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🚀 Revealing Our Biggest Secrets: The Future of AI in Edge-Based Camera Systems! After years of hands-on experience and countless development hours, we’re finally sharing some of the biggest insights into where AI-powered cameras are heading. AI in network cameras is no longer just about detecting objects—it’s about understanding context, making decisions autonomously, and seamlessly integrating with other systems. But the challenge isn’t AI capability—it’s making AI scalable, efficient, and easy to deploy. Here’s what’s next: ✅ Context-Aware AI – Cameras that don’t just detect but reason about what they see. ✅ Edge-Native AI Execution – Real-time decisions at the source, not in the cloud. ✅ Few-Shot Learning & Active Learning – Training AI with minimal data. ✅ MLOps & DevOps for Edge AI – Simplified deployment, monitoring, and continuous updates. We’ve already shared how AI-powered cameras can transform industries. Now, we’re looking ahead—what innovations will shape the next 5-10 years? This is a must-read for anyone working with #AI, #security, #SmartCities, #Industrial #Automation, #EdgeComputing or simply anyone working at Axis Communications or with their network cameras! 📖 Read the full article below and tag anyone you think will get value from reading it! Let’s discuss—what trends do you think will shape the future of AI in cameras? #EdgeAI #ComputerVision #AI #SmartCities #MLOps #DeepLearning

🚀 Why Choose a One-Stop-Shop for Your ACAP Projects? 🚀 When it comes to developing applications for Axis network cameras, the difference between hiring a traditional consulting company and working with a dedicated one-stop-shop like ours is massive. 🔍 The Traditional Approach: Many consulting firms simply rent out individual developers—some of whom might have worked on a single ACAP project before, but are not specialists. You, as the customer, must then manage their work, coordinate different skill sets, and hope they deliver a solution that actually meets your needs. ✅ Our One-Stop-Shop Advantage: We do things differently. Our team’s sole focus is ACAP applications. We have repeatedly delivered solutions across multiple use cases, refining our expertise along the way. We take care of everything: 📌 Planning & Requirements Specification – We ensure that the project is aligned with your goals from the start. 🔧 System Design & Development – Our experience guarantees optimized and scalable solutions. 📈 Project Management – We drive the entire process forward, so you don’t have to. 🛠️ Testing & Deployment – We ensure your solution works seamlessly in real-world conditions. 🎯 With us, you don’t need to micromanage developers or worry about technical details. You simply order, sit back, and watch your product grow—delivered on time, tailored to your needs, and managed from start to finish. The question isn’t why work with a one-stop-shop—it’s why risk anything else? Let’s talk about how we can bring your ACAP project to life! 💡 #ACAP #EdgeComputing #AI #AxisCameras #OneStopShop #Innovation

Bringing Intelligence to the Edge – For Everyone, At Any Scale 💡 Why should deploying software on edge devices be complex and exclusive to large-scale deployments? At FixedIT Consulting AB, we believe in making edge computing as accessible as the cloud—whether you're deploying to one device or ten thousand. Our vision is to enable any developer to run any workload directly on edge devices without friction—be it AI models, automation scripts, or real-time analytics. 🔹 What we’re solving: ✅ Easily deploy software on cameras and other network connected devices ✅ Move workloads between cloud and edge seamlessly ✅ Use Open Source libraries in your ACAP Edge Applications ✅ Ensure applications are robust and will continue to run without supervision ✅ Faster time from idea to finished product We’re building the developer tools, deployment frameworks, and integration platforms that remove the barriers of working with embedded systems and cameras, unlocking edge computing for everyone. 📢 Join us in making edge development as easy as cloud development—because innovation shouldn’t be limited to massive-scale deployments. #EdgeComputing #AI #DevTools #EmbeddedSystems #IoT #SmartCities #FixedIT

🚀 Unlocking the Full Potential of Edge AI with Custom ACAP Applications🚀 Off-the-shelf solutions can only take you so far—what if you need something built just for you? At FixedIT Consulting AB, we specialize in custom ACAP applications, turning Axis Communications cameras into powerful, intelligent edge devices. From real-time analytics to deep learning-powered automation, our applications eliminate the need for extra hardware while giving you full control over your camera’s capabilities. Whether it’s optimized edge AI, developer tools, or end-to-end support, we’ve got you covered! 🔹 Custom ACAP development – Your vision, our expertise 🔹 Deep learning integration – Making Edge AI simple 🔹 Developer tools & training – Empowering your team 🔹 Lifecycle support – From deployment to updates Watch our latest video showcasing how our tailor-made edge applications are transforming industries. Ready to push the limits of what your Axis cameras can do? Let’s talk! 🌐 Learn more: https://fixedit.ai/ 🔔 Follow us for the latest in Edge AI & ACAP development! #EdgeAI #ACAP #AxisCameras #AI #ComputerVision #CustomSolutions

Do you know what ACAP is and why FixedIT Consulting AB is specializing on this platform? Let us use Axis Communications own words to describe why: "It [ACAP] is also ideal for custom software solutions that address specific customer use cases that cannot be met with off-the-shelf products or solutions from Axis." It's hard to describe FixedIT Consulting ABs business better with so few words. With our reusable modules and template projects that we can assemble based on your needs, we can solve many of your operative challenges using the most popular network cameras on the market. https://lnkd.in/dWiEBa5y

🚀 We're getting an upgrade to our ACAP application front ends! The nature of an ACAP application (a background service that is installed once and then runs year after year producing data that is pushed to another system) makes the back end much more important than the front end. For this reason, we have invested heavily in tools and frameworks for back end creation and DevOps tools for the back end to make sure that the application is robust and bug free. Since the front end is normally used so little and often only by a single or a few system integrators (not the end user of the system), our front end frameworks has fallen behind. Now it is time to change this! We welcome Robin Starke, Joel Axelsson och Oliver Thulin to our team who will spend the next few months helping us build a modular and reusable framework using modern languages and tools. 🛠️ What are important for a robust and user friendly front end? 🛠️ A good system for creating unit tests is one of our favourite things on the list. A strongly typed language that prevents subtle bugs that shows up during runtime and instead causes the compilation to fail is another thing we value highly. A component-based framework not only makes it easier to create isolated modules adhering to the "Single Responsibility Principle", but also makes reuse between different applications easier and reduces the maintenance effort needed to keep all applications up to date. Elements that can be used to create intuitive interfaces that users can easily relate to using mental models (this is called "affordance" in the design world) will ensure our users always know how to configure our applications. We're looking forward to getting our new framework that will make our ACAP applications for the Axis network cameras even better looking and working in the future!

Have you seen that you can now try our QR code detection and decoder ACAP application in the Axis Virtual Loan tool? If you don't have an Axis camera at your desk, it is now easier than ever to try our edge application which can find and decode QR codes. Axis was very helpful and added a spinning QR code in the middle of the camera room where you will find the cameras from the Axis Virtual Loan Tool. Our applications are assembled based on your request and requirements. The QR detector and decoder is only one of the many computer vision elements that we have. This module can be combined with different input elements (such as Optical Character Recognition) and different output elements (such as HTTPS push, Axis/ONVIF events, AWS Kinesis Data Streams, MQTT and much more). If you need a module that we do not already have, we can always create it for you. This modular ecosystem make the flexibility infinite while keeping the development and maintenance cost under control. Reach out to us today to learn more!

Did you know that you can make your network connected strobes and sirens intelligent? With a simple edge application running directly in the strobe as a plugin, the strobe itself can ping or query other network devices and set the color or alarm based on the response. You can use this to monitor if another network device is alive, e.g a network camera or an industrial PLC. But you can also make custom API queries and parse the response, like setting the color of the strobe based on the status of the latest CI/CD job in your continuous integration pipeline, or to indicate the soil moisture from a network connected sensor. All intelligence can be placed in the on-device plugin, meaning that there is no need for another hardware device that should control the strobe. The best part is that you can preload the edge application in the strobe before you send it to your customers, all they need to do then is to connect to strobe to a network and it will start functioning. Could it be any easier? 🚀

The two hottest tech trends: Hybrid solutions and AI. How does FixedIT Consulting AB help you with this? ✨ 1. Our advanced ACAP tools and components makes it easy to create hybrid systems where you can run some of the workload directly on the Axis camera as an edge applications, while also making it easy for the edge application to interact with cloud-based systems. ✨ 2. With standardized frameworks and modules for edge-based AI, we make it much easier to develop custom object detection, classification or segmentation models for the Axis cameras. Using your own training data, you can tell the algorithms what to look for. Our standardized and modular integrations makes it easy to integrate with your specific or proprietary systems. > What is a hybrid solution? Hybrid means that we make use of the edge device for some workloads and the cloud for some. Traditionally, you have been forced to use one or another. Often the camera is used as a dumb device streaming video to the cloud where the intelligence is. Being able to choose what logic to do in which device gives you a lot of benefits including cost savings and less interruptions. A system might e.g. run face detection locally in the camera to identify frames that contain a person's face, then send that single image to a cloud API where it can analyzed with complex analytics to tell the identity, age and gender of the person. Also the configuration interface can be centrally hosted in the cloud to make it easy to configure and interact with multiple devices across the world. If you are interested in exploring these solutions further, book a free consultation meeting with our team at FixedIT Consulting AB!

Today, there is a wealth of free learning material available to dive into deep learning. However, a few years ago, when I was searching for a good course on computer vision fundamentals to recommend, I couldn’t find one I was satisfied with. That’s why I decided to create a FREE five-part video series on the fundamentals of computer vision and machine learning. Since then, this course has become a go-to resource that I’ve used to train employees, customers, and partners. It focuses on building a deep understanding of the essential building blocks of computer vision: ➡️ How images work and are represented in computers ➡️ What pixels are and how to interact with them ➡️ How datasets are structured and represented 📚 What’s Inside the Course? This series provides a hands-on introduction to computer vision using Python and Google Colab. It walks you through the journey of working with images, training machine learning models, and making predictions, all while solving real-world challenges like understanding data skew. 💡 Why Take This Course? ➡️ Gain foundational knowledge for all computer vision tasks. ➡️ Learn practical skills, from manipulating image data to training models. ➡️ Get insights into advanced topics, like addressing real-world deployment challenges. 📂 Bonus Exercises ➡️ The course teaches you how to version control your Google Colab notebooks in GitHub. ➡️ The course includes a GitHub repository with additional exercises, such as building a web server API that can be used for model inference. 🛠️ ACAP-Ready Knowledge If you’re interested in ACAP (AXIS Camera Application Platform) development, this course is an excellent primer. Axis cameras are powerful edge devices that enable real-time AI processing directly on-site, and the foundational knowledge you gain here will help you transition seamlessly into deploying intelligent edge applications. This course is designed for anyone looking to understand the core principles of computer vision, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer. Start learning today and build the skills to tackle any computer vision challenge! 🚀💻 And did I say that it is completely FREE!? https://lnkd.in/dmCuWr9R