The ability to design and install a truly comprehensive, long-term security solution for your organization depends on the technology of more than one manufacturer. The reality of deploying that best of breed approach also requires that current systems be equipped to not only to communicate with each other but also with systems of the future.
Ensuring that this open platform approach to security remains at the forefront is part of the work of ONVIF, an open industry forum that has led the charge for the past four years to bring standardization to the IP technology in the physical security market. Part of ONVIF’s mission is to eliminate IP video’s stumbling blocks — the interfaces that are still required for communication between devices from different manufacturers — and help today’s security professionals realize the benefits of an IP-based physical security system, such as remote accessibility, flexibility, cost effectiveness and future-proof scalability.