2’2013

axxon universe

market overview Experience the Next

AxxonSoft around the world case studies

 In‘2014 AxxonSoft
participates in:
Intersec
January 19–21,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Protection of property assets day

March 12,
Budapest, Hungary

ISC West Expo Securex MIPS Safety &

Seguridad Security Asia
April 2-4, April 8-10, April 8-11, April 14-17, April,
Las Vegas, USA Mexico City, Mexico Poznań, Poland Moscow, Russia Singapore

Seguritec Perú
May 22-24,
Lima, Perú

IFSEC International Seguriexpo Ecuador Security Fair Colombia

June 17-19, July 31-August 2, August 20-22,
London, UK Guayaquil, Ecuador Bogotá, Colombia

SeguriExpo ISAF Essen Security Build+Con

September 15-20, September 19-22, September 23-26, September,
Buenos Aires, Argentina Istanbul, Turkey Essen, Germany Myanmar

SICUR 2014 Bezpeka

October 15-17, October 15-18,
Santiago, Chile Kiev, Ukraine

IPAS Sfitex All-over-IP

November, November 11-14, November 19-20,
Tehran, Iran St. Petersburg, Russia Moscow, Russia

Please note, that the event dates may change. If you are planning on attending an event,
check with the event organizer and make sure that the dates have not changed.
Please refer to our website to make sure that AxxonSoft takes part in an event at:
www.axxonsoft.com/company/pressroom/events/

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 Contents
5-6 From Sci-Fi to Reality
Description by Murat Altuev, AxxonSoft President,
of some commendable trends on the VMS market
and in the industry at large

7-15 Experience the Next

All about the new features found in Axxon Next

16-17 AxxonSoft Across the Globe

How to find and contact the AxxonSoft office nearest you

18-31 Reaching the Maximum

State-of-the-art technologies implemented through
the joint efforts of AxxonSoft and its partners

32-33 Smart Protection

Intellect-powered surveillance on the high-speed
Moscow–St. Petersburg rail corridor

34-35 Intellect Protecting Subway

Riders in St. Petersburg
New facial recognition system keeping an eye on mass transit
riders in Russia’s second-largest city

36-38 In the Field

Successful implementation of AxxonSoft-powered
systems at real-world sites

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 Dear Friends!
The AxxonSoft team is proud to present the latest edition of our
company’s magazine, filled with our latest news and plans, as
well as the centerpiece of this issue: versions 3.5 and 4.0 of our
Axxon Next open-platform VMS. Working on these new versions, we
made every effort to make our video management software even
more complete, easy to use, state-of-the-art and user-friendly.

There are new tools that make video

7-15
surveillance more convenient than ever
before: new resizing logic for layouts,
a new alarms panel, and a new camera
discovery wizard. The system now also has
We think the features in the such tools as panoramic display of video
new versions of Axxon Next will from cameras with ImmerVision lenses and
please existing users and make an support for grabbing metadata from IP
outstanding impression on those devices. When configuring video detection
considering whether to make the tools and writing video to storage, you can
jump. What’s new in versions 3.5 and even select whether to use a high-quality
4.0? or low-quality video stream. But that’s not
all! Learn everything about Axxon Next 3.5
by turning to page 7-15.

32-35
Murat Altuev, AxxonSoft President, has shared the «big picture» of where video
analytics are going, as well as how to deploy and fine-tune them at large, complex,
and strategically sensitive sites – be sure to check out his article, on pages 5 and
6. To find examples of how video analytics have proved themselves under the toughest
real-world conditions, just flip to page 32-35, which has examples of two in-the-field
security systems powered by AxxonSoft software in Russia: the Oktyabrskaya Railway,
which connects Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the St. Petersburg subway system.

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16-31

We have said it before and we will say it

again: «Video management software can
be built by a company, but building security
solutions requires partners.» That is why And as always, we hope to see all of you at
we invest enormous effort into integrating major industry events around the world:
the best technologies for smart video see the calendar on page 2 and find out
surveillance offered by hardware vendors when we will be in your neighborhood in
into our software. Get an idea of the smart 2014.
technologies we have integrated, and the
ultra-modern capabilities they unlock for
installers and users, on page 8-31.

A lot has been going on, so accept

this as your very own «cheat
sheet» to get you up to speed!

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 From Sci-Fi
to Reality:
MURAT ALTUEV video analytics are protecting
President
AxxonSoft
strategic infrastructure at real-world sites

Previously thought impossible, smart tools

can «see» events quicker than humans can What has spurred
this progress?
As players on the security market in reality. Video analytics are now reaching
today, we stand on the verge of a break- maturity – not with explosive growth, but First and foremost, the myths about
through that will upturn the rules of the at a gradual and steadily quickening pace. video analytics, which ascribed supernat-
game. There’s no denying it: video analyt- We are already seeing how video ural and frankly impossible capabilities to
ics are becoming a must-have feature for analytics have crossed the threshold from computer analysis, have come crumbling
surveillance systems, quickly progressing «paper» to «reality». They are actively down. The second reason is the work that
has been done to make analytics more ef-
from «Would be nice, if it worked» to «It used in high-profile large-scale projects
fective and integrate them with modern
works and it’s impossible to imagine sur- at strategically important sites, such as
security platforms.
veillance without it». the Oktyabrskaya Railroad (which unites Clients and installers alike now un-
Until recently, video analytics were Russia’s two largest cities), the subway derstand what video analytics can do
just a shiny bauble in the war chest of fea- system in St. Petersburg, Russia, Olympic as part of a well-designed solution. The
tures offered by large, complicated pro- roads and parks for the 2014 Winter market is better aware, and we are all
jects, implemented more on paper than Olympics in Sochi, and others. better off for it.

Education is key both installers and systems integrators. Word duce software that is «ready for prime time».
of mouth from excited partners helped to It’s a revolution in video analytics, but
We are proud of our company’s contribu- spread awareness even further. progress has been a piecemeal affair as we
tion to this improving state of affairs, which The second component in the growing overcome the barriers in the way of innova-
partly owes to our work promoting and pop- popularity of video analytics is their afford- tive technologies: poor awareness on the
ularizing video analytics at industry events ability and constant improvement. Fine- part of users and the market at large, as well
all over the world. Our presentation on video tuning is a gradual process, and even the best room for improvement in existing tools –
analytics has drawn a total of over 600 repre- tools are refined by developers based on the something that can be fixed only with time
sentatives of partner companies, including results of testbed projects in order to pro- and real-world experience.

Security users are ready to try new tools at critical sites

In the last edition of the magazine, tools that allow pinpointing relevant to the hilt on a daily basis. These capabili-
I wrote about the incredible demand on video in just seconds. This willingness to ties are not incidental – they are regarded
the market for Forensic Search, a video try new tools has applied to other areas as vital to the continued effective protec-
analytics tool that offers a way to quickly as well. tion of these sites.
sort through and find recorded video. AxxonSoft’s flagship Intellect PSIM, for One such project is the Oktyabrskaya
Slowly but surely, the industry’s tradi- example, has been in use for several years Railroad, which runs between Russian’s
tionally cautious attitude has yielded to at major projects at strategic sites, with two largest cities, Moscow and
the enormous unmet need for software Intellect’s video analytics capabilities used St. Petersburg. The Sapsan high-speed

market overview 5
train uses these tracks, amplifying the po- thermal cameras for maximum in a database. Recognition is almost 100%
tential risks and security threats. effectiveness. effective, in spite of enormous passenger
These threats came to the forefront Today, the railroad boasts 24-hour traffic, weak lighting, and other technical
after the train bombings in 2007 and video surveillance with reliable, real-time obstacles. These results offer significant
2009 on the St. Petersburg–Moscow detection of alarm events. assistance in criminal manhunts and aid in
route. After the bombings, a review was Another exciting project has been in- the work of many city services.
held of the security system for the rail- stallation of Intellect-powered surveillance Plans are to expand the successful ex-
road; the original design did not include in the St. Petersburg subway system. Smart periment to another 19 stations in the near
video analytics for the rail tracks between video analytics are at the heart of the de- future.
Moscow and St. Petersburg. sign. In 2013, Ladozhskaya station served Not long ago, such a story would
The Intellect PSIM was chosen as as the first site for facial recognition, with have been closer to «science fiction» than
the video management platform for the recognition of the faces of all passengers (!) «science fact». But this is reality, a reality
overhauled system. Intellect’s impres- entering the subway station at quality suffi- that may soon become rather ordinary
sive video analytics were combined with cient for recognition against images stored for all of us.

Sochi 2014: a test for video analysis

and AxxonSoft as well

Special pride at AxxonSoft is associated hardly be overstated. Intellect-powered car has turned on its emergency blinkers or
with the company’s presence at Olympic video analytics have also been put into has stopped at night, etc.
sites – a software presence, to be precise, place on the Olympic M4 highway near Intellect-powered systems have been
in the form of Intellect software and video Sochi. Thanks to cameras placed on bridges installed for surveillance at many Olympic
analytics. along the route, license plate numbers sites, from the main media center and the
Intellect-based video surveillance has on cars can be recognized and checked command center to the Olympic Park (in-
been deployed in the public Olympic Park against previous video, spaces beneath cluding perimeter security), the Sochi airport,
in Sochi, in southern Russia. Objects can and around bridges can be monitored, and elsewhere. All this goes to show that the
be tracked and then instantly cross-refer- abandoned objects are spotted, and mo- security systems at complicated, remote, and
enced with previous video. Thanks to this tion detection with object tracking is ena- strategic sites are continually becoming more
and other smart situation detection tools, bled. A new detection tool for identifying and more smart and reliable. End clients and
operators are quickly provided with the stopped vehicles was specially designed systems integrators have become truly com-
most up-to-date, important information on for the site by AxxonSoft and its partner fortable with video analytics, regarding it not
events. Intellivision. The detection tool offers relia- as a plaything, but as an effective and power-
The importance of this capability at a ble identification of stopped vehicles, even ful way to protect sites more efficiently and
site soon to take the global limelight can on a swaying bridge, in situations when a more reliably than ever before.

6 market overview
Experience the Next: new version of the innovative
Axxon Next VMS released this fall

Fall 2013 saw the release of This issue describes versions 4.0 and 4.1. And while version
version 3.5 of the Axxon Next 4.0 holds features that strengthen the convenience and func-
VMS, with version 4.0 to follow tionality of Axxon Next as a tool for distributed video surveil-
before year’s end. Release of ver- lance, starting with version 4.1 Axxon Next is making a distinct
sion 4.1 is planned for early 2014. turn towards becoming an integrated security system that can
The previous edition of this maga- serve as the foundation for industry-specific vertical solutions.
zine was dedicated to the exciting As of version 4.1 we will see integration with cash registers
developments in version 3.5, includ- (retail equipment) at points of sale, license plate capture, and
ing integration of satellite maps and facial recognition. Integration with companion security hard-
new features for recorded video, ware and software, such as third-party POS, ATM, PPS, ANPR
which gave us the confidence to say and ACS solutions, will become more common in the future,
that Axxon Next has come into its and users will be able to create their own scripts for event reac-
own as a truly outstanding system tions, making Axxon Next a true integrated system for physical
for video analytics. security management.

Experience the Next 7

Usability

Changes to layout resizing

Resizing of viewing tiles has been substantially
changed: the entire layout is now made larger or
smaller, without any rearrangement of its contents. At
the first step (one click, in most cases), the viewing tile
is enlarged to about half of the screen horizontally and
vertically, and if possible, is centered as well. All other
viewing tiles are enlarged proportionately, partially
protruding beyond the edge of the screen. Clicking
neighboring viewing tiles places them at the center of
the screen. For 2x2 layouts and other layouts in which
a viewing tile already occupies 50% of one side in the
layout, the first step is skipped. At the second step, the
viewing tile is resized to 100% of the screen.

New layouts ribbon

The upper portion of the interface window is now
smaller, with the layouts ribbon occupying a larger part
of it. But most importantly, the ribbon can now be ex-
panded to display all camera layouts simultaneously.
This makes it much easier to find a particular layout,
especially on systems with a large number of them.
The order of layouts in the layouts ribbon can be changed
in editing mode, by simply using drag-and-drop.

More flexible configuration

of layouts
Previously, resizing of viewing tiles in Axxon Next
layouts was dependent on the number of cells. The
number of cells in a layout could be set by adding any
necessary number of columns and rows. Now viewing
tiles can be resized freely, simply by dragging their
edges with the mouse. This allows creating layouts
with any arrangement of viewing tiles and information
boards. For example, it is easy to create a layout of five
cameras with two cameras in the top row and three
cameras in the bottom row, with all cameras in a row
occupying viewing tiles of equal size.

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New alarms panel

A new alarms panel will be displayed as a tab in the interface.

The panel opens downwards, occupying a vertical strip on the
screen. It can also be maximized to full screen; the size of the
alarms panel can be saved for each layout individually. The alarms
panel displays video thumbnails of recent alarms that require op-
erator attention. One advantage of the new panel is that it can
be resized depending on the number of alarms to be displayed.
The size of the video thumbnails is adjusted based on the size of
the alarms panel. When the panel is opened in full-screen mode,
thumbnails can be resized with the help of a special slider. If some
of the thumbnails do not fit on the screen, vertical scroll bars are
displayed on the alarms panel.
In addition to pending alarms, the alarms panel also allows
viewing previous alarms that have already been handled or
missed. The types of events to display in the panel can be set with
a filter. These types include any or all of the following types: False
alarm, Non-critical, Critical, and Missed. Clicking the video thumb-
nail for an alarm recording highlights the corresponding camera
in the layout.

OnScreen
PTZ mode
OnScreen PTZ mode makes it easy
to control PTZ cameras, by simply
moving the mouse in the viewing tile.
A small plus sign is shown at the cent-
er of the video. Dragging this «plus
sign» moves the camera’s view, with
the speed of camera movement de-
pendent on the speed of the mouse.
To zoom in or out, use the scroll con-
trol on the left side of the viewing tile.

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Usability
New automatic discovery wizard
A new discovery tool offers a convenient way to find and The firmware version, name, camera ID, video storage
configure cameras on the network. A Find devices option location, and recording mode can be changed for each cam-
will be added under each server in the objects tree. When era. The wizard also can select the video storage location to
selected, this option opens the camera search wizard, which use for archives, for easy one-stop configuration of added
automatically begins scanning the network and adds cam- cameras. To speed up the process even more, use group set-
eras to the list as they are found. Credentials are displayed tings and click the Add all button. When doing so, you can
for each camera, including the degree of support for the decide whether to overwrite the camera’s stream settings
camera in Axxon Next (green indicating full integration, yel- with the default settings that are suggested by Axxon Next
low indicating that manual configuration is required, and for the camera model in question. Thus video parameters
red indicating that compatibility cannot be guaranteed). can be set both through camera-specific configuration utili-
The list of cameras can be filtered by the degree of support, ties or web interfaces, and automatically when added to a
for example, showing only the cameras that are fully inte- server.
grated with Axxon Next.

New archive creation wizard

This wizard allows creating and configuring archives for storage of recorded video. Click the archive creation button for
a server to run the archive creation wizard, which consists of two parts: a list of available disks and a list of available cam-
eras. After selecting the disks on which you want to host the archive partitions, you can set the partition sizes on each disk
by using a slider. You can also choose to dedicate the whole disk for archive storage by enabling AxxonSoft’s proprietary
SolidStore file system on the disk to eliminate the risks of fragmentation, slow access and data loss. Archives can be created
on the existing partitions of a disk: the Format option determines whether the existing data will be preserved.
In the list of cameras, select the cameras from which video will be recorded to the archive. You can select the options
for downsampling, pre-alarm recording, and video stream configuration. Select the recording type: never, always, by
operator command (including alarm recording), or by schedule. Schedules are shown immediately during configuration,
making the process quicker and easier. To ease configuration yet more, group settings can be applied for associating
cameras with the archive.

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Map improvements:
list ordering and thumbnails
The sequence of map tabs can now be changed. Tabs For improved situational awareness, every camera mark-
can now be rearranged by drag-and-drop, just like tabs in er on the map displays a thumbnail of the current video
a web browser. stream from that camera. Video thumbnails are displayed in
all map modes: 2D, 3D, and immersion mode. The transpar-
ency, size, position, and tilt of the video thumbnail can be
configured. Clicking the thumbnail of another camera in im-
mersion mode switches to a view of that camera’s footage,
without leaving immersion mode.

Even easier than before

Alarm objects and zones
Autozoom can be enabled or disabled for all cameras are outlined
in a layout.
The Fit screen button has been added to viewing tiles. when viewing MomentQuest2 search results, vis-
When clicked in viewing mode, this button returns the ually indicating the target lines and area boundaries;
camera to the preset zoom level; in editing mode, it ad-
justs the digital zoom level so that an image occupies the during searches of comments, the area or point
entire area of the viewing tile . in the frame commented by the user is outlined and
A convenient calendar (opened by clicking the archive enlarged.
position indicator) is now available for selecting the date/
time of video to be viewed.

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Functionality
Multidomain monitoring
Multidomain monitoring lets clients connect to multiple servers on different domains. A single workstation can now
view video from cameras on independent video surveillance systems simultaneously, as well as configure these systems.
All cameras and settings can be browsed in a single window.

VideoWall 2.0 for video wall management

on distributed configurations
The VideoWall function allows selecting a layout that has been created in the system and sending it to the monitor of
any client computer that is part of the same distributed video surveillance system. This is especially useful for monitoring
hubs and for multilevel video monitoring, as well as configuring and maintaining large video walls. Sharing a layout with
an operator allows drawing that person’s attention to an event captured by one of the cameras in the layout. Similarly, an
event can be shown to all operators by sending video from the relevant camera to a video wall.

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Stream selection Selecting a stream
for video detection tools for recording
It is now possible to select which stream from a cam- You can select either a high-quality or low-quality vid-
era should be used for detection tools. If a detection tool eo stream for recording to video archives. If a low-quality
needs only a low-quality stream, switching from a high- stream is sufficient, this frees up a great deal of disk space
definition stream can reduce the load on the server. and, with it, reduces the overall cost of surveillance.

Metadata from IP devices

Some IP devices (IP cameras and IP video servers) can calculate and send metadata about in-frame object motion
to video servers. Metadata can be used to support scene analytics tools in Axxon Next, for determining when a virtual
line has been crossed, motion has occurred in a selected area, and the like. In addition, this information can be used
to index recorded video, which is helpful for criteria-based smart searching of recorded video with MomentQuest2.
On-camera video processing avoids the need to perform resource-intensive video decompression on the server. The
CPU burden on the video server is significantly reduced, which allows the server to handle more video streams with
use of video analytics tools.

Panoramic views for cameras

with ImmerVision lenses
Panoramic views are now supported for
cameras that have ImmerVision lenses. The
distorted image received from the camera
is dewarped (unfolded) into a horizontal
360-degree panorama, of which a portion is
displayed in the viewing tile. The video in the
viewing tile can be scrolled left and right, in
order to view any portion of the panorama.
Panoramic images are especially convenient
for surveillance of large sites.

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Functionality
Tag&Track Pro
The Tag&Track Pro feature allows simultaneously getting the «big picture» of everything happening at a protected
site while obtaining detailed imagery of the objects moving around it. Both streams can be recorded for later use, which
is important for event investigation.

The feature requires at least two cameras: one is a panoramic camera, the second one a PTZ camera. Object tracking
is enabled on the panoramic camera, so objects moving in the frame are detected and their coordinates are calculated.
The position of the PTZ camera (its pan, tilt, and zoom values) is aligned to the coordinates of the panoramic camera’s
field of view at six or more points. Several panoramic cameras can be linked with a single PTZ unit.

Tag&Track Pro offers three modes: In manual mode, the user selects an object in the field of view of the panoramic
camera by clicking the mouse. The object’s coordinates in the field of view are mathematically converted into the pan/
tilt/zoom values necessary for the PTZ camera to track that object. This continues until the object leaves the field of view
or the user selects another object. In automatic mode, the PTZ camera switches between objects in the frame without
human intervention, tracking each of them for a pre-configured length of them. The third mode, automatic with user
priority, works similarly to automatic mode until the user clicks an object with the mouse, which activates manual mode.
Automatic mode is re-enabled when the object is de-selected or the object leaves the field of view.

Tag&Track Light
A new tool for multi-camera tracking, Tag&Track Light makes monitoring easier by predicting the camera in front
of which an object will appear after it leaves the field of view of another camera. For this feature to work, all cameras
are linked to a site map: the position of the cameras and their fields of view are specified on the map. The operator
selects a moving object to track. If the object leaves the field of view of one camera, Axxon Next calculates its trajec-
tory and determines the camera in front of which the object will appear next. This camera is visually highlighted in the
current layout.

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Monitoring of
POS transactions
Axxon Next will gain support for cash regis-
ters, which will allow systems for monitoring of
checkout transactions. Events and receipt text are
sent from cash registers to a special pane associ-
ated with the camera that is pointed at the cash
register. This information can also be displayed as
captions on surveillance video. Such high-context
information awareness offers increased opportu-
nities for monitoring checkout events and iden-
tifying fraudulent transactions that are hard to
spot with video alone. The text of video captions
can be searched for analysis and event investiga-
tion. For example, all video footage for a specific
product type, transaction, or cashier name can be
found instantly.

Face capture and license plate recognition

Axxon Next will soon allow recording when faces appear in a frame, as well as their location. This data is calculated on
the server or directly on the camera, in the case of cameras with on-board face recognition capabilities. Appearance of
faces in a frame is a special surveillance event; this means that recorded video can be searched for all episodes in which
a face is present.

Axxon Next will also implement support for recognizing license plate numbers and searching recorded video based
on them. It will be possible to search video both by license plate recognition (situations when any license plate is pre-
sent) and by specific license plate numbers.

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Turkey
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 Reaching the maximum:
Leading security and IT companies combine
their best technologies

The security market today is a bewildering array of offerings, a hodgepodge of

products and solutions. To find the optimal choice and design the best-suited
solution, technical staff need full and complete information about available
products and solutions. More importantly, they know that the “proof is in the pud-
ding”: the best proof of marketing promises is found in real-world installations.
In response to these requirements, industry leaders are working together to offer
joint solutions that are fully customized to the needs of each business.
This is why AxxonSoft has partnered with leading security and IT companies to
launch the company’s program for technology partnership.

Understanding and coordination are critical: only integrated, joint solutions from the
industry’s best can have the greatest success. No single company can have the market all to
itself, for the products of a single company cannot meet all market needs.
A company may have a breakthrough technology, but it is difficult to offer the client a
truly effective solution in the absence of an overall integrated approach to market needs.
“Effective” means a solution that is optimal from the point of view of reliability and price,
and above all, is easy to integrate.
We – AxxonSoft and its technology partners – know that every well-executed solution is
the product of hard work by at least two developers.
Our partners are companies with an enduring reputation on the market and proven
technologies, and who share AxxonSoft’s values and mission. A number of successful joint
projects under the partnership have already come to fruition in different areas of the public
and private sectors. These including banking, oil and gas, energy, retail, transport, industry,
Safe City projects, and more. Successful implementation of even the most complicated pro-
jects inspires us and instills confidence that the program will continue to offer significant
benefits.

In this issue:

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 «The Panasonic–AxxonSoft partnership is a long-term one with strong
strategic underpinnings. By combining the know-how of both companies,
we have enabled AxxonSoft software to offer complete, peerless support
for leveraging all of the capabilities of Panasonic hardware in real-world
systems. This means that end clients get a refined, reliable system that
has outstanding monitoring and administration capabilities, robust data
storage and instantaneous access to previously recorded video, and video
analytics tools that until recently seemed like something out of science
fiction.
The security systems that end clients receive are ready not just for the
panasonic

Petr Soldatov requirements of today, but tomorrow as well. A sterling example of our
Head of B2B Security Products joint work is found in the surveillance systems that already have been in-
Panasonic CIS stalled at numerous sites around the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi, where Panasonic cameras are working around the clock under the
capable management of the Intellect PSIM».

«Panasonic is a top-tier partner for us, a company with enormous tech-

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nological strengths and innovative surveillance hardware. This hardware

combines with AxxonSoft software to offer joint solutions with a unique
feature set and strong competitive advantages. Panasonic technologies
allow processing video streams and reviewing fragments of video without
decompression, which eliminates the load on computer resources. The
upshot? A single server can handle dozens of cameras at the same time,
without compromising a bit on surveillance quality! Panasonic hardware
also has smart scene analytic tools, which reduce the network load – in-
stead of needing to send all cameras information, it can send only the
Andrei Khristoforov important parts, such as when alarms are triggered.
Director of Corporate Sales
These and other Panasonic technologies help AxxonSoft products to
AxxonSoft
offer colossal opportunities for creation of security systems that are large-
scale and distributed, yet resource-efficient and budget friendly, for even
the most sensitive and hard-to-protect sites».

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Panasonic technologies integrated
into AxxonSoft products
Panasonic IP cameras have a number of unique functions.
Support for these unique functions in AxxonSoft soft-
ware allows creating video surveillance systems with
outstanding technical characteristics and compelling
advantages for the user. Optimal brightness for facial
recognition

Footprint-free video analytics of your video server’s CPU, bandwidth, and disk space for
storage of recorded video.
Panasonic i-VMD intelligent video motion detection

1
pinpoints motion in a specified area of the frame, loiter- Constant bit rate. The video quality and maximum
ing in an area, motion in a selected direction, and sudden bitrate are configured. The frame rate and minimum
changes in the recorded scene. The Motion Mask multi- bitrate are automatically selected by the ca mera.
zone motion detector records movement and sends infor-
mation to the server about the part of the frame in which
motion has occurred. All of this allows performing video
analytics without increasing the burden on the CPU, which
2 Frame rate. The frame rate and maximum bitrate are
configured, and the camera itself sets the video qual-
ity and minimum bitrate.
allows handling more video channels on a single server. To
reduce traffic, you can receive and record only the video
that contains events of interest, or else constantly record 3 Best effort. The maximum and minimum bitrate are
configured, and based on this the camera chooses a
frame rate.
video at low quality and switch to a higher-quality stream
when events occur. On-camera video analytics reduce the
number of necessary video severs by several times over, On-camera processing
making the overall system cheaper and simpler.
of fisheye imagery
Dynamic adjustment Panasonic cameras with fisheye lenses can transmit
not only a complete yet distorted image of 360-degree
for network conditions scenes, but also dewarped images, thanks to mathemati-
By selecting one of the three data transfer methods cal processing. Panasonic cameras support 2x2 views,
available, you can squeeze out the greatest efficiency in use panoramas (360 degrees), and double panoramas (2*180

Optimal angle for facial

recognition

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 Effective adaptive digital noise reduction

degrees). A single camera with fisheye lens can replace pensate for uneven lighting. These are the two factors that
several fixed cameras. Receiving video from these “virtual most often complicate facial recognition.
fixed cameras” does not create any additional burden on
the client workstation used for viewing.
Optimal angle for facial recognition
Automatic handling of moving objects The Face Best Shot function can detect up to eight faces
per second in a frame. Five frames are made for each face;
by PTZ camera the best result for each is chosen. All of these face photos
Auto Tracking allows PTZ units to automatically track captured by the camera can be transmitted as a separate
moving objects. There are two configuration options: Auto stream, in JPEG format, in order to supply the sever with
Tracking and Advanced Auto Tracking. In the case of the first photos that are optimal for facial recognition while spend-
setting, the camera follows any moving object; the second ing minimal resources on decompression.
setting allows following objects that occupy more than 30%
of the frame. Automatic tracking allows getting detailed im-
ages of moving objects without spending additional effort Two cameras in one
or resources. VIQS (Variable Image Quality in Specified Area) can
vastly reduce the load on bandwidth and size of record-
Auto Back Focus ed video in certain situations. Often it is not necessary to
transmit the entire frame at high quality. In these cases,
The Auto Back Focus (ABF) feature automatically ad- video is sent over two channels: the first channel con-
justs the camera’s CCD position when changing from color tains the entire video stream at the user-selected qual-
to B/W mode, for obtaining crisp images at any time of day. ity, while the second channel contains video from the
area of interest at maximum quality. Thus a single cam-
Adaptive digital noise reduction era can offer both panoramic and situational awareness.
Adaptive digital noise reduction offers visible improve-
ment to image quality in inclement conditions: fog, rain, Four images from one
smoke, etc.
The Image Cropping functions allows obtaining four
streams (each with resolution of 640x480) from a single
Optimal brightness for facial recognition Full HD video stream, which can be more convenient in
After a face is found in a frame, the Super Dynamic some cases. For example, if a quarter of the screen does
function automatically adjusts the exposition settings so not contain important information (swaying trees, build-
that the face has optimal brightness. This function drasti- ing walls, etc.), display of that stream can be disabled,
cally reduces the impact of backlighting and can also com- which saves resources on the client computer.

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 «Sony Corporation regards collaboration with AxxonSoft as a key
component in its strategy for integration with security software de-
velopers and independent vendors. We know how popular AxxonSoft
products are in Russia and the CIS, and also that they are enjoying
successful and steady progress in sales on the international market
for IP surveillance. Our companies’ joint efforts to integrate Sony DEPA
Advanced technology into AxxonSoft security platforms are sure to
provide an additional competitive boost for the new 6G IP cameras
from Sony».

Mikhail Zikeev
CCTV Product Manager
SONY

Sony

«Joint work with Sony has already produced several useful integra-
AXXONSOFT

tions, with more yet to come. For example, we support use of metada-
ta recorded by Sony cameras, which can then be used to give warning
of different threats. Our products also support Sony’s on-board facial
recognition and mathematical processing of face information – this
speeds up searches of recorded video, with faster indexing and more
robust results. Sony has adapted its innovations to fit with our joint
integration plans, which is something that we are enormously appre-
ciative of».

Aleksander Baranov
Marketing Director and Sales Director,
Russia and the CIS
AxxonSoft

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 Integration of Sony technologies
and AxxonSoft products
Easy Focus can be managed
through AxxonSoft interfaces,
Sony uses a number of technologies in its IP cameras to provide ex-
which simplifies camera setup as well.
ceptional image quality in diverse conditions, as well as improve the Support for edge storage, located on
functioning of distributed video surveillance systems. the camera itself, offers the option to
save and view video even when no
connection between the camera and
AxxonSoft products can get indexing recorded video to search it server is available.
metadata from Sony cameras, for faces at a later time.
meaning that alarm footage can be AxxonSoft supports a number Another three features are slated
screened by scene analytics detec- of other features on Sony cam- for integration support:
tion tools and that recorded video eras as well. All camera settings are Privacy masking lays an opaque
can be indexed for future searches accessible through the AxxonSoft mask on top of every frame, hiding a
by diverse visual criteria (using visual configuration interface, which portion of the frame from the operator.
MomentQuest2). Video is processed simplifies setup. Support for three Image Stabilizer compensates for im-
on the camera side, avoiding any H.264 codec profiles allows selecting age degradation due to camera shaking
need for decompressing video on the perfect ratio of video quality to when cameras are located on vibrat-
the server. This radically reduces the bandwidth, as well as the worksta- ing mounts, such as on poles near rail
load on the video server, enabling tions for each camera. tracks. Last but not least, View-DR a true
the server to handle more video Strict limits can be set on bitrate, multi-exposure WDR tool, produces im-
streams while running video detec- which gives designers the certainty ages with an extremely wide dynamic
tion tools. they need when accounting for band- range, by capturing four frames taken
Another feature supported by width and disk storage capacity. with different exposure times and com-
AxxonSoft software is retrieval What’s more, Sony cameras «just bining them into a single image, which
of face capture information from know» how to stream video quickly, can ensure even better visibility than
on-board Sony facial recognition, up to 60 frames per second, which can when seen with the naked eye. Note
along with mathematical process- be critical for tracking quickly moving that this feature does not create any ad-
ing of this information, which allows objects such as road traffic or rail cars. ditional load on the server.

View-DR
4 DIFFERENT EXPOSURES SAMPLED

DIGITAL RESULT
PROCESSING

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 «Our worldwide partnership with AxxonSoft is a powerful bonus for
our standalone solutions and server-based software. Together with our
CMS structure, we have smashed through the old limits on the scalabil-
ity of video surveillance, empowering system integrators and end users
with the flexibility they need.
This collaboration allows our users to truly experience the results of
our joint efforts and innovative techniques. We believe the industry is
better off for our collaboration in this direction. We are also looking for-
ward to the positive influence of these advances on the security market».

Evelyn Kao
QNAP

QNAP Security
Product Marketing Manager

«Joint solutions with QNAP have a lot to offer, both for us and the
AXXONSOFT

market at large – QNAP provides consumer-oriented network attached

storage solutions that are popular across the globe. We support the
company’s NVRs as external storage on Intellect-powered surveillance
systems. Integration of QNAP devices and Intellect situational aware-
ness is a winning solution both for current users of QNAP devices and for
clients who are still in the planning stage».

Aleksander Baranov
Marketing Director and Sales Director,
Russia and the CIS
AxxonSoft

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Intellect combined with QNAP NVRs
in joint solution

1 2 Remote NVR QNAP

3
Remote NVR QNAP Remote NVR QNAP

N Remote NVR QNAP

INTELLECT-POWERED
MONITORING HUB
4 Remote NVR QNAP

The monitoring hub is powered by Intellect PSIM soft-

This joint solution is designed for establishing ware. Workstation operators use Intellect to view the video
distributed video surveillance systems at remotely sent by the NVRs installed at remote sites. Operators can
located sites with a central monitoring hub. view both live video and recorded video. In addition,
Intellect’s video analytic tools can be applied to the video
received from NVRs and the video can be recorded to the
QNAP network video recorders are used at remote sites local archive at the monitoring hub. The components of this
for local video recording and local video monitoring, as well joint solution – the Intellect PSIM and QNAP NVRs – com-
as transmitting live and recorded video over the network to bine to generate a solution that is even more powerful than
the monitoring hub. the sum of its parts.

Advantages of QNAP NVRs for local sites

No need for PC-based video servers at local sites: Hot disk swapping and hot spares.
reliable Linux NVRs are used instead.
Devices automatically turn on after power
Low energy use, heat, and noise. interruption.
A quad-disk NVR with installed disks consumes ap- Reserve power source
proximately 80 watts. (for rack-mounted quad-disk NVRs).
Almost no maintenance required after initial setup. Four-year warranty is proof of component reliability.

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 «Vivotek is well known for its comprehensive range of high-perfor-
mance network cameras. Collaboration with AxxonSoft provides an
excellent platform for us to demonstrate how compatible our products
are, offering users countless benefits and versatile configuration op-
tions. We have enjoyed strong engagement with the AxxonSoft team for
a long time, and we will continue the dialog and strengthen technical
integration so that our cameras can increase their presence in AxxonSoft
installations».

Steve Ma
vivotek

Executive Vice President

Vivotek

«Our history with Vivotek goes back years – joint efforts with our
AXXONSOFT

technology partner are the key for achieving impressive results and
crafting outstanding solutions. We admire Vivotek for its keen grasp
of what the market needs and where the market is heading, as it cre-
ates new technologies and tools for professional security hardware.
Currently we are integrating support for Vivotek’s H.264 SVC scalable en-
coding, which allows optimizing bandwidth consumption on networks
of all capacities.
Together, we are ready to roll out bold innovations that have the po-
tential to reshape the security market in exciting ways. This is a value our
Alan Ataev companies share, and we strive to consolidate the experience gained by
International Sales Director our teams for a single purpose: to offer clients only the best solutions
AxxonSoft and the best service».

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Vivotek technologies integrated
into AxxonSoft products

fixed cameras. At the same time,

Vivotek is a hardware manufacturer and vendor, as well as a de- high-speed Full HD PTZ cameras can
veloper of innovative components and technologies. One of these instantly focus on an area selected by
technologies is Panoramic PTZ, which offers exciting new features the operator, offering exquisite video
for surveillance of large sites. Integration of the technology is cur- from areas of interest.
rently underway with AxxonSoft. Along with Panoramic PTZ,
AxxonSoft software will also support
other technologies on Vivotek cam-
Panoramic PTZ utilizes two cam- PTZ camera automatically orients it- eras. These include Smart Stream,
eras, one of which is a high-speed self and focuses on the selected point which optimizes use of bandwidth
Full HD pan-tilt-zoom camera, and or area. and disk space, increased frame
the second of which is a fisheye-lens Panoramic PTZ technology of- rates (up to 60 fps at resolutions of
camera. The cameras are installed at fers a convenient way to cover up to 720p HD) that offer crystal-
an identical height of between 30 and large areas while maintaining the clear images of quickly moving ob-
100 cm (12 to 40 inches) and linked by ability to view selected zones in de- jects, and Auto Tracking of moving
a special Vivotek application. tail. This ability is particularly impor- objects with the help of high-speed
During ordinary surveillance, the tant at airports, malls, rail stations, PTZ cameras.
operator monitors the overall situa- and other public places. Panoramic IP video surveillance solutions
tion through the imagery from the PTZ works so well thanks to the ad- based on Vivotek cameras and
fisheye camera. To get a better look vantages of the cameras behind it: AxxonSoft software are a high-
at a part of the scene, the operator fisheye cameras have an enormous tech team that together can meet
simply clicks a point of interest or se- field of view, with just one of them the most stringent requirements
lects a zone in the field of view. The practically able to replace several thanks to the latest technologies.

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 «In 2013, Samsung Techwin brought a new lineup of Full HD (1080P)
IP cameras onto the market. This was our company’s biggest product
launch of the year, and we were delighted to soon have deep, high-qual-
ity integration support for our new IP camera lineup in Axxon Next. Our
long-term strategy with AxxonSoft has allowed us to offer our clients
state-of-the-art solutions and amazing video analytics capabilities for
keeping them safer than ever before. The international presence of both
Samsung Techwin and AxxonSoft gives us the capability to work togeth-
er in providing technical support to our partners in countries across the
globe».
Pavel Kurilenko
samsung

Development Director
Samsung Russia & CIS

«The relationship between Samsung and AxxonSoft on the Russian

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market is an ongoing success story. With the signing of a long-term co-

operation agreement between Samsung and IPDROM, an AxxonSoft
subsidiary, the partnership is on course to continue to grow and prosper.
This agreement offers a stable platform for implementing dazzling joint
projects.
We are also glad to be able to say that Samsung, with its traditional
strength on the analog surveillance market, is becoming just as strong in
the IP space as well. Evidence of this includes their new IP camera lineup
with WiseNetIII CMOS sensors, which offer enhanced image processing
Sergey Bukreev capabilities for 1.3 and 2MP Samsung cameras.
Sales Director All of this gives us the confidence to say that IP surveillance solutions
IPdrom based on Samsung hardware and AxxonSoft PSIM and VMS solutions
are a perfect fit for vast swaths of the market, all the way from one-store
retailers to enormous corporations with a physical presence spread
across countries».

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 Integrated AxxonSoft support
for Samsung technologies
Mobile NVR PC
PROFILE 1 PROFILE 2 PROFILE 3
VGA 5 fps 2 Mpix 30fps VGA 30 fps

Ordinary camera (30 fps) WiseNetIII (60 fps)

New Samsung WiseNetIII processors offer greater features for video signal processing from 1.3MP and
2MP Samsung cameras. The result? High-quality video, no matter the weather or light levels. IP video
surveillance solutions based on Samsung cameras and AxxonSoft software can reliably meet the
security needs of the smallest businesses and massive industrial sites alike.

SSLE (Samsung Super Light image with the best contrast, sharpness, the resolution and frame rate indepen-
Enhancer) ensures high-quality color resolution, and depth of field based on dently for each selected area in the
footage even in low-light conditions. the lighting conditions of the current frame. Bandwidth and storage use are
This technology lets operators control scene. Sharp, clear images are gener- eased substantially.
for poorly lit areas in the field of view. ated both of close-up and far-away Simple focus technology auto-
WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) faith- objects, whether at the center or edge matically adjusts the focus when
fully reproduces all the image details in of the field of view – which is especially switching between day and night
scenes that contain both very dark and important for megapixel cameras. modes. Box cameras can achieve this
very light areas. Even at a frame rate of Thanks to high video compres- via a CMOS sensor, while dome cam-
30 fps and resolution of 2 megapixels, sion performance on WiseNetIII pro- eras use a motorized variable lens for
Samsung cameras ensure unflagging cessors, Samsung cameras pump out this purpose.
image quality with a contrast ratio of frame rates of up to 60 fps with image The video analytics technologies
approximately 100 dB. Meanwhile, the resolution of 2 megapixels. High frame incorporated in WiseNetIII proces-
Defog filter improves image quality in rates ensure clear, blur-free images of sors are perfect for distributed smart
situations with fog, smog and smoke. quickly moving objects. video surveillance networks, allowing
Digital Image Stabilization (DIS) Improved compression tech- efficient allocation of bandwidth and
cancels out camera jitters due to wind nology allows transmitting video video server CPU cycles. Smart motion
or building vibration. DIS also reduces streams faster than ever before. detection is designed to reduce false
the distortion associated with rolling Samsung cameras can reduce data positives by learning to isolate object
shutter, which can often be observed traffic by up to three times, using only motion in the scene and distinguish it
in the form of vibration or slanting of 30% of the bandwidth that competing from typical background movement
video from high-resolution cameras. products require. Efficient compres- (waves, swaying trees, falling leaves,
DIS is also useful for monitoring of sion means that video is transmitted etc.). Sound detection activates when
quickly moving objects, such as when non-stop, even under high network the threshold sound level is exceeded.
capturing license plate numbers. loads. And face detection can capture up to
The P-Iris system offers more pre- Thanks to multi-crop streaming, 35 faces in a single scene, with each
cise control of the camera’s aperture operators can select only the areas face detection registered as a sepa-
size, ensuring the right exposure of the in a scene that are of interest, setting rate event.

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 «AxxonSoft has been one of our closest partners since the very be-
ginning of Brickcom. We are very grateful for our partnership with
AxxonSoft and we will continue to build upon this relationship on a
global scale.
Combined AxxonSoft + Brickcom solutions have won over many sat-
isfied customers.
Users of the AxxonSoft and Brickcom combination benefit from the
diverse functions and performance of Brickcom cameras and rich fea-
ture set of AxxonSoft software».

Oscar Hsieh
brickcom

Sales Director
Brickcom

«For years now we have valued the efforts and dedication of

AXXONSOFT

Brickcom in creating IP devices that set the bar for video analytics over-
all. Recently we completed integration support for Brickcom’s 360P
lineup of IP cameras, which have panomorph lenses. Panomorph lenses
offer significantly improved image quality, particularly for objects at
the edge of the camera’s field of view, compared to the quality offered
by ordinary fisheye lenses. But to get the most out of these lenses, you
need high-resolution cameras. So the resolutions offered by Brickcom
360P cameras – three and five megapixels – are perfect for the job. And
thanks to vandal-resistant shells, integrated AxxonSoft + Brickcom solu-
Igor Falomkin tions are attractive to transport operators, among others. Our partner-
Head of Software Development ship promises to be a long one and we know already that the number
AxxonSoft of Brickcom devices integrated into AxxonSoft security platforms will be
only growing with time».

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Brickcom technologies integrated
into AxxonSoft products

AxxonSoft products have integrated sup-

port for Brickcom 360P IP cameras, which
feature ImmerVision lenses. Integration by
AxxonSoft with high-quality Brickcom
cameras helps to get the most out of t
he features offered by specially designed
ImmerVision panomorph lenses.

The concept of panomorph op- opened up

tics, pioneered and patented by unrivaled
ImmerVision, consists of generating panoramic
and controlling targeted and signifi- image quality
cant optical distortions to increase to users all over
the number of pixels in the target the world.
zones of interest (augmented angular Of course, making
and variable resolution). As claimed the most of ImmerVision
by ImmerVision, their panomorph capabilities requires cameras with
optics with central magnification high-resolution image sensors. standard for vibration protection,
give the best central performance And these cameras can be found as which makes them invaluable tools
available, with up to six times more well, in the form of three- and five- for security systems on vehicles and
resolution than that of standard fish- megapixel Brickcom 360P cameras. public transport.
eye lenses. The entire camera line is equipped This integration offers a number
Axxon Next was certified by with vandal-resistant casing as of opportunities, since AxxonSoft
ImmerVision in 2012 for compatibility well as protection from precipita- software includes special support
with the company’s panomorph lenses, tion and extreme temperatures. In for panomorph lenses. The warped
becoming the first AxxonSoft prod- addition, the MD-500Ap-360, MD- video from cameras with panomorph
uct to win the ImmerVision Enables® 300Ap-360 and MD-300Np-360 mod- lenses is transformed into multiple
360 certificate. Support in Axxon Next els are compliant with the EN50155 «ordinary» flat images for display on
the operator’s monitoring screen, as
well as a horizontal panorama. Virtual
PTZ capabilities are available for this
imagery as well. Thus one fisheye
camera can replace multiple fixed or
PTZ units, reducing the overall cost of
video surveillance.
Dewarping of video in Axxon
Next is performed using the graph-
ics card of the operator’s computer,
without burdening the CPU. Thanks
to this innovation, even less powerful
computers can view multiple pano-
ramic cameras simultaneously.
Integrated solutions combin-
ing Brickcom IP cameras and
AxxonSoft video management
platforms offer an outstanding
choice for sophisticated security
systems for both transport and infra-
structure sites of all types.

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 Intellect-powered surveillance on the high-speed
Moscow–St. Petersburg rail corridor

It has always been necessary to protect the passengers and cargo transported by the trains of
Russian Railways open joint-stock company, but the threat landscape has changed considerably
in recent years. While there are many reasons, the first of these is that with the hustle of modern
life and appearance of new technologies, including in rail transport, more and more risks require
prevention and timely reaction, and the threat of terrorism remains as important as ever. High-
tech security systems have long been an area of interest for the Russian rail transport industry.

Advanced security equipment has a decade-long his- this portion of the route at its maximum speed of 250 kilom-
tory on the Oktyabrskaya Railroad, a set of rail lines cover- eters (155 miles) per hour.
ing northwestern Russia, including the corridor between St.
Petersburg and Moscow. The original design concept called What were the key requirements for the smart
for installation of equipment at individual sites: rail stations,
substations, junctures, etc. video analytics to be deployed here?
But after the bombings of the Nevsky Express train in First, camera images must be clear regardless of weath-
2007 and 2009 on the St. Petersburg–Moscow route, this er, time of day, and lighting.
design was revised. The security system was now to include Second, video must be automatically analyzed for alarm
24-hour surveillance of rail facilities and infrastructure, to triggers: the risks related to the human factor (such as op-
eliminate “blind spots” in monitoring and cover the entire erator workload or fatigue) made computers the safer bet
route between Russia’s two largest cities. The software cho- for spotting threats that are sometimes invisible even to the
sen for this revamped system was the Intellect PSIM. The human eye.
flagship product in the AxxonSoft lineup, Intellect had ac- And finally, the threat of foreign objects appearing on
quitted itself well as an effective solution for far-flung sites the railroad made it critical that information be delivered
with incredible levels of complexity. rapidly to operators, who can then warn dispatchers and
service crews about the threat in record time.
24-hour surveillance with reliable real-time
detection of alarm events Intellect + thermal cameras =
In 2009, Russian Railways began a pilot project on timely threat detection
the Oktyabrskaya rail line between Mstinsky Bridge and To ensure uninterrupted monitoring of all areas along
Okulovka. The site was purposefully chosen for installation the Moscow–St. Petersburg corridor, Intellect was combined
of special equipment: 2009 was also the first year of opera- with thermal cameras. The Intellect-powered solution pro-
tion of the Sapsan high-speed train, which roars through cesses incoming data from thermal cameras with innovative

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detection tools, which allow quickly reacting to dangerous recording system proved its effectiveness at monitoring the
situations and avoiding potential incidents. situation along the entire transit route. Cameras installed
Why thermal? Unlike ordinary cameras, thermal imagers in the lead and tail cars capture all events as they occur.
capture light in the infrared spectrum and transmit clear im- Besides averting threats, surveillance video has been useful
ages in any weather, at any time of day or night, and without for post-event analysis and assisting the work of mainte-
any additional lighting. The usable observation distance for nance crews.
thermal cameras is 600 meters to 1 kilometer (0.35 to 0.6 State-of-the-art technologies have made Oktyabtskaya
miles), which is twelve or more times greater than the range Railroad one of the safest ones anywhere today.
offered by ordinary cameras. The integrated Intellect-based security system currently
The video analytics in Intellect allow automatically ana- stands watch over high-speed rail traffic on the Moscow–
lyzing video for alarm triggers. This makes work easier for St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg–Helsinki, and Moscow–Nizhny
operators, who can concentrate on pre-processed informa- Novgorod routes.
tion instead of plucking events out of the flood of raw video. Russian Railways, the operator of the railroad, plans to
The system automatically spots the following build on its positive experience by deploying similar sys-
types of alarm triggers in video: tems at other locations across Russia.

- Crossing of zone boundaries

- Entry/exit from zone Police capture teenagers who placed
- Motion in zone mannequin on tracks used by high-speed
- Appearance of foreign objects in zone Sapsan trains
- Video background change
For near-instant warnings about large objects on rail The police have identified the teenagers who placed
a mannequin on rail tracks in front of a high-speed
tracks, AxxonSoft specially developed a Multispectral Module.
Sapsan train.
The module detects the appearance of objects on rail tracks
and displays a notification to operators, who can quickly relay As reported by the press service of the Russian
the information to dispatchers and service crews. Interior Ministry, the transport police in cooperation
with Russian Railways security staff detained three teen-
agers, aged 13 to 15, who placed a mannequin on the
Evidence from the field: state-of-the-art video Sapsan tracks. The teenagers specially dressed the man-
surveillance protects passenger safety nequin in jeans and a coat to make it look like a person.
Oktyabrskaya Railroad now has a Situation Center for its A signal warning of a foreign object on the rail tracks
high-speed trains, which allows recording, analyzing, and was quickly transmitted to the driver of the Sapsan
preventing dangerous situations threatening the health train. The train applied its emergency brakes, without
and safety of passengers and employees, as well as the in- injury to train passengers. <...>
tegrity of rail equipment. Article from Fontanka.ru, 1 August 2013
When the Sapsan trains were introduced, the video

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Intellect protecting
subway riders
in St. Petersburg
When the subway stops working, so does the city. A broken-down subway
For today’s megalopolises, line means that employees will be late to work and students late for school.
subway systems are a sort of The remainder of the transport network is overloaded and city-dwellers be-
bloodstream, keeping the city come more stressed, which in turn reduces their trust in the city’s adminis-
tration and their overall satisfaction with city infrastructure. So when talking
alive and active with the proper
about a city’s underground transport arteries, we must pay close care to a
movement of resources, a vital number of factors. The biggest of these consists of disorderly conduct, mis-
network that shuttles riders to behavior, and – as experience sadly shows – terrorism. This threat makes it
and fro. incumbent on subway operators to install innovative security systems, which
reduce the human factor in threat management and promote rider safety.
Innovative security is a multifaceted issue that requires cooperation between
multiple city agencies. Security systems must be effective and reliable, even
as they ensure broad coverage for the needs of diverse customer agencies
within the city government.

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Context: Goal:
smart recognition see it, recognize it, compare it

In early 2013, the management of the St. Petersburg sub- The main goal of the project was to ensure that the
way system decided to launch a pilot project for rolling out photo of every person entering the station is recorded, with
a smart video surveillance system with facial recognition. information about the passenger’s further movements to be
Ladozhskaya station was chosen to host the trial installation. made available to law enforcement.
If successful, the system would be expanded to another 19 The first task was to install facial recognition, which re-
stations. quires that image quality be sufficient for identification and
The Intellect PSIM was chosen as the software to tie the comparison with an image database. The conditions for
system together. recognition are far from optimal: low lighting, backlighting
Intellect had already been deployed with great success during the daytime, and enormous passenger traffic, just to
in subway systems in London, Rome, Ekaterinburg, and name a few.
Novosibirsk, giving AxxonSoft’s product a substantial ad- The next logical step is to compare the image with those
vantage in the procurement deliberations. in a database. And of course, the parameters to be com-
For the purposes of the St. Petersburg project, Intellect pared need to tweaked to ensure accurate matching.
was to be integrated with the Concorde security system,
which had been developed specially for the St. Petersburg
subway. The system installer was TekhnoOkhranServis LLC.

Solution:
nowhere to hide
It is necessary to account for a number of details, in nition is started, by multiple cameras as soon as a passenger
light of the complexity and importance of the task: cam- enters the station.
era mounting height versus angle of incidence tradeoff, The operator workstation is located at Ladozhskaya
camera downtilt, indoor lighting, outside lighting, and station as well, in a special monitoring area. The surveil-
vibration caused by escalator movement. By solving this lance system supports multiple levels of notifications, dif-
problem, the developers and installers effectively cracked ferent types of operator notifications, and configurable
the whole nut, as it were. methods for displaying information on the operator’s
So in the entry area at Ladozhskaya station, cameras screen. Fewer than four seconds are needed to notify the
for passenger monitoring were installed at a height of 170 operator when the face of a criminal is recognized in the
centimeters (67 inches). Neither a snug scarf or hat brim database.
will save passengers from identification. According to St. There is practically no limit on the capacity of the photo
Petersburg subway executives, daily passenger flow at database used for comparison. The current storage limit for
Ladozhskaya is approximately 65,000 people – an amount recorded video is one month, but actual retention length is
that the new video surveillance system is handling just fine. limited only by the expenses necessary for data storage. Up
The cameras are located out in the open, but hiding to one month of subway trips can be «played back» for any
from them is not possible: images are captured, and recog- person whose photo is found in the database.

Results:
success!
According to Fontanka.ru, the system currently recognizes 98% of faces, and if the recognized photo is in the database,
there is a 92% chance that the face will be identified. These are fantastic results that give cause for optimism.
The next step is to install similar systems at another 19 subway stations in St. Petersburg: currently, when a fugitive is
identified by the system, it is impossible to track further movements since cameras are installed at only one station. Thus
the most impressive results of surveillance of the St. Petersburg subway system are yet to come, after expansion is com-
pleted – something we hope will be soon in coming!

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 Mudo is a leading Turkish retailer, offering clothing, accessories,
furniture and home decoration products at 120 locations throughout
Turkey. The Mudo brand includes Mudo Collection, Mudo Concept, Mudo
Accessoires and Mudo Outlet. Under the guidance of its founder, Mustafa
Taviloğlu, Mudo has grown from its launch in 1964 as a small gift shop to
become a major brand in today’s Turkish retail marketplace.
A longtime proponent of AxxonSoft software, global partner Axis
Communications has deployed 1,920 cameras in 120 Mudo stores around
Turkey, cementing both companies’ active role on the Turkish security mar-
ket with this challenging and well-implemented project.
The features of the Axxon Next VMS empower Mudo to handle security
management elegantly and reliably, with outstanding video analytic and
mobile capabilities. Now every Mudo store manager can view live and re-
corded HQ video from the store on an iPhone, iPad or any Android device,
even when traveling abroad. The touchscreen interface allows even non-
IT staff to easily operate the VMS. Mudo has approved further extension of
the project to new stores as they are built, marking a long-term relationship
that has already brought significant results.
Mudo retail stores,
Turkey

Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD), an international express courier

service, has installed and continues to successfully use an Intellect-
powered security system to protect the company’s storage areas.
As a leading express carrier of packages and cargo, DPD provides thou-
sands of clients with comprehensive transport and logistics services using
its unique delivery networks, which cover 7,000 destination pairs in Russia
and other countries around the world.
Warehouses occupy a key spot in the cargo > warehouse > client flow,
since the integrity of the cargo at the warehouse and smart placement af-
fect both delivery times and the condition of the cargo on delivery.
The client expressed its desire to set up video surveillance of its ware-
house facility, which is used for sorting and temporary storage of cargo.
Surveillance needed to have exceptionally high image quality, in order to
track cargo movements as well as record any cases of product resorting or
disappearance.
The Intellect PSIM was chosen as the software platform for live monitor-
ing and management of recorded video at the site – and for good reason.
Intellect offers unlimited capacity for building flexible, easily scalable sys-
Delivery warehouse tems with support for infinite numbers of servers and operator worksta-
tions. And if cargo is lost or disappears, the analytic tools in Intellect can
for Dynamic Parcel reconstruct the movement trail of cargo in record time.
Distribution, The client’s system includes 130 Brickcom cameras (FB-130Np and OB-
130Np) with 1.3 MP resolution, as well as Brickcom PS-7242IL switches for
maintaining a fiber-optic network with bitrates of 1 Gb/sec and providing
Moscow, Russia power to 24 connected cameras via Ethernet cabling.
Installer: Grand Prix The results of the decision to combine Intellect software and Brickcom
hardware not only met all of the client’s needs, but impressed all involved
with the system’s state-of-the-art features and commendable stability –
ideal qualities for large and complicated sites.

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 In March 2013, installation of a security and video management
system was completed at a Russian factory of Oriflame, a leading man-
ufacturer of cosmetics in Russia and around the world.
Oriflame Cosmetics S.A. is a Swedish cosmetics company and a premier
world manufacturer of cosmetic products, perfumes, beauty products, jew-
elry, and accessories.
The first task was to develop a solution to protect the Oriflame ware-
house complex, taking into account the needs of the consignment storage
area. So it was critical that the system and its hardware not only be vandal-
proof, but also offer split-second reactions to alarms and full video monitor-
ing of the warehouse site.
The second task was to install the video surveillance system at an office
building and adjacent spaces.
This is why the Intellect PSIM from AxxonSoft was chosen: built to power
multifunctional security systems of all scales and levels of complexity at far-
flung sites, the flexible software allows installing a large number of servers
and setting up the necessary number of remote workstations for monitoring.
At this stage, the site was equipped with nine servers and two monitoring
Oriflame factory, posts, as well as approximately 200 cameras with resolution of 1 and 1.3 MP.
The choice of hardware was ultimately made in favor of Brickcom: im-
Moscow Region, Russia portantly, the Intellect PSIM fully supports all of the features of Brickcom IP
Installer: Grand Prix devices.
By tying all these components together, the solution – with AxxonSoft
software and Brickcom IP hardware – allowed meeting all of the client’s
needs and providing effective protection for Oriflame facilities.

Vnukovo International Airport, near Moscow, is one of the busiest

transport hubs in Russia.
Vnukovo’s active growth, modernization, and new terminal construc-
tion caught the eye of Regstaer, one of Russia’s leading duty-free operators.
Regstaer stores offer a full range of duty-free products: alcohol, perfumes
and cosmetics, jewelry, tobacco products, candy, clothes, accessories,
watches, and travel products.
The security system for such a store needed to meet special require-
ments, preserving the integrity of expensive products without intruding on
the store’s design and feel. Visitors have to feel comfortable and relaxed in
the store, without feeling subjected to obtrusive surveillance. A the same
time, stores with exclusive accessories require alarm systems for showcases.
Security needed to be invisible yet easy to operate.
It was also necessary to put IP video surveillance systems in five new
stores and three existing ones, in terminals A and B, the VIP area, and the
Vnukovo-3 business terminal. The software platform for the new system is
POS Intellect, an industry-specific vertical solution made specially for retail-
ers. Axis supplied the IP hardware used.
Duty Free stores, Video cameras along the perimeter and in customer areas of the new
Vnukovo Airport, stores ensure security but also help with marketing: customer behavior,
bottlenecks, and customer routes through the store are some of the areas
in which video surveillance offers a critical advantage. The solution for re-
Moscow Region, Russia tailers developed specially in a joint effort between AxxonSoft and Axis is
Installer: Unimax particularly useful here.
A separate operator workstation was added for continuous monitor-
ing and quick reactions to events. Information is shown on four monitors,
24 hours a day. In all, Regstaer’s IP surveillance system for its facilities at
Vnukovo Airport spans over 200 IP cameras.

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 Axxon Next is being used to power video surveillance in the city
of Rio Gallegos, located in the province of Santa Cruz on the southern
coast of Argentina.
The «heart» of surveillance is the situation center in Rio Gallegos, which
is the hub for all alarm information received from emergency calls to the
police. The situation center is built on the Axxon Next VMS.
Safe City surveillance in Rio Gallegos uses hardware from VisionxIP: two
servers and 56 cameras, of which 45 are Вullet VXIP N6071 models and 11
are PTZ VXIP H2100 models.
Rio Gallegos has suffered from a crime wave in recent years, which has
caused anxiety for the city’s residents. Thus it was proposed to install sur-
veillance cameras and set up a situation center for quickly processing and
reacting to alarms. The Santa Cruz government approved the project for
Axxon Next-based surveillance – and the results have already surpassed
expectations.
Operators need minimal training time, thanks to the intuitive Axxon
Next interface. Plus the Santa Cruz police can export video to share it with
lawyers, courts, detectives, and other parties involved in criminal investiga-
Safe City municipal tions. The system has been installed for only a few months, but it has al-
surveillance, ready succeeded in providing evidence in dozens of criminal cases.

Rio Gallegos, Argentina

Retailers, and especially large chains with high visibility and traffic
flows, are particularly sensitive to security issues. That is why SPAR
Österreichische Warenhandels AG, which manages the chain’s Austrian
stores, took a very serious attitude when looking at development and de-
ployment of a new CCTV system and selecting the software for it.
AxxonSoft has a reliable Austrian partner, AlbiControl, which is a dis-
tributor of security equipment. AlbiControl recommended that SPAR lead-
ership pick Intellect Lite because of its status as the most multifunctional,
reliable, and smart software for security systems today.
The client opted for Intellect Lite, which is a simplified version of the
Intellect PSIM stripped of additional features and modules. Intellect Lite
completely met the client’s needs, with lower purchase and support outlays
than for the full version of Intellect Enterprise, its «big brother».
Based on Intellect Lite, the video surveillance system supports four
video server, up to 256 cameras, and an unlimited number of remote op-
erator workstations. The system is a fully functional version of Intellect with
support for all core features: interactive site maps, event log, tools to create
automatic scripts for reacting to events, support for all IP devices covered
SPAR Österreichische by Intellect integration, and more.
The setup is perfect for effective live video monitoring as well as after-
Warenhandels AG the-fact analysis and investigation. Security staff can easily find important
video footage of past events, analyze recorded video with special video
Austria analytic tools, perform remote real-time video surveillance, and create au-
tomatic reaction scripts for handling alarm events.
Spar Osterreich Warenhandels AG plans to install similar systems pow-
ered by Intellect Lite at other SPAR supermarkets all over Austria. AxxonSoft
and its partner AlbiControl are excited to contribute to the project and look
forward to this next step.

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