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Axis offers a wide range of high quality network cameras for securing people and property, remotely monitoring equipment and facilities, and for sending live images and sounds for remote learning, troubleshooting or Web broadcasting.

What is a network camera?

An Axis network camera can be described as a camera and computer combined in one intelligent unit. It captures and sends live video directly over an IP network such as a LAN, intranet or the Internet and enables users to view and/or manage the camera using a standard Web browser or video management software on any local or remote computer on a network. It allows authorized viewers from different locations to simultaneously access images from the same network camera.

Superior image quality
Image quality is clearly one of the most important features of any camera, if not the most important. This is particularly so in surveillance and monitoring applications, where lives and property may be at stake.
Axis has ever since the development of network cameras first began, introduced a stream of image enhancing technologies and patents. One of our key goals is to continue to innovate and focus on our image quality market leadership. The best way to experience Axis' superior image quality is to try our cameras and see for yourself.

A world of endless possibilities
Flexible and powerful, Axis network video solutions enable you to remotely and cost-effectively monitor and secure people, property and industrial processes. You can use it to conduct remote education or troubleshooting, or broadcast sights and sounds on a Web site. How to design a network video system depends on your application need and level of complexity. Axis network video products can be used to remotely and cost-effectively monitor and protect people, places, and assets; secure sites with the help of alarm information and video motion detection; provide remote product demonstrations or consultations from anywhere in the world; or broadcast live images on Web sites for promotion purposes.

True IP network cameras
With a built-in Web server, Axis network cameras do not need a direct connection to a PC or any other hardware or software to capture and transfer images. They operate as stand-alone units and require only a connection to an IP network by wired or wireless means.

Images can be stored either on the hard disks connected to a PC or a dedicated storage server on the network. With Power over Ethernet, you have the option of using the same Ethernet cable both for data communications as well as power. This feature makes it easier to install products since an electrician is not required and the network video product is able to operate even when there is a power failure.

Event management
Axis network cameras have digital inputs and outputs (I/O). Digital inputs that are connected to alarm devices or sensors can, for instance, be used to trigger the transmission of images from a camera to a select destination for recording, or request that e-mail alerts or SMS notification be sent, for example, to a mobile phone. Digital outputs enable you to remotely, or automatically upon alarm, close or open doors, turn lights on or off, or control other devices. Network cameras also have image buffers that can save and send the images collected before an alarm occurred.

Access to live video at anytime, from anywhere
Axis' award-winning network video products are designed with built-in computers so they do not require a direct connection to a PC or any additional software to stream live video and audio over networks. Simply connect the network video products to an IP network (such as a LAN, intranet or Internet) and view live images from any local or remote, networked computer with a standard Web browser.

Network video can be used in an almost unlimited number of situations; however, most of its uses fall into one of the following two categories:

*Security surveillance
Network video's advanced functionality makes it highly suited to the applications involved in security surveillance. The flexibility of digital technology enhances security personnel’s ability to protect people, property and assets. Such systems are therefore an especially attractive option for companies currently using CCTV.

*Remote monitoring
Network video gives users the ability to gather information at all key points of an operation and view it in real-time. This makes the technology ideal for monitoring equipment, people and places both locally and remotely. Application examples include traffic and production line monitoring, and the monitoring of multiple store locations.

Comparing a network and an analog camera

In recent years, network camera technology has caught up to the analog camera and now meets the same requirements and specifications. Network cameras even surpass the performance of analog cameras, by offering a number of advanced functions.

In short, an analog camera is a one-directional signal carrier which terminates at the DVR and operator level, whereas a network camera is fully bi-directional, and integrates with and drives the rest of the system to a high degree in a distributed and scalable environment. A network camera communicates with several applications in parallel, to perform various tasks, such as detecting motion or sending different streams of video.

The main vertical markets where network video systems have been successfully installed are:

*Education
Security and remote monitoring of school playground areas, corridors, halls and classrooms, as well as security of the buildings themselves.

*Transportation
Remote monitoring of railway stations and tracks, highways and airports.

*Banking
Traditional security applications in high street banks, branch offices and ATM locations.

*Government
For surveillance purposes, to provide safe and secure public environments.

*Retail
For security and remote monitoring purposes to make store management easier and more efficient.

*Industrial
Monitoring manufacturing processes, logistic systems, warehouse and stock control systems.

Read more: Benefits of going digital

For more details, see:

* Inside a network camera
* Advantages over a PC-based cameras
* Advantages over an analog camera-based system
* Ten reasons to buy a network camera (pdf)
*IP Video Surveillance (pdf)

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*Content courtesy of Axis Communications

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