While behind the video surveillance industry in developing open standards, the main three organizations working on open standards for access control have all made good progress in the past year and are hopeful that their impact on the industry will be a benefit to integrators.
ONVIF introduced its first access control profile, Profile C, two years ago. This past year, ONVIF released its second access control-related profile, Profile A. “Profile C was a very basic access control profile that makes is possible for VMS manufacturers to integrate with access control systems and receive basic data like door status and site information,” says Per Bjorkdahl, chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee.