Axxon PSIM is compatible with IP devices of the following vendors: Axis, Panasonic, Sony, Arecont Vision, and others.

The current list of the IP devices compatible with Axxon PSIM and the range of IP device functionalities supported by Axxon PSIM are at the company’s site in the Integration section: http://www.axxonsoft.com/products/axxon_enterprise/core_functionality/integration.php.

The number of IP devices connected to one server depends on TCP/IP network bandwidth (see Requirements for TCP/IP network) and functions performed on the basis of these devices. For example, virtual memory consumption (for the video.run process) increases when you use Object tracker (see Configuring smart video detection tools). One camera with a configured Object tracker can use 30-40 MB (depending on camera resolution) of virtual memory. By default, not more than 2 GB of virtual memory is allocated for the video.run process. If you need to connect to one server more than 25 IP cameras with the configured Object tracker with video resolution higher than 800x600, use 64-bit modules (see Configuring the use of 64-bit modules).

In some cases, you must enable the synchronization of the server and IP device time (if the device supports this setting):

  1. In some cases (for example, if there is no video from the device), when you connect the camera via the ONVIF protocol, it can be necessary to synchronize the time and the time zone between the server and the device.
  2. For Axxon PSIM operation with the embedded IP device storage, you must synchronize the time between the server and the device.
  3. If time synchronization is not available for some IP devices, events of the embedded analytics can work incorrectly in Axxon PSIM.

Specific application features of certain IP devices:

  1. To ensure correct audio recording from Axis IP cameras when the AAC audio codec is used, avoid setting the audio stream bitrate at 8 or 12 kbit/s if the digitizing rate is 8 kHz: the bitrate must be 16, 24, 32, 48, or 64 kbit/s.
  2. To ensure correct audio recording from Sony IP cameras, avoid using the G.726 audio codec; use the G.711 codec instead.
It is possible to install the up-to-date drivers and codecs, taking into account the changed structure of the distribution, regardless of the general Axxon PSIM version update.

Hardware integrated into Axxon PSIM