Is the camera on your building banned? Look up the brand.

The most-installed camera brand on earth, and the most restricted. On the FCC Covered List since March 2021, named in Section 889, ordered wound up in Canada, and on the US Entity List and DoD 1260H list. Keeping installed units stays legal for a private US or Canadian business. But no new FCC authorizations have issued since November 2022, import and marketing restrictions keep tightening through 2026, and no Canadian entity is left behind warranty or support.

The world’s second-largest camera maker, restricted in the US the same way Hikvision is: Covered List, Section 889, Entity List, DoD 1260H. Canada has issued no Dahua order; its retreat from North America (selling Lorex, exiting direct sales) has been commercial. A huge share of budget camera brands are Dahua hardware under another label; that is what the OEM section below is for.

Listed for telecommunications equipment with no purpose limitation, the broadest Covered List entry of the original five. Matters to camera owners mainly through the supply chain: HiSilicon (Huawei’s chip arm) SoCs powered much of the camera industry before the 2020 chip sanctions, and the FCC’s July 2026 order now reaches devices containing covered logic-bearing components.

Listed alongside Huawei for telecommunications equipment with no purpose limitation. Rarely the brand on a building’s cameras, but named in every regime a compliance officer will check, so it belongs in the lookup.

The radio maker of the named five. Its Covered List entry covers video surveillance and telecom equipment with the same purpose limitation as Hikvision and Dahua, and Section 889 names it in full.

The newest major name on the Covered List, added December 22, 2025, after FY25 NDAA §1709 required the FCC to list DJI’s communications and video surveillance equipment when no national security agency issued a determination within the statutory year. If your site uses DJI drones for security patrols or inspections, they are now covered equipment; §1709 defines covered video surveillance services to include software.

Added to the Covered List December 22, 2025 alongside DJI, via the same FY25 NDAA §1709 mechanism, covering its communications and video surveillance equipment and services.

Hikvision’s consumer line. The Covered List instructs that listed producers "should be read to include the subsidiaries and affiliates of such entities", and Section 889 carries the same language. For compliance purposes an EZVIZ camera is a Hikvision camera.

Hikvision’s budget labels, sold mainly through distributors. Same compliance position as the parent: caught by the subsidiaries-and-affiliates language in both the Covered List and Section 889.

Dahua’s consumer smart-camera brand. An Imou camera is Dahua equipment for Covered List and Section 889 purposes via the subsidiaries-and-affiliates language.

One of the largest US security distributors, long documented as a Hikvision private label, buying in bulk and relabeling. Section 889 attaches to equipment produced by Hikvision regardless of the name on the housing, so an LTS camera is treated as Hikvision equipment where any federal money or contract is involved. Verify any specific model through its FCC ID.

A consumer brand identified in the IPVM-sourced Hikvision OEM list as selling Hikvision-manufactured equipment. Same consequence as LTS: label changes nothing about who produced the camera.

Observint’s Alibi line is identified in the IPVM-sourced OEM list as a Hikvision rebrand. Dealer-installed across the US, which is why the brand name on the wall tells you nothing without the FCC ID behind it.

A Houston company whose cameras are identified in IPVM’s Dahua OEM Directory as Dahua-manufactured, and an Amcrest representative is on record that its products are not NDAA compliant. Popular in small business installs; treat as Dahua hardware for any federal-money question.

The complicated one. Dahua sold Lorex to Taiwan’s Skywatch for about US$72M (announced November 2022, completed 2023), so Lorex is no longer Dahua-owned. But reporting and state investigations say post-sale hardware still traces to Dahua components: Florida’s attorney general subpoenaed Lorex over China ties in 2025 and Nebraska’s sued over its marketing the same year. Check the specific model’s FCC ID; the answer differs by product generation.

A direct-to-consumer US label named in IPVM’s public Dahua OEM Directory. Treat as Dahua hardware for federal-money purposes; verify models by FCC ID.

A dealer-channel US label named in IPVM’s public Dahua OEM Directory. Same position as Montavue and Amcrest: the compliance question follows the manufacturer, not the logo.

A US giant whose security catalog has, per the IPVM-sourced OEM lists, included lines manufactured by named makers alongside lines that are not. "Honeywell" on the housing settles nothing; the model’s FCC ID settles it. Honeywell also markets NDAA-compliant ranges, which is why the model-level check matters.

A legacy commercial brand whose TruVision cameras appear on the IPVM-sourced Hikvision OEM list. Plenty of these remain on buildings; if yours is one, its compliance position is Hikvision’s. The brand wound down US operations in 2019, so there is no vendor left to attest either way; the FCC ID is the record.

Bosch engineers its core professional cameras itself, and Bosch is on no list, but IPVM’s public Dahua OEM Directory identifies certain Bosch lines as Dahua-manufactured. For a Bosch estate the likely answer is "fine"; for budget lines, check the model’s FCC ID rather than assuming.

Listed among former Hikvision OEM resellers that moved away, meaning older Swann stock may be Hikvision-made while newer stock is not. Date and FCC ID of the specific unit decide it.

China’s third-largest camera maker, and the checker’s most useful nuance: Uniview appears on none of the lists. The FCC Covered List doesn’t carry it, Section 889 doesn’t name it, and the DoD 1260H material reviewed for this page doesn’t mention it. Its "NDAA compliant" ranges are self-declared, like everyone’s. Buyers wanting distance from the named makers without a premium-brand budget often land here; buyers whose concern is Chinese manufacture per se should know where it is made.

The watch-this-space entry. Commerce, Defense and Justice opened investigations into TP-Link from December 2024, including its cameras, and a proposed federal ban was reportedly shelved in February 2026 ahead of a US-China summit. Texas is suing over marketed security claims. Its cameras are on no list today; its routers are touched by the FCC’s March 2026 foreign-router Covered List entry unless conditionally approved. If your risk horizon is multi-year, price in the open investigations.

A Chinese consumer/prosumer brand on none of the lists. Legal everywhere Section 889 does not reach; not a named maker and not documented as one’s OEM in the directories reviewed for this page.

Anker’s security brand: Chinese-owned, on none of the lists. Aimed at homes and small sites rather than commercial estates, but asked about often enough to belong in the lookup.

The reference professional brand for buyers who need distance from every regime on this page: Swedish engineering, Canon ownership, on no list.

The former Samsung Techwin. Korean-owned, on no list, and one of the two brands (with Axis) that dominate covered-equipment replacement projects.

Motorola Solutions’ video brand. On no list, and North American-made lines are its sales pitch to this exact audience.

The legacy US professional brand, now Motorola-owned. On no list.

US cloud-native camera company. On no list.

Panasonic’s former security division, independent since 2022. Japanese-made, on no list.

Taiwanese maker within Delta Group. On no list, and a common mid-market replacement pick.

German decentralized-camera maker. On no list.

US networking company whose UniFi Protect cameras are common on small commercial sites. On no list.