As many educational institutions have begun some version of a hybrid approach to the school year, they are faced with new policies, restrictions and uncertainty with what the school landscape will look like in the future. With technology needed to assist in maintaining occupancy limits, social distancing, as well as enhanced access control features –…
ONVIF recently announced its addition of open source through GitHub, an online open source development platform. This move will automate much of the process-oriented work that is required to produce technical specifications. As such, Per Björkdahl, chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee answers a few top questions regarding this new organizational development. How will this…
Why manufacturers should strive for ONVIF conformance
In the world of security, we should all have one goal: protecting people in the most streamlined and efficient way possible. Though this is the hope, achieving this goal hasn’t always been easy. That is, until the standards organization, now known as ONVIF, entered the industry more than 10 years ago. Since then, the company’s profile approach to standardized interfaces has changed the game for security manufacturers, integrators and end users across the board.
We’re excited to introduce the Release Candidate for Profile M, a draft specification that standardizes the communication of metadata and event handling of analytics for smart applications. This new Release Candidate will continue ONVIF’s relevancy in the market, as it paves the way for increased interoperability of IP cameras or analytics applications with VMS systems…
By Per Björkdahl, Chairman, ONVIF Steering Committee While cloud is not a new technology to the security industry, it continues to see growth in non-security markets, driven by growing possibilities in the IoT space. In 2019, worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure was forecasted to reach $210 billion – an increase of 24…
