ONVIF Newsletter September 2013

Greetings from Per Björkdahl!

We’re more than midway through a very exciting year for ONVIF. Our organization is celebrating its first five years of promoting standardization in the physical security industry through our global interface specification. Collectively, I do not think the founders of ONVIF would have imagined that we would have come so far, so quickly. Currently, more than 3,700 products are ONVIF conformant and more than 460 manufacturers, distributors and others in the security industry are ONVIF members.

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ONVIF highlights activities from ISCW, IFSEC 2013

ONVIF rounded out the spring trade show season with a presence at two of the security industry’s major events ISC West in Las Vegas and IFSEC International in Birmingham, U.K.

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Profiles C and G release candidates published

ONVIF has published the release candidates for Profiles G and C, two important documents that are now available for industry review on the ONVIF website. The profiles will enable systems integrators, specifiers and consultants to more easily deploy an IPbased video system or integrate an access control solution with IP video using components from a variety of different video and access control providers.

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Update to Core Specification 2.3

As part of the inclusion of physical access control to the scope of ONVIF and the release of Profile C, which enables interoperability between clients and devices of physical access control systems (PACS) and networkbased video systems, the ONVIF Network Interface Specification Set version 2.3 has also been released.

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Will ONVIF cover other devices or only video equipment?

ONVIF initially focused on the interface of network video products as there is a great need for a standard within this area.

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Are standards just the domain of manufacturers or can end users and integrators also participate? If so, how?

Standards bring advantages to end users and integrators as well as manufacturers and software vendors.

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Greetings from Per Björkdahl!

Greetings! We’re more than midway through a very exciting year for ONVIF. Our organization is celebrating its first five years of promoting standardization in the physical security industry through our global interface specification. Collectively, I do not think the founders of ONVIF would have imagined that we would have come so far, so quickly. Currently, more than 3,700 products are ONVIF conformant and more than 460 manufacturers, distributors and others in the security industry are ONVIF members.

ONVIF is actually celebrating another significant milestone in 2013, with the release of the Release candidate of Profile C, which will officially extend the scope of ONVIF into physical access control and network video integration. We are particularly excited about this development and believe that it will create new opportunities for access control users, systems integrators and manufacturers in the market.

We’re also hard at work preparing for several events this fall, including our 9th Developers’ Plugfest in San Diego and some additional technical committee meetings that will help propel our future work forward in Profile development.

No doubt, all of these exciting developments will be the topics of presentations and conversation at our 2013 annual meeting, to be held this year in late October in Shenzhen, China. We hope you have had an enjoyable summer and look forward to updating you again on our activities in our next edition.

Kind regards,
Per Björkdahl
Chairman, ONVIF Steering Committee
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ONVIF highlights activities from ISCW, IFSEC 2013

ONVIF rounded out the spring trade show season with a presence at two of the security industry’s major events ISCWest in Las Vegas and IFSEC International in Birmingham, U.K.At ISC West, ONVIF gathered industry experts for a wideranging panel discussion that tackled the progress of standards in the market, ONVIF’s Profile development and how interoperability influences some of the latest industry trends, including physical security information management (PSIM), situational awareness and Big Data. Panelists included Per Björkdahl, the Chairman of ONVIF’s Steering Committee, Steve Surfaro, security industry liaison at Axis Communications and representative for the Security Industry Association (SIA); Jeff Slotnick, CPP, PSP, president of security consulting firm Setracon, Inc. and vice chair of the ASIS International Physical Security Council; and Matt Powers, Technical Director, Security Solutions for Anixter and a member of the ONVIF Technical Services Committee. The session was moderated by Scott Goldfine, editorinchief of Security Sales & Integration Magazine, which covers the security market from the perspective of the dealer and integrator communities.

ONVIF debuted its firstever trade show stand at IFSEC International, which featured a range of technologies from different member companies demonstrating the interoperability of their products using the ONVIF specification. ONVIF’s Profile S for video and audio streaming, along with a proof of concept of Profile G for recording and storage, were the main focuses of the displays.

Featured at both ISCW and IFSEC was an exhibit of ONVIF’s historical milestones since its inception in October 2008, including the release of Version 2.0 of the ONVIF Core Specification in 2010 and the introduction of Profile S in 2012.

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Profiles C and G release candidates published

ONVIF has published the release candidates for Profiles G and C, two important documents that are now available for industry review on the ONVIF website. The profiles will enable systems integrators, specifiers and consultants to more easily deploy an IPbased video system or integrate an access control solution with IP video using components from a variety of different video and access control providers.

Profile C represents a significant step forward in the scope of ONVIF, as it extends the functionality of the ONVIF global interface specification into physical access control.

“Integration between IPbased physical access control systems and video surveillance is no longer considered a luxury in today’s market, and is becoming a necessary component for many different types of users,” said Baldvin Gislason Bern, Chairman of ONVIF’s Profile C Working Group. “With Profile C, users and specifiers will be able to integrate the Profile C products of their choosing without relying on existing integrations between manufacturers.”

As part of a physical access control system, Profile C conformant devices will be able to provide information about doors and access points in the system. Profile C conformant clients will enable the monitoring of doors, access control decisions and alarms, such as if a door is unlocked, when a door has been accessed and other similar functions. Profile C conformant clients will also provide basic door control functions, such as providing access and locking/unlocking doors.

When combined with other Profiles such as Profile S for video and audio streaming, users can also group together related access control and video devices using a configurable discovery scope. Profile C and Profile S also share the same device management features such as network configuration and system settings.

The introduction of Profile G now brings video playback into the Profile concept.

Profile G will encompass devices ranging from cameras and encoders to networked video recorders (NVR) and client systems such as video management systems, building management systems and physical security information management (PSIM) systems, among others. For example, Profile G can be deployed between a PSIM solution integrating video playback from a NVR, including specific features such as starting and ending recording; searching video using various filters such as time, event or metadata; video retrieval and playback;and, on the receiver side, creating a source of IP media.

The final versions of Profiles C and G will be published in early 2014.

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Update to Core Specification 2.3

As part of the inclusion of physical access control to the scope of ONVIF and the release of Profile C, which enables interoperability between clients and devices of physical access control systems (PACS) and networkbased video systems, the ONVIF Network Interface Specification Set version 2.3 has also been released.

This update incorporates new services for physical access control clients and devices and also includes a number of minor clarifications for better interoperability among ONVIF conformant clients and devices. The ONVIF test specification set has also been updated with the Access Control Test Specification and Door Control Test Specifications for the new physical access control services.

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Will ONVIF cover other devices or only video equipment?

ONVIF initially focused on the interface of network video products as there is a great need for a standard within this area. As the growing demand for having the standard to become interoperable to access control systems, in March 2010, ONVIF announced the scope extension to also include physical access control systems. The goal of the scope extension is to create a global network interface standard for access control devices as well as to ensure interoperability between network video products and access control systems.

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Are standards just the domain of manufacturers or can end users and integrators also participate? If so, how?

Standards bring advantages to end users and integrators (see benefits above) as well as manufacturers and software vendors. Integrators and end users are as welcome within ONVIF as device manufacturers and software vendors and we encourage everyone to participate in the development of the specification.

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