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SECURITY SYSTEMS NEWS JULY 2011 www.securitysystemsnews.com Standards bodies making progress T By Daniel Gelinas HE SECURITY INDUSTRY bodies that have stepped forward to advocate for a standardized future for physical security have all made moves and issued press releases recently that tout progress being made. SIA, PSIA and ONVIF all say that in the short time since ISC West, more and more compli- ant products have been released and have been demonstrated to work seamlessly together. At ISC West, PSIA hosted a num- ber of “successful demonstrations of interoperable products from Honeywell, UTC, Tyco, Hikvision, Arecont Vision, IQinVision and ObjectVideo,” accord- ing to a press release. Further, the release states “the access control and intrusion market not only showed the ease of implementing products to the PSIA’s Area Control specifica- network Samsung. IP solutions with more performance and value. Network Samsung video surveillance solutions and get instant access to one of the industry’s largest offerings of IP solutions. Our comprehensive line includes box, bullet and PTZ IP cameras – including our new megapixel PTZs – NVRs, encoders and monitoring software. All designed to deliver the greatest performance and value available today. And they’re ONVIF compliant and compatible with third party integrators too. Make the best IP connection with Samsung. Camera feature highlights: resolutions range from VGA to 3 megapixel smart compression focuses on faces/regions of interest 10 simultaneous multi codec streams (H.264/MPEG-4/MJPEG) highlight compensation prevents blooming video analytics dual output IP/analog NVR feature highlights: multiple gigabit ports for network segregation embedded Linux operating system up to 64 channels VMS software download at no cost local HDMI output up to 10TB internal storage compatible with external RAID arrays NEWS 13 tion, but plan commercial products relying on this spec in 2012.” ONVIF was also on the scene at ISC West with interoperability demonstrations. For the AXIS-led group, this was the fourth public interoperability demonstration of ONVIF-conformant products, according to the group. The event, held on April 7, “brought together nearly 250 manufacturers, systems integrators, end users and others in the industry to demonstrate how ONVIF simplifies the process of building a network surveillance system using products from differ- ent vendors,” according to a state- ment from the group. Axis Communications business development manager Jonas Ander- sson, who is chairman of ONVIF’s Steering Committee, agreed there was much left to do in 2011 and beyond. “In 2011, we’ll be expanding the scope of our global specification to include physical access control products, which will open up a traditionally proprietary segment of the market to new possibilities in access control for end users, integrators and also to small, innovative firms in the access control market,” Andersson said. “End users and integrators today have more than 800 ONVIF-con- formant, commercially available products to choose from.” SIA, which announced at ISC West that Brivo president Steve Van Till would head the association’s Standards Committee as chairman, also has plans to help pave the way to a standardized future. “Since ISC West, the SIA Stan- dards Committee has focused on re-drafting a new roadmap, focus- ing on complementarities between SIA standards and other industry standards that have already been developed. We rolled out a draft of our new roadmap last week at our first committee meetings since ISC West, and expect to publish a final version by mid-summer,” Van Till told Security Systems News. “We don’t think that reinventing the wheel serves anyone’s inter- it all adds up to Samsung. ests, but there are still many areas that need standards and have not yet been addressed. We think that harmonizing any new standards development with existing stan- dards is important for the industry.” SSN took an in-depth look at standards progress earlier in 2011 in an IP technology white paper. SSN NASA Continued from page 11 for KSC. Borsi said the security team has devised elaborate and detailed contingency plans relat- ing to the launch. “We plan not only ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ but well into ‘D’ and ‘E’, and we practice those plans,” he said. Preparing for a “special cctv.info@samsung.com • samsung-security.com • 1.877.213.1222 event” begins days prior to the launch. At L-3 (that’s launch minus three days), the depart- ment starts changing its security NASA see page 14