ONVIF

The ONVIF standard and corresponding protocol allow seamless integration of compatible IP-based security cameras into existing security enviroments managed by Video Management Systems (VMS). The QbProtect brings the ONVIF protocol support to Qb2 device, and allows to easily use Qb2 as an advanced drop-in replacement of the security camera in already established security environments without extra non-standard configuration overheads.

Even though QbProtect is not yet fully compliant with a particular ONVIF profile, it brings crucial ONVIF functionality inherent in all security applications:

Due to the interoperability of the ONVIF protocol, QbProtect is not restricted to a particular VMS manufacturer and may work with any VMS supporting ONVIF, however it is actively tested against confined number of VMS systems.

Configuration and usage examples of QbProtect with a particular VMS system can be found in the corresponding subsections.

In addition to VMS systems support, QbProtect allows direct video stream consumption of a point cloud using the RTSP stream source link of the following format rtsp://qb2-ABC123XYZ.muc.blickfeld.com:554/local/pointcloud/core. The demonstation of direct video stream consumption using VLC player is shown in the Figure below.

In case user management was enabled on QbProtect the video stream URL should also include ONVIF/RTSP credentials pair in the following format: rtsp://user:key@qb2-ABC123XYZ.muc.blickfeld.com:554/local/pointcloud/core. Please refer to the section below to see how to obtain the required credentials pair.

In order to add QbProtect to a VMS or/and obtain the RTSP video stream from the device the user has to generate and provide a valid application key associated with a corresponding user account.

The valid application key can be generated by enabling the HTTP authentication option from the user account page as shown in the figure below. Please refer to QbProtect documentation in order to learn more about user management and application keys.

The resulting application key (password) in combination with the account user name (login) can be used, when prompted, as credentials pair (login/password) in the VMS or video player (e.g. VLC).

In addition to the video stream of the security scene, QbProtect also utilizes ONVIF events which can be used by various applications to fulfill a desired action. The list of supported events, their description, type and mapping to standard events (if applicable) are shown in the Table below.

Events are categorized based on their source availability and supported mapping. Events which are directly mapped to their existing analog defined by a particular VMS are called Standard. Those events contain a definition in the Mapping colomn correspondingly. All other events are QbProtect specific and therefore called Custom. Events origininating from dynamic event sources (e.g. intrusion event from a particular security zone) are called Dynamic. Other events are called Static.