ONVIF will exhibit at ISC West 2026 at booth L20 from March 25-27 at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas.
The organisation will discuss the value of open, standardised interoperability and highlight how its profile specifications enable integrators, consultants and end users to build flexible, vendor-independent security systems.
Open standards benefit the entire security ecosystem, enabling integrators to deliver more competitive solutions, giving end users the freedom to select best-of-breed technologies, and allowing manufacturers to focus on innovation rather than proprietary integrations.
The ONVIF presence at ISC West emphasizes how standardised interoperability, implemented in seven published profiles and adopted across more than 35,000 conformant products, gives organisations freedom of choice in selecting and combining best-of-breed security technologies without vendor lock-in.
“Interoperability in the security industry has always been about choice and flexibility,” said Leo Levit, Chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee. “With intelligence distributed across edge devices, cloud platforms, and hybrid architectures, the focus is on making systems more open, enabling organisations to integrate diverse technologies and adopt emerging capabilities as they become available.
“Standards need to ensure security infrastructure can continuously evolve and expand, giving organisations the freedom to build architectures that meet their specific requirements both now and in the future.”
The ONVIF booth will highlight interoperability standards across multiple security functions:
- Video Surveillance – Profile T and Profile G enable standardised streaming, imaging, and edge recording across cameras and video management systems from different manufacturers.
- Metadata and Events – Profile M provides standardised metadata exchange and event handling, including MQTT messaging capabilities that enable efficient communication between devices and management platforms.
- Access Control – Profile A, Profile C, and Profile D provide standardised communication for door controllers, credential readers, and integrated security management platforms.
The ongoing work on future ONVIF standards addresses standardised cloud connectivity, enabling cloud-based VMS platforms to work with cloud-based camera services regardless of vendor.
This work also includes metadata standardisation efforts to ensure that AI-generated insights from one manufacturer’s camera can be understood and acted upon by another manufacturer’s VMS. Other initiatives include the development of standardised video authentication to verify content integrity and address evidentiary concerns, and standards for interoperability with IP audio systems.
The ONVIF standards development process engages manufacturers, integrators, and end users to address these requirements while maintaining the vendor independence that has long been a hallmark of ONVIF.
Whether deploying on-premise systems today or planning cloud-based architectures for tomorrow, organisations benefit from security products built on open standards that ensure long-term flexibility and investment protection.
To read more ONVIF news, click here.
