When people in the physical security industry talk about ONVIF and PSIA specifications they only talk about basic features and interoperability. What they don’t discuss, because of a lack of understanding, might be the most surprising information coming out of ISC West last month: which is that both ONVIF and PSIA specifications have more device functionality built into their specifications than the custom device drivers developed by any of the other video or access control market share industry leaders. Even more impressive is that a single device driver supports the greatest number of devices from hundreds of different manufacturers.
The functionality being referenced is the device management capabilities. Device management is defined as being able to have advanced management of the hardware devices from the software interface running on a central server. For example, being able to provide functionality for: