Image Capture and Quality

Image Sensor

The M1031-W has a 1/4-inch progressive scan RGB VGA CMOS image sensor.

Lens

The camera has a fixed iris, fixed focus lens (4.4 mm, F2.0) with a horizontal viewing angle of 47°.

Progressive Scan

The camera displays images by 'writing' on entire line on the screen at a time progressively. This results in a clear VGA picture without any blurring in moving objects.

Resolution and Frame Rate

The camera offers a 640x480 to 160x120 resolution. In the H.264, Motion JPEG, and MPEG-4 Part 2 compression standard, the camera delivers a frame rate of 30 fps (frames per second) in all resolutions.

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.

Alarms

Intelligent Motion Detection

The M1031-W 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 16 MB video buffer.

Storage, Networking, and Security

Compression Standard

When capturing, storing, or transmitting images, the M1031-W supports multi-stream H.264, Motion JPEG, and MPEG-4 Part 2 compression standards, enabling less bandwidth and storage utilization than average MJPEG standards. It supports one H.264/MPEG-4 Part 2 stream in full frame rate and resolution and two Motion JPEG individually configured streams. 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 M1031-W 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.

System Integration

API (Application Program Interface)

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