Smart solutions with IP video capabilities

The solution consists of a number of IP cameras and/or video door stations, a pre-configured cabinet with built-in 4G/LTE router and a software for remote video management and viewing. Once installed, you benefit from:

• Remote access to live and recorded high-resolution video, from any authorized computer or smartphone
• Automatic alerts for perimeter activity and intrusion
• Easy integration with access control and alarm systems
• A flexible, scalable and reliable surveillance solution that does not require an on-site physical network

This end-to-end security solution is suitable for many different applications. Use cases include:

• Public, temporary events such as election rallies, concerts, marathons or festivals
• Construction sites, for security purposes or to share the construction progress over the Internet
• Road construction projects, where authorities need a live view for optimized traffic management
• Critical infrastructure, for reliable monitoring of remote and unattended sites

For temporary installations such as events or construction sites, the same equipment can be used multiple times, making it an even more cost-efficient option.

Sometimes there’s a need for high-end surveillance, but only for a limited period of time. And sometimes there are distant locations that need to be secured. In both cases, it is often too complex or expensive to install a dedicated network infrastructure for a traditional surveillance installation.

That’s when our deployable solutions make a big difference. They are quick and easy to install, yet offer leading-edge surveillance capabilities.

Reliable license plate recognition (LPR) has traditionally been costly and only relevant for a limited number of applications.

The rapid development of IP cameras now allows for wider use of automatic LPR solutions. Depending on your needs, they can help to increase everyday efficiency, service levels or security.

Our LPR solutions are based on an T3 camera and partner software that runs either on the camera or on a server. It automatically captures the license plate in real time, compares or adds it to a pre-defined list and then takes appropriate action such as opening a gate, adding a cost, or generating an alert.

Depending on surrounding light, the solution may require cameras with built-in IR-light or additional light sources for optimal performance.

Automatic LPR is a valuable solution for multiple applications, including: 

• Parking management where it facilitates – or even automates – payment, entry and exit
• Toll roads, to enable free-flow through toll plazas
• Airport traffic management, to ensure that only authorized vehicles can access the taxi / public transport lanes
• Access control, where the gate is only opened for authorized vehicles and all visiting vehicles automatically are registered
• Vehicle alerts, where the solution provides an automatic alert when any of the vehicles on a watch list passes by

An T3 mobile surveillance solution lets you see what is happening in and around your vehicles – anywhere, anytime. Analytic applications from Axis and our partners transform our network cameras into intelligent devices that help you actively manage incidents as they happen. What’s more, high quality images provide valuable context for your fleet management and telematics technology – enabling you to:

• Improve passenger and driver safety
• Assess driver performance
• Develop passenger insight and services
• Protect goods and cargo
• Investigate accident claims and reduce insurance costs

T3 mobile surveillance solutions are designed to overcome the challenges of traditional onboard surveillance -- eliminating onboard hard disks and providing you with real-time central viewing.

• Easier to INSTALL
  Intelligent cameras are equipped with local storage, share an onboard internet connection, and can be automatically configured remotely.
   
• Easier to USE
  You have immediate access to live and recorded video, as well as the possibility to transfer only the video you need for reduced bandwidth consumption.
   
• Easier to MAINTAIN
  You can simultaneously update and manage all the cameras in your fleet to ensure the highest level of cyber protection and product functionality. Health monitoring alerts you if a camera needs service. And you can easily transfer camera licenses between depots.

Our onboard cameras are specifically designed for challenging onboard environments. They withstand temperature variations, dust, moisture, extreme vibration and rapidly changing light conditions to deliver continuous high-quality images. 

When you buy T3 mobile surveillance as a service from our trusted partners, you ensure consistent surveillance and automated camera updates across your fleet – all for a predictable monthly fee and no hidden costs. 

Understanding how many people are in an area at any time, how they move, where they congregate, and periods of peak occupancy provides valuable insight. You can use that insight to plan accordingly, take immediate action, and improve service, operational efficiency and profitability.  

 Access to timely insights about people’s behavior is a competitive advantage in many industries. T3 video-based people counting solutions let you capture and analyze data and identify ways to improve operational efficiency. It’s a reliable, cost-efficient way to count people and understand the flow of movement within your premises. You can set up alerts that are triggered based on the number of people present in your premises at any given time. Direct access to people counting data provides real-time knowledge for fast decision making. When T3 people counting solutions are integrated with T3, you also get instant access to statistics and graphical representations from all your installations in one place. 

 Tracking how many people enter and exit your premises and when they do it can help you make informed decisions and increase operational efficiency by planning according to the numbers. You can analyze trends and identify peak occupancy periods and then determine staffing and opening hours accordingly. You can even provide the information to the public on your website. You can also take immediate action in response to alerts triggered based on set thresholds for the number of people entering or exiting. Whether you want to evaluate site performance, adjust opening hours, or reduce costs by optimizing resource allocation, counting people gives you actionable insights. 

 Knowing how many people are present on your premises or in a certain area at a certain time lets you analyze occupancy data and make informed adjustments. You can use the information to analyze the flow of people within an area, improve the use of space, effectively allocate resources, and take measures if occupancy levels exceed your set threshold. You can set occupancy thresholds that trigger actions such as automated voice messages through a loudspeaker or send alerts to supervisors. So, you can enhance people’s experiences while optimizing costs. And when our solution is integrated with a building management system, you can optimize the use of your HVAC system and thus your energy consumption. 

Many security incidents are preceded or initiated by some kind of noise. And if you’re exposed to incidents that involve e.g. aggressive behavior, gunshots or breaking glass, cameras with sound detection capabilities add great value to your security system. They can automatically alert for potential and real incidents as they occur, and enable quick, relevant actions to minimize the consequences. 

 The solution is based on an T3 camera with partner software for advanced audio analytics. It continuously “listens” for pre-defined noises and initiates an alert when it hears something. This ensures immediate attention by security operators, who quickly can evaluate the situation by watching live video feeds from the alerting and nearby cameras. It is also possible to add speakers to the system, enabling remote, immediate communication with the perpetrators to prevent escalation. 

Cameras with audio analytics add productivity to your passive surveillance system. They enable quick and remote response when seconds matter in a wide range of scenarios, including:

• Public transit systems, where staff and passengers can be exposed to intoxicated persons and disorderly behavior. Early aggression detection reduces the risk of violence by enabling intervention at the verbal stage, before escalation to physical aggression.
• Prisons and correctional facilities, by adding a valuable “trouble sensor” in an environment where inmates often deliberately avoid the camera’s eye. 
• Small stores at night, where automatic sound alerts can shorten the response time in cases of aggression and armed robbery. And when the store is closed at night, the solution automatically alerts for breaking glass to ensure quick burglary intervention.

Static privacy masking is ideal for use indoors and outdoors, in situations where there is a defined area of the camera view where you have no need or right to monitor, such as a neighboring property.

Static privacy masking permanently blocks a selected area from view. Since the mask is burned into all video streams from the camera (live or recorded), there is no way to unmask it once the video is generated, guaranteeing privacy where required.

Static privacy masking has long been a standard feature in T3. Newer fixed and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras support not only simple opaque blocks, but also mosaic or pixelation for masking an area. The mosaic masking allows a predefined area of the camera view to be shown in very low resolutions. With mosaic masking, you can see movements from any activity in the pixelated area but not personally identifiable details. Newer cameras also support masking with polygonal shapes for more flexible and precise coverage.

For PTZ cameras, blocking views of unintended areas is especially important given their ability to zoom in on details over long distances and their wide area coverage. In a PTZ camera, static privacy masking is fixed to the camera’s coordinate system, ensuring that the masking is maintained in the same area of the scene, even as the camera’s field of view changes through panning, tilting and zooming.

Static privacy masking is ideal for use indoors and outdoors, in situations where there is a defined area of the camera view where you have no need or right to monitor, such as a neighboring property.

Static privacy masking permanently blocks a selected area from view. Since the mask is burned into all video streams from the camera (live or recorded), there is no way to unmask it once the video is generated, guaranteeing privacy where required.

Static privacy masking has long been a standard feature in T3. Newer fixed and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras support not only simple opaque blocks, but also mosaic or pixelation for masking an area. The mosaic masking allows a predefined area of the camera view to be shown in very low resolutions. With mosaic masking, you can see movements from any activity in the pixelated area but not personally identifiable details. Newer cameras also support masking with polygonal shapes for more flexible and precise coverage.

For PTZ cameras, blocking views of unintended areas is especially important given their ability to zoom in on details over long distances and their wide area coverage. In a PTZ camera, static privacy masking is fixed to the camera’s coordinate system, ensuring that the masking is maintained in the same area of the scene, even as the camera’s field of view changes through panning, tilting and zooming.

Dynamic privacy masking safeguards people’s privacy by anonymizing them in videos while allowing camera users to monitor activities or movements.

The dynamic masking solution, T3 involves real-time masking of any pixel changes—essentially anything that moves—in a live camera view, as compared with a set background scene.

It is ideal for use in indoor environments with good, stable lighting. The analytics application works in selected T3 fixed cameras and involves permanent masking in live or recorded video, so the masking cannot be removed once video is generated.

T3 Live Privacy Shield, however, supports the simultaneous generation of a separate stream without dynamic masking, if required (illustrated in image (B) at left). This is done by streaming a separate virtual “view area” of the camera without dynamic masking. This flexibility allows users to view video with dynamic masking under normal circumstances, and if an incident occurs, access video without dynamic masking. Many video management software, such as T3 Camera Station, support different access rights for different camera “view areas” so access to video with no dynamic masking can be limited to authorized viewers only. 

By default, T3 Live Privacy Shield applies dynamic masking to the camera’s entire field of view, but you can choose to define “exclude” areas where masking is not needed—for example, if you want to view moving objects on a conveyer belt.

T3 Live Privacy Shield is a cost-effective solution for addressing privacy regulations and video monitoring needs in indoor workplaces. It is ideal for situations where the primary interest is in monitoring activities and movements, rather than in being able to identify individuals. For instance, in a production or logistics facility, your primary interest for video at certain locations may be to ensure that processes are moving smoothly, not in who is working there. In a retail or healthcare setting, you may be more interested in knowing if a cleaner has visited the area during a set time, rather than who the individual is. If you operate a gym or activity center, your interest in having remote video monitoring may be to let customers see how busy the place is—so they can decide when it’s best to come—without exposing the identities of people in the video.

Using thermal camera is another option that lets you monitor activities and movements while ensuring that individuals in the video are anonymous. The technology uses heat variations generated by all animate and inanimate objects to produce an image of a scene. Only shapes—moving or not—are captured, ensuring that no personally identifiable details of a person in the scene are ever generated in the video.

A thermal camera can be used indoors or outdoors and in environments with light or no light, making it an excellent technology not only for guaranteeing privacy, but also for detecting movements or activities in challenging environments. It is ideal for security and safety applications ranging from perimeter protection to monitoring patients in healthcare facilities. In healthcare, for instance, a thermal camera in combination with video motion detection analytics can alert staff if a patient has fallen out of bed. Users of thermal video can ensure that alarm activities are detected and can be acted upon without compromising people’s privacy in captured video.

Radar technology with intelligent algorithms offers a solution for detecting movement and triggering alarm events without the collection of personally identifiable data. At a place like a community outdoor swimming pool where there may be privacy concerns, a network radar-based motion detector can help secure the area during after hours by detecting intrusions and automatically alerting security and activating a loudspeaker.

T3 network radar detector  is ideal for outdoor use in any weather, day or night. It can provide information on the detected object’s exact position, speed and angle of movement. Since it is not sensitive to things like moving shadows, light beams, small animals or insects, this translates to fewer false alarms and more accurate detection. While the detector doesn’t provide visual confirmation, it can coordinate with a pan-tilt-zoom camera and integrate with a video management system to enhance security. The radar-based detector can be used as a standalone product or as a complement to a video surveillance system.

Before sharing video material, you may need to mask individuals and areas in the video that are not of interest to an investigation in order to comply with regulations that protect the privacy of bystanders. The video redaction function in T3 video management software allows you do this in an easy and intuitive way. You can, for example, mask only selected moving objects or mask all still and moving objects except persons of interest. 

While data protection is not dealt with here, how video surveillance data is handled is also an important aspect of ensuring privacy protection. See Cyber security to learn more about it.