Axis Communications AXIS M3014 Fixed Dome Network Camera

Image Capture and Quality

Image Sensor

The M3014 has a 1/4-inch progressive scan RGB 1 Megapixel CMOS image sensor.

Lens

The camera features a fixed iris lens (2.9mm, F2.0) with a horizontal viewing angle of 80°.

Progressive Scan

The camera displays images by 'writing' one entire line on the screen at a time progressively, offering clear images without any blurring in moving objects.

Resolution, Frame Rate, and Image Quality

The camera offers a 1280x800 to 160x90 resolution. In the H.264 and Motion JPEG compression standards, the camera delivers a frame rate of 30 fps (frames per second) in all resolutions. The M3014 provides high-quality HDTV 720p or 1 megapixel video, making it suitable for sensitive areas such as entrances or checkout counters.

Backlight Compensation

Backlight compensation adjusts video gain to correct the exposure when the object is in front of a bright light source.

White Balance

The white balance feature adjusts the red, green, and blue colors taking a standard white reference to get clear images.

Low Light Functionality

The 1/4-inch CMOS sensor enables the camera to function in light conditions as low as 1 Lux at F2.0.

Image Settings

The image settings that can be customized are compression, color, brightness, sharpness, contrast, white balance, exposure control, exposure zones, backlight compensation, fine tuning of behavior at low light, rotation, text and image overlay, and the privacy mask.

PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom), Presets, and Shutter Time

The camera offers Digital PTZ, preset positions, shutter time of 1/25000 to 1/6 seconds and a guard tour.

Alarms

Intelligent Motion Detection

The M3014 Network Camera's intelligent motion detection feature compares the current frame with a pre-determined standard frame to accurately trigger an alarm if motion is detected. On motion detection, the pre-/post- alarm images can either be sent to an FTP or HTTP server for uploading or to a specified email address.

Video Buffer

The pre-/post-alarm images are stored in a 40 MB video buffer.

Storage, Networking and Security

Compression Standard

While capturing, storing, or transmitting images, the M3014 supports multi-stream and one stream H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC) and Motion JPEG compression standards, enabling less bandwidth and storage utilization. Both the frame rate and bandwidth are controllable.

Image Transmission Protocols

The camera supports IPv4/v6, HTTP, HTTPS, QoS Layer 3 DiffServ, FTP, SMTP, Bonjour, UPnP, SNMPv1/v2c/v3(MIB-II), DNS, DynDNS, NTP, RTSP, RTP, TCP, UDP, IGMP, RTCP, ICMP, DHCP, ARP, and SOCKS transmission protocols.

IP Filtering

IP filtering restricts access to one or more user groups. User groups can be created with an IP address range being defined for each group.

Password Protection

Password usage restricts access to unauthorized persons.

HTTPS Encryption

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) encryption scrambles the image data for added security.

Digest Authentication

The M3014 uses a system where the network server authenticates a user request through a domain controller and then grants access to authorized users only.

User Access Log

The network camera maintains a log of all the users that were granted access to the camera image data on the network.

Power Supply

PoE (Power over Ethernet)

Power over Ethernet IEEE 802.3af Class 1 allows the camera to receive power from the network itself without any extra wiring for auxiliary power outlets.

System Integration

API (Application Program Interface)

Software integration is facilitated with an open API that includes VAPIX from Axis Communications.