Our ACAP (edge) applications are custom-assembled to meet your unique needs. While we’ve developed numerous bespoke applications, we also offer standardized reference projects that can be expanded upon. These applications typically run on any Axis camera—and even on non-camera devices like speakers and strobes—allowing you to choose the best hardware platform for your needs. With a wide range of certified hardware options available, there’s almost always a solution that suits your deployment environment. The software runs completely embedded in your camera and you can use new cameras or Axis cameras that you have already installed.

Localize, Detect and Decode 1D and 2D Barcodes For Any Purpose!

Our QR code and Barcode reader application allows you to detect and decode barcodes directly in the Axis network cameras. The application can e.g. be used for access control using the Axis Doorstation or a fixed network camera. This is suitable for both door access and gate control for e.g. parking lots.

Since the application logic will be tailored to your needs, this means that the application can interact directly with your own system APIs. You can e.g. use the application to send a notification to your network APIs when a barcode is detected, but you can also preprogram the camera with an allowlist to ensure that the access station continues to work even if the network connection is not working. The same camera can be used to store a photo of the person using the QR code for later audit.

In logistics, heavy industries and manufacturing, the QR code reader ACAP can be used to localize, track and remember parcels and other objects. You can even use the QR codes to automate processes based on the identity of the scanned object.

For monitoring large areas, a PTZ camera with optical zoom is ideal, as it can systematically scan the area in detailed segments.

The barcode reader ACAP is able to detect multiple barcodes or QR codes in the same frame and it knows the position of the detected codes. With this information you can not only detect multiple objects in a single view, but you also get an understanding about how they are distributed and how they are moving.

Cover large areas at long distances using a Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera. The Axis network camera offering includes many cameras with motors and optical zoom, you can let the camera move around or let the ACAP control the camera for you. Detections can be paired with the current PTZ coordinates to get a full spatial understanding. Since we can adapt the application specifically for you, only the imaginations sets the limits.

Benefits With Our Barcode Scanner

• Detects multiple codes in the same frame
• Better accuracy and detection range than comparable applications
• Can be supported on essentially any Axis camera
• Detects position and size of the codes
• Ability to tune detection distance vs. response time for your needs
• Can detect most types of codes: EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 93, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, QR Code and SQ Code
• Ability to adapt detection triggers and logic
• Can be adapted for multi sensor cameras
• Ability to buffer or save detections without connectivity

Our applications are assembled according to your specifications. This allows us to combine different blocks, or create new blocks from scratch if we do not have the one you need. The detection can e.g. be combined with Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the processing can be expanded with requiring multiple detections over a specific duration, different detection zones, etc., while the outputs can be as per your needs. This flexibility and the ability to adapt the output to interact directly with your existing systems means that you do not need any other hardware than the camera itself and a PoE cable to supply it with power and ethernet.

Easily train and deploy deep learning models to the Axis cameras for edge inference with the Edge Impulse integration ACAP

Our Edge Impulse runner applications can make use of the deep learning models trained in the Edge Impulse no-code framework for in-camera inference. The platform allows you to deploy your models in days instead of months. You can then enjoy all the benefits of Edge AI such as:

• Low latency
• Low bandwidth (no streaming required)
• Reliable

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.