ONVIF Holds First Developer’s Plug Fest Focusing on Profiles

• Event featured more than 250 hours of testing among nearly 30 devices and clients
• Hosted by Anixter, plug fest was ONVIF’s second largest developer’s forum
• More than 50 engineers from around the globe participated in the interoperability event

CHICAGO – March 15, 2012. ONVIF, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced today that it held its 6th Developer’s Plug Fest earlier this month, an event that drew representatives from more than 20 different manufacturers that have implemented the ONVIF specification in their IP surveillance products.

Hosted by Anixter at its Chicago-area offices, the event was the first face to face opportunity for engineers to test their company’s implementation of ONVIF’s Profile S. Released earlier this year, Profile S describes common functionalities shared by conformant video management systems and devices, such as IP cameras or encoders, that sends, configures, requests or controls the streaming of media data over an IP network.  More than half of the nearly 30 devices and clients tested were prototypes that align with Profile S, the first in a series of profiles to be released by ONVIF that simplifies the selection process of compatible devices.

“ONVIF developer’s plug fests are an ideal opportunity for ONVIF member companies from all over the world to verify their ONVIF interoperability with many other manufacturer’s technology at one time, in a highly technical and open setting,” said Canon’s Takahiro Iwasaki, Chairman of ONVIF’s Technical Services Committee Taskforce, Developer’s Plug Fests. “This recent event in Chicago provided a very timely opportunity for testing of devices that align with Profile S prior to those being released to the market.”

With a total of 257 hours of testing among 53 engineers, the plug fest was ONVIF’s second largest such event to date. The next developer’s plug fest, to be held in September in Asia, will bring this valuable testing process to other member companies in that region. That event and other future plug fests will also provide an opportunity for members to test future profiles and other updates to the specification released by ONVIF over the coming months.

As of March 2012, ONVIF membership had grown to more than 360 companies and nearly 1,600 conformant products available in the market. To learn more about ONVIF, please visit www.onvif.org.

About ONVIF
Established in 2008 by Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corporation, ONVIF is a global and open industry forum that is committed to standardize communication between network devices and ensure interoperability between network products for the security market. ONVIF’s mission is to facilitate the integration of network security and safety devices using a global open standard. ONVIF 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.