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IP surveillance product firm Axis Communications reported at IIPSEC 2006 that it has committed to building a number of IV (intelligent video) components during this year.
The product firm added that it is encouraging the 260 partners in its Application Developer Partner (ADP) programme globally, to build applications to meet specific customer needs. Axis reported early interest amongst ADPs in building software applications for people counting in the retail sector as well as traffic monitoring and analysis for highways and car park management. These are likely to be early IV applications, it predicted.
Dominic Bruning, managing director, Axis Communications (UK), said: “This year we will be launching a number of targeted and inexpensive IV components which ADPs can plug into for the development of applications which meet specific needs amongst the end-users they are serving. We are making open Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) available to ADPs so they can easily plug into these Axis tools which will sit initially on an Axis video server. IV offers compelling business and technical benefits which now need to be explained. Take for example license plate recognition as an IV application. If this capability is built into a network camera connected to a number plate database then this will have appeal to those running congestion charging schemes or policing non-payment of road tax by road users, for example.”
Other significant advantages stemming from IV will be:
reduction of bandwidth consumption as IV in the camera will mean that only the necessary data (i.e. specific number plates) would need to be transmitted for action
reduction of manpower because false alarms by delivering images that provide greater precision to help identify security threats
providing better support and intelligence for all sizes of systems so that systems support decision-making more effectively than they do today.
Audio and video will be able to be analysed simultaneously so that the sound of breaking glass could trigger a PTZ network camera to automatically pan to the location of the sound once the system has pre-identified the sound to be of sufficient concern.
Bruning added: “We see IV as a natural evolution of what Axis has been doing for years. Motion detection, for example, which is now built into many of our models, is providing some intelligence which goes beyond continually streaming video to a storage device. Once our ADPs begin rolling out specific applications later this year the full potential of IV will become clearer still.”
