Documentation for Axxon Next 3.1.1. Documentation for other versions of Axxon Next is [available too].

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This guide briefly discusses the operation of the following main elements of the User Interface:

  1. Viewing Tile.
  2. Layouts.
  3. Archive Navigation Panel.
  4. The Archive search mode.
  5. PTZ Control Panel.

You can access them using the Layouts menu.

Note

The viewing tile can be displayed on the Alerts menu to evaluate alert events occurred

Viewing tile

The viewing tile is used to display video stream on the computer monitor with specific parameters and to monitor the forensic search in archive. The viewing tile also has a function which allows the generation and evaluation of alert events in the process of video monitoring of a guarded location.

The viewing tile context menu is used to access the following functions (depending on the enabled surveillance mode: real time, archive or alert):

Note

To select the video surveillance mode, use the tabs in the lower right-hand part of the viewing tile

  1. Video surveillance.
  2. Audio monitoring.
  3. Exporting frames and recordings.
  4. Object tracking.
  5. Displaying of sensor current state.
  6. Relay management.

To bring up the viewing tile context menu, left-click the video camera icon in the upper left-hand corner of the tile.

Layouts

An Axxon Next operator is granted access to work with the layouts ribbon. The layouts ribbon can operate in a user-defined mode or a standard mode of operation.

By default, the user mode is enabled for the layouts ribbon. The operating mode of the layouts ribbon can be specified in the Settings → Options → User interface tab.

The Archive Navigation Panel

The archive navigation panel is automatically displayed in the right-hand part of the screen when you switch the viewing tile to archive mode or forensic search in archive.

The archive navigation panel is used for the following functions:

  1. Navigating in the archive.
  2. Playback of recordings.
  3. Selecting playback mode: forward or backward.
  4. Setting playback speed.
  5. Selecting alerts for display on the timeline and in the alert events list.
  6. Viewing the list of the alert events of the selected type.

The archive search mode

The archive search mode is used to search the video fragments in the archive and to analyse them.

Three search types are available in the archive search mode:

  1. Search by events.
  2. Search by time.
  3. Forensic search.

Forensic search allows to search the video fragments by following criteria:

  1. moving in the area;
  2. crossing the virtual line by object track;
  3. long stay of object in the area;
  4. a lot of objects stay in the area simultaneously;
  5. moving from one area to another.

The PTZ Control Panel

The PTZ control panel is displayed automatically in the right-hand part of the screen when the viewing tile of a PTZ camera is activated in real time mode.

The PTZ control panel is used for the following functions:

  1. Controlling PTZ video cameras.
  2. Setting and switching to camera presets.
  3. Launching/stopping patrolling.