ONVIF Newsletter July 2026

The 2026 World Cup is underway across three countries and multiple venues, with security teams from different agencies and vendors coordinating across borders in real time. In an environment without some type of standards in play, it would be nearly impossible to run such an operation on that scale.

This scenario reflects the actual state of the global environment. The current push toward de-globalization is no longer a concern on the horizon, but rather the reality that we’re operating in. Different regions are setting different standards, different compliance rules, and different technology requirements. And this challenge is hitting the hardest where the security industry is moving fastest – to the cloud.

Organizations everywhere are migrating security workloads to cloud platforms. But when cloud connectivity solutions are fragmented across regions, systems, and vendors, each geography becomes a separate engineering project. Every vendor might build different integrations for each market. Every new region adds compliance work, engineering cycles, and cost, and all of these compound quickly.

This is why we are proud to announce the release of ONVIF Profile V. Our newest profile establishes a standard way for cameras to communicate with cloud platforms. Once a camera meets the Profile V specification, it can work with any cloud system that meets the standard, in any region, and from any manufacturer. Then you can add other requirements on top of that without rebuilding the whole system. Read more about it in the newsletter below.

Open standards for cloud connectivity are how you build systems that work across different geographies and vendors. That’s what member companies from around the world are collaborating to build through ONVIF.

ONVIF to Speak on Video Integrity at GSX 2026

ONVIF Forms AI Working Group

As AI reshapes physical security, systems can exchange data, but they can’t reliably understand each other. ONVIF’s new AI Working Group is tackling what interoperability needs to look like next: shared, testable, machine-readable meaning across vendors. Chair Peter Damm of Milestone Systems explains why it matters and who should get involved.

Read the full interview here.

In WIRED Middle East, ONVIF Chair Leo Levit explained why the 2026 World Cup raises the security bar: where Qatar 2022 operated within a single, compact environment, this tournament spans multiple cities, jurisdictions, agencies and technology ecosystems across three countries. The core challenge, he noted, is less about the number of systems than whether they can share information efficiently across borders.

Read the full article here.

In a SecurityInformed roundtable on security modernization, ONVIF’s Roberto Licari argued that cloud and AI are reshaping the industry, but warned that proprietary cloud platforms are recreating the vendor lock-in the industry once solved at the device level through standards like ONVIF. The question has shifted from “will these devices work together?” to “can my system share intelligence across different manufacturers’ hardware?” The technology exists, Licari noted; what’s missing is a common language between platforms.

Read the full roundtable in SecurityInformed.