Sophia Antipolis, France ETSI, with the support of the PowerEOC Alliance and the ETSI TC ATTM, organized the Video Surveillance Plugtests™ event, which was hosted at ETSI in Sophia Antipolis, France, from 07 to 09 April 2025.
The format of the event was a lab tests conducted in the premises of ETSI.
What were the objectives and scope of the Video Surveillance Plugtests event?
The objective of this Plugtests on “IP Video Surveillance systems by enabling the transmission of IP data over coaxial cable infrastructures” was to confirm the full interoperability of these systems.
The testing provided were based on the upcoming position paper ETSI GR OEU 042 and addressed the following ETSI specifications:
- ETSI TS 105 176-2 on “Ethernet and power over coaxial cables for IP video surveillance”
- ETSI TR 105 177 on “Benefit Analysis of Ethernet and power over coaxial cables - IP Video Surveillance Case Studies
Test Equipment vendors had the possibility to participate and provide tools and additional testing as well in the Plugtests event.
What were the advantages of attending the Video Surveillance Plugtests event?
- To assess the level of interoperability of your implementations
- To validate your understanding of the standards
- To test with (many) other real implementations and demonstrate end-to-end interoperability
- To debug your implementation: early bug fixing, saving time and costs
- To promote the technology and the ecosystem.
Who could participate?
- Vendors which develop and produce above-mentioned equipment
- Tools vendors
- Observers, which can be government organizations, operators, public agencies.
All participants had to sign the Rules of Engagement and Non Disclosure Agreement.
Registration
All participants had to register individually for the event in order to receive their credentials and be subscribed to the mailing list dedicated to this event. Companies registered were expected to have at least one person present on site during the event. The registration deadline was 7 March 2025.
Each first person in a company to register to this event was de facto the official contact from this company for administrative matters. Each participant was invited to register individually.
The event was free of charge and attendees will be responsible for all other associated costs (travel, meals, etc.).
NDA
All participating companies, observers included, had to sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that the official contact received upon registration. Organizations were not allowed to participate to the event if the NDA and Rules of Engagement (RoE) had not been signed.
The deadline to return the signed NDAs and RoEs to ETSI was 14 March 2025. Credentials to access the Wiki were sent to the registered participants upon signature of the NDA and RoE by the authorized representative of their company.
Event venue:
ETSI Headquarters
650 Route des Lucioles
06921 Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel: +33 4 92 94 42 00
Travel & Accomodation
Details of how to get to ETSI, local transport and hotels.
ETSI and the French Non-Governmental Organization eG4U (e-Green for users) organized the Sustainable Digital Multiservice Communities (SDMC) Conference on 10th April 2025 in ETSI premises, Sophia Antipolis, France.
The day-long event focused on the challenges faced by communities and territories around the sustainable development of communication infrastructures, including roads, green spaces, energy supply, construction & renovation of buildings.
The agenda is available online.
Participation was open to all and free of charge upon registration.
