Usability is in the eye of the beholder
Do you want to view live or recorded video? Do you need to identify people or maintain privacy? Are you most interested in accurate analytics? Whatever your focus, usable images are images that live up to your requirements under changing conditions. Superior image processing is important. But sometimes what you don’t see is as important as what you do see – like when maintaining privacy is your goal. Because image usability isn’t about good-looking images. It’s about images that provide the best results for your purposes. And it’s central to everything we do – from hardware and software development, to technologies, tools, and meticulous testing.
Image usability for accurate decisions
Image usability helps you make the right decisions, in real-time and after the fact. It’s also essential to making smart decisions based on actionable – accurate – insights gleaned from Axis analytics.
Accuracy in real-time
Quality images are a prerequisite for superior analytics performance. Clear, easy-to-interpret live video also lets operators assess situations, make informed decisions, and respond without delay. Axis tackles image usability with unique technologies like Axis Lightfinder and Forensic WDR. Axis Zipstream and edge-processing of uncompressed footage minimize bandwidth and storage without compromising detail. Optimized IR, radar and thermal imaging support detection and classification in challenging light. Horizon straightening straightens images for easy viewing. Electronic image stabilization (EIS) provides smooth video despite vibrations. And various graphic overlays add useful information like compasses and license plate numbers.
Accuracy after the fact
The unique Axis image-processing technologies also contribute to high-quality recorded footage that remains accurate after it’s been compressed and stored – making it usable as forensic evidence. In addition, as part of Axis Scene Intelligence, Axis image-processing technologies help transform raw images into superior metadata that makes it fast and easy to find the footage you need for forensic purposes.
Image usability is a matter of trust
Excellent image usability is a question of trust, too. You have to be certain video hasn’t been tampered with, that quality is consistent, and that it complies with requirements for privacy and data protection.
Count on it!
Axis signed video ensures end-to-end integrity – so you know your video hasn’t been compromised enroute from the camera. And every Axis camera is designed to be fully automatic, which means image-processing parameters adjust to any light variations without manual tuning to maintain image usability around the clock and throughout the seasons.
What you do – and don’t – see
Then there’s AXIS Image Health analytics, which notify you if the view is blocked, blurred, or redirected. And we have solutions to suit an array of privacy needs, including fixed and dynamic privacy masking, thermal cameras, and radars. Plus, the long optical lifetime of camera components ensures continued quality.
Image usability with lifecycle cost-efficiency
Value isn’t just about purchase price, it’s about TCO. About lifecycle cost efficiency. Lifecycle cost efficiency means images that deliver the best possible value for their intended purpose, from system design to end of life. It’s about delivering excellent image usability while minimizing the time, effort, and cost of designing, installing, configuring, fine tuning, maintaining, and running your system.
The right device in the right place
Intuitive Axis tools guide integrators through selecting and verifying the right device and the right placement for the best usability. Our broad portfolio makes it easy to combine devices, lenses, technologies, analytics, and accessories optimally for almost every purpose and environment. Options like multisensor cameras and PTZs that cover wide areas often mean you need fewer cameras.
More usable. Less costly
And technologies like Axis Lightfinder, Axis Forensic WDR, Optimized IR, radar, and thermal ensure image usability in difficult light conditions for savings on electricity. Remote image health monitoring, and accessories and features like wipers, washers, and speed dry lower, lifetime maintenance costs. And Axis Zipstream lets you keep all the forensic detail you need while lowering bandwidth and storage requirements by an average of 50% or more throughout the lifetime of your system.
From hardware and software to technologies, features and tools
Image usability is essential to getting what you need from your surveillance system. That’s why it’s central to everything we do.
Hardware
Our wide portfolio makes it easy and cost efficient to combine devices, lenses, and accessories optimally for superior image usability.
Software
We rigorously test our operating system, AXIS OS, before every release to ensure software quality without compromising image usability.
Technologies and features
World-class Axis image-processing technologies are key to easy-to-interpret images of high enough quality for accurate analytics.
Tools
We provide helpful tools for cost-efficiently finding the right products and designing sites with an eye to image usability.