ONVIF Newsletter November 2012

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE

Milestones are a great way to gauge the success of any initiative. For ONVIF and our work to develop a global interoperability specification, surpassing some specific milestones over the past few months has validated the hard work of our committee members and reflected the market’s confidence that we’re on the right path to achieving widespread interoperability in the market. In September we announced that the list of products conforming to the ONVIF specification had reached more than 2,000, showing that support for ONVIF has gained critical mass in the market.

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ONVIF GEARS UP FOR 2012 ANNUAL MEETING

Representatives from many of ONVIF’s 420 member companies will gather next week in Miami, Florida, USA for the ONVIF Annual Meeting. Attendees will hear presentations from the Steering Committee, Technical and Technical Services Committee as well as the Communications Committee on the group’s progress in 2012 in these key areas, including a briefing on key initiatives for 2013 in these areas and an update on ONVIF’s technical roadmap.

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SECURITY ESSEN DEBATE CONFIRMS RELEVANCE OF STANDARDIZATION

ONVIF hosted a panel discussion at security essen 2012, an event that drew a diverse crowd of more than 80 people, demonstrating that the issue of standardization and interoperability in the security industry is still a subject of great interest and debate.

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ONVIF CONTINUES TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE BENEFITS OF INTEROPERABILITY AT ASIS 2012

At the 58th annual ASIS Seminar and Conference held in Philadelphia, USA the ONVIF outreach group hosted a series of breakfast meetings promoting and demonstrating the enormous value ONVIF Profile S brings to the physical security industry.

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ONVIF CONDUCTS 7TH DEVELOPERS’ PLUGFEST

From September 24th to 26th, ONVIF held its 7th Developers’ Plugfest in Narita, Japan, hosted by HATS conference, a Japanese NPO group organizing interoperability tests for domestic companies. This is the first Developers’ Plugfest to focus on the concept of “Profiles”.

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WHY JOIN ONVIF?

ONVIF’s focus on true interoperability provides membership benefits for manufacturers as well as end users, integrators and specifiers. A nonprofit organization, ONVIF is open to all companies and interest groups who would like to participate in the goal of creating a global standard for IPbased physical security.

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Message From the Communication Committee

Milestones are a great way to gauge the success of any initiative. For ONVIF and our work to develop a global interoperability specification, surpassing some specific milestones over the past few months has validated the hard work of our committee members and reflected the market’s confidence that we’re on the right path to achieving widespread interoperability in the market.

In September we announced that the list of products conforming to the ONVIF specification had reached more than 2,000, showing that support for ONVIF has gained critical mass in the market. In general, standardization initiatives move slowly, with as many as ten years between the proposal of the concept and scope to ratification by a standards body. When ONVIF was first launched, we did not expect that the number of conformant products would grow so rapidly, but it’s evident that the need is great.

Also in September, we attended security Essen, where ONVIF was first launched four years ago. Along with a panel discussion that discussed the state of the market and the current role of ONVIF and standardization in general, we presented a retrospective of ONVIF milestones over the past four years. The look back over ONVIF’s history was capped by a live demonstration of Profile S, which encompasses video and audio streaming, PTZ and relay output control as well as video encoder configuration and multicast. We’re excited to be able to unveil future Profiles to you beginning early next year, and hope again to include some of the demonstrating partners from Essen, which included member companies Milestone Systems, Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems, Sony, TKH Security, StreamLabs, IndigoVision, EverFocus, DRS Technologies, AxxonSoft, Hikvision and Shenzhen Jiaxinjie Electron CO., LTD.

In the short term, our attentions will be focused on our annual meeting next week on November 28, in Miami, Florida, USA. This event brings together ONVIF members to hear reports from our various committees and for general networking opportunities to talk about the industry and ONVIF’s role in the market. We look forward to updating you again on our progress in early 2013.

Warm regards,
Tony Yang

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ONVIF Gears Up For 2012 Annual Meeting

Representatives from many of ONVIF’s 420 member companies will gather next week in Miami, Florida, USA for the ONVIF Annual Meeting. Attendees will hear presentations from the Steering Committee, Technical and Technical Services Committee as well as the Communications Committee on the group’s progress in 2012 in these key areas, including a briefing on key initiatives for 2013 in these areas and an update on ONVIF’s technical roadmap.

After a welcome and introductory presentation from Per Björkdahl of Axis Communications, keynote speaker Farzin Aghdasi, PhD, Schneider Electric, will present on “Standards and Innovation Trends in Technology, Ecosystems and Cooperation.” A panel discussion discussing the evolution of ONVIF, featuring Michael Luetzeler of Siemens and Matt Powers from Anixter will follow. A second keynote address, “IT Influence on Physical Security Transformation,” will be presented by Geetha Dabir, General Manager for the Physical Security Business Unit, Cisco.

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Security Essen Debate Confirms Relevance of Standardization

ONVIF hosted a panel discussion at security essen 2012, an event that drew a diverse crowd of more than 80 people, demonstrating that the issue of standardization and interoperability in the security industry is still a subject of great interest and debate.

The panel discussion featured a group of industry experts from the security and standards industries. The panelists agreed that the deployment of standards in the industry would allow systems integrators and end users to more easily compare and select products for IP video deployments and enable interoperability between existing and future components of a system.

“For the most part, we don’t typically build a system from scratch,” said panelist Jürgen Alz, Product Management, Bosch Security Systems, business area building security. As ONVIF matures and becomes more widespread in installations, he said, this will provide the ability to automatically interface with existing ONVIF conformant surveillance equipment at a customer site and would be a major advantage when upgrading a system for a client.

The panel also included Jonas Andersson, Chairman of ONVIF’s Steering Committee; Frank Rottmann, Bosch Security Systems, and liaison partner and convener, International Electrotechnical Commission TC 79 ‘CCTV’ and René Kiefer, Siemens Building Technologies, and Chairman of the Video Expert Group, ZVEI Industrial Association Security. Panelists discussed such issues as ONVIF test tools, the impacts of competing standards initiatives in the market and whether technological innovation would be stifled as the result of standardization. Heiko Baumgartner, Publishing Director, GIT SECURITY and Steffen Ebert, Publishing Director, GIT SICHERHEIT, served as the moderators for the panel discussion.

Audience members queried the panel on topics ranging from the timeline of ONVIF’s introductions of the access control specification and future plans for an intrusion spec. Questions were also raised about the potential use of third party testing houses as a standard method for ensuring full product compliance.

“In the end, ONVIF will create more easily interoperable products, which will increase the number of applications for the end user and grow the market for manufacturers and integrators,” stated René Kiefer.

Another ideal outcome of standards initiatives in the security market would be to spread the message to other industries that IP video is a valuable tool outside of surveillance, such as queue management, traffic flow and other functions.

“Standards will enable the security industry to talk with one voice to the rest of the world,” said Frank Rottmann. “Whether it’s the logistics industry or a company like SAP, those organizations will think that video is easy because of standards and they should be doing more with that technology within their own businesses.”

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ONVIF Continues to Raise Awareness of the Benefits of Interoperability at ASIS 2012

At the 58th annual ASIS Seminar and Conference held in Philadelphia, USA the ONVIF outreach group hosted a series of breakfast meetings promoting and demonstrating the enormous value ONVIF Profile S brings to the physical security industry. The audience was a select group of architects, consultants, security integrators, end user and government agencies. The presentation and open discussion, led by Stuart Rawling of Pelco by Schneider Electric and Steve Surfaro of Axis Communications, went into detail about how ONVIF, the world’s largest standardization alliance dedicated to IPbased physical security systems, has now made it even easier to deploy conformant products from different vendors with ONVIF Profile S.

The success of ONVIF Profile S in ensuring simple interoperability, future proofing systems, and providing increased flexibility and freedom of choice when it comes to IP video systems was well received by the attendees. Part of the discussion focused on a demonstrative A&E specification that would help the audience successfully articulate the need for ONVIF Profile S conformant products in project requirements.

Following the presentations and open discussion, Matt Powers of Anixter and Giovanni Gaccione of Genetec provided an interoperability demonstration using ONVIF Profile S conformant clients and devices.

ONVIF continues to release enhancements and additions to the specification, which currently encompasses video storage, display devices, video analytics and other areas, bringing it closer to its goal of providing a global open network interface standard for physical security equipment. ONVIF is committed to raising the profile of interoperability specifications through events like this at major security conferences around the globe.

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ONVIF Conducts 7th Developers’ Plugfest

From September 24th to 26th, ONVIF held its 7th Developers’ Plugfest in Narita, Japan, hosted by HATS conference, a Japanese NPO group organizing interoperability tests for domestic companies. This is the first Developers’ Plugfest to focus on the concept of “Profiles”.

In total, there were 77 engineers from 32 ONVIF member companies participating in the event, the largest Developers’ Plugfest in ONVIF’s history.

In addition to the publicly released Profile S, two draft Profiles Profile C for physical access control systems and Profile G for recording were also included in the test scope of the plugfest. Attendees verified their devices’ interoperability by testing with others supporting the same Profile. More than 400 hours of interoperability testing occurred during the plugfest.

Moving forward, ONVIF Developers’ Plugfests will provide a platform for all ONVIF members to check and improve the interoperability among ONVIF conformant products.

The next Developers’ Plugfest will be held in Europe in March 2013 and will provide another opportunity to test devices and clients supporting Profiles.

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