ONVIF Reaches 100 Members as Key Industry Players Join Network Video Forum
- ONVIF members now total 103 companies
- Major industry players elected to key positions in ONVIF at recent Annual Meeting
- Several new ONVIF-conformant products announced
ONVIF announces today that its member base has grown to 103 companies. The forum, which drives the development of a global standard for the interface of network video products, now boasts 12 full members, 13 contributing members and 78 user member companies. Over the last months, Canon and IDIS have joined as full members and Dallmeier, General Electrics, Genetec, Hitachi, Industrial Technology Research Institute, ITX, Nice, Optelecom-NKF, PMC-Sierra, Sanyo and Webgate are participating as contributing members.
In line with ONVIF rsquo;s Rules of Membership, the forum held an election for the committee seats at its Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California on September 23. As a result, Siemens is now a new member of the Steering Committee, Panasonic has been re-elected for both the Steering and the Technical Committee, and Cisco has been re-elected for the Technical Committee. In the Technical Services and Communication Committee, open seats were filled by Anixter and Hikvision respectively. The new committee members will start their work in November in conjunction with ONVIF rsquo;s first anniversary.
ldquo;Reaching 100 members is a huge milestone for ONVIF and clearly shows the importance of global interoperability and standardization for our industry, rdquo; says Jonas Andersson, Axis Communications, Chairman of ONVIF rsquo;s Steering Committee. ldquo;We welcome all the newly elected members to the ONVIF committees and look forward to their contributions for another productive year for ONVIF. ldquo;
As further evidence that the ONVIF specification is now being rapidly taken up by the industry, several companies have recently announced ONVIF-conformant products. A complete list of products as well as member companies can be found at www.onvif.org.
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About ONVIF
Established in 2008 by Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corporation, ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) is a global and open industry forum that is committed to the adoption of network video in the security market. ONVIF rsquo;s mission is to facilitate the development and use of a global open standard for the interface of network video products. 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.
