ONVIF standards drive growth in physical security market

August 2024 News & Events

ONVIF, the global standardisation initiative for IP-based physical security products, has announced that more than 30 000 product models in the $120 billion global physical security market meet the ONVIF conformance requirements for interoperability.

ThThis new milestone means that the number of ONVIF conformant, interoperable products has doubled in the last three years and tripled since 2018. Security system integrators and end users around the world rely on products that conform to ONVIF interoperability standards to create security systems using best-of-breed components, regardless of manufacturer, to meet the specific needs of their organisations.

“The demand for open systems is growing exponentially as organisations increasingly prioritise interoperability and freedom of choice for their security systems and beyond,” said Leo Levit, chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee. “The rapid growth rate in ONVIF conformant products exemplifies that market demand as well as the work of our member companies that have established these successful specifications.”

As a technical alliance, ONVIF creates interoperability specifications that provide standardised communication pathways for several security and surveillance industry use cases, including basic and advanced video streaming, metadata handling for video analytics, video recording and storage, and physical access control. Companies that are members of ONVIF contribute to committees and specialised working groups to create these specifications. They are currently working on new ONVIF standards, known as profiles, in the areas of cloud connectivity, IP audio, and advanced metadata.

ONVIF membership is open to manufacturers, software developers, consultants, system integrators, end users, and other organisations looking to help shape the future of physical security technology.

The ONVIF website, http://www.onvif.org, provides further information about ONVIF conformant products, including member companies and their conformant models.




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