Axis P3384 Areal View Camera

You took a 720p camera and split it across 8 different views?

Over the years, there have been a handful of companies who marketed something called 'virtual cameras'. Taking segments of a camera and turning them into 'virtual' cameras/feeds. For example, a 3MP camera covering 3 teller stations - draw boxes on each station area and turn that into 3 'virtual' cameras so one can easily look at the specific teller station of interest.

I don't think that has really taken off though I think there's some use.

We have one of those camera's here at work in our test lab. Thanks for bringing that to my attention I will have to look into that. Just giving it a quick look I could not find where to configure that, any tips?

Let me have a go. The OnSSI tech gave me brief run thru.

- On Left menu, under camera settings, top section there is View Areas, check it to enable view areas.

- On left menu, click on View Areas

- The default view area is set

- add a view area and the modify parameters.

I have not gone any further than that, it seems to be very constrained. You can add up to 7 views.

Vasiles,

I am a technical trainer for OnSSI, and I have 2 Axis Area View cameras that I use in my training classes (M3007, P3344). Axis Area View Cameras do indeed show up as 8 separate cameras under 1 hardware device in the Ocularis Recording Component - as you noted. However, if you have Ocularis 3.5 or newer, this functionality will only require 1 camera license.

From our 3.5 Release Notes:

Better Support for Multi-Stream Cameras

Only one license is required for supporting multi-stream cameras on all Ocularis feature sets. The cameras included are: Arecont 180 / 360 degree, IQ Eye Cameo and Axis Area View. (For Ocularis PS, while utilizing one camera license, these cameras will still count as connecting four cameras when calculating the maximum number of cameras supported on the recorder.)

Note: The above refers to licensing cameras on the recorder. Because we tie these camera licenses to the Ocularis Base, after you license the cameras on the recorder, you will have to send in the .lrq (license request) file, and our support team will update your Base License so this device only uses one camera license (reflected in the License Activation screen - after the update.)

If you need help, or have anything else I can assist with, please contact me directly: mmajor(AT)OnSSI(DOT)com