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Member Profile: Wesco

With David Needham, senior engineer for connected systems technology & support services What does Wesco do? Wesco International builds, connects, powers and protects the world. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wesco is a FORTUNE 500® company with approximately $22 billion in annual sales in 2024 and a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply…

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The Power of Open Source: Accelerating Innovation in ONVIF Standards

As an organization that develops open standards, ONVIF creates publicly available specifications that define how products from different manufacturers can work together. These standards form the foundation for integration across manufacturers and products, helping to ensure that security devices and software speak a common language. Open standards are essential to interoperability and harmonization across the…

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Partnering to Protect Global Video Authenticity Standards

The fight against AI content manipulation has gained a powerful new alliance. ONVIF is excited to announce our strategic collaboration with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), marking a significant step forward in preserving digital video integrity across video surveillance and other industries. The C2PA is an organization backed by major media, publishing,…

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Naming ONVIF profiles: It’s more than just alphabet soup

Have you ever wondered how the different profiles of ONVIF are named? While it may seem like a bit of alphabet soup, there is a method to the madness. ONVIF profiles, which support a specific set of functionalities, are represented by a letter to designate the general area of functionality, for example, Profile S for…

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Celebrating Your Successes with ONVIF

For more than 15 years, ONVIF has been at the forefront of developing standards that ensure interoperability between hardware and software products from a variety of manufacturers. This effort has greatly simplified the decision-making process for systems integrators and security end users, allowing them to choose the best technology to suit their specific applications. With…

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