Axis All Camera Station Configure Occupancy Events and Mobile Notifications in AXIS Camera Station

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The AXIS Occupancy Estimator is an application (ACAP) that is

compatible with a large variety of standard Axis network
cameras and requires a separate license.

The AXIS P8815-2 3D People Counter already includes
functionality to measure occupancy without any additional

licensing.

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The occupancy events functionality in AXIS P8815-2 3D People Counter and AXIS Occupancy
Estimator produces stateful events which are triggered when user-defined lower and higher
occupancy thresholds have been reached.

In total, three different stateful events can be produced using a low, medium and high trigger.

An example based on a specific use-case is necessary in order to better explain this
functionality.

A manager at a retail store would like to be notified through the AXIS Camera Station mobile
application when the occupancy level has exceeded the recommended limit. The manager
would also like to be notified when the occupancy level is getting close to reaching the
recommended limit.

Using this example, let’s pretend that the maximum occupancy limit is 50 people and an
acceptable occupancy level that is far below the maximum occupancy limit is 35. In this case,
the lower and higher occupancy thresholds would be configured as follows from within the AXIS
P8815-2 3D People Counter and AXIS Occupancy Estimator application interface.

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Within the AXIS P8815-2 3D People Counter or the AXIS Occupancy Estimator application,
access the Occupancy settings and enable events. Proceed to set a value for the higher and
lower thresholds.

Within AXIS Camera Station, two action rules will need to be configured – one for when the
occupancy level is close to reaching the recommended occupancy limit, and another for when
the occupancy has exceeded the recommended limit.

• Go to Configuration > Recording & Events and select Action rules.

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• Select “New” and click “Add” to create a new rule.

• Select “Device Event” and click OK.

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• Create device event for medium occupancy event threshold:

o Device: Select the AXIS P8815-2 or Axis network camera running AXIS

Occupancy Estimator.

o Event: A3DPCOccupancyEvent-Medium or Occupancy-Medium (if using AXIS

Occupancy Estimator)

o Trigger period: 0 - 60
o perimeter: in
o active: yes

In the Trigger period field, set an interval time between two

successive triggers to reduce the number of successive

events. If an additional trigger occurs within this interval, the

event will continue, and the trigger period starts over from
that point in time. This could be useful in this example to
reduce the number of mobile notifications.

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In the Actions section, select the “Send mobile app notification” and enter a notification message
and select whether the app should navigate to a specific camera when the notification is pressed
on the mobile device.

If no camera is selected the notification will get a "Default" association which will bring up the
main page of the AXIS Camera Station Mobile app when the notification is pressed.

If needed, you can specify the hours when the alarm should be activated. You can choose to
have the alarm activated permanently or customise the schedule according to your needs.

Proceed to provide the action rule with a descriptive name and click on “Finish” to finalize the
configuration.

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Repeat the above steps to configure a second action rule using the A3DPCOccupancyEvent­High or OccupancyEvent-High (if using AXIS Occupancy Estimator) condition that will be
triggered when the occupancy level has been exceed, which in this context equals to 50 people.

Optionally, a third action rule could be configured when the occupancy level drops below the
medium level, which in this context is 35 people. In this case, the “OccupancyEvent-Low” event
would be used to trigger the action rule.

It is also possible to associate more than one action per

event. This allows for multiple actions to be triggered when
the event is active such as sending a notification to the AXIS
Camera Station Mobile application and raising an alarm
within the AXIS Camera Station Client to prompt the
operator to take further action when the occupancy level has

exceeded the recommended limit.

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If the action rules are configured according to this guide, the medium event will also be triggered
when the occupancy level drops below 50 people, since the state of the medium event will turn
to active at that point.

AXIS P8815-2 3D People Counter Manual

https://www.axis.com/sv-se/products/online-manual/50535

AXIS Occupancy Estimator Manual

https://www.axis.com/sv-se/products/online-manual/37915

Video Tutorial

https://youtu.be/fJ1d_5LTG4w