AXIS Motion Guard
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- Video motion detection
- Edge-based video analytics
- Multiple profiles for extra flexibility
- Perspective tool for fewer false alarms
- Bounding box alarm overlay
AXIS Motion Guard detects and triggers an event when objects move within a predefined area in the camera view. The analytics application is ideal for detecting unwanted activity in low-traffic areas during after hours at office, retail and industrial sites. Download it for free for use on compatible network video products.
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Effective and efficient
AXIS Motion Guard is an edge-based application that analyzes video directly on the camera or video encoder. There’s no need for costly central processing servers, and you gain easy scalability and savings on bandwidth use. AXIS Motion Guard integrates with the video product’s event management functions and is compatible with many video management software – so you can program automatic responses to event triggers. Automatically playing a message from loudspeakers or turning on lights helps scare off intruders. Sending emails and live video streams alerts guards to take action. Sending and recording video only on event triggers makes reviews and searches easier, and reduces bandwidth and storage needs.
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Fewer false alarms
AXIS Motion Guard analyzes movement and ignores ordinary background motion to reduce false alarms. It can filter out motion from headlights, swaying foliage and small objects. The perspective setting allows you to associate an object’s image size at different distances with its actual size – so AXIS Motion Guard can alert staff to a suspicious truck farther away while ignoring an animal nearby. On many video products, AXIS Motion Guard supports bounding box overlays that indicate the objects that are triggering an event. The overlay can be used on one selected video resolution and is permanently burnt into live or recorded video of that resolution.
Easy setup. Extra flexible.
AXIS Motion Guard allows you to create multiple profiles with different configurations. Each profile supports one “include” area and three “exclude” areas. You can use different profiles simultaneously or at different times, and set different events for different profiles. Verifying that the setup works is easy with real-time visual confirmation features like bounding boxes that change color on an event trigger.
AXIS Motion Guard is part of a collection of products under AXIS Guard Suite.
Configuring AXIS Motion Guard
Profiles and Alarm Overlay
Compatible products
The application can be installed on compatible Axis cameras and video encoders with firmware 7.10 or higher. To see the list of devices that also support the alarm overlay feature, click on the filter button "With alarm overlay". If your device does not have the latest firmware, see how to upgrade the firmware and then find the latest firmware for your device here.
For compatible cameras with firmware 10.2 (or higher), we recommend upgrading to AXIS Object Analytics. The application comes preinstalled on these cameras and offers AI-based object detection and classification.
Fixed box cameras
Fixed bullet cameras
Fixed dome cameras
- AXIS M3077-PLVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3115-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3116-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS M4308-PLE Panoramic Camera
- AXIS P3255-LVE Dome Camera
- AXIS P3818-PVE Panoramic Camera
- AXIS P3925-LRE Network Camera
- AXIS P3925-R Network Camera
- AXIS P3935-LR Network Camera
- AXIS Q3819-PVE Panoramic Camera
- AXIS Q9216-SLV Network Camera
Modular cameras
Network intercoms
PTZ cameras
- AXIS P5655-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6010-E Network Camera
- AXIS Q6074 PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6074-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6075 PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6075-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6078-E PTZ Camera
- AXIS Q6100-E Network Camera
- AXIS Q6135-LE PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6315-LE PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6318-LE PTZ Camera
- AXIS Q8641-E PT Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q8642-E PT Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q8752-E Bispectral PTZ Camera
Thermal cameras
- AXIS P1280-E Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS P1290-E Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q1941-E Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q1941-E PT Mount Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q1942-E Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q1942-E PT Mount Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q1951-E Thermal Camera
- AXIS Q1952-E Thermal Camera
- AXIS Q1961-TE Thermal Camera
- AXIS Q1961-XTE Explosion-Protected Thermal Camera
- AXIS Q8641-E PT Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q8642-E PT Thermal Network Camera
- AXIS Q8752-E Bispectral PTZ Camera
Video encoders
Discontinued products
The following compatible products have been discontinued.Explosion-protected cameras
Fixed box cameras
- AXIS M1045-LW Network Camera
- AXIS M1065-L Network Camera
- AXIS M1065-LW Network Camera
- AXIS M1124 Network Camera
- AXIS M1124-E Network Camera
- AXIS M1125 Network Camera
- AXIS M1125-E Network Camera
- AXIS M1134 Network Camera
- AXIS M1135 Network Camera
- AXIS M1135-E Network Camera
- AXIS M1137 Network Camera
- AXIS M1137-E Network Camera
- AXIS M1145-L Network Camera
- AXIS P1364 Network Camera
- AXIS P1364-E Network Camera
- AXIS P1365 Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P1365-E Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P1367 Network Camera
- AXIS P1367-E Network Camera
- AXIS P1368-E Network Camera
- AXIS P1375 Network Camera
- AXIS P1377 Network Camera
- AXIS P1378 Network Camera
- AXIS Q1615 Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS Q1615 Mk III Network Camera
- AXIS Q1615-E Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS Q1645 Network Camera
- AXIS Q1645-LE Network Camera
- AXIS Q1647 Network Camera
- AXIS Q1647-LE Network Camera
- AXIS Q1659 Network Camera
Fixed bullet cameras
Fixed dome cameras
- AXIS M3015 Network Camera
- AXIS M3016 Network Camera
- AXIS M3044-V Network Camera
- AXIS M3044-WV Network Camera
- AXIS M3045-V Network Camera
- AXIS M3045-WV Network Camera
- AXIS M3046-V Network Camera
- AXIS M3047-P Network Camera
- AXIS M3048-P Network Camera
- AXIS M3057-PLVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3057-PLVE Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS M3058-PLVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3064-V Network Camera
- AXIS M3065-V Network Camera
- AXIS M3066-V Network Camera
- AXIS M3067-P Network Camera
- AXIS M3068-P Network Camera
- AXIS M3075-V Network Camera
- AXIS M3104-L Network Camera
- AXIS M3104-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3105-L Network Camera
- AXIS M3105-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3106-L Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS M3106-LVE Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS M3205-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3206-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS M4206-LV Network Camera
- AXIS M4206-V Network Camera
- AXIS P3224-LV Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3224-V Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3225-LV Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3225-LVE Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3225-V Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3225-VE Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3227-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3227-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3228-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3228-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3235-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3235-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3245-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3245-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3245-V Network Camera
- AXIS P3245-VE Network Camera
- AXIS P3247-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3247-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3248-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3248-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3374-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3374-V Network Camera
- AXIS P3375-LV Network Camera
- AXIS P3375-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3375-V Network Camera
- AXIS P3375-VE Network Camera
- AXIS P3715-PLVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3717-PLE Network Camera
- AXIS P3719-PLE Network Camera
- AXIS P3727-PLE Panoramic Camera
- AXIS P3807-PVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3904-R Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3905-R Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P3915-R Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS P9106-V Network Camera
- AXIS Q3515-LV Network Camera
- AXIS Q3515-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS Q3517-LV Network Camera
- AXIS Q3517-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS Q3517-SLVE Network Camera
- AXIS Q3518-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS Q3527-LVE Network Camera
- AXIS Q3615-VE Network Camera
- AXIS Q3617-VE Network Camera
Modular cameras
Onboard cameras
PTZ cameras
- AXIS M5525-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS P5414-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS P5415-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS P5624-E Mk II PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS P5635-E Mk II PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS P5654-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6054 Mk III PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6054-E Mk III PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6055 PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6055-C PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6055-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6055-S PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6075-S PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6075-SE PTZ Camera
- AXIS Q6124-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6125-LE PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6154-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6155-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q6215-LE PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q8685-E PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q8685-LE PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q8741-E Bispectral PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q8741-LE Bispectral PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q8742-E Bispectral PTZ Network Camera
- AXIS Q8742-LE Bispectral PTZ Network Camera
Panoramic cameras
- AXIS M3047-P Network Camera
- AXIS M3048-P Network Camera
- AXIS M3057-PLVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3057-PLVE Mk II Network Camera
- AXIS M3058-PLVE Network Camera
- AXIS M3067-P Network Camera
- AXIS M3068-P Network Camera
- AXIS P3715-PLVE Network Camera
- AXIS P3717-PLE Network Camera
- AXIS P3719-PLE Network Camera
- AXIS P3727-PLE Panoramic Camera
- AXIS P3807-PVE Network Camera
Positioning cameras
Specialty cameras
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AXIS Motion Guard
The latest version of this software is 2.3.2 Login to download - Integrity checksum:The application can be installed on compatible Axis cameras and video encoders with firmware 7.10 or higher. If your device does not have the latest firmware, see how to upgrade the firmware and then find the latest firmware for your device here.