ONVIF enjoyed one of our most highly attended All Committee Meetings (ACM) to date last month in Bangkok, Thailand, with more than 20 companies represented during the four-day event. Cloud connectivity and metadata continued to be a major theme, as committees and working groups discussed the next steps for the cloud profile under development. Members of the Audio Working Group also shared updates on the pending profile for interoperability of IP-based audio products. 

Other working groups and committees that held meetings included the Video Enhancement Working group, and the Testing Working Group, which reviewed ongoing items for the ONVIF test tool, which is updated and released to members twice a year to support the ONVIF conformance process. Technical Committee members reviewed the ongoing use of GitHub for specification development as well as document storage and ticket handling to further improve efficiencies in these areas. 

As part of the meeting, ONVIF also hosted several Bangkok-based members of the security industry – both end users and systems integration firms – for an evening reception to network and share perspectives on how standards such as ONVIF are used in the local market. This event followed other local roundtable meetings that ONVIF has hosted in cities such as Casablanca, Morocco, and Singapore where local security practitioners provided their feedback and experiences on how ONVIF specifications. 

The All Committee Meetings are biannual meetings that bring together the Steering, Technical, Technical Services, and Communication Committees and various working groups to collaborate on ONVIF specification work and conduct strategic discussions. The next All Committee Meeting is scheduled for March 2025 in Istanbul. All ONVIF members at the Full, Contributing or Registered Affiliate membership levels are welcome to attend. 

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