Bosch becomes founding member of Open Security and...

Bosch Building Technologies, alongside Hanwha Techwin, Milestone Systems, Pelco, and Vivotek have jointly established the Open Security & Safety Alliance. It is a non-profit corporation that brings together organisations in order to outline specifications for a common standardised platform for security and safety systems.

With this initiative, we set the foundation for the creation of a secure and reliable ecosystem for the security and safety industry that brings together hardware manufacturers, software developers, integrators, specifiers, consultants, users and many others, says Tanja R ckert, President of Bosch Building Technologies.

The current planned framework provides standards and specifications for components including an industry-specific operating system, IoT infrastructure and a collective approach for data security and privacy.

The coming together of different industry stakeholders who appreciate the need for better standardisation and innovation in this market couldn't come at a better moment. Our collective end users depend on us to drive this new way of working together. This is a great initiative for Bosch and the other Alliance members, but ultimately the end users of security and safety solutions will be the biggest beneficiaries, says Bernhard Schuster, Executive Vice President with responsibility for Sales and Marketing as well as Security and Safety Systems at Bosch Building Technologies.

Bosch Building Technologies sees the importance of a shift in the market towards data-centric solutions, which deliver greater benefits to customers. The current market is lacking common standards, making such a shift impossible. The existence and usage of many proprietary systems make the practical use of data complex and challenging. Standardisation, connectivity and seamless, cross-company integration is necessary if we want to provide innovative, IoT- and AI-based, data-driven solutions to our customers, says R ckert. This shift will require higher data security and privacy standards and should be consistently applied by all stakeholders. The alliance is the ideal forum to define these common standards.

The establishment of the alliance by the five founding members who are also forming its board is the result of discussions with different companies active in video surveillance, access control, intrusion and building automation. The involved parties were ranging from manufacturers to component suppliers, software developers and integrators as well as distributors and current solution users.

Currently, some 30 additional companies have already expressed an interest in joining the alliance. Ambarella, Anixter, AndroVideo, Kings Security and NetApp are the first early adopters who signed the membership. The Alliance is open to players within the security and safety markets as well as companies of adjacent markets.

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