Axis Communications 2120 - Manual (Page 34)

Choosing Your Application AXIS 2120 User’s Manual 34
Choosing Your Application
The AXIS 2120 can be used in a wide variety of applications and installs directly onto an Ethernet
network, or it can be used with a V.90-compatible modem. Requiring no additional software on
your viewing desktop, it is a completely self contained unit that delivers crisp, live images to your
preferred browser. Using the Web-based Administration Tools and easy-to-use Wizards, you can
develop your application quickly and easily.
Not to be regarded as a comprehensive catalog of possible user applications, this section describes
several typical applications, and includes other reference information to help prepare you for the
installation and configuration of the unit.
Notes: •Although most V.90-compatible modems are known to work well with the AXIS 2120, Axis
does not guarantee that the product will work with all modems conforming, or otherwise, to
the same standard.
Networking Applications
If you have access to an Ethernet connection at your chosen point of installation, all you need to do
is attach the AXIS 2120 to your LAN/WAN and set the IP Address. Then you are ready to view
images from any desktop over your network.
However, the AXIS 2120 offers more than just convenient access to live images over the network.
Using the available Wizards to guide you through the process, you can quickly configure your
product for a variety of exciting applications, including:
• Viewing images in a custom-designed Web page.
• Uploading images to a remote FTP server on a LAN/WAN network to accommodate a large
audience where a high volume of Web page hits is anticipated.
• Motion detection or external alarm device triggering - with uploading of pre and/or post alarm
images to a target FTP server, when in-image motion, external alarms, or time-based events
occur. You can also optionally send e-mail alerts containing a single image, or a Web link to a
pre/post alarm image sequence stream saved to the target FTP server.
Note: You can access live images from any desktop browser on your network as soon as the AXIS
2120 is physically installed on your network. The installer of the camera uses the available Wiz-
ards to configure the chosen application. Advanced users can then use the Web-based Adminis-
tration Tools for refining the application once the basic configuration has been established with the
Wizards.