

Standardization of communication between IP-based physical security products.The ONVIF specification aims to achieve interoperability between network video products regardless of manufacturer.

ONVIF membership is open to manufacturers, software developers, consultants, system integrators, end users and other interest groups that wish to participate in the activities of ONVIF. It was officially incorporated as a non-profit, 501(c)6 Delaware corporation on November 25, 2008.

ONVIF is an organization started in 2008 by Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony. ONVIF creates a standard for how IP products within video surveillance and other physical security areas can communicate with each other. ONVIF (the Open Network Video Interface Forum) is a global and open industry forum with the goal of facilitating the development and use of a global open standard for the interface of physical IP-based security products. Written in C# and uses ffmpeg for media decoding. Implements Discovery, Device, Media, Imaging, Analytics, Events and PTZ services. ONVIF Device Manager is a Network Video Client (NVC) to manage Network Video Transmitters (NVT), Network Video Storage (NVS) and Network Video Analytics (NVA) devices.
