Guanlan as a proprietary set of large-scale models built for computer vision, natural language processing and multimodal fusion across AIoT devices. (prnewswire.com) ### What changed in the product itself? Hikvision said the main change is that video systems can now “understand” what they are looking at, what has already been recorded and, through natural-language features, what a user is asking for. That moves the product beyond conventional recording and playback toward search, interpretation and assisted response inside the video workflow. (prnewswire.com) Hikvision’s Guanlan pages say the models align images and text in a shared vector space, which allows users to search for objects and events in video footage with natural-language prompts. The company also says the models are designed to raise detection rates and lower false alarms in deployed systems. ### How is Hikvision describing the technology underneath? Hikvision said Guanlan is built as a large-scale AI model family for AIoT use cases rather than a general chatbot-style product. (prnewswire.com) Its materials describe a stack spanning computer vision, multidimensional perception and multimodal fusion, with deployment across cameras, network video recorders and related edge devices. (hikvision.com) The company introduced Guanlan in 2025 as a set of models “at the system edge,” saying the software was meant to support instant inference and scalable deployment in next-generation AIoT products and applications. That earlier launch positioned Guanlan as the AI layer for Hikvision hardware, and the September 2026 announcement extends that pitch into interactive video applications. (hikvision.com) ### Where does the “lower cost” claim show up most clearly? Hikvision has tied Guanlan to storage and efficiency claims in adjacent product announcements. In a separate September 2026 release, the company said Guanlan Encoding could cut average storage costs by 30% to 50% without reducing the clarity of critical footage, using AI inside the video compression pipeline. (hikvision.com) Hikvision has also said Guanlan-based perimeter products improved alarm accuracy and, in some cases, reduced false alarms versus conventional AI cameras. Those claims come from Hikvision marketing materials, which present the cost case as a mix of lower storage needs, less manual review and fewer nuisance alerts. ### Which products are supposed to carry these capabilities? Hikvision’s current Guanlan pages list cameras and NVRs among the products using the models. (display.hikvision.com) The company’s regional product materials describe those devices as the delivery point for natural-language video search, improved analytics and edge inference in security and operational settings. Hikvision’s recent manufacturing-focused blog and regional marketing pages also place Guanlan in industrial digital transformation, traffic management, business intelligence and security monitoring scenarios. (content.hikvision.com) Those use cases remain company descriptions rather than independently verified deployment data. ### What comes next in Hikvision’s rollout? (hikvision.com) Hikvision’s published Guanlan materials point to continuing rollout through cameras, NVRs and AIoT applications, with related technologies such as Guanlan Encoding already being added to the product line in September 2026. The company’s product and newsroom pages are the main source for upcoming releases and named deployments tied to Guanlan. (display.hikvision.com) (hikvision.com)