In 2025 Hikvision refreshed several key lines at once: network video recorders with AI search, cameras for perimeter protection, and the "legendary" Deepinview 5th series, now paired with the updated DarkFighter 2.0 low-light technology. Below is a quick walk-through of what actually matters for surveillance projects in hotels, restaurants, retail and large sites.
AcuSeek NVR: video search in seconds
AcuSeek NVR is the Hikvision NVR series VPro 7600/7700 with the built-in multimodal Guanlan AI model. The practical change: finding a specific clip no longer requires an hour of scrubbing. The operator describes the event — "person in a green jacket", "white van", "man smoking with a suitcase" — and the system returns matching frames in seconds.
- 1–2 HDD of 20 TB: DS-7608NXI-I2/VPro, DS-7608NXI-I2/8P/VPro, DS-7616NXI-I2/VPro, DS-7616NXI-I2/16P/VPro.
- 4 HDD of 20 TB: DS-7716NXI-I4/VPro, DS-7716NXI-I4/16P/VPro, DS-7732NXI-I4/VPro, DS-7732NXI-I4/16P/VPro.
- Up to 300,000 targets per day across all channels with AcuSense and AcuSearch enabled on the cameras.
- One platform: AI is built into the NVR — no separate, expensive analytics server.
- Mobile app and clean web UI — genuinely usable 24/7 by a whole security team.
Where this pays off: retail (buyer-behaviour analysis and cashier incidents), hotels and clubs (finding a guest or an item by description), industrial sites and parking (vehicle incidents). The investment goes into the response speed of the security team, not into more hardware.
DeepinViewX: a leap in perimeter protection
DeepinViewX is Hikvision's new generation of surveillance cameras built around next-level AI. The headline difference is stability in hard conditions: rain, fog, snow, branches swaying in the wind, sharp light changes. Where older "smart" cameras start firing false alarms, DeepinViewX cuts them by more than 90%.
The DeepinViewX lineup
- 5th series: fixed-lens cameras, intelligent video analytics (VCA) up to 80 m — point coverage of critical zones.
- 7th series: varifocal lens, VCA up to 100 m; a three-lens model pushes analytics out to 140 m.
- DeepinViewX PTZ: 42x optical zoom, target detection up to 400 m.
- Panoramic models: 180° field of view with a 60–100 m detection radius thanks to cylindrical lenses.
Where this is genuinely useful: protecting large private estates, gated compounds, warehouses, industrial perimeters. The system stops "bothering" security with false alarms and delivers a real picture of what is happening.
Deepinview H13 is back with DarkFighter 2.0
In 2025 Hikvision brought back an updated Deepinview 5th series — deep-learning cameras in 4 and 8 MP across several form factors. The big upgrade is DarkFighter 2.0, which delivers colour imagery in extremely low light.
For restaurants and clubs this matters a lot: the busiest part of the evening is at night, and that is also when the lighting is unusual — dim wash, coloured accents, specular flashes from a bar. DarkFighter 2.0 pulls out faces and licence plates where older cameras fall into noise.
What this means for our clients
- We can deliver surveillance projects that actually solve the security brief, rather than "put a camera on every square metre of wall".
- For hotels and large restaurants we pair AcuSeek NVR with AcuSense cameras — fast archive search saves security-team hours.
- For perimeter protection of large sites we pick DeepinViewX — fewer false alarms, higher real-world effectiveness.
- For restaurants and nightlife we specify Deepinview H13 with DarkFighter 2.0 — a real difference after dark.
WLTT is an authorised Hikvision installer and partner in Thailand. We help pick the right model mix for the brief, design, install and maintain video surveillance systems across Phuket, Pattaya, Bangkok, Samui, Krabi and Hua Hin.
