ONVIF is a global and open industry forum with the goal to facilitate the development and use of a global open standard for the interface of physical IP-based security products. Or in other words, to create a standard for how IP products within video surveillance and other physical security areas can communicate with each other. ONVIF is an organization started in 2008 by Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony.
It was officially incorporated as a non-profit, 501(c)6 Delaware corporation on November 25, 2008. ONVIF membership is open to manufacturers, software developers, consultants, system integrators, end users and other interest groups that wish to participate in the activities of ONVIF. The ONVIF specification aims to achieve interoperability between network video products regardless of manufacturer.
The cornerstones of ONVIF are:
ONVIF stands for - Open Network Video Interface Forum
A client for ONVIF can be downloaded here - http://sourceforge.net/projects/onvifdm/
ONVIF Specification can be downloaded here - http://www.onvif.org/imwp/download.asp?ContentID=18006
Spec details for device management: http://www.onvif.org/onvif/ver10/device/wsdl/devicemgmt.wsdl
Application programmers guide: http://www.openipcam.com/files/ONVIF/ONVIF_WG-APG-Application_Programmer's_Guide.pdf
Support Documents (onsite) http://www.openipcam.com/files/ONVIF
Complete ONVIF documentation here - http://www.onvif.org/specs/DocMap.html
A very good page describing pluses and minuses of ONVIF here - http://www.server001.net/PUBLIC/ONVIF.HTML
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