Onvif BBS LOGO.In May 2008, Axis by the joint Bosch and SONY announced three parties will work together to form a Open Network video product standard international Network Interface development BBS, named ONVIF (Open Network Vidoe Interface Forum), And with the principle of openness, open to establish open standard of the industry.
ONVIF standard for network video equipment to exchange information between the general agreement definition, including real-time video search and the device, audio, yuan data and control information, etc. Network video products which can provide a variety of possibility, that end users, integrators, consultants and manufacturers can easily benefit from it, and get high price, more flexible solutions of market expansion, the opportunity and lower risk.
According to information, there is a part of the enterprise and telecommunications operator has made the related industry standard, there are also some enterprise alliance put forward some of the interconnected enterprise standard. ONVIF is facing the global, the starting point is to make a completely open standards. The standard's main goal is to promote different network video equipment brand the integration, help manufacturers, software developer, and independent software vendors to ensure that the products are interconnected interoperability, very suitable for an enterprise market.
From ONVIF website can understand, from the end of last year has formally opened to recruit members. At the same time to adapt to the different level of participation, ONVIF also provide different grades of membership, can choose senior and intermediate or user membership level. BBS now accept nearly 40 members of the house. Among them, the senior members have 12 home, in addition to three launched the company, panasonic, samsung, cisco, Siemens, TI, and other famous brand among them, and domestic kangwei depending on the sea and zhejiang dahua is also a senior member of ONVIF BBS.
Implement standard of the process is also an important means of purify market, help to integrate security market resources, and reduce a lot of repetitions of the development of labor, and meaningless human, material and time consumption, improve the reliability of the product. Greater interchange and compatibility of collective upgrade to industry, eventually give consumers greater benefits. Believe in the open standard platform will be unified greatly promote the healthy development of the security monitoring industry.
ONVIF are dedicated to global open interface standards to the promotion of Internet video in the application of the security market, the interface standards will ensure that different manufacturer production network video product has interoperability. In November 2008, BBS officially released the first edition ONVIF codes--ONVIF core standard 1.0. As video monitoring network application, the industrial chain of division of labor will more and more fine. Some manufacturer specialized in cameras, some manufacturer specialized in DVS, some manufacturers may be specially do platform, and so on, and then through the integration of integration, to provide the final customer. The industry cooperation pattern, have an urgent need industry provide more and more standardized interfaces platform.