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XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera User Manual...
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Later versions of this document will be • Low Voltage (LVD) Directive 2014/35/EU. See Safety on page 3 . posted to the Axis website, as required. See also the product’s online • Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive 2011/65/EU.
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X: 表示该有毒有害物质至少在该部件的某一均质材料中的含 Battery 量超出GB/T 26572标准规定的限量要求。 The Axis product uses a 3.0 V BR2032 lithium battery as the power supply for its internal real-time clock (RTC). Under normal conditions this battery will last for a minimum of five years. Contact information...
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XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera Table of Contents How to check the current firmware ....... . . How to upgrade the firmware .
XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera Safety information Safety information Hazard levels DANGER Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death or serious injury. WARNING Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury. CAUTION Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in minor or moderate injury.
XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera Product overview Product overview WARNING • Read the product’s Installation & Maintenance Instructions before installing, attempting to connect, operating, or servicing the equipment. • Installation and servicing must only be carried out by qualified service personnel and in accordance with all local/national codes of practice and standards.
If you do not know the IP address, use AXIS IP Utility to locate the product on the network. For information about how to discover and assign an IP address, see the document Assign an IP Address and Access the Video Stream on Axis Support web at www.axis.com/support...
How to set the root password To access the Axis product, you must set the password for the default administrator user root. This is done in the Configure Root Password dialog, which opens when the product is accessed for the first time.
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2. Under Action Buttons, select Show manual trigger button. About the AXIS Media Control viewer toolbar The AXIS Media Control viewer toolbar is available in Internet Explorer only. See About AXIS Media Control (AMC) on page 12 for more information. The toolbar displays the following buttons: The Play button connects to the Axis product and starts playing a media stream.
Note also that all multicast viewers count as one unicast viewer in the maximum total of 20 simultaneous connections. AXIS Media Control negotiates with the Axis product to determine the transport protocol to use. The order of priority, listed in the AMC Control Panel, can be changed and the options disabled, to suit specific requirements.
XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera About media streams The AMC Control Panel can be used to configure various video settings. Please see the AXIS Media Control User’s Manual for more information. The AMC Control Panel is automatically installed on first use, after which it can be configured. Open the AMC Control Panel from: •...
• The Axis product supports QuickTime 6.5.1 and later. • QuickTime may add latency to the video stream. • It may be possible to use other players to view the H.264 stream using the paths above, although Axis does not guarantee this.
How to set up the product How to set up the product The Axis product can be configured by users with administrator or operator rights. To open the product’s setup pages, click Setup in the top right-hand corner of the live view window.
Width and Height fields and click Apply. • When accessing the Live View page in Internet Explorer with AXIS Media Control (AMC) in Windows. Right-click in the image and select Pixel counter. Use the mouse to move and resize the rectangle.
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A low GOP-length value increases the video quality but requires more bandwidth. About H.264 profiles The Axis product supports the following H.264 profile(s): • Baseline: Use the Baseline profile if the client does not support CABAC entropy coding.
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Image details that are important for forensic video analysis, for example faces and license plates, are encoded with a higher bitrate. Axis’ Zipstream Technology for H.264 conforms to the H.264 standard and is compatible with third-party clients and VMS solutions that decode H.264 video.
ONVIF media profiles from this page. About camera settings The Video > Camera Settings page provides access to advanced image settings for the Axis product. About image appearance To change Image Appearance go to the menus under Setup > Video > Camera Settings.
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An overlay image is a static image superimposed over the video stream. The image, for example a company logo, is first uploaded to the Axis product and then used to provide extra information or to mask a part of the image.
To add, download, modify or remove audio clips, go to Video & Audio > Audio Clips. For more information see the online help To configure the Axis product to play audio clips when an event occurs, an action rule must be set up. For more information, see About events on page 34.
Palette (default): All the colors in the applied palette are used to color the image but no colors correspond in any way to specific temperatures in the image. The vertical bar shows the selected palette. White-hot Black-hot Planck Axis Rainbow Red-hot Nightvision •...
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XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera Thermal Settings Iso-Fire-WH Iso-Fire-BH Iso-Planck-WH Iso-Axis-WH Iso-Midrange-WH Iso-Midrange-BH Iso-Rainbow-WH Set up Palette To set up a palette to highlight temperature differences in the image: 1. Go to Thermal Settings > Isothermal Settings 2. Select a palette in the Palette drop-down-menu.
Temperature Scale Temperature data can be displayed in either Celsius or Fahrenheit. Select the temperature unit and click Save to apply the setting. The Axis product can automatically convert all temperature values that you have entered into the selected temperature scale.
Select Enable recording button to enable recording from the Live View page. This button is available when using the AMC viewer. The recordings are saved to the location specified in the AMC Control Panel. See About AXIS Media Control (AMC) on page 12.
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XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera How to configure the live view window • Show Temperature Zone name and Temperature data: Shows zone specific details on the Live View page, that is, zone name, minimum or maximum temperature values. • Show Spot Temperature Button: Shows the spot temperature button on the Live View page. Use the spot temperature button to display the temperature value for a specific area of the image.
Temperature detection is set by configuring up to six temperature detection zones in the camera view. Once temperature detection zones are configured, the Axis product can be configured to perform actions when temperature changes are detected. Possible actions include display of overlay text and start recording. For more information, see How to set up action rules on page 34.
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XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera About detectors Below (B): Triggers if the temperature falls below the level (C) that you have set in the Detection Temperature field. By default, minimum temperature in the zone is used as the base for temperature detection. Increase:Triggers if the temperature (E) increases faster than the increase rate (F) during an increase time interval (for example, in the time between t1 and t2).
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XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera About detectors Actual temperature increase in the zone Temperature in the zone Your temperature increase rate, expressed in degrees (°C or °F) per seconds Measurement point that triggers or untriggers an alarm Note By default, maximum temperature in the zone is used as the base for detection type Increase. To edit emissivity settings in the zone: Select Advanced Settings and enter an emissivity value (0.50 –...
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About detectors 6. For detection type Increase: Enter the increase rate (F) in degrees per seconds in the Increase rate fields. The Y-axis: the degrees in Celsius or Fahrenheit The X-axis: the increase time in seconds 7. Click Save to save your settings or continue to the Advanced Settings section to set additional detection conditions.
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The red rectangle implies that a temperature alarm has triggered in the zone. Material Emissivity Table The following table lists approximated emissivity values for a number of common material types. For more information about emissivity, see the AXIS White paper Remote temperature monitoring available at www.axis.com...
XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera About detectors Material Emissivity 0.93 Asphalt 0.96 Charcoal 0.95 Cloth Concrete 0.94 Foodstuff 0.80-0.90 Graphite 0.97 <0.10 Metals (unoxidized) 0.92-0.96 Oil paint (value may vary depending on paint types) 0.90-0.96 Paints (value may vary depending on color) 0.92-0.95 Plastics (value may vary depending on surface finish and paint types) 0.92...
Manual installation — obtain the license key from the application vendor and upload the key to the Axis product To request a license, the Axis product serial number (S/N) is required. The serial number can be found on the product label and under System Options >...
How to set up motion detection and add a network share: 1. Go to Applications to start and configure AXIS Video Motion Detection. See the online help. 2. Go to System Options > Storage and set up the network share. See page 52.
XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera About events Shock Detection – Trigger the rule when the Axis product detects it has been tilted or hit. See About shock detection on page 32. Temperature Detection – Trigger the rule whenever the alarm conditions of the temperature zone are met.
Encrypted file transfer using HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). Send Notification Specify login information for the HTTPS server and validate Send Video Clip the server’s certificate. If there is a proxy between the Axis product and the HTTPS server, also specify the proxy settings.
Optionally, select Use encryption to send emails over an encrypted connection. The server certificate can be validated using the certificates available in the Axis product. For information on how to upload certificates, see About certificates on page 43.
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XF40-Q2901 Explosion-Protected Temperature Alarm Camera About events 3. Click OK. To use the recurrence in an action rule, first select Time from the Trigger drop-down list in the Action Rule Setup page and then select the recurrence from the second drop-down list. To modify or remove recurrences, select the recurrence in the Recurrences List and click Modify or Remove.
Note The recording’s start date and time is set according to the Axis product’s date and time settings. If the Axis product is configured to use a time zone different from the local time zone, make sure to configure the Recording time filters according to the product’s time zone.
About continuous recording The Axis product can be configured to continuously save video to a storage device. For information about storage devices, see Storage on page 50. To prevent the disk from becoming full, it is recommended to configure the disk to automatically remove old recordings.
About languages Multiple languages can be installed in the Axis product. All web pages including the online help will be displayed in the selected language. To switch languages, go to Setup > Languages and first upload the new language file. Browse and locate the file and click the Upload Language button.
IP address filtering is enabled on the System Options > Security > IP Address Filter page. Once enabled, the listed IP address are allowed or denied access to the Axis product. Select Allow or Deny from the list and click Apply to enable IP address filtering.
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4. Set the HTTPS Connection Policy for the different user groups. 5. Click Save to enable the settings. To access the Axis product via the desired protocol, in the address field in a browser, enter https:// for the HTTPS protocol and http:// for the HTTP protocol.
Date & Time The Axis product’s date and time settings are configured under System Options > Date & Time. Current Server Time displays the current date and time (24h clock). The time can be displayed in 12h clock in the text overlay (see below).
IPv4 Address Configuration By default, the Axis product is set to use IPv4 (IP version 4) and to obtain the IP address automatically via DHCP. The IPv4 settings are configured under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Basic.
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5. Close the command prompt when the product responds with Reply from 192.168.0.125:... or similar. 6. Open a browser and type http://<IP address> in the Location/Address field. For other methods of assigning the IP address, see the document Assign an IP Address and Access the Video Stream on Axis Support web at www.axis.com/support Note •...
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Host Name Configuration The Axis product can be accessed using a host name instead of an IP address. The host name is usually the same as the assigned DNS name. The host name is configured under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Advanced.
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SOCKS is a networking proxy protocol. The Axis product can be configured to use a SOCKS server to reach networks on the other side of a firewall or proxy server. This functionality is useful if the Axis product is located on a local network behind a firewall, and notifications, uploads, alarms, etc need to be sent to a destination outside the local network (for example the Internet).
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Note All AXIS Video MIB traps are enabled when SNMP v1/v2c traps are enabled. It is not possible to turn on or off specific traps. SNMP v3 provides encryption and secure passwords. To use traps with SNMP v3, an SNMP v3 management application is required.
To prevent corruption of recordings, the SD card should always be unmounted before it is ejected. The SD card is automatically mounted when the card is inserted into the Axis product or when the product is started. A manual mount is only required if the card has been unmounted and not ejected and re-inserted.
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If autoformat is enabled, only use new or empty SD cards. Any data stored on the card will be lost when the card is inserted into the Axis product. To enable automatic formatting, follow these steps: 1. Open the Axis product’s webpages and go to Setup > System Options > Storage. 2. Click SD Card. 3. Under General Settings, select Autoformat to.
The Axis product provides several maintenance functions. These are available under System Options > Maintenance. Click Restart to perform a correct restart if the Axis product is not behaving as expected. This will not affect any of the current settings.
Click Default to reset all settings, including the IP address, to the factory default values. This button should be used with caution. The Axis product can also be reset to factory default using the control button, see How to reset to factory default settings on page 54.
For more information, see www.axis.com/developer File Upload Files, for example webpages and images, can be uploaded to the Axis product and used as custom settings. To upload a file, go to System Options > Advanced > File Upload. Uploaded files are accessed through http://<ip address>/local/<user>/<file name> where <user> is the selected user group (viewer, operator or administrator) for the uploaded file.
The latest version may contain a correction that fixes your particular problem. The current firmware version in the Axis product is displayed in the page Setup > Basic Setup and in Setup > About.
Status indicator. 5. Reinstall the product, referring to the Installation Guide. If the emergency recovery procedure does not get the product up and running again, contact Axis support at www.axis.com/support Symptoms, possible causes and remedial actions Problems upgrading the firmware Firmware upgrade failure If the firmware upgrade fails, the product reloads the previous firmware.
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The TTL (Time To Live) value may need to be increased. No multicast H.264 Check with your network administrator that the multicast addresses used by the Axis product displayed in the client are valid for your network.
Resetting the product to factory default settings. See page 54. • Connecting to an AXIS Video Hosting System service. See page 46. To connect, press and hold the button for about 3 seconds until the Status LED flashes green. •...
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Heavy network utilization due to poor infrastructure affects the bandwidth. • Viewing on poorly performing client computers lowers perceived performance and affects frame rate. • Running multiple AXIS Camera Application Platform (ACAP) applications simultaneously may affect the frame rate and the general performance.