About: ONVIF mode for Alta cameras

Last modified: Tuesday November 28, 2023.

Many other providers of cloud video security systems insist on using a closed infrastructure design. This means that, should you decide to no longer use their video management system, then you cannot re-use any of their cameras with a video management system from any other manufacturer.

Alta cameras include an ONVIF mode, which, when enabled, allows the camera to provide an ONVIF Profile S video stream to any ONVIF Profile S compatible video management system. When in ONVIF mode, Alta cameras only provides Profile S video streams — no analytics are carried out by the camera, no on-board storage of video data, and no audio streams are available.