Axis Site Designer - What Do You Think?

JH
John Honovich
Feb 11, 2016
IPVM

New Axis release - announcement here, tool here.

Below is their intro video:

What do you think?

U
Undisclosed #1
Feb 11, 2016
IPVMU Certified

So it lets you put in all your prospects and their project information and store it at axis.com?

hmmm...

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JH
John Honovich
Feb 11, 2016
IPVM

Sigh, that's pretty conspiracy theory.

U
Undisclosed #1
Feb 11, 2016
IPVMU Certified

How so? I'm not saying that Fujio himself is going to start calling on your prospects, that would be a dead giveaway. :)

But a departing Axis employee on their way to a new job, or a bad apple RSM, or just a system glitch that could expose your customers and prospects is something worthy of consideration, no?

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JH
John Honovich
Feb 11, 2016
IPVM

One, you don't need to give that much specific information about the project. You could just say "Big Hospital" e.g. And I severely doubt that Axis RSMs would ever have any access to this.

I do recognize that integrators are sensitive about such things but I don't think this is likely.

How about before we go to such an extreme, address whether or not this is worth using?

U
Undisclosed #1
Feb 11, 2016
IPVMU Certified

...address whether or not this is worth using?

For an IPVM member probably not. I don't see it being a site designer. Where is the layout tool? It's basically an (Axis) camera selector with a bandwidth calculator and BOM generator, tied together by persistence.

Its no match for the IPVM camera calculator/finder, IMHO.

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JH
John Honovich
Feb 11, 2016
IPVM

That was one element I was confused about. There does not seem to be a way to lay out cameras out side by side / on a floorplan, etc. That's pretty common in any design tool (Visio, JVSG, CAD, whatever).

I do like the overhead camera angling controls / visualization. It's something that we have talked for a while about adding but it has been less demanded than other features we have prioritized.

UE
Undisclosed End User #2
Feb 24, 2016

I also didn't see a way to enable their new 'slip stream' compression, or set the proper resolution for their 4k camera

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