What is ONVIF? 

• ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) is a global and open industry organization that was created to facilitate the development and use of an open standard for physical IP-based security equipment
• The goal of ONVIF is to enable standardized communication between camera devices and create vendor independent interoperability between network video products
• ONVIF now has hundreds of member companies with thousands of ONVIF-compliant devices on the market
• With ONVIF, end users and security integrators are not locked into proprietary technology from individual manufacturers. Other benefits include future-proof security installations due to the guaranteed forward and backward compatibility between different device models and easier & more standardized installation and site maintenance
• ONVIF allows video and image feeds to be remotely collected for viewing by human operators or passed to edge analytics or video inference engines which can infer valuable information from the feeds. E.g., the identification of specific products or the number of people detected in an area. This information can then be fused with other data sources to provide an accurate representation of the local environment and is valuable in systems such as manufacturing, retail, transportation and sports venue management