The US-based standardisation body for IP-based physical security products, ONVIF, hosted its 17th Developers’ Plugfest in early November in Seoul; the group’s second largest plugfest and the largest in the past five years. With multiple testings of ONVIF conformant products, the Developers’ Plugfest included interoperability testing for all six ONVIF profiles, including prototypes for the Release Candidate of Profile T for advanced streaming.
Engineers and developers from 23 ONVIF member companies gathered at the members-only event to test their implementations of ONVIF Profiles with other ONVIF Profile-conformant products. Twenty members tested their prototypes of the Release Candidate for Profile T. Attendees logged nearly 300 hours of testing at the three-day event. Besides Profile interoperability tests, all ONVIF clients had one hour of testing using the ONVIF Device/Client Test Tool and could discuss with Test Tool developers any issues that arose during conformance testing.
Steven Dillingham, Chairman of the Technical Services Committee Taskforce of ONVIF, Developers‘ Plugfest said: “The high level of participation in this ONVIF Developers’ Plugfest highlights the continued implementation of our Profiles, and the growing prevalence and necessity of interoperability between IP based security products. The ability to test ONVIF profile implementations at these events is an important step in developing new conformant technologies and prepping them for entrance into the marketplace.”
Plugfests are held twice each year around the world to enable the membership to gather for testing. The next Developers’ Plugfest is scheduled to be held in June 2018 in Malmo, Sweden.
About ONVIF
Founded in 2008, the industry forum aims at interoperability for IP-based physical security products. Members are camera, video management system and access control companies making nearly 9,000 Profile conformant products. Profile S covers streaming video; Profile G for recording and storage; Profile C for physical access control; Profile Q for improved out-of-the-box functionality, Profile A for broader access control configuration and the new Profile T Release Candidate for advanced streaming. Visit: www.onvif.org.
