Unpublished images of glacial melting through Axis IP cameras

The ip video surveillance provider Axis Communications shows the images captured by its cameras during a recent expedition to the Arctic, during which they tested the resistance of their devices in extreme situations.

The Swedish multinational Axis Communications has presented the video scenes recorded during a recent expedition in the Arctic to test the real resistance of its video surveillance cameras in extreme situations. Strong winds, rain, glacial cold and constant movement have been the elements that the Q6034 network camera of this supplier has had to resist, located at the top of the mast of the sailboat Belzebub II.

The expedition team A Passage Through Ice, composed by Edvin Buregren, Nicolas Peissel and Morgan Peissel, has been the first to sail the route from Greenland to Alaska, since until now it had only been crossed by an icebreaker in order to keep the channels open to navigation.

To film and document navigation, the team has had the video surveillance camera of network video Q6034 of Axis installed in the mast of the boat.

As Edwin Buregren explains, "when you sail through the ice, you need someone to sit on top of the mast as a bird's eye view. This is the worst place you can be when you browse, since the climatic conditions, the wind and movement is much worse up there than on the deck. We had a WiFi network on board, to which the camera was connected, so we could control it and have a 360º angle without even having to turn our heads. It is a valuable asset when you sail through difficult waters and with very harsh weather conditions..

This expedition has been made to serve as a visual testimony of the polar thaw. "The Arctic is melting at an alarming rate," says this A Passage Through Ice expeditionary.. Sailing on this new open route we hope that our expedition will contribute its small grain of sand to draw attention to climate change and contribute to a great change of attitude around the world".

To this is added the possibility that the Swedish company has had to test in conditions of extreme use its model Q6034 resists a very extreme use. According to Erik Frännlid, Director of Product Management at Axis Communications, "Axis outdoor video solutions are designed to withstand extreme weather conditions and provide reliable surveillance at all times. We already know the coverage of the network camera in extreme cold environments”.

As Frännlid recalls, this same model has been installed to 35.000 meters in a stratospheric balloon, “a height where the cold is much higher than at ground level. But the expedition through the Northwest Passage particularly demonstrates that the camera is capable of withstanding tremors., Vibrations, humidity and temperature changes for several months", underlines this axis executive.

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