Interoperability

ONVIF Streamlines Expands Interoperability Work with Open Source Development

The move will streamline administrative and collaborative processes while also leveraging the collective ingenuity of the global developer community. ONVIF interoperability specifications are already publicly available as open standards and are widely used as common communication interfaces between devices and software clients, such as IP surveillance cameras, video management software and physical access control systems from different manufacturers.

ONVIF Calls On Developers For Advanced Video Streaming Challenge

ONVIF® is announcing the ONVIF Open Source Spotlight Challenge, a technology competition to develop open source applications for innovative IP video streaming applications to help resolve global security issues. The two-month online challenge, offered in conjunction with BeMyApp, offers lucrative cash prizes for developers who use the protocol provided by ONVIF to create open source mobile or desktop applications for advanced video streaming that provides easy and secure authentication from all platforms.

Big League Integration Team Secures 2017 Little League Baseball World Series

Four leading security manufacturers have teamed up to provide safety and security solutions for the players, coaches, and fans at the 71st Annual Little League Baseball® World Series (LLBWS). For the first time, Milestone Systems is joining Axis Communications, Extreme Networks, and Lenel to provide video surveillance systems, access control, and network connectivity for the 10-day tournament. A fully integrated security system is in place as 16 Little League Baseball teams and hundreds of thousands of fans from around the globe come together Aug. 17-27 in South Williamsport. A priority of Little League Baseball officials is promoting a fun, exciting experience, while also providing the highest level of security.

ONVIF Speaks On Standards, IoT At European Security Conferences

ONVIF®, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced that ONVIF Chairman Per Björkdahl will be speaking on behalf of ONVIF at the Amsterdam Security Conference in Amsterdam on November 1st and at SKYDD Protection 2016 in Stockholm on October 27th. He will speak to attendees at both events on the role of standards and their relevance to the fast evolving Internet of Things.

ONVIF Hosts 14th Developers’ Plugfest In London

ONVIF®, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, hosted its 14th Developers’ Plugfest June 1-3 in Brentford, West London, at the Holiday Inn London – Brentford Lock. With multiple testings of ONVIF conformant products, the Developers’ Plugfest included interoperability testing for all six ONVIF profiles, including Profiles Q and A, which are both scheduled for final release in 2016, and Profile T, ONVIF’s newest profile for video that is currently in development.

Can Milestone Walk the Open Talk?

As truly global companies, Canon and Milestone work with partners around the world and yet it seems —in the U.S. at least— this long-term “open platform” business strategy for Milestone has its vocal doubters.

SecurityHive.com Articles of Interest for 2014

As 2015 gets underway, it’s always interesting to look back over the past year and review those stories that grabbed our attention and imagination. Here are some of those articles that we highlighted on SecurityHive.com – Anyone remember Canon buying Milestone?

ONVIF Recognizes VidSys and Steve Dillingham With 2014 ONVIF Award

VidSys, a leading global provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software, is pleased to announce that software engineer Steve Dillingham was selected as one of five recipients 2014 ONVIF Awards, which recognizes security industry leaders and influencers who are shaping the adoption of open standards.

Dillingham chaired the Profile G working group that set device standards for storage and retrieval of recorded video on cameras and networked video recorders and client systems such as video management, building management, and PSIMs.

PROMISE Technology Partners With VMS Vendors to Include Software Trials With Its NVR Storage Appliance

PROMISE Technology Inc., a recognized global leader in the storage industry, announced a partnership with AxxonSoft, Milestone Systems, OnSSI, and SeeTec to ship free trial versions of the world’s leading Video Management Software (VMS) when customers purchase the PROMISE Vess A2000 Series NVR storage appliance in the EMEA region. The VMS provided are all certified with the Vess A2000 Series, allowing integrators and end users to run the software with their PROMISE video surveillance solution with complete confidence.

Surveying Trends in the Security Integration Market

It’s evident that the majority of security installations are becoming more and more complex. No longer content to monitor and manage separate access control, fire alarm, video surveillance, intrusion, and HVAC control systems, corporate security and technology managers want to consolidate and integrate various disconnected security and facility management systems. At a dramatically increasing pace, the Information Technology department is leading the initiative, particularly given the trend toward convergence of physical and logical security systems.

Visually Verified Traffic Information

A recently established technology partnership with Videalert adds to Wavestore’s open platform video management software. The firms say that the interoperability between Wavestore’s software and Videalert’s Intelligent Digital Traffic Management platform offers local authorities and police a tool to collaborate and share video surveillance, whilst achieving a faster return on investment.

ONVIF Connects With International Audiences at Security Industry’s Largest Trade Shows

ONVIF, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, hosted its 11th Developers’ Plugfest September 29-October 1 in Dusseldorf, Germany. With record numbers of interoperability implementations and multiple testings of ONVIF conformant video, access control and edge devices, this year’s Developers’ Plugfest was the most fruitful in ONVIF’s history.

Access Control Integrations Handle Physical Security From Milestone XProtect Video Interface

Milestone Systems open platform IP video management software (VMS) integrated with access control systems from multiple Milestone Solution Partners will be presented at this month’s security industry events: SECURITY Essen in Germany and ASIS International in Atlanta, Georgia.

PSIA Details Milestones Achieved in Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) Specification

The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) today announced it has achieved important new milestones within its Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) specification less than a year after forming a Working Group to develop it. PLAI is being designed to enable employee identities and roles defined or revoked in an authoritative logical identity system to automatically propagate to one or more PLAI-compliant physical access control systems (PACS). PLAI synchronizes physical and logical identity management and access control and standardizes functions that typically have required custom programming to achieve.

ONVIF Launches Education, Enforcement Campaign To Ensure Product Conformance

ONVIF, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced that it is launching a proactive education and enforcement campaign designed to ensure that all claims of ONVIF conformance by manufacturers of IP-based physical security products are valid. The education and enforcement initiative aims to further protect the ONVIF brand and more preemptively […]

Defining Physical Access Control Standards

By Terry Gold, Founder, IDAnalyst LLC — I engage in a variety of conversations with manufacturers, integrators, and end users in the physical access control space about systems that must live for a decade or two. Traditionally, technology decisions have been made with heavy influence from existing relationships, cost sensitivity, and feature sets from the […]

Focus On The Network: Converting Analog To IP

Etherstretch™ is Nitek’s trademark technology that extends IP communications over existing analog cabling infrastructure. IP based cameras and megapixel technology is rapidly becoming the norm and their deployment is greatly increasing in the video security market. One of the biggest hurdles we face with IP-camera installation is the cost associated with infrastructure to support such […]

DNF Security’s Falcon Extreme Q60tcz VMS Demand Increasing

Falcon Extreme Q60tz video management server presented by DNF Security, a business subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory not only facilitates easy management of surveillance videos, but can also be used as a video processing/ recording, viewing, storing, and as ananalytical unit. Thus, these four features packed into this VMS make this system a super powerful […]

Zwipe Joins FIDO Alliance To Assure Open Authentication Solutions

Zwipe today announced that it has joined the FIDO Alliance, which was created in 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among authentication devices. The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance’s mission is change the nature of online authentication by developing technical specifications that define an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms that reduce the reliance […]