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Discover how this helps you accurately respond to real-time events, accelerate forensic search and make data-driven decisions.
Savings you can expect
Save time and optimize your work
Optimizing your daily work is a rewarding feeling. This is especially true for video management system administrator, operator, and investigator roles who must deal with vast amounts of video, data, audio, events and more everyday.
Find, install and maintain plugins
Available a free one-time installer, AXIS Optimizer is an integrations suite for Axis-Milestone systems. Admin roles install all needed device plugins and integrations — one time — and update everything automatically. This offers significant time savings as there’s no need to search for, download, install, configure, update and maintain multitudes of separate device plugins and integrations.
Easily access device settings
Gaining easy access to Axis device settings delivers time savings and ensure efficient outcomes. Admin and operator roles can directly access any Axis device's settings directly in Milestone XProtect. Without AXIS Optimizer, users need to log into the web GUI of each device to change its different settings. The larger the system, the more devices connected to it, the more time and effort is required to configure and tweak the connected devices.
Examples of Device settings
Easily access extended device features
Many Axis devices have device-specific features built-in which deliver full capabilities. Without AXIS Optimizer for Milestone XProtect, Milestone users must access each each device at sites to access these extended features. Operators typically don’t have privileges for this so they would need approval from their system administrator — or the administrator needs to do this work themself. Depending on site and device connectivity, this often also requires travel to each location. Again, the more devices connected to the system, the more time and effort is required to manage extended device features.
Examples of Extended device features
Apply security controls and manage video management systems
A one-size-fits-all, all-in-one feature that could make any security system and site 100% cybersecure. As appealing as those words sounds, no such feature exists — or is likely to anytime soon. While there is no quick fix, there are effective means to apply security controls inorder to mitigate risks. AXIS Optimizer helps administrators save time and effort applying these by managing user privileges to the suite as well as efficiently manage all Axis devices connected on all sites in and Axis-Milestone local or distributed systems.
Examples of Security controls
Perform automated actions
Operators must monitor and deal with real-time events efficiently, accurately and repeatably. Given today’s ever more connected and intelligent devices, the sheer amount of events increases. Meanwhile, properly managing them involves performing manual tasks, which heightens risks for mistakes or delays. If an event is missed, you risk unwanted situations such as leaving visitors waiting at a door.
Examples of Automation
Respond to real-time events
Responding to real-time events typically requires operators to perform actions manually based on alerts. Such work is prone to human error and takes time — which is precious when dealing with real-time incidents. If an operator doesn’t respond quickly and accurately to a potential threat, the incident can escalate. Traditionally, an operator needs to access multiple device and VMS rules and settings to manage events. Axis offers a broad portfolio of network devices that enable operators to respond to incidents. With AXIS Optimizer, admin roles are assured accurate, timely actions can be taken.
Examples of Real-time events
Accelerate forensic search investigations
The vast majority of forensic investigations involve video evidence. Operator and investigator roles are often not certain of what or whom they are looking for, where or when an incident took place, how objects or people moved in the location of the incident. Plus, the sheer amount of video and data from just one camera mounted at one location over a day, week or even longer is extensive — the greater number of cameras, the more there is to review. Natively searching through hours of footage to find a specific person or object can be time-consuming, error-prone and tedious. AXIS Optimizer saves you time to turn raw data into evidence.
