Transform your Axis cameras into intelligent agents trained by you. FixedIT is your one-stop shop for edge application development, offering custom implementation as well as education, tools, and libraries for ACAP developers. Together we can create camera applications...
Edge applications for the Axis camera (ACAPs) empower you to run custom code directly on the camera, eliminating the need for additional hardware. Harness the full potential of your camera and unlock innovative functionalities with ease!
Our partners create their ACAPs in a fraction of the time. Enjoy better quality and observability while reducing the cost for maintenance. As your strategic partner, we provide all the necessary consultation, tools, platforms and libraries.
Deploying your first ACAP application is only the start of your journey. The camera application platform is what enables the cameras to grow together with your company, and we will be there on your journey to make sure that the cameras are always working for you, not against you. By leveraging our experience and know-how, together with our in-house development tools and libraries, we help you deliver fast results with instant impact on your business problems. Once the first version is deployed, our platforms and integrations will help you to observe and monitor the applications to ensure that you will find any issues before your customers do. When the camera platform changes, you can be assured that our experts know what needs to be changed.
Our ACAP developer tools are designed to accelerate and simplify large and complex camera applications. Building, prototyping and testing ACAPs has never been easier.
In our e-learning portal, your developers can gain experience, learn common design patterns and find answers to their most common questions.
The fastest way to solve your challenges is to let us do the application bring up. Our experienced developers will make use of templating tools, prebuilt libraries and our vast collection of IP. Our services include system design, project management and retainers for maintenance. With this option, going from idea to proof of concept within weeks is not uncommon.
More and more companies are moving their solutions to the edge, this is a necessary but technically complicated transition. A partnership with us ensures that you have experts on call that can help you with decisions or ideas. In a workshop with your developers, we can discuss your designs to ensure that your ACAP becomes portable and future proof. If a critical issues arrises, we are here to help.
The ACAP SDK from Axis gives you:
To build a product you need:
We know that when builds become complex, they become brittle. We know that with scale comes operational complexity. Our main priority is to provide all systems and tools that are needed for large scale production of ACAPs. This includes post-deployment monitoring, debugging and build automation.
Enhance the skills of your ACAP developers, keep up to date with the new AXIS ACAP features and make onboarding of new employees to a breeze!
Our ACAP developer e-learning platform gives you easy access to our learning material. We have free content as well as premium deep dives. The material is available as video courses, text-based courses, follow-along exercises and interactive quizzes to test your knowledge.
Hands on workshops mixed with conceptual understanding will help your developers regardless if they are new to Axis cameras and video analytics or seasoned ACAP developers and computer vision experts. Our company training comes in different flavors and will be tailored to your needs.
After attending this workshop you will understand how the cameras work, what is needed to work with them, how to setup everything and how to think about the different components in the system.
This is the optimal course if you don't have a lot of experience with the Axis cameras and want to get started as quickly as possible.
Get familiar with ACAP application development, how to install and upgrade applications and learn how to use the libraries and APIs.
This course is perfect if you want to get started with ACAP development since we will present all important information in a structured and interactive way.
Learn how to architect ACAP applications, how to make a compatibility analysis and how to convert deep learning models.
This course is perfect for developers with experience of ACAP development who wants to expand their understanding and understand the rationale behind the SDK design.
With the aim to make ACAP development easier and more powerful, we have partnered with companies that complement each other. With our custom integrations it is easy to combine different frameworks and make them work in unison.
Our partnership with Axis Communications enables us to build technologies that expand the offering from the AXIS network cameras. Many of us are also Axis Certified Professionals.
As a solution provider for the Edge Impulse MLOps platform we build technologies that make it easy to use their AutoML or MLOps platform to train and create models for the AXIS network cameras.
Software engineering tools has moved from basic compilers and editors to sophisticated, integrated systems covering every aspect of development, deployment, and maintenance. These tools have not only accelerated the pace of development but also expanded the capabilities and complexities of what can be built, fundamentally shaping modern software engineering. At FixedIT, we are bringing this revolution to the ACAP developers.
The most frequent task of your developers is to build, install and run the ACAP application in the camera. Our CLI tools allow you to do more with less, saving time and reducing complexity of fragile build scripts. Our build tools are supported on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
We are frequently creating new applications for our clients and with the help of our template library and scaffolding tools we can significantly reduce the time needed to get started.
Our clients are using our ACAP applications for everything ranging from simple rule based event filtering to advanced video analytics on the device. Our core focus is Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL) and Computer Vision (CV) for the Axis network cameras using the modern tool stack for Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and Amazon Web Service (AWS) together with the Axis Camera Application Platform (ACAP).
RULE-BASED TRIGGERING &
HEALTH MONITORING
Simple applications on your camera that monitors its status or reads its event streams. The applications are preconfigured to detect specific conditions such as combinations or sequences of events. When a condition is met the application produces a notification as a new event, HTTP push message or any other means of communication that can be received by a VMS or server.
Applications installed on the camera that can upload image or video data to a cloud provider, where video analytics are performed. These applications can also fetch configuration data from the cloud to customize the camera's and the application's behavior. The edge application can host a web-based user interface that allows any operator to configure or troubleshoot the application.
Edge ML applications use deep learning models or machine learning algorithms directly on the camera without requiring any additional hardware at the site. This can be achieved by using pre-trained models from a model zoo or by training custom models using TensorFlow. Some of the cameras has special hardware for ML (DLPU), while the other cameras can use CPU-based models. Edge ML can generate aggregated statistics or real-time event triggers based on the model output.
Data storage, model training and model compilation is done in the AWS cloud. Once the models are trained and evaluated they are deployed to the edge camera systems by integrating them in an ACAP application that is installed in an Axis camera with a Deep Learning Processing unit (DLPU), e.g. the ARTPEC-8 platform. Collection of training data is performed as a separate task on all or selected devices.
Both data storage, training and model inference is performed in the AWS cloud environment. Data from connected Axis cameras is streaming or batch-uploading to a cloud gateway where the model prediction is performed. Some of the data is directed to the data lake to use as training data for the next iterations of training jobs.
Your company is unique, but we have a workflow just for you. We work with a range of customers that have different needs and preferences, the only thing they have in common is that they have found the value of ACAP applications for the AXIS cameras.
ACAP development is your bread and butter, you are already experts at it. Our tools and prebuilt libraries complement the Axis offering. With our modern tools and precompiled libraries that are already tested in the Axis cameras, you can focus on the business logic in the application and get rid of boilerplate code. Our tools allow your developers to be more efficient and happier since modern tools reduce friction and frustration.
With our e-learning platform, your developer onboarding is easier. Your senior engineers can focus on the hard challenges instead of teaching the basics of ACAP development. With our technical deep dives and research reports, even your most senior ACAP developers will learn new things about the Axis cameras and the ACAP SDK.
You want to focus on your core technologies and your product. Thanks to our engineers’ developing ACAPs daily, we can deliver camera applications that not only meet but exceed your specifications. With our ACAP templates, prebuilt libraries and reference projects, we can deliver result from day one!
Our testing tools, monitoring infrastructure and retainer-based contracts allows us to proactively and carefully maintain your applications after release to ensure they work at their best ability and continues to do so as Axis release new firmware.
Your data scientists are experts at solving complex computer vision problems, but you want to reap the benefits of edge AI. With the help of our ACAP developers and machine learning engineers, we can make sure that your deep learning models are compatible with the Axis cameras and that you get an ACAP application that can be responsible for running the model inference and perform preprocessing in the most efficient way. With our prebuilt libraries and reference projects we can help you integrate the model output with the rest of your system.
You have the perfect business case for a deep learning application, but you don't want to hire a team of data scientists or ACAP developers. Our partnerships combined with our services, tools and integrations make it easy for you to explore the world of Edge AI and create your first deep learning based camera application running in the edge device.
We can work together with your own development team to build in-house competence in your organization.
Recommend libraries, integrations and system designs
Create project breakdown and perform time and cost estimates
Create initial ACAP application structure and customized tools
Empower your developers with knowledge about the Axis ecosystem
Retained advisory or consultancy
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