ONVIF Highlights Continued Focus on Profiles at 2013 Annual Membership Meeting

San Ramon, CA. – December 5, 2013. ONVIF, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-basedphysical security products, hosted its annual membership meeting in late Octoberin Shenzhen, China, held in conjunction with the China Public Security Expo2013. ONVIF member companies who gathered for the meeting heard presentations onthe forum’s progress in 2013 as well as on upcoming releases, including the progressof Profile G for recording and storage, Profile C for physical access controlsystems and a host of other technical developments planned for 2014.

To illustrate some of ONVIF’s successes inChina, systems integrator Nanjing SEUIntelligence System Co. spoke to the crowd about a recent surveillanceimplementation at the Chongqing Yufu Building in Chongqing, one of the country’s five major cities, located insouthwest China. The ONVIF interface was used to successfully connecttechnologies from different surveillance providers to deploy a major surveillancesystem throughout the 45,000-square-meter building, which houses governmentorganizations along with private businesses.

“Support from the market and the hard workand dedication of the committee and working group members has allowed ONVIF toachieve many major milestones over our five year history,” said Per Björkdahl,Chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee. “We intend to continue that momentumin 2014 by finalizing and enhancing the existing profiles and allowing membersto initiate new profiles that have market demand.”

The audience enjoyed three keynote addresses duringthe course of the day. Ron Raffensperger from Huawei Enterprise Business Group sharedhis thoughts on the virtualization of video surveillance data, Gary Sweeting ofMicrosoft spoke on his company’s increasing collaboration with customers andpartners and Dr. Shiliang Pu of Hikvison described the impacts of local andnational Chinese interoperability standards on the video surveillance industry.

Two ONVIF working group members were alsorecognized with the ONVIF Award in appreciation for their ongoing commitmentand work toward furthering the mission of ONVIF. Baldvin Gislason Bern of AxisCommunications, was lauded for his work as Chairman of the Profile C WorkingGroup, part of the Technical Services Committee. Takahiro Iwasaki of Canon wasalso recognized for his ongoing work as the organizer and chairman of numerousONVIF Developers’ Plug Fests.

Members also elected several new and longstandingmembers to various posts within ONVIF’s committee structure. Ichiro Ogawa ofPanasonic and Michael Luetzeler of Siemens were re-elected as members of theSteering Committee for an additional one-year term. For the Technical Committee,three new members were appointed: Hirokazu Kitaoka from Panasonic, Gero Baeseof Siemens and Steve Wolf from Pelco by Schneider Electric. The TechnicalServices Committee retained three existing members within its ranks — MattPowers from Anixter, Neelendra Bhandari from Honeywell and Scott Hudson from Pelcoby Schneider Electric, while three existing members were also reelected to theCommunications Committee — Tony Yang from Hikvision, Mike Mao from Honeywelland Stuart Rawling from Pelco by Schneider Electric.

The 2014 ONVIF annual meeting will be held inSeptember to coincide with Security Essen, part of ONVIF’s goal of hosting itsevents in different geographic regions to enable members from around the worldto attend.

More information about ONVIF’s more than 2,100Profile S conformant products, including the vendors and the models, isavailable on ONVIF’s website: www.onvif.org.