Carol Everett Oliver, RCDD, ESS Specialist, has been the marketing analyst for Berk-Tek, a Nexans Company (www.berktek.com), for four years, located in their headquarters in New Holland, Pa. She is an active member in both the BICSI and ASIS organizations and serves on the BICSI ESS Standards Committee as a co-chair (secretary) and also as a chapter leader. She can be reached at carol.oliver@nexans.com.
While standards groups such as ONVIF and PSIA, and associations such as the Security Industry Association (SIA) that address standards development, are diligently working to provide interoperability for IP-based physical