Axis' new intelligent functionality increases effectiveness of unmanned video surveillance

Auto-tracking will automatically detect a moving person or vehicle and follow it within the camera's area of coverage. Auto-tracking is particularly beneficial in unmanned video surveillance situations where the occasional presence of people or vehicles requires special attention.

Video surveillance often takes place at times and in areas with little or no activity; for example, at schools and offices after working hours, or at retail stores, hotel corridors and parking garages during nighttime. Such situations usually have an unmanned video surveillance setup with automated recording.

The challenge is in ensuring that when an incident occurs, the right part of a scene is recorded with enough image quality to enable identification. Costs often prohibit the installation of large numbers of cameras or the use of operators to manually control pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras. Axis' auto-tracking solves this by enabling a PTZ dome camera to automatically follow an object moving in a scene.

"Axis' auto-tracking enables a single PTZ dome camera to cover a large area and to automatically detect, follow and record video of moving persons or vehicles,"

says Gilles Ortega, Regional Manager, Axis Communications, MENA.

"In unmanned surveillance situations, the auto-tracking functionality not only cuts down substantially the cost of the solution since fewer cameras are needed to cover a scene, but it also increases the effectiveness of the solution."

Auto-tracking is embedded in AXIS 233D and allows for scalability and flexibility that are not achievable with analog camera technology. The added intelligent video functionality exemplifies Axis' strategy of continually increasing the value of its network video products by introducing more functionality.