This article was contributed by Per Björkdahl, ONVIF Steering Committee Chair. ONVIF has achieved a lot since its founding in 2008. The member consortium began as a small group of manufacturers that wanted to collaborate to accelerate the acceptance of systems based on network surveillance cameras. While ONVIF’s mission hasn’t changed significantly since then, its application and influence has: ONVIF is now an industry alliance for the physical security industry. ONVIF has become a well-known, international organization with robust membership and there are more than 5,000 ONVIF-conformant products are in the market today. With members on six continents, our specifications for video and access control have also recently been adopted by the International Electrical Commission, one of the world’s most influential standards organizations. Not bad in seven years. Like many other standards, ONVIF has evolved incrementally and its development, use and acceptance have as well. The journey ONVIF is on is actually quite typical for […]