ONVIF hosted what it termed a successful networking event at the IFSEC 2011 trade show in Birmingham, England in May. The event drew approximately 80 integrators, end users, consultants and manufacturers who attended to hear about ONVIF’s success in promoting a global standard for the interface of IP security products.
ONVIF, based in San Ramon, Calif., also released the group’s first “Application Programmers Guide” at IFSEC, a document designed to aid programmers in integrating ONVIF-conformant devices into specific applications. Designed as a companion piece to the “ONVIF Core Specification” and “Test Specifications” documents, the comprehensive Application Programmer’s Guide covers the different services included in the ONVIF specification, including discovery, setup and administration, streaming, storage and many others — and offers sample code for programmers to incorporate into their applications.