Dahua Technology is using this year’s IFA Berlin to show off a big slice of its security and smart home portfolio in one go, rather than pushing a single new product.
Dahua is the world’s second largest video surveillance manufacturer behind only Hikvision, and the IFA stand covers five areas at once, wireless cameras, intrusion alarms, video intercoms, monitors and fire safety. It’s aimed squarely at installers, retailers and integrators rather than someone shopping for a single camera, so there’s no pricing and no confirmed Irish availability for anything below. Dahua’s own release doesn’t say when, or if, any of this reaches Irish shelves under its own name.
Wireless cameras built around less cabling
The headline wireless range is called WITHS, built around what Dahua calls a “simple, smart, secure” idea. In practice that means cameras connecting over Wi-Fi or 4G, controlled through Dahua’s DMSS app for smaller jobs, with full NVR-based management for bigger installs. The NVR was particularly impressive to see on sight given it has local storage and also lovel LLM abilities to search for particular things in your storage.
The detection list is long, with the system tagging people, pets and vehicles, auto tracking, gesture and facial recognition with two-way talk. Solar-powered and high-capacity battery versions are aimed at spots with no easy access to mains power, off-grid sheds and gates being the obvious example.
Alarms and intercoms that talk to each other
Dahua’s AirShield system links alarm hubs to cameras and intercoms rather than running them as separate boxes. It uses a proprietary radio link called Airfly to connect alarm hubs with wireless sensors, plus a second link, RF-HD, for pushing images and audio quickly from compatible devices. Existing wired alarm kit can be added through expansion modules rather than ripped out, and the whole lot runs through Dahua’s DoLynk Cloud, connecting homeowners, installers and monitoring centres via the DMSS and DoLynk Care apps. Remote firmware updates for hubs and sensors are part of the same pitch.
The video intercom line, WizTalk, gets a similar upgrade. Some door stations use a single 5 megapixel camera, others pair a 5MP unit with a second 2MP lens for a wider, panoramic view, both with colour night vision. Detection covers people, loitering, vehicles, parcels and pets, and select models will also flag a crying baby. Indoor panels double up as basic security stations, letting a resident view camera feeds, control pan and zoom on compatible cameras, and trigger the alarm. The higher end Smart Control Panels run Android 14, so other apps can sit alongside the intercom software on the same screen rather than needing a separate tablet.
The AI features doing the actual work
A few smaller announcements matter more than they sound. AcuPick 2.0 is Dahua’s attempt to make searching through recorded footage feel like a web search rather than scrubbing back and forth through hours of tape, the sort of feature that turns “find the bit where the delivery driver walked up the drive” into a proper search instead of a wasted afternoon.
Full colour recording paired with TiOC lets a camera keep colour footage at night while actively reacting to what it sees, triggering light and sound rather than just quietly recording someone at the door. SMD 4.0 is Dahua’s latest attempt to stop cameras crying wolf, using deep learning to tell the difference between a genuine intruder and a fox, a bin lid or a shadow, cutting down on false alarms rather than just detecting more motion.
WizMind and WizSense are the two AI camera families sitting either side of that, aimed at enterprise installs and smaller retail setups respectively, both chasing the same goal of fewer false positives without needing an enterprise budget to get there.
Monitors and fire safety, almost as an afterthought
Beyond security, Dahua is also showing Wisualarm, its fire detection and connected alarm range, including AI-assisted early fire detection, plus a spread of monitors covering commercial displays, gaming screens and residential sets. It’s a reminder that Dahua’s ambitions have moved well past cameras, even if security is still clearly doing most of the talking on the stand.
There’s no price list, no Irish retail partner and no launch date attached to any of this, it’s a trade show appearance rather than a shopping announcement, the kind installers use to plan next year’s range rather than something landing in Harvey Norman this month. Anyone chasing the full spec sheets on WITHS, AirShield or WizTalk can find them on Dahua’s own security products site (https://www.dahuasecurity.com/), and everything else from the show is being tracked on our full IFA Berlin 2026 hub.
