AXIS213PTZ Network Camera plugin

Overview

This site describes the plugin for an AXIS(tm) PTZ camera. The plugin was developed to run within a 52°North SensorPlanningService (SPS).

Introduction

The AXIS(tm) PTZ camera is a network camera which allows users to control the pan/tilt/zoom functions of the camera remotly over the network.

Use Case

The camera is taskable via normal SPS requests. The live camera stream can be retrieved by sending a GetResultAccessRequest to the SPS. Besides the normal Pan/Tilt/Zoom functions, a direct switch to a namely preset position is possible. Using SweCommon parameters, within a RegisterDocument each camera can be initialized with certain constraints for each parameter (e.g. illegal angles which are not allowed to be viewed maybe because of privacy issues).

Taskable Parameters

All parameters are SweCommon types (version 1.0). All constraints can be set within the sensors configuration file.

Name	Use (optional or required)	Updateable (true or false)	Type	UOM (if applicable)	Constraint(s)	Description
pan	optional	true	swe:Quantity	degree	set by InputDescriptor	Pans the device relative to the (0,0) position.
tilt	optional	true	swe:Quantity	degree	set by InputDescriptor	Tilts the device relative to the (0,0) position.
zoom	optional	true	swe:Count	none	set by InputDescriptor	Zooms the device n steps.
speed	optional	true	swe:Count	none	none	Sets the head speed of the device that is connected to the specified camera.
gotoserverpresetname	optional	true	swe:Category	none	set by InputDescriptor	Move to the position associated with one of the given values.

Sensor Behavior

TBD

Download

The complete project could be downloaded via checkout from 52North SVN. Get the plugin as eclipse project by typing

  svn co https://svn.52north.org/svn/swe/main/SPS/Plugins/Axis/tags/52N-swe-sps-axisplugin-1.0.0.zip

or browse the SVN directly by pointing your browser to the address above.

To retrieve the SPS lib dependencies, checkout the SPS project from SVN, or build a webapp/eclipse project from the SPS distribution.

-- HenningBredel - 23 May 2008