What is new regarding IP video standards?

What is new regarding IP video standards?

ONVIF Gains Momentum with Several New Members

ONVIF has accepted 18 new members since the beginning of 2009. Cisco, Samsung and Siemens have joined the forum as full members and Anixter and Milestone as contributing members. ONVIF has now grown to a total of 40 member companies. In line with its growing member base, ONVIF has extended the number of seats in each forum committee to a total of five seats from the previous three.

Cisco and Panasonic are now members of both the Steering Committee and the Technical Committee. Samsung was voted into the Technical Services Committee and the Communication Committee, and the final seats in the Technical Services Committee and Communication Committee were taken by Anixter and Hikvision respectively. With support from its new members, ONVIF now intensifies its work towards a global, open standard for the interface of network video products.

Meetings for all committees with their new members were held on March 3–4 in Tokyo, Japan. This was the starting point for multiple work groups that will work in parallel on the continuous development of the ONVIF specification, test tool and test specification. The first versions of the ONVIF core specification and test specification were released in the end of 2008 and are available for download on the forum’s website.

“We initiated five different working groups in the beginning of March, and many of the member companies are now directly involved in the development work. The broad member base, and the new members’ participation in committees and working groups, is very valuable for the development of the second version of the specification,” says Ken Iwasaki at Sony Corporation, member of ONVIF’s Steering Committee.

“Conformance is a central matter for any standardization forum. We are now working intensively to complete the test tool and conformance process that will enable manufacturers to market ONVIF conformant products.ing for,” Ken Iwasaki explains.

The ONVIF test tool and conformance process are planned to be released within May.

Contact:

Open Network Video Interface Forum,
San Ramon, USA
Tel.: +1 925 275 6621
info@onvif.org
www.onvif.org

PSIA Shows First Working Implementation of 1.0 Spec

The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) announced that their first developers meeting, held on March 31 in conjunction with ISC West 2009 was a success. The PSIA developers meeting was attended by dozens of developers, who received detailed updates from each working group and viewed the first working implementation of the PSIA 1.0 API Media Device specification, just three weeks after the spec was ratified and released for public use.

IP network camera manufacturer, IQinVision, is the first company to deploy the PSIA 1.0 device specification into an IQ 4 Series camera. This deployment saves software manufacturers significant time and money as it eliminates the need to write individual drivers. The IQ 4 is automatically recognized as a camera and streams video from one driver written on the open standards specification.

“We‘re thrilled to see such enthusiasm coming from manufacturers,“ said Dave Bunzel, executive director for the PSIA. “To show a working implementation just three weeks after ratification testifies to the ease of implementation of the API spec and the significant interest by manufacturers in having truly open standards in this industry.“

In addition to demonstrating the first working implementation by IQinVision, additional discussions were held from the chairmen of several working groups. The analytics group announced plans to release a .9 version of the baseline document in June 2009, focusing on alerts and metadata, and the IP Video group offered developers the opportunity to attend a plugfest where manufacturers can test products alongside others for real interoperability.

The 1.0 version of the Media Device API specification was reviewed and ratified on March 18 by technical experts from a broad group of companies that represent the critical segments of the IP video market. The 1.0 specification is available free of charge and can be viewed at the PSIA website.

“The ratification of this 1.0 specification demonstrates how eager companies are to work together to create open standards for the physical security industry,” said Rob Hile, Chairman of the PSIA and Vice President, Business Development of Adesta, LLC.

Contact:

Physical Security Interoperability Alliance, USA
Tel.: +1 650 938 6945
dbunzel@sccg.com
www.psialliance.org