The objectives include:

• Provide an open communication standard for physical access control systems
• Ease direct integration of network video and network physical access control systems using the same open standard
• Simplify installation of combined video and physical access control systems
• IP door controller of different companies will become compatible to each other, as there is no established open standard today
• Ease integration of physical access control functionalities in network video devices. Video companies may extend the function of their products with basic physical access control functionalities by using the same open standard as for network video