“Many feature-rich video management systems on the market today are also quite complex to install and use," says Peter Friberg, Director of System and Services, Axis Communications. “With Axis Camera Station 4.0 we prove that it is possible for a video management solution to be both powerful - and easy to use. Based on experience from 50,000 installations worldwide and input from installers and users, we have improved the system in many aspects. This launch is a first, important step to really put efficient operation and identification in focus."

The new release includes a setup wizard with automatic camera discovery which guides the user through every step of the configuration process. This allows for the system to be up and running within minutes.

The user interface of Axis Camera Station has been re-designed with focus on ease-of-use and intuitive operations for key areas such as live view navigation, event configuration and video investigation.

With Axis Camera Station 4.0, Axis introduces the extended smart search feature. By simply defining an area of interest the user can search through vast amounts of high definition video in just seconds for quick investigation and retrieval of evidence. The new extended smart search function is based on Axis video content stream technology - a technology where certain information in the images is captured by the camera and sent as a separate stream together with the video and audio files.

Axis Camera Station allows the user to take full advantage of Axis’ full portfolio of network cameras and their capabilities, such as 360º overview recording with client de-warping, multi-view streaming, Axis Corridor Format, H.264 compression and advanced camera-based video motion detection providing high definition video for identification even if bandwidth and storage is limited.