ONVIF to Highlight Open Interoperability Standards at ISC West 2026
SAN RAMON, Calif. – February 26, 2026. ONVIF®, the global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, will exhibit at ISC West 2026 at booth L0 from March 25-27 at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas. The organization will discuss the value of open, standardized interoperability and highlight how its profile specifications enable integrators, consultants and end users to build flexible, vendor-independent security systems.
Open standards benefit the entire security ecosystem, enabling integrators to deliver more competitive solutions, giving end users the freedom to select best-of-breed technologies, and allowing manufacturers to focus on innovation rather than proprietary integrations. The ONVIF presence at ISC West emphasizes how standardized interoperability, implemented in seven published profiles and adopted across more than
“Interoperability in the security industry has always been about choice and flexibility,” said Leo Levit, Chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee. “With intelligence distributed across edge devices, cloud platforms, and hybrid architectures, the focus is on making systems more open, enabling organizations to integrate diverse technologies and adopt emerging capabilities as they become available. Standards need to ensure security infrastructure can continuously evolve and expand, giving organizations the freedom to build architectures that meet their specific requirements both now and in the future.”
The ONVIF booth will highlight interoperability standards across multiple security functions:
- Video Surveillance – Profile T and Profile G enable standardized streaming, imaging, and edge recording across cameras and video management systems from different manufacturers.
- Metadata and Events – Profile M provides standardized metadata exchange and event handling, including MQTT messaging capabilities that enable efficient communication between devices and management platforms.
- Access Control – Profile A, Profile C, and Profile D provide standardized communication for door controllers, credential readers, and integrated security management platforms.
The ongoing work on future ONVIF standards addresses standardized cloud connectivity, enabling cloud-based VMS platforms to work with cloud-based camera services regardless of vendor. This work also includes metadata standardization efforts to ensure that AI-generated insights from one manufacturer’s camera can be understood and acted upon by another manufacturer’s VMS. Other initiatives include the development of standardized video authentication to verify content integrity and address evidentiary concerns, and standards for interoperability with IP audio systems.
The ONVIF standards development process engages manufacturers, integrators, and end users to address these requirements while maintaining the vendor independence that has long been a hallmark of ONVIF. Whether deploying on-premise systems today or planning cloud-based architectures for tomorrow, organizations benefit from security products built on open standards that ensure long-term flexibility and investment protection.
Founded in 2008, ONVIF is a leading and well-recognized industry forum driving interoperability for IP-based physical security products. The organization brings together a global network of roughly 500 established companies in the camera, video management system, and access control markets, supporting an ecosystem of more than 35,000 profile‑conformant products. ONVIF continues to work with its members to expand the number of IP interoperability solutions ONVIF conformant products can provide.
Further information about ONVIF conformant products, including member companies and their conformant models, is available on the ONVIF website: www.onvif.org.
For press inquiries, please contact:
Andrea Gural
Eclipse Media Group on behalf of ONVIF
Phone: +1.207.233.7507
E-mail: agural@eclipsemediagroup.net
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.