ONVIF Chairman, Organization Named to Top 40 Industry Influencers List by IFSECGlobal.com

San Ramon, CA. – February 7, 2013. ONVIF, the leading global standardization initiative for IPbased physical security products, has announced that Steering Committee Chairman Per Björkdahl and the ONVIF organization was cited as No. 3 among the Top 40 Most Influential People in Security & Fire by IFSECGlobal.com, the newly launched global online community for security and fire professionals.

In recognizing ONVIF, IFSECGlobal.com said the organization has “done some extremely interesting work to unify the surveillance community” and “has simplified security technology interoperability.”  Additionally, IFSECGlobal.com’s Content and Community Manager Rob Ratcliff said ONVIF, now under Björkdahl‘s leadership, “will be at the forefront of continued physical security development.”  In response to this citation, Björkdahl said, “ONVIF is honored that its ongoing efforts to create standards for the security industry is recognized. In this ever-evolving process, we will continue to focus our efforts on releasing new Profiles for access control and video storage, following our successful Profile S for streaming video, in the months ahead.”

More information about ONVIF’s more than 2,500 conformant products, including the vendors and the conformant models is available on ONVIF’s website: www.onvif.org.

About ONVIF
ONVIF is a global and open industry forum that is committed to standardizing communication between IP-based physical security products to ensure their interoperability and to facilitate their integration. ONVIF was established in 2008 to develop a global open standard for IP-based physical security products. Membership is open to manufacturers, software developers, consultants, system integrators, end-users and other interest groups that wish to participate in the activities of ONVIF.