Comments on: Things to note when thinking ONVIF

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:40:40 +0000

I confirmed Avigilon has own ONVIF camera however i have yet to test other ONVIF cameras (Axis, Panasonic onvif by september 2012, and Arecont Onvif by end jun 2012) to work with Avigilon recorder.

does anyone tested?

no harm to explore.

cheers.

By: Tim Norton

Tim Norton — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:33:15 +0000

Do Avigalon also have their own ONVIF cameras?
I am thinking due to the JPEG2000 compression maybe not.

Could you confirm this?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:57:39 +0000

You could try avigilon recorder.

they claimed full onvif compliant and ready to serve all onvif cameras

cheers

By: Tim Norton

Tim Norton — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:47:14 +0000

ONVIF was meant to be THE ANSWER but I believe it has not actually added much value. I use to sell IndigoVision and the announcement of them becoming ONVIF compliant was great news.
Unfortunately when the ONVIF cameras started to hit the market, all they have to do to be compliant is fit one of the sections of ONVIF. Not all of it.

When I wrote this article, there was minimal support for PTZ as you could not call a preset. I believe that is now implemented but there is still minimal support for alarms, not support for relays at the camera and most functions you get outside of the real basics are not supported.

I believe you should buy an end to end solution from one vendor as it is going to remove a whole lot of pain in the install.

I do not believe Mobotix are doing ONVIF as yet but Axis and Panasonic are.

If you have a look at DVtel or Genetec VMS, you will see they report to be ONVIF compliant but if you look closer, only basic features come in under ONVIF. All the things that make there VMS packages nice are under their own API implementations. So why bother with ONVIF with those vendors and I am guessing many others if you can get a better result from their own API’s?

Hope this helps.
It is a very tricky one to specify and ensure you get what you wanted.

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:18:33 +0000

Dear Tim,

Do you have some info about which systems are fully ONVIF ready?

I work close to Panasonic and Mobotix, sometimes Axis comes up, and although we still don’t sell differents vendors integrated CCTV-IP systems, it seems we shall soon.

Thank you!

Toni