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The Electronic Security Association (ESA) hosted a “Day on Capitol Hill” featuring Congressional speakers, briefings, and visits for more than 50 association and industry attendees in Washington D.C., April 28-29.

ONVIF announced the release of Profile G, the specification that encompasses on-board video storage, searching, retrieval capabilities and media playback.

 ONVIF, a leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S.-based Security Industry Association (SIA), signaling cooperation toward the further development of IP-based interoperability standards in access control. 

For alarm companies that monitor in Arizona, the eliminated tax could add up to significant savings. Each city has had a different communications tax amount, with Phoenix imposing a 4.7 percent tax and Tucson charging 2 percent.

The circuits and pathways chapter is mainly menu-driven: other chapters specify the requirements that apply. A new section addresses prioritization and segregation of life safety versus non-life-safety signals with shared pathways.

The Illinois Electronic Security Association (IESA) is scheduled to be featured on WGN TV’s mid-day newscast this Friday, May 9, “to discuss home security and to let viewers know that ours is a licensed industry,” said IESA Executive Director, Kevin Lehan.

Profile C also can be combined with ONVIF Profile S for video and audio streaming so users can group related access and video devices, sharing the same device management features such as network configuration and system settings.

In 2014 and 2015, BACnet International and the BACnet Interest Group Europe (BIG-EU) are celebrating milestones for two standards that have enabled sustainable building automation.

The Physical Security Interoperability Association (PSIA) reported that cost-effective, automated synchronization of physical and logical identities, privileges and credentials took a major step toward becoming an industry standard recently, with PSIA’s release during ISC West of a draft proposal of its Physical-Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) specification.