Why manufacturers should strive for ONVIF conformance
In the world of security, we should all have one goal: protecting people in the most streamlined and efficient way possible. Though this is the hope, achieving this goal hasn’t always been easy. That is, until the standards organization, now known as ONVIF, entered the industry more than 10 years ago. Since then, the company’s profile approach to standardized interfaces has changed the game for security manufacturers, integrators and end users across the board.
We’re excited to introduce the Release Candidate for Profile M, a draft specification that standardizes the communication of metadata and event handling of analytics for smart applications. This new Release Candidate will continue ONVIF’s relevancy in the market, as it paves the way for increased interoperability of IP cameras or analytics applications with VMS systems…
By Per Björkdahl, Chairman, ONVIF Steering Committee While cloud is not a new technology to the security industry, it continues to see growth in non-security markets, driven by growing possibilities in the IoT space. In 2019, worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure was forecasted to reach $210 billion – an increase of 24…
ONVIF is announcing this week that it’s officially live on GitHub, an open source development platform. By having a repository on GitHub, the process of interface specification development is more accessible, transparent and streamlined. Open source is a trend that has proven to be successful in many ways for a variety of industries – here…
Workplace safety has long been a priority for many organizations, however, the potential threats and risks to employees and customers has greatly increased in recent months. From occupancy management to frictionless access control, emerging technologies seek to help mitigate the new risks associated with going to work. A few ONVIF members weigh in on what…
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