PSIA specification proving attractive

08 Oct 08

The document was released at the ASIS conference in September.

“We anticipated a strong response from the professional security industry as the demand for networked systems continues to grow at a rapid pace,” said David Bunzel, executive director of the PSIA.

“Companies offering networked solutions expressed strong interest in working with the PSIA to support standards that will further accelerate interoperability and seamless compatibility across a diverse range of applications including building management, access control, storage, and Voice Over IP.”

Because of the open nature of the IP Media Device specification, it is available by registering at the PSIA site.

Member participation
Bunzel said one of the benefits of becoming a member of the PSIA is being able to participate in the working groups. This allows a company to provide contributions to specifications and have access to specifications at an early stage of their development.

“The PSIA remains dedicated to representing and reflecting the broadest set of inputs and industry perspectives, and supports industry specifications and standards that will enable all manufacturers and service providers to develop and deliver superior functionality and value to end-users,” Bunzel said.

“GE Security is committed to the work of the PSIA, especially in helping drive the development of products that can be easily configured to support customer requirements,” said Tom Cashman, general manager, Video Products, GE Security.

“A great example of this work is the PSIA’s IP Media Device specification, which has the potential to simplify integration, reduce costs for companies developing products and facilitate faster growth of the industry.”

Fifth meeting
The PSIA held its fifth meeting at the ASIS show which included the election of officers, the addition of a second working group to address video analytics, and the formation of an ad-hoc group to support storage requirements.

Rob Hile of Adesta LLC was elected chairman, Danny Petkevich of Texas Instruments was elected vice chairman, and Francis LaChance of Genetec was elected treasurer.

The analytics working group will be led by Bob Cutting of ObjectVideo and the ad-hoc storage group will be led by Igal Dvir of NICE Systems.

“With analytics more and more becoming a core component within enterprise video surveillance systems, the market response to current standard protocol initiatives from analytic and video management platforms has been extremely positive,” Cutting said. He is head of product management at ObjectVideo.

“PSIA, with its membership representing the entire video ecosystem, provides an ideal channel through which we can collectively assemble a single standard to simplify video analytic deployment by system integrators for end customers.”

Collaboration and support
The PSIA is taking steps to engage other industry and standards organisations to collaborate, advance specifications, and support open standards.

The PSIA has been represented at CENELEC meetings in Europe and is working with other international standards bodies. The PSIA has also made contact with other industry standards groups and will work towards open standards and specifications which provide significant benefits to the industry.

Participating PSIA companies include Adesta LLC, ADT Security Services, Cisco Systems, CSC, DVTel, GE Security, Genetec, IBM, IQinVision, Johnson Controls, March Networks, ObjectVideo, Orsus, Panasonic, Pelco, Santa Clara Consulting Group, Stanley Security, Texas Instruments, Verint and Vidyo.

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