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1. external archive see NEA 83 F Floating window components 20 Four eyes principle 42 Four eyes principle 44 Frame rate changing in view port 54 maximizing 54 G Getting started 28 Google Chrome optimizing settings for browser client Web Start JNLP files 15 Page 184 of 189 H H 264 7 See also MPEG DTV 16 9 aspect ratio in Online monitor 50 m oliday calendar 171 TML code for embedding streams in web ages 167 P commands for starting actions 168 Se ale OO I Da PS encryption between servers 116 for camera connection 32 for client connection 12 16 general description 7 I O contacts configuring I O devices 173 placing them on LNT layouts 127 settings 36 I O devices configuring 173 ICAT 138 considerations for setting up 140 CPU load 140 event triggers 140 145 event based recording 155 events 161 object bounding boxes 159 object counting 145 object markers 158 object tracking region 139 142 people counting 145 privacy mask 151 recording based on 155 sabotage detection 148 SAFE export 81 scheduling activities 155 sensitivity setting 143 Smart Tripwire tm 145 starting and stopping objects 147 video processing speed 141 video streaming formats 140 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Visual Statistics 159 working with in Online monitor 158 In camera motion detection 89 settings 36 IP address of camera 31 iPad 23 iPhone 23
2. The new entry will be selected 6 Click the Change button now enabled and choose Continuous recording Now the Scheduling dialog shows the settings for configuring continuous recording Axis 215 54 Scheduling MTWTFSS 00 00 24 00 E Video analysis iCAT Recording format JPEG stream v MTWTFSS 00 00 24 00 E Continuous recording _ Save audio Image quality High v Frame rate 10 picsec v image size 704x576 4CIF PAL v Pre event frame rate fps 10 picsec v Pre Post event recording sec 5 15 s Assigned iCAT definitions k 7 Save event in event list Video analysis iCAT v 7 Enable interval Requested recording period days hours 1000 ilo 00 00 5 00 00 E Priority over other cameras if storage space is short ans r 7 Monday 7 Friday Recording period is measured form now z V Tuesday Saturday Reduced frame rate settings MJPEG only V Wednesday V Sunday W Thursday Actual recording period days hours 11 15 Storage used by this camera MB 525718 La Total storage space MB 823076 Free storage space MB 54490 cence save 7 Now you can define the days and times for archive recordings You can activate individual days or with the All button the whole week at once Select hours and minutes from the popup matrix Page 70 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please make sur
3. Before you begin to set up a new camera in Observer be sure to have the following information available e Your camera type e ls your camera type supported by Observer Please consult the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources e Are there available licenses for setting up additional cameras e P addresses of cameras or camera servers Please note Here we describe how to setup a camera in Observer If you setup an IP camera then the camera itself also can be configured This is normally done via a web based interface of the camera Please consult the manual of your IP camera for further details 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties Start the Observer client application see 2 Observer clients on multiple platforms on page 11 You can either e add anew camera from scratch or e duplicate an existing camera and just modify some parameters see 4 2 2 Duplicating an existing camera on page 37 Duplicating an existing camera creates an exact duplicate with all settings copied This is useful when you have more than one camera of the same type or with equal similar settings like recording or video analytics settings 4 2 1 Adding a camera from scratch 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 With amouse click select the camera group to which you want to add the new camera later on you can move the camera in the camera tree to a different grou
4. If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated Background information on sabotage detection algorithms Sabotage detection uses three detector algorithms to generate events for camera moved defocused and covered The camera movement detector tries to locate a couple of strong has high contrast points across the entire picture Then it searches for them on each of the following frames while continuously creating new points to keep adapting to a new scenery A camera moved event occurs when a given number of these points are lost for a while The focus change detector acts like the auto focus algorithms in digital cameras It estimates the average sharpness of the picture and produces an event if this sharpness changes abruptly A focus lost event is produced if the sharpness of the picture decreases below a threshold and a focus gained event if the sharpness is increased above a threshold Both thresholds are based on average sharpness values of previous frames The camera covered detector uses a brightness analyzer that calculates the average brightness of the picture for each frame and if somet
5. 11 Push Save to save your definition Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated 15 3 6 Defining sabotage detection iCAT offers intelligent features for detecting three types of camera sabotage actions e Camera defocused e Camera covered e Camera moved Please note For sabotage detection an object tracking region is NOT needed When initializing the camera for sabotage detection please make sure that the camera has the correct focus setting and that the scenery and brightness is stable Here are the steps for installing iCAT based sabotage detection Page 148 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose a camera and in the menu select Add new definition 3 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Sabotage detection which will expose the configuration settings 4 Select any of the three sabotage detection types 5 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this sabotage detection 6 Push Save to save your definition Please note
6. B Motion detection Video content analysis events Analog 1 Analog 1 eingang eingang 00 00 00 00 15 00 00 30 00 00 45 00 01 00 00 01 15 00 01 30 00 Motion detection 01 45 00 Analog 1 02 00 00 eingang 02 15 00 02 30 00 02 45 00 03 00 00 03 15 00 03 30 00 03 45 00 04 00 00 04 15 00 04 30 00 04 45 00 05 00 00 05 15 00 05 30 00 05 45 00 a 8 OP HGH GPP E E E E A 06 00 00 neS S S O S S Sik LY Ss Sa KS OO G s g 06 15 00 s HF S NE S S Sh a 06 30 00 06 45 00 07 00 00 07 15 00 07 30 00 Number of events 9 4 Receiving notification on events Observer can be configured flexibly to notify users on various event types and by various channels The event types for defining notifications are e System malfunction events e g storage failures e System information events e g example user login and logout e Camera related events o Camera malfunction events e g camera is not accessible o Camera in picture events e g motion detection video analytics object triggers The notification channels are e Event list of the client e Email e SMS For each of the above event types the notification channels can be enabled disabled in the user privileges and camera access rights see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 for details on how to define privileges and rights Please note that the notification channels can be defined on a user or on a group level Likewise the camera related notific
7. NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 9 3 10 2 11 12 1 13 AXIS T8313 jog dial Page 175 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 The functions assigned to the different buttons of the keyboards are dependent on whether the Online Monitor or Archive are in focus To show the current focus press the Alt 13 View 3 button combination The focus between windows and between different tabs within windows can be changed forward with the Tab 1 button and backward with the Alt 13 Tab 1 button combination Below you will find a list with the assignment of the buttons in the Online Monitor and Archive e Online Monitor AXIS T8312 keypad 1 Tab Move focus forward or combined with Alt 13 backward 2 Camera After entering numbers and pressing this button the camera whose name ends with an underscore _ character followed by the entered number e g Camera_212 is activated In case no such camera exists an Invalid camera XXX message is shown 3 View After entering numbers and pressing this button the view whose name starts with the entered number followed by an underscore _ character e g 123_MainView is shown In case no such view exists an Invalid view XXX message is shown 4 Activate view Activates the first view which contains the previously assigned camera Page 176 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 5 Activate large view The pr
8. Repeat the above step for other cameras You can delete a camera by selecting it with the mouse by choosing Delete from the right mouse button pop up menu Mapping I O contacts LNT allows you to work with I O devices i e you can display the state of input contacts and you can switch output contacts of I O devices for configuring I O devices please refer to 17 7 Configuring I O devices on page 173 You can place such I O controls onto layouts like camera controls Here are some icons representing the various states of input and output contacts Output contacts a a Page 127 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Mi Saaz Input contacts Impulse button 1 From the list of controls at the right side drag an I O control icon with the mouse onto the layout and drop it there An I O contact selection dialog opens automatically In the list you only see I O devices that are configured with Observer Choose the device and the I O contact and press OK depending on whether the I O control represents an input an output or an impulse button you get only input or output contacts of the selected device Now you have mapped the I O device to the icon Repeat the above step for other I O contacts You can delete an I O contact control by selecting it with the mouse by choosing Delete from the right mouse button pop up menu Defining zones LNT allows you to group several cameras on a layout into so
9. e automatically upgrade themselves when the server has a new version 2 2 Starting the Observer client from a desktop web browser This section describes how to start the client in a standard web browser If you want to install the client on your machine and run it independently of a web browser please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 16 You can start the client with an unencrypted HTTP connection or with an encrypted HTTPS connection 1 Toaccess the client via an unencrypted HTTP connection start a web browser and enter the address of your Observer server http IP address of your server o access the client via an encrypted HTTPS connection start a web browser and enter the address of your Observer server https IP address of your server Page 12 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 about blank Microsoft Internet Explorer Datei Bearbeiten Ansicht Favoriten Extras Adresse http 80 81 128 30 oana Now a page that checks the availability of the Java on your computer appears This page should disappear in a few seconds If this page stays it means that you do not have the Java plug in installed on your browser You have to first install Java by visiting www java com download to install the latest Java package and then start the browser anew Now the screen should disappear and you can continue as shown below Next a startup screen is dis
10. this stream Please the MPEG stream from the cameras and streaming format MJPEG to the post event MPEG format ng time is bigger than 0 also does iCAT based on it Recording note that iCAT based on MPEG stream needs more CPU power on the server see also 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 140 Continuous and event based recording at the same time If the continuous recording has the same frame rate quality as the post event recording then only continuous recording is done and the recording calendar is marked with the events If continuous recording is done at a lower frame rate or different quality and both streams use the MJPEG format then the iCAT recording settings will only be used for the post alarm period and the continuous recording settings for other times In all other cases e g when one of the recordings uses MPEG 4 H 264 MxPEG the continuous recording settings will be used to record the event iCAT processing will be done with continuous recording frames scaled down in size and or frame rate if necessary Pre alarm setting has no relevance in this case Page 157 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 15 4 Working with iCAT In this section you will learn about e Watching iCAT information live in the Online monitor and also when replaying recordings e Displaying Visual Statistics in the Online monitor e Generating reports on iCAT events like pe
11. Dynamic view configuration Mode Camera IP Address pairs v Sony 240 10 10 10 48 Window Window 1 X Picture in picture features V Show event in viewport s event line V Show archive event replay in viewport Additionally you can define in which Online Monitor Window the large view should shown For configurations which concern multiple users the largest common subse available windows will be shown With the Current camera mode only Window 1 supported Show live streams in view can be configured with Additional cameras a selecti Users Windows and Views please note that view ports used for dynamic view configurations should not be modified manually e g by new adding cameras to the be t of iS on of m Multiple cameras and users can be selected and deselected by keeping the CTRL button pressed For single user configurations it is also possible to limit the feature to clients connected from a certain IP address Show live streams in view offers three different modes o Replace oldest view port first in first out The newest iCAT events are always displayed in the oldest view ports the view ports that stood there the longest without a camera change Thus it is possible to create a view where always cameras with the newest events are displayed Shift older view ports from top left to bottom right The newest iCAT events are always displayed in the top left view port with all other
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13. J Joystick AXIS T8310 Control Board configuration 174 Joystick control for PTZ cameras 104 JPEG aspect ratio 10 31 exporting from archive 79 image sizes and quality 10 MJPEG vs MPEG 7 L Languages 13 Layout navigation 124 editing mode 125 I O contacts 127 installation 124 navigation and operation 134 zones 128 Layout of windows modifying 20 LDAP 49 120 License displaying current license 108 license string 12 Login secondary password 42 the locally installed client 16 the web based client 14 Low bandwidth connections with Transcoding 26 Page 185 of 189 M anual recording control in the Online monitor 57 atrix View function VIP control 169 JPEG 8 versus MPEG streaming 9 obile devices PDAs 23 onitoring 177 otion detection 86 in archive 81 in camera 89 recording based on 155 server based 86 Motion JPEG 8 MPEG 7 8 settings 32 versus MJPEG streaming 9 working with cams 61 MPEG 4 7 See also MPEG Multi streaming parallel video streams 7 enabling 32 ptimizing iCAT operation 141 O Cc ticast streaming for MPEG cameras 32 Cc ti screen operation 19 positioning windows 21 ulti window operation 19 xPEG 7 See also MPEG NCS camera server 114 NEA external archive accessing archives at another server 85 Displaying status 84 recording on removable storage devices 83 starting and stopping double recording 84 NETAVIS_DIRECTORY environment variable fo
14. Observer Server Installation and Administration Select this checkbox if you want to use an encrypted connection between the two servers SSL HTTPS Please note Please be aware that an encrypted connection needs more CPU resources on both servers see also 1 3 Observer data security on page 7 Click on Save to save your settings Now you are ready to import cameras or camera groups from a remote Observer server Page 116 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 12 3 Working with cameras of another server In order to work with cameras from another Observer server the following prerequisites must be fulfilled e The servers must know of each other e The server that exports cameras must have the option Export local cameras to remote server set e The server that works with cameras of a remote server must have the option Import of cameras from remote server enabled set Note See 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 115for more details on how to configure these prerequisites 12 3 1 Mounting cameras of another server 1 Open the Camera admin dialog from the System administration menu 2 Inthe menu select Mount remote camera or group 3 Select the remote Observer host from where you want to import cameras with the Known remote machines menu Now the Remote host name and remote host IP address of the remote Observer host are shown 4 After clicking on Cameras on remote host th
15. You can select multiple views in the Views list at once by holding the CTRL key while selecting the views 5 For each view you can set a Shuffle duration that determines how long in seconds this view is shown before Observer automatically changes to the next view in the tour By pushing Set for all you can set the same duration for all view in the round tour 6 Push Save to save your changes and OK to leave the dialog Later on you can modify an existing round tour by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose an existing round tour from the Round tours list and push Modify round tour A tour can be deleted by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose an existing round tour from the Round tours list and push Delete round tour Then you have to enter your password to confirm the delete 6 7 2 Activating round tours After you have defined a round tour a new Round tour selector appears in the Online monitor To activate the round tour just choose its name from the Round tour selector This activates the automatic walkthrough all of the views in the round tour Smart Guard function The name of the round tour now appears in green to show that it is active You can stop the tour by choosing a view from the View selector the Round tour selector will change its color to normal to show that no tour currently is active 6 8 Copying views between users If there are several users in a system it can be a lot of wor
16. Zero means no transcoding and no limit for live view video streams Please read 2 7 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections Page 111 of 189 Field label Transcoding bandwidth limit for archive playback video streams kbit s Transcoding bandwidth limit for archive export streams kbit s IP address of network interface NIC for bandwidth limitation Total outgoing bandwidth limit kbit s RTSP streaming port Image database AES encryption 0 no encryption 1 or 2 encryption NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description ABS on page 26 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive playback streams ABS Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive playback streams Please read 2 7 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS on page 26 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive export streams ABS Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive export Please read 2 7 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS on page 26 for choosing the best limit values IP address of the network interface NIC for which bandwidth limitation is applied If zero then the bandwidth imit is applied in total for all available network interfaces If transcoding is switched on then it will only be applied to connec
17. and Invalid false f Acknowledge comment This acknowledgement of the event ield can be used to add an optional comment related to the Acknowledge Acknowledges the event and close the dialog Acknowledge and next Acknowledges the event and loads the next event Previous Loads the previous event Next Loads the next event Close Closes the dialog 9 2 Searching in the event database 1 2 3 When you choose Event search from the Events menu the Event search dialog appears Select the Time filter according to your needs whereby the options are either All records no time filter or manually choosing a time interval You can further constrain the search by using Event filters for Event type Camera name User name or Event ID from to and event specific parameters and their values e g the event s classification For some filters an appropriate dialog will open e g the Event selection dialog Page 94 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 gt amp Allevents Se pa 9 Camera specific messages 9 State change events Video analysis iCAT Age and gender detection Face detection In camera motion detection Traffic events Simple motion detection iCAT object tracking Change of the input port L Camera PTZ position change Camera failures Camera authentication failure Connection to camera lost Connection to camera restored b Digi
18. false to disable SNMPv1 2 3 the SNMP configuration USMUser Required for authentication SecurityName Security name used for generating SNMPv3 SNMP notifications AuthProtocol Authentication method SNMPv3 SHA MD5 AuthPass Authentication password SNMPv3 PrivProtocol Optional Encryption standard SNMPv3 AES DES PrivPass Optional Password for encryption SNMPv3 minimum 8 characters Community SNMP community Name Name of the community SNMPv1 2 3 VACM SNMPv1 can be deactivated on demand EnableV1 true to enable false to disable SNMPv1 SNMPv1 Transport SNMP data Port Standard port of Observer for SNMPv1 2 3 SNMP data Notification Notification options for SNMPv2 3 V2cIP IP address of the SNMPv2 Page 178 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Element Description Version Options SNMP management station for the corresponding version V3IP IP address of the SNMPv3 SNMP management station for the corresponding version 17 9 2 Activation Once the configuration file has been adapted rename it to server site snmp SNMPMappings default xml and upload it via the Customizer login Afterwards the Observer server or at least the NETAVIS services have to be restarted for the SNMP agent to be activated To receive the SNMP data sent by Observer a so called SNMP management station software is needed 17 9 3 Available system information and Observer events The following system information and
19. netavis NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual English NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual Valid from Observer 4 5 3 Published in December 2014 The software described in this manual is licensed under the terms of the NETAVIS end user license agreement and may only be used in accordance with these terms Copyright Copyright 2003 2014 NETAVIS Software GmbH All rights reserved NETAVIS and Observer are trademarks of NETAVIS Software GmbH All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective holders NETAVIS Software GmbH Lerchenfelder G rtel 43 A 1160 Vienna Austria Tel 43 1 503 1722 Fax 43 1 503 1722 360 info netavis net www netavis net Page 2 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Contents 1 Introduction Gibb s0sesseseceecescsesssecbeesseecsscessocecsssescssoesescscesssecsseeseseseceseesecoscssssecsssecsoe Li The Obsererdocomentatiori Set sacaanorerstacasaranarennasavataranaapianene tanrdasstunees aia aaa 6 T2 Wat ISM SW with this FElC ASC se seas toes cts shes cons a a a a cadldonds 6 Te SFODSEIV ER Ca tas SOC UII o ee mec wee rena 58023 seeiae saves rested E E ANE MASE Ts ENA EAs Ween shes Ns Bans bad 7 1 4 Video streaming methods and COMpresSSIOn rex zixstixh as eersaasntordtrarderbiastdvrdiarluaddaisdersirubindlasdvoir dienes 7 2 Observer clients on multiple platforMS sessesecsocsecoesoececoocoecocssececsosoecoesseseesess
20. see below Assign a name for the field in the Identifier text box e g Movement Optionally you can enter a Comment which is shown in the event details Usually the Sensitivity should be left at Normal It defines how sensitive or tolerant the detection algorithm is when detecting the change of pixels Modify the setting only when you want the algorithm to be more or less sensitive In the Sample frequency fps field you can specify how often the image is to be checked for changes Page 87 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 12 Inthe Time between events sec field you can enter the minimum time that must elapse before a following event is triggered This helps to filter out repetitive events Minimum time sec 3 means that after one motion detection event has been triggered at least 3 seconds must pass before another Motion Detection event can be generated 13 Inthe Pixel change threshold field you can define how many pixels in must change so that a detection event is triggered Pixel change 20 means that 20 of the pixels relative to the previous frame detection cycle must change for a detection to be triggered 14 Optionally you can define a specific event icon and sound for this definition Click on the Icon button to assign a symbol This icon is displayed in the Event list to notify an operator when an event related to this definition occurs Click on the Sound
21. All button the whole week at once Select hours and minutes from the time popup Please make sure that the Enable interval checkbox is marked because only then the settings are enabled Note You can create multiple iCAT intervals for different setups at different times For each interval proceed as described here Check the assigned iCAT definitions to this interval via the Assigned iCAT definitions popup menu atthe right side of the dialog Per default all available iCAT definitions for this camera are assigned If you do not want that you can remove them now by deselecting the definition that you do not want in this interval You can also define whether something should be recorded at an event triggered by one of the assigned iCAT definitions For that you have a full set of options to set which are described in 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 69 In addition to the parameters for continuous timed recordings you can specify a Pre event frame rate fps which can differ from that after the event defined by Frame rate fps With Page 155 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Pre Post event recording sec you can specify how long before and after the event you want to record Please note f there is an active continuous recording in MPEG format it does not make sense to have any Pre post event recording sec set for the event based recording This is because MPEG recording is only
22. Allow Audio from camera Audio from and to share single button Anonymize distort audio NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description This option should only be switched on in very special situations When marked then the MPEG 4 stream from the camera is received via multicast when disabled via RTSP over HTTP Multicast is a one to many while RTSP is one to one type connection Mark this checkbox only if you want to have multicast MPEG 4 streaming of the camera In most cases you want to leave this checkbox not marked which means that the MPEG 4 stream is transmitted via RTSP over HTTP When marked Observer will allow Audio to the camera and will offer a button for that in the Online Monitor Of course this feature only works if you have a working microphone connected to the PC where you run your client on and your camera has a loudspeaker function When marked Observer will allow Audio from the camera to your client in the Online Monitor and for recordings Of course this feature only works if you have a working loudspeaker connected to the PC where you run your client on Please note that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 If this checkbox is marked then there is only one button in the Online Monitor that switches MPEG and Audio on and off If this checkbox is not marked then you will find 3 buttons for the th
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24. Navigation and PTZ Joysticks Client for iPad Apple iPad with iOS 6 or later Live viewing and archive access with MJPEG streams Client for Smartphone amp Tablet many smartphone platforms and Live viewing with OSes MJPEG streams Note The Mac OS X operating system hasn t been supported since Observer 4 0 Please be aware that some functions like Layout Navigation and running SAFE export files are only available on the MS Windows platform This chapter describes how to start the Observer client on a desktop PC If you want to run Observer on a mobile device please refer to 2 6 Mobile Observer clients on page 23 The minimum screen resolution for running the Observer client is 1024x768 pixels Page 11 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Licensing issues The available functionality of your Observer installation is defined by the license string The document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration describes how licensing works and how to obtain a license string If you have a temporary demo license a License dialog appears at every login indicating that there is no permanent license At this dialog just press the Continue button to operate Observer in the demo mode See 11 1 Server system information and restarting on page 107 for how to display the current license of your server 2 1 1 Advanced client technology The Observer uses advanced technologies to ease the operation of cl
25. PP TCD net Cameras Axis a 215 a Axis 206 a Axis 212 Sony a Sony DH110T For cameras the status icon indicates one of three states e Ifthe icon is green everything is running normally e Ifthe icon is grey then the status is unknown or still being queried please allow for up to a minute for the status to be determined e Ifthe icon is red then one or more of the following issues have arisen o Unreachable The camera is not reachable equivalent to the Camera not responding message in the Online Monitor s view port o Authentication The username and or password in the camera setup are not correct equivalent to the Camera authentication error message in the Online Monitor s view port o Internal camera error An internal camera error has occurred The status icon of a camera group is an aggregate of the statuses of its cameras If one or more of the cameras have a grey or red status icon then the group s icon also has that color This makes it possible to quickly get an overview of the cameras even when the groups aren t expanded TCD net Cameras axis 3 Sony More detailed information about each camera is available in an overlay which appears after hovering over a camera entry Page 38 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 FD net Cameras D Axis a Axis 207 L a Axis 209 a Axis 212 Unreachable Last error at 07 04 2014 14 51 09 Last e
26. See 15 3 13 Defining Wrong Way Detection on page 154 for more information 15 3 2 iCAT event settings Event properties can be configured for each iCAT definition 1 You can enter an optional Comment which is shown in the event details Hint You can also use the Comment field to configure certain views to be shown to one or multiple users when an iCAT event occurs See 6 10 Dynamic View Control in Online Monitor on page 62 for more information 2 You can choose a specific leon Sound and Highlight color for the event when it is shown in the Event list 3 You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the iCAT definition by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 92 4 For more information on the Dynamic view action configuration please see 6 10 Dynamic View Control in Online Monitor on page 62 5 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you to selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 15 3 3 Defining an object tracking region 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Page 142 of 189 oy OTe WN NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014
27. To continue without a permanent license just push Continue In this case the full functionality may not be available See also 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for further details about licensing Please note The authentication data transferred between client and server are encrypted with MD5 strong encryption The administration user admin has the default password admin For security reasons you should change this password please see 5 Managing users on page 42 A guest login is possible only if the guest has been defined on your server which is the factory setting For further details contact your Observer administrator If you have forgotten your password you can mark the Forgot my password checkbox answer the asked question and click OK For more information ask your Observer administrator 2 2 1 Optimizing the Web Start behavior of your browser When you click on a Java Web Start link JNLP like the Start Observer client from the browser using Web Start some browsers ask whether you want to download and save the file Web Start JNLP file instead of executing it This can be annoying because you have to first save the file and then execute it manually Here is how you can automate that Optimizing Web Start for Google Chrome 1 Click on the link that you are trying to launch and Chrome will download it as before 2 By default Chrome will list the download on the bottom of the page To the right of the filen
28. To change a privilege click on its button and select the status from the pop up menu either Inherited Enabled or Disabled Online monitor Access to Online Defines if the user group has access to the Online monitor monitor Online monitor Add cameras to views Defines if the user group can add cameras to existing in Online monitor views in the Online monitor Online monitor Remove cameras Defines if the user group can remove cameras from from views in Online monitor existing views in the Online monitor Online monitor Create and delete Defines if the user group can create and delete views in views in Online monitor the Online monitor Online monitor Save view layoutsin Defines if the user group can save different view layouts Online monitor in the Online monitor Recordings Access to recording Defines if the user group can access the recording archive player archive Recordings View external archive Defines if the user group can view NEA recordings Page 44 of 189 Field label recordings NEA Events Access to Event list and database Events May acknowledge a system event Events Notification in user interface about system malfunction events Events Sending email about system malfunction events Events Sending SMS about system malfunction events Events Notification in client user interface about system information messages Events Sending email about system information messages Events Sending SMS a
29. a manual recording button is shown in any view port displaying the camera Axis215 PARANEE You can switch recording on and off by pushing the manual recording button The recording state is shown by the color a strong red dot means recording is on otherwise recording is off Please note For times not covered by a continuous recording schedule no manual recording button is shown Page 58 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 6 7 Working with round tours the Smart guard function Observer allows you to make virtual round tours of views You can define round tours that contain certain views When a tour is started Observer walks you through all the views by automatically showing up the views in the Online monitor This is like a virtual patrol of a security guard Smart guard function 6 7 1 Defining a round tour Steps to add a new round tour 1 Inthe Online monitor choose Round tours from the view Control menu Now the Round tours dialog opens 2 Inthe Round tours dialog push the button Add new round tour 3 Inthe Tour name field enter the name of the round tour 4 Now you can select a view from the Views list and push the PA button to include it in the tour By pushing the Eil button you can remove a view from the tour You reorder views in the tour by pushing the Up 4 and Down 1 buttons Please note You can have the same view several times at different locations in a round tour
30. add several PTZ route schedules for a single camera This means that you can follow different routes at different times Page 106 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 11 Administrating Observer servers This chapter describes how to e get sta tus information about running Observer servers e set server parameters e start s e admin Further inforn top servers istrate external NEA storages nation about administrating servers you find in the document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration 11 1 Server system information and restarting Observer offers 2 sets of status information of the running servers in a network e The server load display in the main client window e The System information dialog in the Admin area 11 1 1 Server load display The server load display is located in the status bar of the main client window and shows the following information CPU xx IDB xx xx KB s OVR xx SWP xx MB Server CPU load in percent This display is updated every 5 seconds Load of Image database IDB engine This parameter shows how busy the server is with saving video data on storage The actual video data storage rate is displayed below the percent value in Megabytes sec or Kilobytes sec The IDB display does not appear if the server does not record Note that the IDB load also increases when the server removes video data when the storage is full o
31. alarms 98 Snapplet embedding live video streams in web pages 167 SNMP 177 Statistics events 97 iCAT Visual Statistics 159 Storage managementin archive 72 Streaming formats 7 changing in view port 54 iCAT video analytics 140 Synchronization groups of servers 114 Synchronous playback of mutiple cameras in archive 78 T Time zone of server 110 Time zoomimg in archive 77 Transcoding for low bandwidth connections 26 setting up 111 Tripwire for object counting iCAT 145 U Upgrading remote servers 119 URL control allowed IP addresses 111 control from external applications 168 User server NUS 114 Users Active Directory LDAP 49 120 adding 42 camera access rights 46 copying view between 59 Four eyes principle 44 ETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 groups 48 info about logged in 48 managing 42 privileges 44 V VGA 10 Video analytics 138 See iCAT video annotations 167 Video compression 7 MPEG vs MJPEG 7 Transcoding for low bandwidth connections 26 Video walls 162 configuring the control application 165 controlling with Observer 164 operating with the control application 166 setup 162 View ports creating 50 define crop view 56 dynamic event based control 62 quality settings 54 zooming camera views 56 76 Views copying between users 59 dynamic event based control 62 Online monitor 50 optimizing big views after double click 53 round tou
32. button to assign a specific sound to the definition This sound is played when a user notification event related to the definition occurs 15 After you have entered all parameters for your definition save it by clicking on the Save button 16 If you have not yet scheduled a detection based recording for this camera you will be prompted for whether you want to edit the scheduling now Click on the Yes button if you want to configure the scheduling now Please refer to section 8 1 3 Scheduling motion detection on page 88 Click No if you want to do that later Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually If a definition is not assigned to an active schedule then it will not be activated no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated although it has the Active option set 8 1 3 Scheduling motion detection The scheduling for simple motion detection is the same as for other iCAT definitions Please refer to 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 8 1 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events Itis possible to assign a sequence of PTZ positioning actions to each motion detection MD field definition Once the MD field gets active the associated PTZ action is executed PTZ actions can be assigned to an MD field by appending the following s
33. called zones that can have arbitrary polygon shapes Cameras belong to a zone as long as they are positioned inside the boundaries of the zone You can place an arbitrary number of zones onto a layout Here is how you can create a zone 1 Select a layout from the layout hierarchy 2 Drag the Zone field with the mouse from the controls list at the right side and drop it onto your layout Where you drop the zone field control with the mouse will be the first corner of the polygon shape and you can now define the zone shape by clicking at further corners To finish the zone definition close the polygon shape Alternatively you can create a rectangular zone by pressing the CTRL key while moving the mouse n u 3 Per default the zones will be named Zone 1 Zone 2 and so on You can rename and delete a zone via the right mouse button pop up menu Zones can be moved by dragging them with the mouse Please note A zone can trigger certain actions e g when you click with the mouse on it a zone can show all cameras belonging to the zone in the Observer client This for example will either create a new view in the Observer client or map it to an existing view depending on the names of the views and zones Therefore the name of a zone can be of importance Here is how the mapping works for the LNT action Show zone live in Observer Client If there is an Observer view that has the same name as the LNT zone and that also contains
34. camera are taken and the settings in Observer are ignored In very special situations only e g when setting the values by Observer causes some unwanted side effects in the camera you may want to set the values in the camera directly and switch off this check box Defines the image quality of the stream The possible values are High Medium and Low quality The higher the quality the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the bigger the space requirements for recording will be see also 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 7 For multi stream JPEG cameras this value cannot be set here since separate image qualities can be set for recording and in each view port in the Online Monitor Defines the image size of the stream Possible values depend on the camera model The bigger the image size the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the more space for recording will be needed For multi stream JPEG cameras this value is of no importance since separate image sizes can be set for recording and in each view port in the Online Monitor Defines the frame rate of the stream Possible values depend on the camera model The bigger the frame rate the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the more space for recording will be needed For single stream JPEG cameras this value defines the maximum possible frame rate In the Online monitor and for recording lower frame rates can be
35. camera position Video streams and formats iCAT works with any video camera If the camera can provide an MJPEG stream iCAT uses this format because it is the most efficient for video analytics If the camera provides only MPEG formats MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG then iCAT can also work on these streaming formats However please be aware that video analytics in MPEG streams requires a lot more CPU power than in MJPEG streams since the decoding is much more complex for multi stream operation please see below Also video analytics in PEG streams causes additional delays because it works on groups of pictures or frames so called GOPs As a rule of thumb iCAT adds a delay of approximately 1 GOP duration Depending on the actual MPEG cameras model a GOP duration is between 0 5 and 1 sec see also 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 30 Analog cameras that are connected via a video server are also supported of course iCAT generally works on CIF or QVGA or nearest resolution This is a good balance between accuracy and CPU overhead If there is a continuous recording enabled for the camera iCAT uses this stream for its algorithms and does not cause additional bandwidth If the size of the stream is bigger than CIF iCAT downscales it to CIF or QVGA or nearest resolution Any pixel measures that are available in iCAT are relative to this resolution CPU load of iCAT performance issues iCAT runs on the ser
36. camera views shifting towards the bottom right Cameras in the lower right view port are removed from the view Thus it is possible to create a view where cameras with the most recent events are always displayed at the top left position Insert into empty view ports The newest iCAT events are always displayed in empty view ports and each view port has a close button ET When the user clicks Page 63 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 the close button the cameras are removed from the view freeing the view port for another camera to be shown Thus it is possible to create a view where cameras with the most recent events are always displayed and stay there until they are manually closed by the user Please note When all view ports of the view are filled no new cameras will be shown until a view port is freed Action Show live streams in view Dynamic view configuration Additional cameras Sony 240 Users Video admin user cde Window Any Window View Event_Overview Display mode insert into empty viewports Limit to IP address IP address Picture in picture features E Show event in viewpor s event line Show archive event replay in viewport For the Show camera s live stream in large view and Show live streams in view options there are also Picture in Picture features which can be enabled Show event in view port s event line This option enables a list which keeps track of the events which occ
37. close to 100 slowly moving or loitering objects will be detected as stopped It also influences the statistics of stopped objects 8 Push Next to get to the Statistics settings for the tracking region Here you can define what statistics iCAT should collect Later on these object tracking statistics can be visualized see Page 144 of 189 10 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 15 4 2 Displaying Visual Statistics on page 159 Currently the following measurements are available Object counts speeds sizes also for stopped objects Push Save to create the tracking region Later on you can modify the tracking region settings If you did not yet define the scheduling for iCAT activities then after you save the first iCAT definition for a camera you will be prompted for whether you want to edit the scheduling now Click on the Yes button if you want to configure the scheduling now refer to section 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 for further information Click on the No button if you do not wish to schedule the recording or if you want to do that later Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be a
38. creating a privacy mask Please note For privacy masking an object tracking region is NOT needed Currently privacy masks are not shown in exported streams and in the Layout Navigation tool 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video nalysis iCAT dialog O 9Y hoose a camera and in the menu select Add new definition n the Type pop up menu choose Privacy mask which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box OY ee Ger um Now you can draw the privacy field with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse In the Identifier text field enter a name for this privacy mask 7 Push Save to save your definition Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated 15 3 11 Defining Traffic Monitoring NETAVIS Observer 4 5 introduced iCAT Traffic and with it Traffic Monitoring It assesses the speed and density of road
39. event that has a recording At the end a summary dialog shows how many files have been create and what is their total size 9 3 Generating an event statistics report Observer allows you to create an event statistics report in MS Excel XLS format To create a statistics report file follow these steps 1 Choose Event statistics export from the Events menu This brings up the Event statistics export dialog Event statistics export Ezg Time filter Resolution Hour X Start time 06 08 2013 v 00 00 Time period 1 Day v Event filter Event type Summary for all Camera name Summary for all ihi User name Summary for all Event parameter name Please choose Event parameter value any string _ any character 2 Select for which Start time Time period and time Resolution you want to create the report Also you can filter according to Event type Camera and User multiple selection by holding down the CTRL key while clicking is supported for all filters If you do not select any values for Event filter then a summary statistic report will be created 3 Press OK to start creating the report file You will be prompted for a file name where the report should be stored 4 Open the created file in MS Excel With the data you can also create graphics like the following one motion detection statistics for one day Page 97 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014
40. full screen mode You can do that by dragging the window with the mouse and then maximize the window 7 When you are done setting up all the video wall client PCs and windows monitors you can continue to configure and use the video wall control application see 16 2 Controlling the video wall with the control application on page 164 16 2 Controlling the video wall with the control application The video wall control application VWCA is a client server web application which you can activate from an Observer server from release 4 4 on The client part runs within a web browser and needs only minimal computer resources and the server part of the application runs on an Observer server You can use any workstation PC in the network also your standard Observer client workstation to run the VWCA client Parallel working of multiple VWCAs It is possible that multiple operators work on the same video wall In this case Observer always executes the last command no matter who initiated it Therefore we assume a cooperative multitasking style which means that the operators have coordinate with each other Supported browsers e Mozilla Firefox 10 0 or higher e Google Chrome 17 0 or higher e Other browsers with HTML5 compatibility 16 2 1 Starting the video wall control application You can start the video wall control application VWCA in a web browser with the following URL lt your server address gt videowall Please note VWCA st
41. g Observer4 Group Scope set to Global and the Group type set to Security New Object Group x P Create in netevis net Users Group name Observer4 Group name pre WWindows 2000 Observer4 Group scope Group type Domain local Security wo Global Distribution C Universal Lo _ ca 2 Add the desired users to the previously created group Page 120 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 zixl Didin Environment Sessions Remate contd Remote Desktop Services Profile Personal Virtual Desktop COM General Address Accourt Frofile Telephones Organization Member Of Member of Domain Users netavis net Users LT rx Select this object type ees ee d Fee aos Enter the object names to select examples Add i Observer4 Check Names Pimay gwoup Set Pinar Group 13 2 Configuring Observer Now Observer must be configured to access and use the Active Directory server 1 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog For importing users from Active Directory you can either Select an existing group though note that this group has to be empty Create a new group a Choose Add new group from the User group menu or the right mouse click menu b Enter a Group name e g AD Users check the Users of this group are imported from Active Directory checkbox and click Next c Make th
42. is particularly recommended for systems without a mouse and keyboard Starting the Observer client Pushing Start in the Starter will open the client window and connect you to the Observer server When the client is started the Starter window will be hidden and in the task bar you will see it s icon You can access the Starter by clicking its icon There you can open the Starter dialog again and also force an exit of the client application Page 17 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Active sessions gt Quick Connectto P Open Starter dialog Exit When you start the client the first time after a new installation some additional client application components need to be installed this is needed only once per client You will be asked information eam Somm Your client needs further program components Install program components from Server over network Cancel Normally you want choose to install the program components from Server over network However if you have a very slow network connection between the client and the server you might want to choose installation from Local media When you choose this option you will be asked to locate the directory ClientInstaller of the Observer installation CD Once you choose the correct location and push OK the components will be installed Note f you enable the Download client without asking option you won t be presented wi
43. mouse button and choose Add I O contact from the pop up menu This opens the Modify I O Contact Control dialog for a screenshot see 14 5 5 Modifying I O contact control appearance and behavior on page 133 In this dialog you can define the name of the control and the two images for activated and deactivated states Also set the Control type An Input contact displays the state of the input contact of an I O device An Output contact allows you to switch an output contact of an O device An Impulse button allows you to manually switch an output contact for a predefined period of time For example for an input contact that shows the state of a gate barrier you can use images that reflect the open and closed state of the barrier 3 Click OK to create the new camera control icon 14 6 Layout navigation and operation Navigation mode Switch to Navigation mode by clicking the navigation mode icon l atthe right side of the tool bar or by choosing Project gt Switch to navigation mode Note An Observer client must be running under the same user on the same client workstation so that itcan be controlled by Layout Navigation 14 6 1 Peeking live video of mapped cameras The default behavior of some camera icons is that you can peek at live video of mapped cameras by moving the mouse pointer over a camera icon Then the live video stream will be shown on top of the layout As soon as you move the mouse pointer away from the icon th
44. multiple parallel video streams from the camera Some cameras are capable of providing multiple parallel video streams to Observer This can be helpful for example when online viewing and recording is to be done in different formats e g Page 7 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 different sizes and frame rates or for optimizing iCAT video analytics performance see 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 140 Usually MJPEG cameras can deliver several MJPEG streams while MPEG cameras MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG usually can deliver only 1 or 2 MPEG streams and some camera types can deliver several MJPEG streams in addition to the MPEG stream s However there are a few important restrictions with multi streaming e Some cameras have performance limitations in providing multiple streams depending on the streaming format resolution and frame rate We found out that some cameras just stop streaming when the streaming processors of the camera get overloaded by certain resolution and frame rates settings Please refer to the camera data sheet and documentation e Inthe current version Observer supports 1 format setting for MPEG streams MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG and multiple format settings for MJPEG streams Please note Please refer to camera data sheet and documentation for camera limitations Also the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources may provide further details on camera
45. network could be burdened and also the server could be overloaded e in camera motion detection The images are analyzed in the camera and only when detection occurs an event and image data are sent to the Observer server that then stores the event and the images in its archive The advantage of this method is that the network and the server are not burdened The disadvantage is that it works only with special cameras that offer this feature and that the motion detection settings have to be programmed in the camera directly 8 1 Observer s own server based motion detection The simple motion detection feature of Observer can recognize motion by detecting pixel changes between video frames Such a detection can then trigger the following predefined actions e Entry of events in an Event list optionally accompanied by an acoustic signal e Changes in recording behavior e g higher recording rate if that has been programmed see 7 Working with archive recordings on page 69 Here you find the steps how to configure the parameters for simple motion detection 8 1 1 Preparation Before you begin to configure a motion detection definition be sure that you have the necessary authorization to make settings If you are not sure please ask your Observer administrator Please note Motion detection for PTZ cameras is problematic since normal movement of the camera will trigger a motion detection event 8 1 2 Basic configuration of serv
46. of each Observer server and also under the following direct link http lt your server gt relnotes or on the public demo server showroom netavis net relnotes There you also find the release information of previous releases Additionally the new features of releases are also documented on www netavis net Page 6 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 1 3 Observer data security Observer has been designed to provide the highest level of robustness and data security The following aspects of the Observer system document that e All video and configuration data on an Observer server are stored in separate file system partitions protected by multiple levels of security e Optionally the video data can be stored using 128 bit AES encryption since Observer 4 0 e Optionally HTTPS can be used for streaming video data between cameras and servers since Observer 4 0 e Optionally HTTPS can be used for streaming video data between server and clients since Observer 4 2 e In any case the authentication data user names and passwords transferred between clients and servers are encrypted by MD5 strong encryption Please note Encryption and decryption can mean higher CPU overhead at the server and or the client Also doing something with the contents of an encrypted stream means decryption and therefore higher CPU overhead For example doing video analytics with an encrypted video stre
47. of setting up schedules for continuous recordings 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera for which you want to set up the recording schedule 3 Atthe bottom of the screen click on the Next button twice This takes you to the Scheduling dialog If you are setting up a new camera this dialog will be quite empty 4 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group 5 Click the Add button to add a schedule slot to the Time Intervals list 6 Click the Change button and choose Continuous recording Now the Scheduling dialog shows the settings for configuring continuous recording 7 Now you can define the days and times for the recordings You can activate individual days or with the All button the whole week at once Select hours and minutes from the popup matrix If you want that recording can only be started manually then make sure that the Enable interval checkbox is disabled Note When a user pushes the manual recording button in the Online monitor actually the Enable interval checkbox is toggled This causes the recording to either start ort stop 8 Setall the recording options as described in 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 69 9 Click on Save to save your settings 6 6 2 Manually controlling recordings in the Online monitor When everything is set up as described above then for the enabled user and camera
48. oldest view ports view ports that stood there the longest without a camera change Thus you can create a view where always cameras with the newest events are displayed Page 66 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 3 shows the camera and optional lt additional camera IDs gt in the view named lt view name gt must be supplied The cameras are placed row wise starting at the top left view port The cameras that were in these view port before are shifted to the right Cameras at ght corner of the view therefore are removed from the view Thus you can create a view where cameras with the most recent events are always displayed at the top the lower ri left position e 4 shows the camera name gt m close button associa removed from the vi Thus you can create a view where cameras with the displayed and stay there until they are removed by t ports of the view are filled no new cameras will be s e 5 similarto mode 1 it shows the camera in a large vi camera IDs gt are paired one by one wi additional cameras are shown in large view at the cl logged in e 6 similar to mode 1 it shows the camera in a large vi camera IDs gt are paired one by one wi nal cameras are shown i these additio lt window ID gt defines the window which wi lt viewport eve whereby 0 disables this func lt viewport archive replay gt defines whether tyandle whereby 0 disables this func lt viewport even
49. on it and select Reset traffic direction learning Please note The Wrong Way Detection region should always include road parts where the typical traffic direction is observable For example if the scenario is to detect drivers traveling the wrong way on the emergency lane it is not a good practice to draw the detection region tightly around the emergency lane Rather the solution is to extend the detection region to include the lane next to the emergency lane so the detector can compare a vehicle s route to the direction learned on the adjacent lane Hint It is possible to set up more than one Wrong Way Detection per camera e g to generate different events for vehicles going the wrong way on the main road or an exit lane 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording This section describes how to schedule iCAT video analysis operation and how to define the related event based recording Here are the steps i Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog In the camera tree select the camera that you want to schedule Go to the Scheduling dialog by clicking on Next at the bottom In the menu select Modify selected camera or group Press the Add button below the Time intervals list and choose Video analysis iCAT from the type button labeled Change Now define the days and times when iCAT should be enabled for this camera You can activate individual days or with the
50. on page 46 7 1 Programming archive recordings Two types of programming are available in Observer e timed recording e recording on iCAT video analysis events like motion detection or people counting To be able to program recordings you need corresponding authorization 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera for which you want to program archive recording When you select the camera highlighted in light blue its data are displayed in the Properties dialog at the right side of the screen 3 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group 4 Atthe bottom of the screen click on the Next button twice This takes you to the Scheduling dialog If you are setting up a new camera this dialog will be quite empty Note Some fields and buttons are deactivated until you select Modify selected camera or group in the menu and then they become modifiable Also the Time Intervals field is still empty when you begin Later it will contain one or more program slots for the selected camera 5 Click the Add button to add a programming slot to the Time Intervals list Page 69 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 MTWTFSS 00 00 24 00 E Video analysis iCAT MTWTFSS 00 00 24 00 E Continuous recording 00 00 24 00 N Change Aaa Change v
51. region you can also define what object statistics should be measured by iCAT Such statistics can then be visualized Page 139 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Event triggers Each camera can have several event triggers that define under what conditions an event is generated by the detected objects Event triggers only work inside of the object tracking region Examples of event triggers are people or object counters and detectors of stopped or started objects The CPU load caused by event triggers compared to the tracking region is negligible Scheduling The standard Observer scheduling mechanisms are also used for scheduling activating various iCAT setups For example it is possible to have different iCAT settings for weekdays and weekends 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT Camera selection and placement Though iCAT is able to analyze video captured by any type of supported camera using a device with higher image quality will result in better detection and tracking Generally the iCAT algorithms work with in and outdoor cameras as well as for different perspectives The configuration of the algorithms in Observer is pretty simple as you will see below For people and object counting the best results are possible if the camera is mounted overhead downward looking Please note Setting up iCAT definitions for PTZ cameras is problematic since most of the iCAT functions require a fixed
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53. stream The options are Max fps various fps and fpm frames per minute values and Stop Note For cameras which provide a single MJPEG stream you can only select frame rate values which are lower than the default MJPEG frame rate set in the Camera settings Defines the position where the camera name is displayed in the view port The options are Show at the top Show at the bottom and Do not show Hint As of NETAVIS Observer 4 5 it is also possible to change the size CTRL button mouse wheel up or down and contrast CTRL Shift buttons mouse wheel up or down of the camera name and hide show the label with the stream type and fps information Shift buttons mouse wheel up or down For all of these commands the mouse pointer has to be over the camera name Page 54 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Rendering Defines which scaling algorithm will be used when images need to be scaled to fit preference the available view port space Optimized for quality means that the scaling is done with a more CPU intensive anti aliasing which causes straight lines to be smoother Optimized for speed means that the scaling is done with a faster algorithm that may cause lines to be not so smooth These settings can be modified all at once for all view ports in the current view via Set parameters of all view ports from the view s Control menu Holding down the CTRL key while selecting any of the Set parameters of all v
54. the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 3 Inthe list of files find and save HolidayCalendar SAMPLE xml to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu 17 5 2 Edit the XML config file Edit the file according to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file When you are done with editing save the file The SAMPLE file has to be renamed to HolidayCalendar xml Please note The holiday calendar has to be configured on camera servers NCS Controlling recording over user servers NUS is not supported Page 171 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 17 5 3 Upload and activate the XML config file You can upload and activate the function by following these steps 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file In the opened file dialog choose the file HolidayCalendar xml and upload it to the server 4 Please restart Observer to activate settings of the holiday calendar 17 6 Automatic export of event statistics Observer allows you to automatically export event statistics data in the format of a CSV comma separated text file that can
55. the stat ports tons at the monitor title bars to move in history You can also specifically us bar shows the camera name when you move the mouse pointer over Page 166 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 17 Special functions This chapter describes some special functions of Observer 17 1 Video annotations Video streams for live viewing and recording can be annotated with text that then displayed in the video stream The annotations can come from external data sources and can be stored in the event database for later retrieval and search Annotations can be created via the SNAP XML interface or with a simple shell command with command line options Example applications are POS cash register data ATM data logistics data or access control data 17 1 1 Working with video annotations You can access the video annotation tools from the server s web page dy At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that After login click on Download configuration files Download the file annotate zip and unpack the zip to a local directory on your client The zip contains the Windows command line program annotate exe Just run the program from a command line to see all options You can also refer to annotate readme txt The Java source code of the program is also part of the zip file If you select to generate an event with the vid
56. to Observer video wall clients Videowall control center The browser application connects to one or more Observer servers Video wall client 2 manages monitors 5 8 Video wall client 1 manages monitors 1 4 User LAN benna camera servers eee User Server 2 9 for user access user servers NUS 2 NUS2 The video wall control application itself runs in a web browser on a PC that serves as the video wall control center It connects to one of the Observer servers in the network that then in turn controls the Observer video wall clients that directly connect to the monitors of the video wall 16 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer 16 1 1 General setup considerations The video wall control application connects to an Observer server normally a user server NUS in order to control the display of the video wall clients It is possible to choose any server in the network Page 162 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 for that purpose However all cameras that you want to display on the video wall must be accessible by It is also possible to use more tha how you setup your server network topology In su on clients that directly connect to the monitors must connect to these serv set wa l up and management of the video wall we suggest this server i e must be configured at this server or must be mounted from other servers n 1 server fo
57. traffic and can thereby detect traffic jams low traffic and other traffic patterns Here are the steps for configuring Traffic Monitoring 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera in the camera tree and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Traffic Monitoring which exposes the configuration settings In the Identifier text field enter a name for the Traffic Monitoring definition OF Ps WS By default the Traffic Monitoring region is assumed to have one lane but you can choose between one two or three lanes in the Number of lanes menu You can change the position of the region by dragging the green and red dots in the preview pane The direction of each lane is indicated by the yellow arrow and can be changed by clicking on the area of a lane Page 152 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 6 Adjust the Road length and Road width both in meters of the road section which is covered by the region configured above Please note The included section should be around 70 100 meter long Define the Measurement time unit in minutes which defines how long a certain traffic state has to last before a corresponding event is triggered Now for each Traffic state except Normal traffic the lower and upper thresholds for the Speed in km h and Traffic Density in have to be defined Additionally a Hig
58. wall monitors 16 1 2 Setting up the video wall Please follow these steps for setting up the video wall di 2 Configure your Observer server network with all the cameras and other settings Setup the video wa to 1 client PC depe desktop applicatio We suggest using 1 Ilmo nds o n group that has privi VW client PC In the exan VWPC2 speci nitors and the video wall client PCs how ma n your hardware setup The video wall clien nple diagram above it would be 2 users with ny monitors you can connect ts must run the Observer fic user per video wall client PC As indicated above you can create a user leges and access rights to all relevant cameras and then create 1 user for each names like VWPC1 and Start the Observer application on the first video wall client PC and login with the user of that client PC e g VWPC1 For each video wall monitor you have to define a separate window in the Observer application there is a 1 to 1 mapping between video wall monitors and Observer application windows For each of these windows you can define multiple views with different layouts you can also add and modify views later on These views can later on be controlled by the video wall control application Page 163 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 6 Inthe Observer application position each of the created windows to the corresponding video wall monitors and put it in
59. which you want to add the user Please refer to 5 4 Working with user groups on page 48 if you want to create a new user group first 3 Inthe menu select Add new user The Properties dialog opens to allow you to enter user data 4 Enter your user data in the corresponding fields of the dialog Use the following table as a guide Fields labeled in bold both in the dialog and in the table are mandatory all others are optional Field label Description Login name isis a short name that the user will use to log in Full user name his is the complete name of the user Password Enter a password for the user The user can change this later on see 5 7 Changing the password on page 48 Re enter password Enter the password again for verification Secondary password Enable the checkbox and enter a secondary password if a secondary password is needed for logging in the user This is important for enforcing the four eyes principle for certain video operations Re enter sec password Enter the secondary password again for verification Page 42 of 189 Field label Forgot question Forgot answer SMS number E mail address Language Auto login after 1 min timeout PTZ priority 1 lowest 10 highest Max PTZ use time sec PTZ inactivity timeout sec NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description Formulate a question that only the user can answer if he has forgotten his p
60. without the need to save manually 6 2 Selecting cameras 1 In the view port press the Add camera button Please note that you first have to set up a camera before you can select it in one of the view ports see 4 Setting up cameras on page 30 This opens the camera tree Select a camera from the camera tree Page 51 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 S Camera D tavis Cameras ne ow we Axis 211A w we Sony CS50 Sony RZ25 You can either o selecta camera and press the Select button or o double click on a camera to add it to the view port where you press Add camera or o drag and drop a camera to the view port of your choice 3 Proceed in the same way with additional view ports in your view 4 You can assign multiple cameras to each view port However since you can only view one camera image in each view port Observer lets you manually switch between cameras by clicking on the camera selection menu at the upper left corner of the view port Axis 215 v PHIR mS Mobotix i l Axis Q1755 Axis 215 Shuffle 5 Inthe camera selection menu of a view port you can also select the option Shuffle Then Observer cyclically switches through all the cameras assigned to the view port 6 Please select Save all view settings from the view Control menu in order to save all settings The next time you log in to Observer all views and view ports will be avail
61. you have up to 4 cameras for synchronous playback The following illustration shows synchronous playback of two cameras Calendar Player Playback arama Control menu S HH Fe Buona a People count E 3 Ya 26 04 305 CET OP 02 08 2013 07 26 00 02 08 2013 07 27 59 HE YY O o lt w A 4h 02 08 2013 07 26 00 I4 4 LE gt D gt I z 02 08 2013 07 27 59 7 2 7 Displaying video analysis iCAT information for recordings The iCAT submenu in the Control menu offers various options for displaying iCAT related video analysis information also for recordings Please refer to 15 4 Working with iCAT on page 158 for further information Page 78 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 7 2 8 Protection of recordings against automatic deletion Normally Observer automatically deletes recordings that are older than the Requested recording period in order to free space for new recordings For cases where you want to keep certain scenes longer than the requested recording period you can protect arbitrary periods against automatic deletion Here is how you can do that 1 Inthe Archive go to the Calendar view and select a camera 2 Inthe calendar select the period you want to protect against automatic deletion 3 Press Protect selected images against deletion Now the color of the selected period in calendar turns to a different color which shows that the images are protected To unpro
62. 13 07 27 59 za y oo Z ae A s 02 08 2013 07 26 00 J4 4 i B 2 mm 02 08 2013 07 27 59 In the Playback view you have several possibilities e Automatic or manual fast forward and rewind of recordings e Selection and playback of a time frame time zooming e Synchronous playback of recordings of up to 4 cameras e Export of individual images as well as the selected video sequence 7 2 2 Moving forward and back in the recording Automatic playback By clicking the Playback buttons la or BI you can let the recording automatically play forward or backwards Due to the archive storage mechanism backwards playback might be a little jumpy with MPEG 4 and H 264 streams With the Playback Speed slider at the left of the window you can vary the playback speed Press the Stop button mto end playback Manual playback By clicking and moving the green Playback marker F you can control the playback of images manually You can select the size of the playback by clicking the Original size button at the lower left of the Player dialog Here you have the possibility to choose from various sizes 7 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings Observer allows you to zoom view ports in the Online monitor and in the Archive player Basically you have two ways to zoom a view port or a recording in the Archive player Page 76 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Zooming with the mouse wheel L Just move
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64. 5 7 Changing the password This section describes how to change passwords for users defined in Observer For users defined in Active Directory LDAP the passwords need to be changed there Each Observer administrator with the appropriate privileges can change the passwords of other users see also 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 42 Additionally each user can change his own password by following these steps Page 48 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 1 Inthe Observer menu choose Change password 2 Inthe newly opened dialog enter the old current password and the new password twice 3 Push OK to change the password When you login the next time you will have to enter the new password Please note The optional secondary password can only be changed by an Observer administrator with the appropriate privileges 5 8 Working with Active Directory and LDAP users The configuration of Observer to work with users from Active Directory and LDAP is covered in chapter 13 Active Directory Integration on page 120 Page 49 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 6 Using the Online Monitor In the Online Monitor you can view live streams from cameras that are set up at the Observer server The prerequisite is that you must have authorization to access the Online Monitor see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 Furthermore you can access only those cameras for which you have acc
65. 8 634 do not work together 12 1 Basic concepts of interconnected Observer servers In a single server system an Observer server does multiple things store camera recordings run video analytics on camera streams store events in the event database handle user clients In a bigger system with many cameras and users because of workload a single server is not capable of doing all those things at once Therefore multiple servers can be installed to handle the workload 12 1 1 Camera servers NCS and user servers NUS In anetwork of multiple servers the individual servers usually work in different roles Camera servers NCS NETAVIS Camera Server A camera servers NCS mainly manages cameras it stores recordings and optionally runs video analytics on the video streams of the connected cameras It also stores the events related to the connected cameras A NCS usually does not serve any user clients directly but it offers its cameras to user servers for mounting User server NUS NETAVIS User Server A user server handles user clients It usually mounts cameras from multiple camera servers and also receives events from them Thus a user connecting to a NUS can have access to the cameras of all camera servers A user server usually does not manage any cameras directly and does not do any recording or any video analytics However it usually does store the events of all the mounted NCS in its central event database 12 1 2 Keeping multiple us
66. 89 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Field label Description f A Defines if the user group can set iCAT definitions read iCAT May set iCAT definitions read onl only i Host admin Access to Host Defines if the user group has access to the Host admin administration and System configuration and System information information Client Allow GUI layout customization Defines if the user group can customize the layout of the Client Recordings Manage external archive Defines if the user group can manage external storage devices NEA devices for NEA To set privileges for all users in the system you can select and modify the root group but please be aware that at each group or user level privileges can be overridden Click Save to save your changes 5 3 Setting camera access rights i Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog Select the user or group you want to modify Please note The camera access rights can be set for regular individual users and Active Directory groups but not for regular user groups or individual Active Directory users Click the Next button twice to get to the Camera Access Rights dialog As with the general user privileges also the camera access rights are initially inherited from the upper group level Inherited camera access rights from the group level to which the user or group belongs are displayed with normal font while values th
67. Audio playback 78 calendar 73 continuous timed 69 DivX export 80 event based recording 155 exporting 79 exporting event related recordings 96 holiday calendar 171 iCAT based recording 155 manual recording control in the Online monitor 57 motion detection in 81 on removable storage devices see NEA 83 Playback 73 programming 69 protection against deletion 79 113 SAFE format export 80 save space with frame rate reduction for older parts of the archive 71 storage management 72 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 synchronous playback of mutiple cameras 78 time zoomimg 77 Release notes 6 Remote servers 114 events 118 monitoring 119 upgrading 119 Restarting and rebooting 109 Round tours 59 RTSP streaming port 112 S Sabotage detection iCAT 148 SAFE format archive export 80 SAFE Player iCAT information 81 Playback 81 Zooming 81 Saturation 39 Scheduling iCAT activities 155 Screen resolution minimum for running the client 11 Secondary password for login 42 Security 7 Sensitivity setting ICAT 143 Server administrating 107 information about running servers 107 interconnected 114 load display 107 network 114 camera server NCS 114 synchronization groups 114 user server NUS 114 setting parameters 109 Setup of anew system 28 Smart guard function 59 Page 187 of 189 Smart Tripwire ICAT 145 Smartphones mobile devices 23 SMS receiving on events and
68. Follow the steps of the setup program Alternatively you can also download and run the client installer executable on Windows platforms 1 Atthe Observer Start page click on the link Alternative installation Download Observer client installer executable Windows only 2 Save the client installer executable at an arbitrary location 3 Execute the just downloaded client installer Observer_setup exe Follow the steps of the setup program standard Windows installation 2 3 2 Starting the installed Observer client Once the setup finished you can start the client locally from your Windows Start menu or also from a desktop icon if you selected so at installation The Starter window appears Saved Sessions ra 4 0 HU admin admin nct xperts hu O 4 0 HU ckl cki nct xperts hu 4 0 HU ckI fast cki 84 21 30 209 8380 default admin showroom netavis net ind31 selfip biz netavis ind31 selfip biz ind31 selfip biz admin admin ind31 selfip biz x licensing admin admin licensing netavis net Page 16 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Working with sessions The Starter allows you to manage sessions In a session you can define the server address which Observer application to start and the user password details Thus you can store and run different sessions easily The Session editor is opened when you press Add new or Modify and allows you to define the sess
69. NTRY_a241s 5 tps stoppt auf teppich erdi O 0H 00 0 Notice the difference in coloring You see that people only very seldom stop in the middle of the carpet but stop very often in front of the welcome counter Page 160 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Resetting the Visual Statistics To reset the statistics to zero follow these steps 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose the camera and then the object tracking region In the menu select Modify selected definition Push the Next button to go to the statistics pane Disable the checkboxes of those statistics you want to reset Push the Save button to save the changes Now the statistics counts of the disabled statistics are reset 7 Nowenable the statistics again by repeating the above steps accordingly Do not forget to push Save again OF Oe Oe SD 15 4 3 Working with iCAT events Working with iCAT events is the same as working with other events of the Observer event management system EMS as described in 9 Handling events on page 92 Currently iCAT generates events of the following types as shown in the event type hierarchy dialog of the Event search see 9 1 Event list and event details on page 92 Camera specific messages State change events Video analysis iCAT events Simple motion detection iCAT object tracking All events that are ge
70. Next Frame and Jump to start Jump to end when the playback is paused The Speed of the playback can be controlled with a slider and ranges from 1 8th to 1024x 7 4 Motion detection in archive recordings Observer supports server based motion detection not only for live camera streams but also in the archived recordings Here you find information about how to execute motion detection on recordings Please note In this version Observer supports archive motion detection only for MJPEG recordings and not for recordings of other streaming formats like MPEG 4 or H 264 1 Goto the main window and choose the Archive player if the Archive player is not available then perhaps it is disabled in the client preferences see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 19 Page 81 of 189 2 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 In the Calendar view of the Player select the camera and the timeframe for the motion detection Push on the Playback button This will load the images of the timeframe and replay the recorded images In the Upper left corner of the Player view select Archive motion detection from the Control menu Playback acceleration Fe Control menu 7 z 00 01 59 Archive motion detection Image size b Previous timeline selections iCAT gt Now the motion detection pane is opened on the left side in the Player view Simple motion detection 1 v Manage detections field
71. ORY and the location of the directory and then click OK The default location would be 3USERPROFILE netavisLibs 6 Click OK in the Environment Variables dialog window and close the other dialogs as well Page 18 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Working with sessions of pre 4 0 servers The Starter also allows you to also manage sessions with Observer servers running releases older than 4 0 Just select the checkbox Show settings for pre 4 0 releases to show the additional settings Description of elements Element Description Window width height Define the size of the client window in pixels Upper left corner X Y Define the location of the upper left corner of the client window in pixels This setting can be changed e g for multi screen setups Initial monitor view name __ Is optional and defines the initial Online monitor view Window decoration visible Defines whether the windows decoration border is visible Tool control bar visible Defines whether the tool control bar at the right side of the window is visible This bar allows switching between Online Monitor Archive Player Event Management and Administration Event bar visible Defines whether the event bar at the bottom of the window is visible Online monitor control bar Defines whether the 8 menu and the history buttons for Online visible monitor control are visible Overlay painting enabled W
72. Observer events are available via SNMP System information available with SNMP Get Walk via the NETAVIS MIB NETAVIS MIB Name Description Host Table Entry o2HostID Unique identifier of the server o2HostName Human readable name of the server o2HostOSNameAndVersion Name and version of the Operating System running on the server o2HostCPUldle Percent of CPU idle time the higher this value means the less work the CPU is doing o2HostTotalMemory Size of the RAM in kBytes o2HostUsedMemory Total number of RAM kBytes in use o2HostTotalSwap Number of configured kBytes of swap space o2HostUsedSwap Number of used kBytes of swap space o2HostUptime The time in UNIX seconds since the NETAVIS server has been booted Storage Table Entry o2StorageHostID Unique identifier of the server where this disk is connected to o2StoragelD Identifier which is valid only locally on the server o2StoragePath For internal storage types it shows the device path of the partition where the storage is located e g dev sdal For external storage types it shows the mount point or directory where the external device has been mounted o2StorageTotal Total number of MBytes o2StorageUsed Total number of used MBytes Page 179 of 189 NETAVIS MIB Name o2StorageStatus o2Storagelype Video Platform o2VPID o2VPName o2VPVersion o2VPLicense o2VPStorageUtilization o2VPUptime User Table Entry o2UserName o2UserL
73. PEG images JPEG Image size Image quality Storage per image approximately Small Low 3 KB 176x144 QCIF PAL 176x120 QCIF NTSC Medium 5KB 160x120 QQVGA High 8 KB Medium Low 8 KB 352x288 CIF PAL 352x240 CIF NTSC Medium 13KB 320x240 QVGA High 20 KB Large Low 20 KB 704x576 4CIF PAL 704x480 4CIF NTSC M 4 KB 640x480 VGA High 52 KB For mega pixel cameras the image size will be much bigger than shown in the table Page 10 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 2 Observer clients on multiple platforms 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients Once you have successfully installed Observer on your server authorized users can access the server via an Observer client Normally the Observer client runs on a PC separate from the server however in a client on server installation the client runs directly on the server see the document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for further information on how to create and run a client on server installation Clients for various platforms You can choose among these Observer clients operating systems and platforms Observer client OS and platform Supported functionality Locally installed desktop client MS Windows XP Vista 7 8 All No audio Layout Navigation and Linux Unix also client on server PTZ Joysticks CoS Desktop web browser MS Windows XP Vista 7 8 No support for joysticks for PTZ control Linux Unix No audio Layout
74. Receive event images via HTTP Post recording length sec 0 Frame rate 1 pic sec In the menu choose Modify selected camera or group Mark either Receive event images via FTP or via HTTP depending on what your camera supports This tells Observer to receive in camera events and images from the camera If you already have a defined an active server motion detection schedule for the camera you will get a dialog that tells you that having both server and in camera motion detection at the same time is not possible To continue you have to first disable the server based motion detection schedules in the Scheduling dialog and then you can continue here Optionally you can set the Post recording length sec that defines whether and for how long the Observer server should record camera images in addition to receiving and storing the event pictures pushed by the camera As mentioned above you could want to do that to record the post event images with a high frame rate In such a case set the Frame rate according to your needs Now you also have to tell Observer for how long it should keep the recorded event images both the ones pushed by the camera and the ones additionally recorded by the server Press the Previous button at the bottom of the dialog until you reach the Scheduling dialog Below the Time intervals list push the Add button and then choose Camera MD FTP HTTP from the newly created Change pop up menu In the field Requ
75. S Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 For example setting 30 days of Requested recording period with 25 fps and 20 days for reduced archive with 3 fps will maintain an archive containing recent 10 days with 25 fps and the remaining 20 days will be automatically reduced to 3 fps Note This works for JPEG streams only and does not affect any MPEG recordings Additionally you can see the Actual recording period days hours the Storage used by this camera MB the Total storage space MB which shows the overall storage space of the server and the Free storage space MB which is the available space for new recordings on this server 10 Click on Save to save your settings As soon as the scheduled time is reached recording is started with these settings 7 1 2 Scheduling video analysis iCAT operation and recording For information on how to schedule video analysis iCAT operation and recording please refer to section 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 7 1 3 Event triggered recordings The option Event triggered recordings can be used to create schedules which control when externally triggered events handled by Observer s Event Management System EMS are recorded 7 1 4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management In the Scheduling dialog you can specify the Requested recording period property that defines how long recordings are to be kept by Observer Any recordings that are older than the re
76. Select a camera in the camera tree and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Object tracking region In the Identifier text field enter a name for this region Choose whether you want a Polygon or Rectangle shape by checking the respective check box Now you can draw the region with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse Here is an example of a tracking region v Polygon Please note As indicated in 15 2 Basic iCAT concepts on page 139 and 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 140 objects will only be detected and tracked inside a tracking region Event triggers will only work inside the boundaries of tracking regions On the other hand making the object tracking region as small as possible helps you to save CPU power of your Observer server Also be aware that the tracking region should approximately at least be twice the size of the biggest objects you want to track Now you have to set the configuration parameters of the tracking region Field label Description Indoor camera Enable this setting if the camera is an indoor camera Indoor setting usually is best for rooms not bigger than 10x10m and objects not farther away than 15m Disable this check box for outdoor environments Experiment with this setting i
77. Selecting cameras on page 51 for more details 6 4 2 Controlling PTZ cameras The PTZ menu allows PTZ control and is enabled for PTZ cameras see 10 4 1 Controlling PTZ cameras in the Online Monitor on page 101 6 4 3 Setting video parameters The Video parameters menu offers the following options Set streaming format Set image quality Set image size Set frame rate Set camera name appearance Defines the format in which the camera images should be streamed The available options depend on the camera and its configuration in Observer see 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 30 Please also refer to 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 7 for further details on streaming formats Sets the quality of the streamed images by modifying the compression rate The options are High Medium and Low Refer to 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 10 for details on these values Note Setting the image quality is only possible for MJPEG streams of cameras for which Observer supports multiple MJPEG streams Sets the image size resolution of the streamed images The available size options are camera specific so please refer to your camera s manual Note Setting the image size is only possible for MJPEG streams of cameras for which Observer supports multiple MJPEG streams You cannot change the image size for MPEG 4 MxPEG and H 264 streams Sets the frame rate of the video
78. Server Parameters dialog The following settings are available Field label Event storage period days Defines how many days events are stored Any events that are older than these days will be deleted from the event database Max number of events storedon Defines how many events can be stored in the event server database For each event more than the defined max number of events the oldest event will be deleted Please note that both settings the storage period and the max number of events together constrain the event database Server timezone abbreviation Defines the server timezone Available values are Page 110 of 189 Field label Timeout for IP cameras sec Retry count for IP cameras after which an event is generated Maximum login time for the suest user Sec Timeout for server server communication sec Server network address for camera ACCESS List of IP addresses from which URL control is enabled Transcoding bandwidth limit for live view video streams kbit s NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description Defines the time the server waits to receive a response from a camera Afterwards the message Camera not responding appears in the Online Monitor the server closes the connection and then re attempts to connect to the camera Defines the number of retries after which the server raises a camera not reachable event The Timeout for IP cameras sec mul
79. T needed 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose a camera and in the menu select Add new definition 3 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Lighting change detection which will expose the configuration settings 4 Select the checkboxes for Light switched on and Light switched off to detect abrupt lighting changes like when somebody switches the light on or off You can also enter values in the Brightness high limit and Brightness low limit fields to detect slower lighting changes like during sunrise and sundown If you leave these values empty then slower lighting change detection will be disabled 5 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this definition 6 Push Save to save your definition Page 150 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 If a definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated 15 3 9 Defining Face Detection Since NETAVIS Observer 4 4 0 iCAT supports Face Detection The functionality can be used to detect and count faces in a video stream Optiona
80. TML file I 2 In the Event search dialog press the HTML export button which opens an export dialog Enter a file name and choose whether you want to export only the events displayed in current search list or all events matching the filter criteria Press Export Now the file is created You can open the file in a normal web browser nea ene OOOO OOOO gt file C Users Christoph 20Derndorfer events_search_2 html Events 01 08 2013 10 52 34 Records 20 9 2 2 Exporting event related recordings You can export event related video recordings from the Event search dialog For each event that has recording associated a separate video file is created The file name is composed of the event ID date time and event type The export can be done in 2 formats AVI DivX and SAFE see also 7 3 Exporting recordings images and video sequences on page 79 Here is how you can do that I 2 In the Event search dialog press the Video export button which opens an export dialog Select the directory where the exported video files are to be stored and choose whether you want to export only the events displayed in current search list or all events matching the filter criteria You can also supply the pre and post event time to be exported Page 96 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Select the video format 3 Press Export Now a separate video file is created for each
81. a licenses If the number contains an R then it is a floating license from a remote licensing server If the number of cameras exceeds the license limit then in parentheses first the number of disabled cameras is shown and then after a slash the number of allowed licensed cameras USR shows the number of total user licenses If the number contains an R then it is a floating license from a remote licensing server SNAP SNAP XML integration interface LNT Layout Navigation iCAT iCAT video analytics SAB Camera sabotage detection IPAD Client for iPad URL SNAP URL integration interface VW Video wall control V4W Video4Web SMPH Client for Smartphone amp Tablet TRF iCAT Traffic You can display the current license key string by entering the following URL in a web browser http IP address of your server arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd showlicensekey For further information about licensing please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Archive shows the sum of fps and Kbytes per second of archiving on that host Monitor shows the sum of fps and Kbytes per second of all logged in users Page 108 of 189 3 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please note that you usually only see the status of your server If you want to monitor the status of other Observer servers as well you have to make other servers known to your server please refer to 12 Working
82. a should cause a camera covered event but the effects of the covering could be very similar from the algorithm s point of view to a moved camera or to a lost focus So the algorithm has to decide what happened and the result is not always the proper event category one may get camera moved and more usually focus lost instead of camera covered However a sabotage event should occur at unusual situations it is just possible that the detailed category will not match the actual reason Hint As the three sabotage types have many properties in common to get the best detection rate switch on all sabotage categories For example a camera cover event might be categorized as a focus lost because then image sharpness drops dramatically If this category is also switched on the sabotage will surely be detected 15 3 7 Defining simple motion detection Prior to release R1 12 Observer offered simple motion detection based on a detection of changed pixels between video frames Since then this detector has been made more robust and it is now part of iCAT toolbox Simple motion detection does not require an object tracking region For more details on setting up and working with this simple motion detection please refer to 8 Working with simple motion detection on page 86 15 3 8 Detecting a lighting change Please follow these steps to enable lighting change detection Please note For lighting change detection an object tracking region is NO
83. able again 6 3 Navigating in the Online Monitor You have several options for navigating in the Online monitor e Select a view from the View dropdown menu e Select a Round tour from the Round tour dropdown menu e Use the Next Previous view buttons or the corresponding options in the context menu accessible via a right mouse button click to navigate to the previously displayed views Page 52 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Previous P Next Single View Previous Send to screen gt Client preferences Exit e Double click in a view port to get a big view of the currently displayed camera in the view port If there is a view defined containing a big view port with the camera then this view will be shown Otherwise a new temporary view with the camera will be created You can then go back to the previous view with the Previous view button or the corresponding option in the context menu Please see below for a few hints on how to manage big views of cameras 6 3 1 Optimizing big views of cameras views opened after a double click When you double click on a view port with a camera then Observer does the following 1 It first tries to open up an already existing big view that contains the camera or 2 Ifsuch a view does not exist a new temporary view will be created For the new view some parameters such as the frame rate will be taken from the corresponding camera s default configurat
84. account name e g john Note The Login name tag option set here has to match the option set earlier in the Attribute mapping schema 9 Press Save 10 After Observer has finished synchronization with the Active Directory server which may take up to two minutes the users configured there will appear under the previously set Observer group name in the User admin Note The camera access rights can be set for regular individual users and Active Directory groups but not for regular user groups or individual Active Directory users YS Netavis Groups AD Users g John Doe John Doe 3 Max Mustermann Max Mustermann Note By adding extra servers on the Active Directory configuration page it is possible to integrate multiple Active Directory groups Page 123 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 14 Working with Layout Navigation Observer offers powerful layout navigation features that allow you to navigate based on layouts floor plans and also other images This chapter describes how to configure and use Layout Navigation Note Since Layout Navigation is licensed separately of Observer you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 11 1 Server system information and restarting on page 107 for details about what license you have Note Layout Navigation only works on Microsoft Windows See 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for details on the functionality available on var
85. agement process Fill time percentage FTP 100 Actual recording time Requested recording time Page 72 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Observer tries to keep the FTP of all cameras of each of the two priority classes the same high priority cameras and lower priority cameras First the algorithm tries to fully record the high priority cameras and then use what is left for the lower priority ones whereby all of those will reach the same FTP However the low priority cameras can never go below an FTP of 10 If the low priority cameras reach a level of 10 then the storage management process starts truncating the archives of the high priority cameras as well Anyway this should never happen in a normal case and is only possible if the storage space is totally insufficient for holding the programmed recordings Since the storage management process considers recording time and not recording space for distributing the available space it happens that the relatively small recording space of a camera with a low recording frame rate is truncated in the same proportion like the relatively big recording space of a camera with a high recording frame rate Caution Please be careful when you set the Priority over other cameras flag since if storage space is short Observer truncates the archives of all other cameras in favor of this camera If available storage space is much too short relative to the requested storag
86. all the cameras of the LNT zone then this view is exposed in the Observer client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone Details for zone actions can be found under 14 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior on page 131 Page 128 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Linking layouts with link fields LNT offers link fields to easily navigate between layouts Link fields can be placed on layouts and are resizable grey areas Clicking on a link field in Navigation mode will open the linked layout Here is how you can link layouts via link fields 1 Drag the Link field from the controls list at the right side and drop it onto your layout Where you drop the zone field control with the mouse will be the first corner of the polygon shape and you can now define its shape by clicking at further corners To finish the link field definition close the polygon shape Alternatively you can create a rectangular link field by pressing the CTRL key while moving the mouse After you finished defining the shape of the link field a dialog is opened offering the available layouts for this link field Choose a layout by double clicking or by pushing the Select button This defines which layout is to be opened when the link field double clicked in Navigation mode 2 Choose Save from the Project menu to save your changes Now you can repeat the steps above to create your overall layout hierarchy You
87. am means that is has to be decrypted at the server before processing Likewise storing an unencrypted stream in an encrypted video database means that it has to be encrypted at the server before storing Likewise displaying an encrypted video stream at the client means more CPU overhead at the client because it has to be decrypted On the other hand simply storing an already encrypted video stream coming from the camera does not need more CPU at the server than storing an unencrypted video stream 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression Observer supports video streaming in several standards e Motion JPEG often also referred to as MJPEG e MPEG 4 streaming e H 264 streaming also known as MPEG 4 AVC e MxPEG streaming this is a streaming standard specially developed by www mobotix com for their IP cameras The big difference between the various streaming methods is the way how the image data are compressed and transferred The selected streaming method has great influence on e the bandwidth needed for transmission between cameras and server but also between servers and clients e the CPU load at the server and the client induced by compression and decompression and e the storage requirements for recording For low bandwidth client server connections Observer offers the unique Transcoding feature See 2 7 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS on page 26 1 4 1 Multi streaming
88. ame is a small drop down arrow click it 3 From the menu that pops up select Always open files of this type Now when you click on the Web Start link the next time the application will start automatically 2 2 2 Next steps If your Observer server already has cameras configured then you can go to chapter 6 Using the Online Monitor on page 50 If you have to setup cameras first then continue with chapter 4 Setting up cameras on page 30 Furthermore because Observer behaves in a context sensitive way you will find that certain menu items are also disabled at certain times Thus for example you cannot remove a camera if there is no Page 15 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 camera to remove Thus in different contexts the same menu might look quite different at different times menu entries and buttons in grey are disabled and in black are enabled 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client Alternatively to starting the Observer client from a web browser you can also install the Java client application locally on your machine Some functions are only available in the installed client see 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for details 2 3 1 Installing the Observer client To install the client locally on your PC please follow these steps 1 Atthe Observer Start page click on the link Install the Observer client on your PC using Web Start 2 Save and run the Web Start installer 3
89. annot modify their user settings this can only be done when they are connected to the master user server Thus layout navigation tool LNT project creation and icon uploads should always be done at the master user server 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server 1 Choose Host admin from the System administration menu This opens the Host admin dialog Inthe menu select Add host Fillin the basic information of the desired remote Observer host server Field label Description Hostname This is the name you give to the remote Observer server It does not necessarily have to match the actual name of the remote server Network name or IP This is the network name or IP address of the remote Observer address server Comment A descriptive text Observer Host ID This is an internal ID that uniquely identifies the remote server The ID of an Observer server can be obtained by reading its own entry under the Host Admin tab Now you can define what you want to do with the remote Observer server Set options according to your requirements Field label Description Send local events to Check this option if you want that your local events are sent to the Page 115 of 189 Field label remote server Import of cameras from remote server enabled Export local cameras to remote server onitor remote server status c pgrade software on remote server upgrade Slave Accept software upgrades from remote serve
90. assword Provide the answer to the above password question If the user is to receive an SMS in the event of an alarm or failure provide his cell phone number Please insert a full international number starting with a Example 43 123 456 7890 Please note that an SMS sending device has to be connected to the Observer server for this feature to work Refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for information about supported devices and how to connect and setup them If the user is to receive an e mail in the event of an alarm or failure provide his e mail address Specify the preferred language for this user Defines whether this user should be logged in automatically when nobody else logs at the login panel in for 1 minute This option can be enabled for only one user at a time Defines the relative PTZ priority between users A user with higher priority can take away PTZ control from a user with lower priority Please note The automated PTZ actions started by the event manager and scheduled routes have priority 4 Therefore users with priority 1 to 3 will be overridden by automatic PTZ actions whereby users with priority 5 to 10 can override automatic PTZ actions but will not be interrupted by them Maximum allocation time after which a PTZ camera is automatically released Zero means no limit When a user has taken PTZ control and is inactive for a certain amount of time th
91. at you define at the current user or group level are displayed in bold Select the camera or camera group you want to look at or modify Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Set the rights according to your needs To change a camera access right click on its button and select the status from the pop up menu either Inherited Enabled or Disabled Field label Description Live viewing View live streams in the Defines if the user group can view live streams in the Online monitor Online monitor Recordings Access camera recording Defines if the user group can view the camera recording Page 46 of 189 Field label archive Recordings May export camera archive recordings Recordings May protect archive against deletion Recordings Ask user for reason of accessing the archive recordings Recordings Manual recording control in Online monitor PTZ control pan tilt zoom and I O port control Camera admin Manipulate camera or group configuration data Events Notification in client user interface about camera malfunction events Events Sending email about camera malfunction events Events Sending SMS about camera malfunction events Events Notification in client user interface about in picture events e g motion detection video analysis Events Sending email about in picture events e g motion detection video analysis Events Sending SMS about in picture events e g motion de
92. ations can be defined on a camera or a camera group level Page 98 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please note In order to receive emails the email address must be correctly defined in the user properties Also the server must be correctly configured and must also have access to an email router for sending emails For receiving SMS an SMS sending device must be configured at the server See NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for details 9 4 1 Receiving Email notification with alarm image on camera events Here you learn how to set up email notification with alarm image on camera motion detection or video analytics events 1 In the User admin dialog select the user for which you want to define the email notification and enter the correct email address see 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 42 Continue to the Camera access rights by pushing the Next button and then select the camera or group for which you want to define the notification settings and enable the right Events Sending email about in picture events e g motion detection video analysis If the user should also be informed about camera failures you can also enable Events Sending email about camera malfunction events see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 and 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 46 Define and enable a motion detection or iCAT definition see 15 3 Setting up a camera for video analytics wit
93. be aware that the statistics are available only inside the object tracking region and that the tracking region must have the collection of statistics enabled see 15 3 3 Defining an object tracking region on page 142 Page 159 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 This is an example of visual object count statistics eri 0H 0D 0 To choose what Visual statistics to display you have these options In the Online monitor in the view port of a camera that has iCAT processing enabled the view port control menu offers a Visual statistics menu for setting the display for all view ports in a view the same menu is also available via the View control menu Set parameters of all view ports Also in the Archive player you also have an iCAT button with the same menu The iCAT video statistics menu allows you to select the following statistics to display For the display of those Visual Statistics you can choose between Show always Show on mouse over and Do not show In the screen dump above you see an example of the overall object count statistics in an entrance situation Cold colors mean few object counts and hot colors mean high object counts When you move the mouse over the camera view you can see the actual object count for each segment of the view Above the count in the middle of the screen would be 302 objects As a comparison here you see the Visual Statistics of the stopped object counts of the same camera E
94. be done in the camera Observer is capable of doing these things in connection with in camera motion detection e Receive in camera motion detection events from the camera and store these events in the standard Observer Event database these events can also be displayed in the Event list e Receive pre and or post event images from the camera pushed by the camera and record these images in the standard Observer camera archive Page 89 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Optionally with receiving an in camera detection event start a server based post event recording of images and merging this recording with the in camera event images pushed by the camera This server based recording can have a much higher frame rate than the pictures pushed by the camera This allows a much better documentation of in camera events 8 3 2 Setting up in camera motion detection To configure Observer for in camera motion detection follow these steps 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog Assuming that you have already defined the basic properties of the camera in Observer select the camera in the camera tree On the Properties dialog press the Next button at the bottom of the dialog until you reach the Defaults settings dialog Here you focus on the In camera motion detection settings In camera motion detection and iCAT settings Receive event images via FTP i
95. be easily read by programs like MS Excel The details of the statistics like resolution duration and filters for event types and camera can be flexibly defined The exported file will be stored in the file system of the server This means you must have file system access to the server in order to obtain the file You can do that for example via FTP and the admin user and password Or you can mount a network drive via Samba or NFS and place the file there The statistics export function is defined by an XML file sitting on the server You must download edit and then upload the file in order to configure and activate the function 17 6 1 Download the XML config file You can access the XML file in a web browser from the server s web page 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 3 Inthe list of files find and save StatisticExportConfig ACTIVE xml to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu Please note If there is no such file then download the StatisticExportConfig sample xml 17 6 2 Edit the XML config file Edit the file according to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file When you are done with editing save the file If you want to a
96. bout system information messages User admin Access to User administration User admin Manipulate user data User admin Access to information about logged in users Camera admin Access to camera admin Camera admin Manipulate camera configuration data NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description Defines if the user group can access the Event list and database Defines if the user group can acknowledge system events Defines if the user group receives notifications about system malfunction events within the client Defines if the user group receives notifications about system malfunction events via email Defines if the user group receives notifications about system malfunction events via SMS Defines if the user group receives notifications about system information messages within the client Defines if the user group receives notifications about system information messages via email Defines if the user group receives notifications about system information messages via SMS Defines if Defines if Defines if the user group has access to the User admin configurati on the user group can change the User admin configurati on the user group can access the Users tab to see which other users are logged into the system Defines if the user group has access to the Camera admin configuration Defines if the user group can change the Camera admin configuration Page 45 of 1
97. button and choose Add zone from the pop up menu This opens the New zone dialog which is essentially the same as the Modify Zone dialog see 14 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior on page 131 Click OK to create the new zone control 14 5 5 Modifying I O contact control appearance and behavior 1 Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button at the right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click on an I O control icon with the right mouse button and choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify control dialog for the corresponding I O control type Modify I O Contact Contro Name 1 0 output Activated state image i0_output_activated png Dectivated state image io_output_deactivated png Control type Output pin In this dialog you can define the name of the control and the two images for activated and deactivated states For the Impulse Button you can also set the Impulse Duration ms and whether 0 or 1 should be set The control type Input Output Impulse Button cannot be modified Click OK to save changes 14 5 6 Adding a new I O contact control 1 Switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the customize button at the right side of the tool bar Page 133 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 2 Inthe control icon list click the right
98. by following these steps Page 40 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 With a mouse click choose the camera or group you want to move 3 Inthe menu select Move camera or group Anew dialog appears that requires you to enter the password 4 Enter the password After you enter the correct password a camera group dialog is opened showing the camera groups 5 Inthe newly opened camera groups dialog select the group where you want to move the camera or group to and press Select Now the camera or group is moved to the new location and the camera tree is updated 4 8 Changing the port mapping of analog cameras This section is only valid for analog cameras For analog cameras a port must be defined where the camera is connected to at the video capture card or the video server Sometimes the port mapping of analog cameras needs to be changed but it is difficult to do that physically by changing the cabling To help the situation Observer can change the port mapping in the software There are two ways for doing that e Either go to the Camera Administration and manually switch the port there For this however you need to know exactly which camera is connected to which port e Youcan also swap the ports in the Online Monitor This has the advantage that you see the video pictures and therefore you can identify the co
99. c setup 1 Select video wall matrix by clicking on the default tab or the background area between monitors You will see the Matrix settings in the Properties pane 2 Define the number of rows and columns of your video wall this must obviously match your physical setup 3 Select the appropriate aspect ratio of the monitors 4 The zoom factor defines how many monitor columns of your video wall you want to see in your VWCA without scrolling Additionally you can also define some colors Linking the VWCA to servers Before you can operate the video wall with VWCA you have to define the linking mapping between the physical monitors of the video wall and the monitors inside VWCA The linking is actually done via the Observer server that serves the video wall client workstations that actually connect to the monitors and by choosing the appropriate Observer user login for which the windows for the monitors have been defined Here are the steps for linking VWCA to the video wall servers 1 Select one of the monitors by clicking on it You will see Server link in the Properties pane 2 Enter the server address Login name and Password of the Observer server that serves the video wall control workstations PCs for a general description on which servers and users to Page 165 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual D ecember 2014 choose please see 16 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer on page 162 Please note that you have
100. can switch back to Navigation mode by clicking the navigation mode icon at the right side of the tool bar Defining a default project To define a default project to be loaded when LNT is started follow these steps 1 Inthe Project menu choose Set default project which opens a dialog listing all available projects Choose a project and push Select To not load a default project choose lt No default project gt from the list Now this project will be loaded automatically at startup Defining a home layout A home layout can be defined which is automatically shown when the project is loaded You can set the home layout by following these steps 1 Inthe layout hierarchy select the layout that you want to set as home layout 2 Inthe Layout menu choose Set as home Now this layout will be opened automatically when the project is loaded 14 5 Customizing the behavior and appearance of controls LNT currently has 2 types of controls that can be modified camera controls and zone controls the link field control cannot be modified LNT lets you modify several aspects of the appearance and behavior of these control icons e conimage and appearance e What happens when you move the mouse over a control icon or when you click on it e What happens on certain events originated by Observer related to cameras or zones Also you can create new control icons with your own icon images Page 129 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 U
101. ccess the generated statistics files via FTP we suggest that you create the output file in home admin If you want to put the file on a mounted network drive then use the mount location The SAMPLE file has to be renamed to StatisticExportConfig ACTIVE xml 17 6 3 Upload and activate the XML config file You can upload and activate the function by following these steps 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that Page 172 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 2 Inthe Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file 3 Inthe opened file dialog choose the file StatisticExportConfig ACTIVE xml and upload it to the server 4 Please restart Observer to activate settings of the automatic event export 17 7 Configuring I O devices Observer allows you to work with I O contacts of cameras and special I O devices The I O device configuration is done by XML files sitting on the server You must download edit and then upload the files in order to configure and activate the function 17 7 1 Download the XML config files You can access the XML file in a web browser from the server s web page 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 3 Inthe list of fi
102. ch components to display in a window For each window you can define any combination of components and component specific configurations to be displayed Online monitor You can choose to Display Online monitor and Show main controls the View control menu Next and Previous buttons View selector and Round tour selector For that Online monitor s empty view ports you can configure whether the Add camera button should Show on mouse over or else only be accessible via the right mouse click menu The Preferred monitor for large view on double click option can only be set for one window and defines in which one big views of cameras are shown after a double click Archive player You can choose to Display archive player Event list You can choose to Display event list Display titlebar Hide acknowledged events Show hidden event list on new events and Scroll to reveal new events Additionally you can configure which columns to show in the event list ID Time Details Camera ID Camera Priority Icon Server and ACK state Camera tree You can choose to Display camera tree always and Display titlebar Note Normally it is not necessary to always display the camera tree since it is displayed on demand 2 5 3 General preferences The configuration options set here apply to all Observer client windows General You can enable the Camera statistics display see 4 4 Checking the Camera status on page 38 for details Event list You can e
103. compressed image as a reference image called an I frame only sending the parts of following images B and P frames that differ from the reference image A viewing client will then reconstruct all images based on the reference image and the difference data Page 8 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 At the cost of higher complexity the result of applying MPEG video compression is that the amount of data transmitted across the network is less than that of Motion JPEG This is illustrated below where only information about the differences in the second and third frames is transmitted A H 264 and MxPEG all work very similar to MPEG 4 whereby H 264 for example needs only about 60 of the bandwidth of MPEG 4 for roughly the same video quality However this efficiency does not come for free Encoding and decoding H 264 needs more CPU power than MPEG 4 A general rule is that the higher the compression factor the heavier the CPU burden in the server and in the clients Therefore there is always a tradeoff between bandwidth utilization and CPU power needed 1 4 4 Advantages and disadvantages of Motion JPEG and MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Due to its simplicity Motion JPEG MJPEG is a good choice for use in many applications JPEG is a widely available standard in many systems often by default It s a simple compression decompression technique which means the cost in both system time and money for encoding a
104. cording schedule for the camera The continuous recording schedule that is active at the time when the user pushes the manual recording button defines the format of the recording Therefore you can also have different manual recording formats for different times in the day or week Enable the manual recording camera access right Here is how to set the camera access right for manual recording see 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 46 for a general description on how to set camera access rights 1 Login as administrator user or another user with the right to modify user data 2 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin ialog elect the user or group for which you want to enable manual recording control elect the camera or camera group for which you want to enable manual recording control C d S Click the Next button twice to get to the Camera Access Rights dialog S Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu E Oe OL ag nable the right Manual recording control from Online monitor by choosing Enabled from the pop up menu 8 Push Save to save your changes Page 57 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Set up a continuous recording schedule In order to use manual recording control for a camera you have to define a continuous recording schedule please refer to 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 69 for a general description
105. ctivated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated 15 3 4 Defining an event trigger for people and object counting Smart Tripwire Once you have created a tracking region you can create an arbitrary number of event triggers inside this tracking region Event triggers define under what conditions an Observer event is generated by iCAT Such events can trigger automatic recording and are stored in the normal Observer event database that can be queried and exported Currently iCAT supports the following event triggers A Smart Tripwire for directional people or object counting This tripwire is directional so if you want to count objects in two directions you would create two tripwires A polygon or rectangle that creates an event when an object either crosses the field stops inside the field or starts moving inside the field Please note Before you can define an object trigger you must first define an object tracking region see 15 3 3 Defining an object tracking region on page 142 Here are the steps for creating a counting tripwire 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera make sure that you have a suitable tracking region defined that allows for object counting Choose Add new definition from the menu In the Type pop up menu choose Event trigger which will expose the configuration settings Under the ca
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107. d be shown Object Defines whether object markers should be displayed Object markers show the object Page 158 of 189 Field label markers Event count fields Object bounding boxes NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description ID and information about the state of the object MOV moving STP stopped LOUNGE move just a little bit size and speed In this example object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels and the object is moving with a speed of 208 pixels sec Defines whether the event count fields are to be displayed in the lower left corner of the view port When enabled the count information will be displayed for each event trigger separately in the form of Q for last quarter of an hour H for last hour D for day and T for total since setup Here is an example n Mw g i objekt stoppt vor theke Q 1 H 1 D 27T 2 counter 1 Q 3H 3D 4T 4 There are two event triggers a field for counting stopped objects and a people counting tripwire counter 1 Defines whether object bounding boxes should be displayed Here is an example of an object bounding box displayed Please note that also the object marker and the event triggers are displayed 15 4 2 Displaying Visual Statistics For each camera that has active iCAT schedules enabled you can display Visual Statistics as overlays to the normal video stream in the Online monitor and also when playing back recordings Please
108. do not want to use I O contacts you can just jump to the next step Page 36 of 189 Te Set your values Field label Input handling enabled Select this input cont NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description check box if you want to process the state of the digital act port of the camera Input poll interval msec The poll interval defines how often the state of the input port is checked Minimum time is 500 milliseconds Output handling enabled Select this check box if you want to enable switching the digital output port of the camera from within view port menu Push the Save button at the bottom of 4 2 2 Duplicating an existing camera the dialog Duplicating an existing camera creates an exact duplicate of the camera with all settings copied This is usefu recording or video analytics settings With du with similar settings Here is how you can do that 1 6 when you have more than one camera of the same type or with equal similar settings like plicating camera you can dramatically reduce the set up time for systems with many cameras Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog In the camera tree select the camera yo Choose Duplicate camera from the m u would like to duplicate clone enu Now a new camera named as the existing camera with copy appended has been created Set the basic properties like na
109. done in one quality See also below for further considerations on pre and post event recording 8 iCAT events for this camera are only stored in the Event database and only appear in the Event list if the flag Save event in Event list is switched on Otherwise only the recording will start but no event will be generated You can override this setting for individual iCAT events selectively in the corresponding iCAT definition e g 15 3 4 Defining an event trigger for people and object counting Smart Tripwire on page 145 9 For all other recording settings please refer to 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 69 10 Push Save Please note iCAT triggered event generation and recording is only active if there is an enabled iCAT interval and there is at least one enabled iCAT definition assigned Outside of this time interval there is no recording or event generation Furthermore recording is started only if either of the fields for Pre post event recording sec is bigger than zero Further considerations for pre and post event recording Observer allows you to define the frame rate and quality of event based recordings If you want to save video streams for events generated by the video analytics toolkit iCAT please keep in mind that Observer needs to analyze the video stream that it later stores Some cameras have limitations when providing multiple video streams at different qualities and frame rates Therefore Obser
110. ds 8 2 Motion detection in archive recordings Observer supports server based motion detection not only in live streams but also in archived recordings Please refer to 7 4 Motion detection in archive recordings on page 81 8 3 In camera motion detection Several IP cameras and video servers support in camera motion detection and upload push of event triggered images via FTP or HTTP to a video management system like Observer Observer implements a general mechanism to handle this feature This section describes how Observer supports in camera motion detection and also how to configure it in Observer Please note Since the camera carries out the detection the actual configuration and programming must be done directly in the camera via the setup interface e g parameters like detection settings image quality speed etc This can usually be done by connecting with a web browser to the camera by entering its IP address Please refer to the latest NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources and the camera s user manual for further details 8 3 1 How Observer supports in camera motion detection In the camera you define the various settings for the motion detection algorithm and for the transmission of event images to the Observer server which is done via FTP or HTTP push upload by the camera Most cameras also support the transmission of pre and post event images The configuration of for these pre and post event images must also
111. e camera with the Admin tools of the camera If the camera supports encrypted streaming using HTTPS this setting will be enabled It defines whether streaming from the camera is encrypted using HTTPS Please note that encryption needs significantly more CPU resources on the server than unencrypted communication see also 1 3 Observer data security on page 7 If you want to use the generic RTSP driver to get a JPEG stream from a camera which requires selecting Generic RTSP as the Camera Type then you have to enter the RTSP port of the camera into the first field if it is left empty then the default port 554 is used and the specific URL into the second field The IP address and if applicable username and password of the camera admin are used from the corresponding configuration fields above The stream configuration stream resolution fps etc has to be done in the camera itself Note Ensure that on the Basic video and audio settings page see the next section for details you only enable the JPEG MPEG 4 H 265 checkboxes if you have entered a corresponding RTSP URL here The configuration of a H 264 MPEG 4 stream via RTSP works just like the JPEG stream configuration see above for details Press Save to create the new camera Select the newly created camera again in the camera tree and then push the Next button at the bottom This invokes the Default settings dialog that lets you define the default image and audio setti
112. e Observer client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happening e Show live stream in LNT opens a window showing a live stream of respective camera in LNT If this action is bound to Mouse over then the window will be automatically closed when the mouse is moved away from the camera icon If this action is bound to Single click or Double click then the window stays until it is closed manually To close all such windows you can select Close all live streams in the View menu e Start Stop continuous recording starts or stops continuous recording of the camera in Observer It actually sets or deletes the Enable interval checkbox in the camera admin s Scheduling dialog Please be aware that there must be at least one continuous recording interval for the camera for this to work refer to 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 69 for details e Start Stop motion detection enables or disables motion detection of the camera in Observer It actually marks or unmarks the Enabled checkbox in the camera admin s Motion detection dialog Please be aware that there must be at least one detection field definition for the camera for this to work refer to 8 1 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection on page 86 for details e Start Stop analog video decode allows the control of special devices that decode IP based network video signals to analog video signals This is useful
113. e PTZ camera is freed automatically after this timeout Zero means no timeout 5 Click on Next to go the Privileges dialog Here you can set the privileges for the new user see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 for details 6 Click on Next to go the Camera Access Rights dialog Here you can set the camera access rights for the new user see 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 46 for details 7 Click on Save to create the new user account with the settings you entered Page 43 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 5 2 Setting general user privileges For each user and group certain privileges can be defined These privileges define which tools and data a user has access to and what he can do 1 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog 2 Select the user or group you want to modify 3 Click on the Next button to move to the Privileges dialog Here you can edit privileges for the user or group In their initial state all privileges in this dialog are inherited from the upper group level Inherited privileges from the group level to which the user or group belongs are displayed with normal font while values that you define at the current user or group level are displayed in bold Use the scroll bar to access the lower part of the list 4 Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu 5 Set the privileges according to your needs
114. e appropriate adjustments on the Privileges and Camera access rights pages and finally click Save Right click on the group and select Active Directory configuration Right click on the Active Directory configuration page and select Modify host Click on the New button below the Remote servers list to add a new Active Directory configuration Page 121 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 grey 127 0 0 1 Active Directory configuration Remote servers Connection parameters enable Server address 192 168 100 123 Port 389 User name NETAVIS Administrator Password eeeeeeeee Re enter password eceecceeee Directory parameters Search base OU Users DC netavis DC net AD group name CN Observer4 OU Users DC netavis DC net Observer group name AD Users Attribute mapping schema UserMapping X Directory Address DC netavis DC net Tag mapping AD group identifier tag memberOf Login name tag cn New Delete 6 Configure the Connection parameters a b d Enable the configuration by checking the corresponding checkbox Enter the Server address IP Directory server Enter the User name includi address and Port the standard port is 389 of the Active ng the name of the Active Directory server e g NETAVIS Administrator Password and confirm the Password You can test the entered confi guration with the Test connection button 7 Configure the Directory parameters a Ent
115. e camera from view PTZ gt Video parameters b Camera name appearance gt Rendering preference iCAT info display b iCAT visual statistics gt Replay archived images Replay previous 10 minutes Replay previous 1 hour Camera port control Replay previous 24 hours Replay previous 1 week Client preferences Exit 6 4 6 Defining a crop area For views where you have the Crop image to fit view port setting selected you can define what part of the cropped camera image you want to see by choosing Define crop area from the menu 6 5 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings Observer allows you to zoom view ports in the Online monitor and in the Archive player Basically you have two ways to zoom a view port or a recording in the Archive player 6 5 1 Zooming with the mouse wheel 1 Just move the mouse pointer over a view port and turn the mouse wheel The view port will zoom accordingly 2 You can move the zoomed area in a view port by dragging it with the mouse 3 Use the mouse wheel again to zoom out 6 5 2 Zooming by drawing a zoom rectangle 1 Wi 2 Clickin this rectangle which will cause the view port to zoom accordingly th the mouse draw a rectangle in a view port 3 You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can also modify its size by turning the mouse wheel Click outside the rectangle to return to normal not zoomed view You can remove the zoom rectangle by click
116. e control When you end the Observer client all PTZ control is automatically released For further details on user specific PTZ priorities and timeouts please refer to 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 42 10 4 2 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events Itis possible to automatically control PTZ cameras with motion detection events Please refer to 8 1 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events on page 88 10 4 3 Scheduling PTZ routes Itis possible to schedule time intervals for PTZ camera to follow predefined routes Note Before you can schedule a route you first must define the route please refer to 10 3 Defining PTZ routes on page 100 To schedule a PTZ route follow these steps Page 105 of 189 Oy OT FWY a 9 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog Select a PTZ camera Press the Next button to go to the Scheduling dialog In the menu select Modify selected camera or group Click the Add button to add a programming slot to the Time Intervals field Click the Change button now enabled for a popup menu select PTZ route This will show the PTZ scheduling settings see above Set the time settings according to your needs Select the route from the Route Name pop up menu in the example above we selected Route I Click on Save to store the scheduling settings Note You can
117. e name ends with _00123 11 3 Select the view whose name starts with 11_ 17 9 SNMP Support Simple Network Management Protocol In Observer 4 5 SNMP support in Observer was enhanced so a broad variety of operating system and application events can be communicated to monitoring systems Thereby failures such as camera Page 177 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 malfunctions can be detected and addressed even faster Also events such as iCAT detections can be forwarded accordingly Note SNMP Support is a separate module which needs to be enabled with an appropriate license key 17 9 1 Configuration 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to log into the Customizer area with the administration user admin 2 After login click on Download configuration files 3 Download the file server site snmp SNMPMappings sample xml Note Here you can also download the file NETAVIS MIB txt which contains the NETAVIS MIB Management Information Base 4 Edit the sample file according to the desired configuration lt SNMPMappings Enabled true gt lt USI r SecurityName name AuthProtocol SHA AuthPass password PrivProtocol AES PrivPass password gt unity Name pi teng EnableVi true sport Port lt Notification V2c 10 1 V3IP 10 10 10 18 gt lt SNMPMappings gt Element Description Version Options SNMPMappings Root element Enabled true to enable
118. e periods of all cameras this can lead to strongly truncated archives 7 2 Playback of archive recordings Observer features a multitude of powerful functions for working with archives 7 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period 1 Goto the main window and choose the Archive player if the Archive player is not available then perhaps it is disabled in the client preferences see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 19 Either the Camera tree appears immediately or you have to push the Select camera button Tel 2 Select the camera from the camera tree and push Select you can also double click a camera or drag it to the calendar view An overview for the selected camera on the current day is displayed Page 73 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 ite Axis CET View Day View v aaainooauaoh aapinaichlascaata Playback interval ormona v S55 ozo8 2013 13 434 Playback acceleration 2 A 00 00 59 This one day overview shows green blocks indicating minutes for which recordings have been archived A red corner in a block indicates that an event was triggered and an event recording was started in that minute When you move the mouse pointer over a green block then the first recorded frame of this minute is displayed in the lower right corner
119. e player of the client the NEA archive appears automatically in the camera tree under the camera group External Archive ie netavis Cameras we Axis 206 a Axis 207 MW we Axis 211A we Axis 2415 5 0 External Archive B B CKL encr 1 on netavisDELL 2012 07 24 18 10 2012 07 24 18 18 netavis Cameras H a Axis 206 Axis 207 MW Axis 211 A a 9 EEN a ww 1Q 755 Panasonic WV N240 Please note There are some limitations on external NEA archives like Archive motion detection is not possible Page 85 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 8 Working with simple motion detection Please note Since release R1 12 Observer offers powerful video analysis functions with iCAT This chapter describes the simple motion detection features that were present before R1 12 and that are now a part of the iCAT toolbox Simple motion detection is based on a detection of changed pixels between video frames while iCAT offers intelligent object detection and tracking For more details on iCAT refer to 15 Video analytics with iCAT on page 138 Observer offers two mechanisms for simple motion detection e Observer s own server based motion detection The images are analyzed by the Observer server The advantage of this method is that it works with any camera even old cameras The disadvantage might be that if there are many cameras that transfer their images to the server for analysis the bandwidth of the
120. e remote Observer host s camera tree is shown You can then select a single camera or group to be imported Note For remote cameras it is recommended to mount them per group rather than individually Confirm your selection by clicking on Select Page 117 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 netavis Cameras grey ws 209 240 grey Now the camera tree shows this imported camera or group in bold with the name of the remote server in brackets e g 209 grey FIC Netavis 209 grey Axis 215 Axis 01755 Mobotix M22M People count Sony SNC DH240 BeeeeRQe amp If the remote server is not reachable the mounted cameras are not shown in the tree only the top point of the mounted camera tree appears in red color 5 After you mount remote cameras you can work with them as if they would be connected to this server You can access live streaming via the Online Monitor or you can access the archive If you have the appropriate administrator rights you can also modify camera settings like PTZ scheduling or motion detection Note Only local cameras and remote camera groups can be duplicated It is not possible to duplicate individually mounted remote cameras 12 4 Working with events of remote servers Observer servers can forward their events to other servers Such forwarded events are stored in the event database of the generating server itself and also in the event database of the server s that
121. e storage devices NEA devices for external video recording Page 83 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please note The NEA recording on the external device is exactly the same as the standard recording on the main storage at least as long as there is enough space on the device The same recording algorithm is used for NEA as the main storage This means when the NEA device is running out of space the oldest recordings will be overwritten For a detailed description of how Observer manages recordings please refer to 7 1 4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 72 Apart from the NEA management functions in the client NEA storage devices can also be configured and managed via the admin command line interface of Observer see NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Some more advanced functions like the setup of swap management for storage devices are accessible only in this interface 7 5 2 Managing and accessing NEA storages A user with the appropriate privileges can do the following with external NEA archives e Initializing of storage devices and starting of NEA recordings as well as stopping of NEA recordings and ejecting devices All of these functions are available in the NEA storage management dialog is accessible via the System administration menu of the main window The user privilege Recordings Manage external archive devices NEA is needed for accessing the d
122. e stream disappears This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 14 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 130 Page 134 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 14 6 2 Showing a camera in the Observer client When you single click a camera icon in LNT then the corresponding camera will be shown in full size in the Observer client This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 14 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 130 Alternatively a camera can also be dragged from Layout Navigation and dropped into a specific view port in the Observer client to show its live stream there Note An Observer client has to be running on the same machine being connected to the same server in order for the feature to work the client will not be started automatically by LNT 14 6 3 Positioning to the camera recording archive in the Observer client When you double click a camera icon in LNT then recording archive of the corresponding camera will be shown in the Observer client running on the same machine This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 14 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 130 Note An Observer client has to be running on the same machine being connected to the same server in order for the feature to work the client will not be started automatically by LNT 14 6 4 Navigating i
123. e that the Enable interval checkbox is marked because only then are the settings enabled and recording is started Note If you want to record at different times on different days you can create multiple recording intervals For each recording interval proceed as described here In addition to defining the weekdays and times you need to specify the Recording format f your camera also supports multiple formats you have several choices for details on streaming formats please refer to 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 7 e JPEG stream is also known as MJPEG where the server stores sequences of JPEG images e MPEG 4 video for MPEG 4 video streams e H 264 video for H 264 video streams e MxPEG video for MxPEG video streams For the MPEG video formats you can additionally select Save audio When you choose any of the MPEG video formats then the video settings that are defined in the camera s Default settings will be taken for recording 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 30 If you choose JPEG stream you can additionally set the Image quality the Frame rate and the Image size for the archive recording Set the values according to your needs See 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 10 for details on images sizes quality and storage requirements Note Some cameras are only capable of a single picture stream which will constrain the possibility of recording in mul
124. ec tai ketal A AAA cola 167 17 2 Embedding Observer video streams in web pages VideO4WeD 0 eeeseessesestecteeseestesteeneeneees 167 17 3 Controlling Observer with HTTP commands from external sources URL control 168 17 4 Matrix View function of the Online Monitor VIP control sssini 169 iionicidey calendar csaicuts sie wep Seater e 171 17 6 Automatic export of event Statistics sssssssssssesssssssssssssssssssssstsssssssiresssrirennsrrrennssrironssrirenssrrrennss 172 Do MRR ITUGN VOdeviCES ras ja ais ise a at ds eE E E E 173 TOPOS T3310 COREG bBo Arc COMMIS UE AO Utes ce cetera naii iiia 174 17 9 SNMP Support Simple Network Management Protocol eceessesseseseceesesseseceeseeseeneeneeneees 177 18 Index COC OOCCOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OO OOOO OOOO OOOO OO OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OT OOOO OOOO OOOO OOOO OO OOOO OO OOOEEEOOOE 183 Page 5 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 1 Introduction Thank you for choosing NETAVIS Observer 4 5 as the management software for your video monitoring system As you use it you will find that Observer not only enables you to view live images and record them but also provides a full scale platform for the intelligent utilization of your video data This User Manual guides you through the functionality of NETAVIS Observer 4 5 If you have questions that are not answered in the Observer documentation set please contact your NETAVIS partner or else get in touc
125. eceive event images via FTP Receive event images via HTTP Post recording length sec Frame rate Description If this checkbox is marked you enable the In camera motion detection and tell Observer to receive event images via FTP Please be aware that if you select this checkbox the server based motion detection must be disabled The same as above just that the images are received via HTTP protocol some cameras support only HTTP When Observer receives an in camera event then it can start a parallel server side recording in addition to the event images it receives from the camera The event images received from the camera via HTTP FTP is not supported with this option are merged with this server side recording This field defines how long this parallel post event recording is If it set to 0 then Observer does not start its own server side recording of images and just stores the event images it receives from the camera via FTP HTTP This field defines the frame rate of the above mentioned parallel server side post event recording Push the Next button at the bottom of the dialog This invokes the Scheduling dialog Please refer to 7 1 Programming archive recordings on page 69 on how to set up the camera archive and scheduling Optional Push the Next button again at the bottom of the dialog This invokes the I O Control dialog that lets you define the handling of optional I O contacts of your camera If you
126. ed You can set the primary flag for a camera icon by right clicking on the icon in editing mode and choosing Primary from the pop up menu Page 135 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Generally events in LNT can have the following states indicated by different colors of the event entry e New unseen events are shown as grey if it is selected then it is shown in green e Seen visited events are shown in blue e Acknowledged events are removed from the list When there are several new events then LNT offers you to see visit them one by one The exact behavior of the visiting and how the event state can be set to seen visited can be defined in the Project settings see 14 6 7 Project settings on page 136 You can for example mark a new event as seen and jump to the next event by moving the mouse over the blinking control 14 6 6 Camera status display LNT allows you to display certain states of cameras in the mapped camera and zone control icons Examples for states that can be displayed are recording motion detection active broken connections etc An example of a status display is 7 This camera currently is recording and has motion detection enabled To modify the status display settings follow these steps 1 Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the customize button at the right side of the tool bar 2 Choose Project gt Came
127. eful to group several users with similar tasks and rights in so called user groups in Observer Take these steps for setting up users and groups 1 Create user groups for the various roles and privileges examples are security personnel view only users administrators For each users group define the system wide privileges See 5 Managing users on page 42 2 Inthe users groups create the users you need Please note that by default the users will inherit the privileges from the group they belong to 3 Set the camera access rights per user 3 3 Guidelines for setting up views Observer allows you create several views for showing cameras in various configurations and sizes Therefore it makes sense to create various views for different surveillance purposes Since the views are configured per user we suggest that the administrator creates the standard set of views and then copies the views to the various users Take these steps for setting up views 1 Create the various views needed by most users See 6 1 Creating a new view on page 50 2 Copy the views to the various users See 6 8 Copying views between users on page 59 Later on you can create further views and copy them again Page 29 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 4 Setting up cameras Observer allows any authorized user to set up cameras in the system Ask your Observer system administrator whether you have such authorization 4 1 Preparations
128. egration with external applications 167 Data security 7 Default settings for cameras 32 Deleting windows 21 Demo mode license 12 Distributed upgrades of servers 119 DivX exporting from recordings 80 Documentation set 6 Drag and drop camera from the camera tree to view ports 51 Duplicate existing camera 37 Dynamic views view ports 62 Email receiving on events and alarms 98 Encryption AES encryption of video recordings 112 general description 7 HTTPS for camera connections 32 HTTPS for client connections 12 16 HTTPS for server server connections 116 Event triggers iCAT 140 145 Events 92 acknowledging 93 automatic export of statistics data 172 details 93 Event list 92 create a separate Event list window 20 maximizing 20 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 modifying layouts 20 positioning in the window 20 priorities 92 sorting 92 event based recording 155 exporting event related recordings 96 HTML export 96 in layout navigation 135 notification via client GUI email SMS 98 priorities 92 remote servers 118 searching in the event database 94 short replay 93 Statistics 97 statistics data automatic export 172 user privileges for accessing and handling 92 video analysis iCAT 161 Exiting the client 27 Export of event statistics data 172 Exporting archive recordings 79 event related 96 External applications control via HTTP commands 168
129. elect the checkbox always trust and click on Yes to allow the download of the trusted applet When you start the client the first time after a new installation some additional client application components need to be installed this is needed only once per client You will be asked rmation E Your client needs further program components Install program components from Sererover nenon canca Normally you want choose to install the program components from Server over network However if you have a very slow network connection between the client and the server you might want to choose installation from Local media When you choose this option you will be asked to locate the directory ClientInstaller of the Observer installation CD Once you choose the correct location and push OK the components will be installed Next you either come to the login panel or to the license dialog If the license dialog appears you yet have to obtain a license for using Observer Please consult the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for information on how to do that At the login panel enter your Login name and Password and click OK Page 14 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Login name Password Forgot my password cancel Keyboard Guestiogin If you do not yet have a permanent license string for Observer a License dialog appears
130. en a user logs out If left empty the feature is not activated To modify any of these values select Modify host in the menu set the values and then press Save Page 113 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 12 Working with interconnected Observer servers Observer allows you to work with the resources of interconnected remote distributed Observer servers The concept is similar to accessing files on a remote file server You can import single cameras or whole groups of cameras from other Observer servers and you can also export your locally defined cameras to other Observer servers You can work with remote cameras as if they would be local e g you can also access their archive modify their parameters or even add new cameras to remote sites You can also define whether events are to be propagated between servers A special feature are so called synchronization groups of servers A synchronization group allows you to automatically synchronize server configuration data like user configuration data and camera configuration data between servers Before you can do any of these things you first have to make both servers known to each other You can do that by adding the other server as remote server on each of the machines The next section describes how to do that Note In order for interconnected Observer servers to work together all of them have to run exactly the same version e g 4 4 5 158 630 and 4 4 5 15
131. eo annotation an event will be stored in the event database for later retrieval and search By selecting VideoStreamAnnotation in the event type filter of the Event search dialog the annotation text can be searched for by SQL type wildcards 17 2 Embedding Observer video streams in web pages Video4Web Observer 4 5 introduced Video4Web which replaced the previous Snapplet technology with a significantly more versatile solution for embedding cameras live video streams in standard web pages Video4Web is a small embeddable JavaScript app which works on most desktop and mobile browsers It provides the following functionalities e Plays back MJPEG stream or JPEG image series browser dependent e Plays single stream or users can select from the camera tree popup ull screen support with image maximize effect fallback on older browsers asy to use no JavaScript knowledge required to embed in HTML pages mall unobtrusive JavaScript app doesn t interfere with other JS code P P F e Supports all major desktop and mobile browsers back to Internet Explorer 6 E S Page 167 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 To see how to integrate Video4Web into your web pages please refer to the examples and full documentation available on the Observer server s web page http lt your server IP gt under Documentation Video4Web Please note Currently Video4Web only supports MJPEG streams 17 3 Contr
132. eo streaming you can allow using this mode by selecting this checkbox In one special case Observer will try to pull an MJPEG stream even if this checkbox is deselected This is the case when iCAT video analytics is working on MPEG streams e g for motion detection and Multi stream allowed is selected This special additional MJPEG stream in QVGA is used only for iCAT and helps to minimize server CPU load for iCAT processing please refer also to 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 140 If your camera supports MPEG 4 video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please note that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 If your camera supports H 264 video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please note that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 If your camera supports MxPEG video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please not that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 Page 33 of 189 Field label Stream MPEG 4 via Multicast Allow Audio to camera
133. equence to the MD Identifier ptz lt CID gt lt PresetName gt lt WaitTime gt lt PresetName gt lt WaitTime gt where lt CID gt is the ID of a PTZ camera the ID is shown in Camera admin gt Properties dialog next to the camera name If lt CID gt is 0 then the MD field s camera is controlled MD and PTZ camera are the same lt PresetName gt is the name of a preset position as entered in the PTZ definitions lt WaitTime gt is the pause time in seconds starting from the time when the camera receives the positioning event Page 88 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 There can be any number of lt PresetName gt lt WaitTime gt pairs added Further MD triggered PTZ actions are blocked as long as a sequence is running However control of PTZ camera can be taken manually then the automatic MD triggered PTZ control is suspended until the manual PTZ control is released For information on how to setup PTZ preset positions refer to 10 Working with PTZ cameras on page 100 Example of an motion detection Identifier Door ptz 4 Door 10 HomePos 3 will on an MD event with the Identifier Door move the PTZ camera with ID 4 to the preset position Door wait 10 seconds and move the camera to the preset HomePos and wait another 3 seconds The overall positioning time therefore is app 13 seconds From then on the PTZ camera is open to receive further MD triggered PTZ positioning comman
134. er an MJPEG MPEG 4 H 264 or MxPEG stream this covers also analog cameras that are connected via a video server iCAT is easy to configure and setup and it works in difficult situations also with extreme camera perspectives It offers flexible scheduling of iCAT definitions depending on date and time Thus you can have different setups for weekdays and weekend as well as day and night The iCAT Traffic module enables applications for roads and highways Traffic Monitoring Stopped Vehicle Detection Wrong Way Detection The Face Detection module automatically detects human faces in video streams and estimates the person s age group and gender The Smart Tripwire function for people and object counting prevents wrong and double counting and works even with the most difficult entrance situations Rectangle _ Polygon v Tripwire Toggle Page 138 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 The Smart Tripwire also allows detecting wrong direction movements of people and objects Powerful and robust object tracking and event triggering can be constraint to object sizes speeds and other properties Event statistics can be exported to Excel XLS for further processing All iCAT detection annotations are available for live streams and in archived recordings Seamless integration with the Observer event management system EMS and other Observer functions Additionally iCAT offers camera sabotage d
135. er based motion detection If you are not already running the Observer client application open your Internet Explorer and log in to your Observer server and your Observer system 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Page 86 of 189 Nom eA Ww 10 11 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Axis 88 7 Enabled 7 Rectangle Polygon Type Simple motion detection v a Sensitivity Normal Identifier Simple motion detection 1 sane reueny 0 Comment Time between events sec 3 0 Icon Default v 7 Pixel change threshold 20 0 Sound None v eS Highlight color EA A Pixel change Priority of generated event 100 0 0 0 P Save events in list overrides scheduling setting C Do not save events in list overrides scheduling setting Cancel Save In the camera tree at the left select the camera for which you want to create a motion detection definition In the menu choose Add new definition From the Type menu chose Simple motion detection Select whether you want to create a Rectangle or a Polygon Use the mouse to draw a detection field in the preview area Mark the Enabled checkbox otherwise the detection field is inactive and no detection can occur Actually a detection field must also be assigned to an active motion detection schedule
136. er the organizational unit OU Users DC netavis DC net Enter the name of the previou name and don t forget to incl located in e g CN Observer4 OU and domain as the Search base e g sly configured Active Directory group name as the AD group ude the corresponding organizational unit the AD group is OU Users DC netavis DC net Enter the name of the previously configured Observer user group to which the Active Directory users will be imported as the Observer group name e g AD Users Select a previously defined Attribute mapping schema or create a new one by choosing Edit and then clicking on New These are the attributes which will be imported from Active Directory to Observer e Login name tag mandatory Set it to cn users login with their common name e g John Doe or sAMAccountName users login with their account name e g john Page 122 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 e Name tag mandatory Set it to displayName e SMS number tag optional Set it to telephoneNumber e Email tag optional Set it to mail a Enter the domain of the server as its Directory address e g for netavis net it would be DC netavis DC net 8 Configure the Tag mapping a The AD group identifier tag has to be set to memberOf b For the Login name tag it is possible to choose from two possibilities i cn users login with their common name e g John Doe ii sAMAccountName users login with their
137. era or video server If you supply a network name you must have access to a domain name server DNS that resolves the name to an IP address Even dynamic DNS names like dyndns can be used This field is not needed for analog cameras connected directly via a video capture card NDS If you are adding an analog camera via a video capture card NDS or via a video server specify the port of the capture card or video server to which the camera is connected This setting is only enabled for certain IP cameras that are shipped with different aspect ratios like PAL or NTSC For cameras that are delivered in one standard only the correct value is set automatically and cannot be changed Please select the correct value for your camera If you select a value that does not fit your camera then the image might be distorted Please refer also to 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 10 This option is only relevant if you use a Mobotix camera Set it when you would like to operate the camera in streaming mode If this option is not activated the camera operates in single picture mode In streaming mode MJPEG format the camera delivers higher Page 31 of 189 Field label Use HTTPS encryption JPEG RTSP URIE H 264 MPEG 4 RTSP URL NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description frame rates than in single picture mode If you activate the streaming mode you also must set the according option in th
138. ers servers in sync synchronization groups In a larger system that requires multiple user servers NUS it can be cumbersome to manually keep all user configuration data synchronized between all user servers Thus Observer offers the concept of so called synchronization groups Page 114 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 In asynchronization group a master user server automatically propagates its configuration data complete user configuration data and camera configuration data customer specific resources like icons and layout navigation data to all the other user servers in the same group Thus the master user server is the single point of all user administration in fact changes at slave servers are no longer possible Any changes are automatically propagated to the other user servers in the same group Whenever a server is added as a slave to a synchronization group it will automatically be synchronized with the data from the master sync server The synchronization group settings can be modified in 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 109 see 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 109 Note When a server is added as a slave to a synchronization group any configuration data that does not exist on the master server will be deleted and overwritten by the data of the master server So please be careful when you work with synchronization groups Also When users connect to slave servers they c
139. ers such as motion detection MD object tracking event trigger sabotage detection etc Once the iCAT definition is activated the associated dynamic view is shown Here are the steps to control dynamic views via an iCAT definition 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Select a camera and for the camera select an iCAT definition 3 Choose Modify selected definition from the menu 4 Click the button next to the Dynamic view action field where you are presented with three options e No action means that the Online Monitor s views are not changed This is the default option for all iCAT definitions e Show camera s live stream in large view results in the live stream of the camera which triggered the iCAT definition being shown in a large view This option supports three different modes o Current camera The camera s live stream is shown on all connected clients o Camera user pairs A list of camera user pairs can be configured which specifies which cameras large views are shown on the clients when the respective users are connected o Camera IP Address pairs A list of camera IP Address pairs can be configured which specifies which cameras large views are shown on the clients connected from the respective IP Address Page 62 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 a X Action Show camera s live stream in large view v
140. erver 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Select the Online Monitor Switch to a view that contains a PTZ camera how to create views and assign cameras is covered in section 6 Using the Online Monitor on page 50 In the view port of the PTZ camera push the PTZ start button amp or choose PTZ gt Activate PTZ from the view port control menu The icon l of the view port indicates that you have PTZ control over the camera Axis v Dig Sch eg i Note For each user a PTZ priority and allocation timeouts can be defined see 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 42 If another user with equal or higher priority has already assumed PTZ control over the camera you will be denied control and notified in a window Then you need to wait until this user surrenders control or reaches his timeout Auser with a higher PTZ priority can take away PTZ control from a user with lower PTZ priority Direct PTZ control inside a view port You have several options for directly controlling PTZ cams The various modes can be selected via PTZ gt PTZ control mode in the view port control menu The default setting is Continuous mode and Center on click As an alternate mode also an operation via a Crosshair is available Continuous mode available for joystick and mouse operation Click the mouse in the view port and drag it in the direction where you want the PTZ cam to move A red dot marks the origin of the movement and a red line indicates how fast the movemen
141. ess rights see 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 46 When a new user logs in the first time he will encounter an empty Online Monitor waiting for new camera views to be defined Once you have defined your views they will reappear next time you log in You can also have several Online Monitors in multiple windows see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 19 Important f you are using a low bandwidth connection between client and server e g via wide area networks it can happen easily that the video streams cannot pass through the connection fast enough which results in bad frame rates and slow responsiveness of the client In such a case you should use the Transcoding feature of Observer See 2 7 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS on page 26 for further details 6 1 Creating a new view Observer lets you create an unlimited number of named views Each of these views can contain up t 100 camera view ports O 1 Choose Create new view either from the empty Online monitor or from the Control menu to open the Create new view dialog 2 You can now choose the layout for your view from predefined templates and you also can define an arbitrary matrix of up to 10 x 10 views A new dialog is opened asking for the name of the view and the aspect ratio for the view ports The Name of view is shown in the view selector at the top of the screen Please note that yo
142. ession quality while most MPEG cameras can produce only one stream in one quality Therefore the same stream will be used in live viewing and recording This summarizes the benefit of MPEG the ability to give a relatively high image quality at a lower bit rate bandwidth usage This can be especially important if the available network bandwidth is limited or if video is to be stored recorded at a high frame rate and there are storage space restraints The lower bandwidth demands come at the cost of higher complexity in encoding and decoding which in turn contributes to a higher latency when compared to MJPEG The graph below shows in principle how bandwidth use between MJPEG and MPEG compares at a given image scene with motion As can be seen at very low frame rates where MPEG compression cannot make use of similarities between neighboring frames to a high degree and due to the overhead generated by the MPEG streaming format the bandwidth consumption is actually higher than MJPEG Page 9 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 M JPEG MPEG 4 Bandwidth Frame rate 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements The image recording quality and image size affects the required storage per image frame Likewise does the frame rate impact the recording storage and also the network bandwidth Observer supports all image sizes that a camera offers The following are some values for typical J
143. ested recording period days hours enter the values that fit your needs Optionally you can also mark the Priority over other cameras if storage space is short checkbox For further details about these recording parameters please refer to sections 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 69 and 7 1 4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 72 Push the Save button to store your changes Page 90 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 10 Now you have to configure your camera for pushing the in camera events and images to the Observer server Since the steps for doing that are very camera specific you must consult the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources To program the camera s detection algorithm please consult its user manual Note After setting up the camera do not forget to check and set the date and time of the camera to reflect your current time Page 91 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 9 Handling events Observer can record and display events of various types These can be camera related events like video analytics events archive access by a user or camera failures but also system related events like user logon and logoff Events are displayed in Event lists of the client and are stored in the central event database of the server were they can also be queried They have several properties that depend on the type of the event Event
144. estored hen a CustomEvent occurs hen the recordings are degraded hen a hard drive has failed hen a face is detected hen changes are made to the client s interface hen archive recordings are exported hen an in camera motion detection occurs hen Wrong Way Traffic is detected hen a motion detection occurs hen a number plate is detected hen a recording is stopped hen a recording is started hen an SMS notification can t be send hen a Stopped Vehicle is detected hen a Traffic State change is detected Page 181 of 189 Observer Event serEventACK serLoggedin serLoggedOut deoContentAlert deoSignalLost deoStreamAnnotation Eve Eve Eve Eve n n tge Event tge tge tge Event nera nera nera nera nera nera teq teq teq teq teq teq z E E E E E ne N O N O ne n O ne NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description n a user acknowledges an event n a user logs in n a user logs out n an ICAT Object Tracking detection occurs n the video signal from a camera is lost n a video stream annotation occurs Page 182 of 189 18 Index 4 ACIF 10 A ABS transcoding for low bandwidth connections 26 configuring ABS 111 Acknowledging events 93 Active Directory 49 120 AES encryption of video recordings 112 Alarms see Events 98 Annotating videos with data f
145. etection and lighting change detection iCAT algorithms have been tuned for the highest performance and least burden on the server 15 2 Basic iCAT concepts iCAT basically consists of the following components that are tightly integrated with Observer 1 An object detection and tracking engine analyzes the video stream and tracks detected objects Please be aware that an object has to show consistent motion first in order to be detected and tracked 2 An event logic engine with configurable event triggers decides when a tracked object triggers an event 3 Areal time statistics module stores statistical information about various aspects of objects like object sizes and speeds For setting up a camera with iCAT you essentially configure the following things Object tracking region The object tracking region defines the part of the camera view in which iCAT is detecting and tracking objects For each camera you can define one tracking region that is either the full camera view or a part of it in the form of a polygon or rectangle No object will be detected or tracked outside of this tracking region Since the CPU overhead caused by to the size area of all the active tracking regions of all active cameras of a tracking regions will save CPU power Region definitions can also be used areas in the scene as well e g swaying trees iCAT is directly proportional server optimizing the to mask out problematic For each tracking
146. event this setting defines whether the layout that contains the primary control related to the event should be exposed Defines in which order new events are to be visited When a new event comes in or an existing event is selected the related control blinks or is highlighted This setting defines with what mouse operation the state of the event can be set to seen visited blinking is stopped If this checkbox is marked then only events of mapped cameras will be suggested for automatic visiting If it is unchecked then all events will be suggested Defines the default image size either Fit image or Full size Defines whether new events in the Event list are inserted from the Top or from the Bottom Page 137 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 15 Video analytics with iCAT iCAT is the video analytics toolkit of Observer It provides powerful and easy to configure object detection and tracking mechanisms as well as a statistics module with integration to the event management system EMS iCAT can also interface to 3 party video analysis toolkits and algorithms contact NETAVIS Software GmbH Please note Since iCAT and some functions are licensed separately of Observer you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 11 1 Server system information and restarting on page 107 for details about what license you have 15 1 iCAT highlights iCAT works with any camera that can deliv
147. eviously assigned camera is shown in a large view 6 Show previous view 7 Show next view 8 Not used 9 Activate PTZ In case the last assigned camera has PTZ capabilities this button activates the PTZ function and the AXIS T8311 joystick will be assigned to this camera 11 Archive Displays the archive view of the previously assigned camera 10 Administration Displays the administration view of the previously assigned camera 12 Numbers For entering digits in camera names or view names AXIS T8313 jog dial 1 6 Not used 7 Previous Next view Changes to the previous or next view 8 Select view The names of defined views appear on the screen upon turning the jog wheel To change to the given view press the View 3 button within 3 seconds e Archive player AXIS T8313 keypad Not used AXIS T8313 jog dial 1 Not used 2 Marker button Valid only when followed by pressing the Left 1 or Right 6 buttons When you press the Left 1 button then the start left marker of the interval is positioned under the current position of the playback marker Pressing the Right 6 button will modify the end time stamp When the Play 4 button is pressed the video sequence for the new time interval will be downloaded and played back 4 Play Stop 3 5 Jump to the Beginning or End of the selected time interval 7 Not used 8 Move playback marker back and forth in the sample line e Examples 00123 2 Select the camera whos
148. f the detection tracking quality is not ideal Overhead downward This setting only takes effect if Indoor camera is enabled Enable looking the setting if the camera is overhead mounted and downward looking This will improve object separation and the accuracy of object counting In our example above the camera is an indoor camera and mounted overhead downward looking Sensitivity Usually this setting should be left at Normal Only if you are not satisfied with the object detection quality or behavior you can try to modify this setting Page 143 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Field label Description lf you want a sharper object detection and separation you can set the Sensitivity to High or Very high Also for example if you want to detect very small objects you can improve the sensitivity The Sensitivity also influences how fast new objects are detected Higher Sensibility means quicker object detection lower means slower detection For environments that are very noisy visually and that cause too many objects to be detected the Sensitivity can be set to Low or Very low Max object lifetime sec Defines how long a detected object is tracked before it is dismissed by iCAT i e no longer treated as object but essentially becoming background After an object is being dismissed by iCAT if it starts moving again it will be detected as new object The setting is useful to lower the probability of fa
149. f you want to overwrite a file of the same name that might exist When you click OK a file dialog will be opened asking where on your client computer you to want to save the file Once you select the location and confirm a File download progress dialog will show the state of the export You can cancel the export anytime by pushing Cancel Note To play back exported video sequences with Microsoft Media Player you need the Divx codec You can download this for free from www divx com divx 7 3 3 Exporting a recording in SAFE format 1 2 3 10 In the Archive select a camera for the export In the Calendar select the time period for exporting In the Player view or in the Calendar view click the Export button Sto open the Export dialog Choose SAFE All images from Export format Enter the Filename for the video sequence to be exported Check the Overwrite old file checkbox if you want to overwrite a file with the same name Optionally you can create a Multi camera export synchronous video sequences by clicking on the Select camera button l This opens the camera tree in which you can select multiple cameras by holding the CTRL key while clicking on the cameras Enter an Export file label which should describe the exported scenes Optionally you may enter an Export file password which needs to be confirmed by entering it a second time in the text box below This password is required when opening the exported file Cauti
150. for example for security center video walls that are driven by analog video signals The configuration of these special devices must be done in configuration files please refer to the Release Notes or to the customization documentation Events You can also modify the behavior of control icons for certain events like Connection to camera lost or Motion detected Click OK to save changes 14 5 2 Adding a new camera control i Switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the customize button at the right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click the right mouse button and choose Add control from the pop up menu This opens the Add new control icon dialog which is essentially the same as the Modify control icon dialog see 14 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 130 Here you can define the icon name and image and which actions are to be performed on certain mouse operations You can also modify the behavior for certain events like color and blinking Click OK to create the new camera control icon 14 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior l Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button at the right side of the tool bar Page 131 of 189 2 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 In the control icon list click on a zone icon with the right mouse button a
151. h an MPEG stream with a frame rate of more than 5 fps or a resolution bigger than VGA 640x480 pixels then Observer will try pull a second MJPEG stream from the camera for iCAT processing please note that this stream will be pulled even if the checkbox Allow JPEG streaming is deselected For Face Detection Traffic Monitoring Stopped Vehicle Detection and Wrong Way Detection the resolution of this second stream will be approximately VGA size 640x480 pixels and for other iCAT definitions it will be approximately QVGA 320x240 pixels The frame rate of this second stream depends on the iCAT function Note Dual streaming iCAT processing will not be activated automatically after selecting the Multi stream checkboxes Please restart the server or stop and start disable enable all iCAT functions of the camera in order to activate dual streaming iCAT after changing the Multi stream selections Object detection Depending on the sensitivity and other settings iCAT currently detects objects of 8x8 pixels or bigger in size in a QVGA image Only moving objects are detected New objects are detected by iCAT after a few video frames How quickly objects are detected is also influenced by the sensitivity setting iCAT video processing speed If the objects you want to track move very quickly across your camera view you will require a higher video processing speed of iCAT than if they move slowly across your camera view As a rule of thumb the op
152. h iCAT on page 142 Check that the iCAT video analytics or motion detection definition has an active recording enabled either continuous or event based Please refer to 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 ake sure that for the motion detection or iCAT definition the event generation is enabled the heckbox Save event in event list is marked in the Scheduling dialog and that it is not uppressed in the iCAT event definition itself Qa n When you have setup all these things the user should receive an email with an attached alarm image on every event Page 99 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 10 Working with PTZ cameras Observer features the control of PTZ cameras pan tilt zoom Note To configure and work with PTZ cameras you need the corresponding user privileges and camera access rights see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 and 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 46 If you find that you do not have the authorizations you need please contact your Observer administrator 10 1 Setting up a PTZ camera Setting up a PTZ camera is the same procedure as setting up a camera without PTZ functionality 4 Setting up cameras on page 30 The user must possess the user specific camera authorizations see 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 46 to permit PTZ access 10 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions 1 Choose PTZ from the System administration menu This o
153. h with us via the usual channels We wish you a great experience with NETAVIS Observer 4 5 Your NETAVIS Team 1 1 The Observer documentation set These documents are available e NETAVIS Observer User Manual It describes how to configure and use the Observer client e NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources It provides detailed information on the IP camera models supported by Observer e NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration It describes how to install and administrate an Observer system e NETAVIS Observer Server Client and Storage Compatibility and Requirements It explains the hardware and software requirements for Observer systems e NETAVIS Observer Server Customizing It provides an overview on how to customize various aspects of an Observer server e NETAVIS Observer SNAP XML Interface It describes the Simple NETAVIS Access Protocol SNAP that allows bidirectional communication between an Observer server and other applications e NETAVIS Observer URL Command API It explains the URL Command API which is a simple and effective way for Observer to interface with 3rd party applications These documents are available online as PDFs directly on each Observer server via the standard web interface and also from each client via the Help All Documentation menu 1 2 What is new with this release The changes of a release are documented in the Release Notes which you can find on the standard web interface
154. he parking lots driveways fence sectors etc Each of the building layouts then in turn could have subordinate layout images for parts of the building like each of the floors Each of the floors could additionally have subordinate layouts for parts of the floor or even for each of the rooms Thus you can create hierarchies at arbitrary levels of detail 14 4 2 Switching to editing mode and creating a project 1 Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button at the right side of the tool bar In editing mode the LNT window now has added a new control icon list 2 Create a new project by choosing Project gt New project and then enter a name of the new project in the newly opened dialog Push OK Now you start to upload background images for your layouts 14 4 3 Creating layouts and mapping cameras I O contacts and zones After you planned your layout hierarchy you have to select appropriate images for the various layouts The layout navigation tool supports popular image graphics file formats like GIF JPEG PNG etc Depending on your needs and the available screen resolution for the layout navigation you have to choose the size in pixels for your images Please keep in mind that the LNT also supports image scaling to fit the available space Please note Each image s file size is limited to 2MB For performance reasons it is recommended to use JPEG and PNG files and keep their
155. he pre event streaming format to the post event streaming format The same frame rate for pre and post event recordi ng Observer obtains 1 stream of the main post event recording quality It also does iCAT analyzing based on this stream it actually scales the image sizes down to QVGA In case of an event alarm the video stream format is not changed Advantage same i recording mages for pre post event recordings No delay between pre and post event Disadvantage CPU load is bigger since images need to be scaled down for iCAT analyzing Event based recording for iCAT in MPEG formats MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG The majority of MPEG cameras cannot deliver multiple MPEG streams with different formats Only 1 stream is delivered from the camera Therefore you need to set the default frame rate to at least the detection frame rate you need for iCAT see Default settings in 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 30 e There is no pre event recording recording time is 0 Observer obtains a QVGA MJPEG stream from the camera and runs iCAT analyzing on it In the case of an event the streaming format is switched to MPEG and recording is started Advantage minimal overhead on server CPU Disadvantage Depending on the camera there can be a small delay caused by the camera needed to switch There is pre even Observer obtains is also done with from the pre event t recording recordi
156. hen this is selected and the hardware supports it the Online monitor uses the hardware overlay technique for displaying flicker free MPEG streams This can also boost the client performance and relieve the main CPU In multi screen operation overlay painting of MPEG video streams may result in pink colored view ports if the client is not running on the primary screen of Windows Then you should turn off this feature 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation Observer supports multi window and multi screen operation With clients workstations that have multiple screens connected you can position windows on different screens Here is an example of a client setup with 3 screens Page 19 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Monitor 1 Monitor 2 Monitor 3 Live overview Live alarm view Recording archive incl event list and incl prioritized event list and incl event markers iCAT triggers iCAT statistics diagram The window contents and positions are automatically stored per user and between sessions This means when a user has multiple windows positioned on 3 screens and he exits and then logs in again all the windows on the 3 screens will automatically be restored Please note There can only be one Archive player and this is located in the main window 2 4 1 Creating a new window Inthe main application window select New window from the Windows menu The window title and the contents of the window ca
157. hing strange happens tries to find out what has happened light switched off light switched on or just a person in dark clothes passed by It does so by analyzing a sample of average brightness values collected in previous frames The result of the these three detectors are combined to give the final alarm event camera moved camera covered focus lost gained brightness change Possible reasons of missed or wrong detections As mentioned above the camera movement detector works with high contrast points on the picture and the focus change detector checks the sharpness of the picture measuring the sharpness of edges Logos or date and time text fields generated and placed on the picture by the camera could decrease the accuracy of these detectors or could even prevent detection at all This is because such overlay fields are always stable have a high contrast and sharpness and can therefore balance real picture changes so that the overall change is too small to be detected The solution is to disable the text overlay at the camera s own web page Page 149 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Focus lost and focus gained events A dynamic scene with moving objects of various sizes always changes the average sharpness a little bit and the detector tries to filter out these small variations This is not always possible so one can sometimes experience false focus lost or a focus gained events Covering the camer
158. hlight color Icon Sound and Dynamic View Action can be defined for each Traffic state Please note he Speed and Density ranges from the different traffic states should not overlap 15 3 12 Defining Stopped Vehicle Detection NETAVIS Observer 4 5 introduced iCAT Traffic and with it Stopped Vehicle Detection It detects vehicles which stop on a road or special segments such as an emergency lane or an exit lane Here are the steps for configuring Stopped Vehicle Detection 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera in the camera tree and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Stopped Vehicle Detection which exposes the configuration settings In the Identifier text field enter a name for this Stopped Vehicle Detection Draw the region you want to monitor in the preview pane Just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon and close it by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse Page 153 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 6 Adapt the Alarm time limit sec option which defines after how many second the corresponding event is triggered Hint It is possible to set up more than one Stopped Vehicle Detection per camera e g to generate different events for vehicles stopped on the main road or the emergency lane 15 3 13 Defining Wrong Way Detect
159. ialog See 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 on how to modify user privileges e Replay NEA external archives in the Archive player The user privilege Recordings View external archive recordings NEA is needed For an explanation and setup of automatic swap management of NEA device please refer to the document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Displaying the status of NEA storage devices When a NEA storage device connected to the server you can view its status in the NEA storage management dialog accessible from the System administration menu of the main window The dialog shows all connected NEA storage devices their sizes and their Status e Recording recording is currently running on the device e Archive a finished archive of the device can be accessed in the Archive player e Empty the storage device is empty but initialized e Unformatted the device must be initialized formatted first e Write error the device can be accessed in the Archive player Initializing a device and starting NEA recording When a new storage device is connected to the server via an eSATA connector then the device is shown in the NEA storage management dialog accessible from the System administration menu of the main window You can start NEA recording on the device by pushing the Initialize and start recording button A new device will automatically be initialized formatted for NEA before the recording
160. ients on MS Windows platforms e Lazy loading client technology Observer clients both browser based and locally installed only load the needed application components from the server on demand when they are needed This saves time at startup and also bandwidth It also eases the management and upgrading of clients Libraries for one version are downloaded only once and are then stored locally on the client machine The path is lt user s home directory gt netavisLibs lt version gt e g C Documents and Settings user netavisLibs 4 4 5 158 634 e Automatic client upgrading Whenever the Observer server is upgraded to a new version the clients are automatically upgraded too This is happening transparently to the user The same client will still be able to work with older server versions See next point Since release 1 9 the client application has to be installed only once and every further Observer version will be seamlessly accessible without having to manually upgrade the client e Different versions between servers and clients Since release 1 9 Observer clients can connect to servers running different versions release 1 9 or newer without the need to install clients matching the servers versions As a summary Observer clients e download libraries for one version only once e share the same libraries for both browser based applet and installed client application e can connect to servers having different versions
161. iew ports commands will modify all view ports of all views not just the current view Note When modifying all view ports at once the selected options are only set for the view ports with cameras which support the desired options With the Set image size option there are 5 categories of image sizes for modifying all view ports and the closest possible match supported by each camera will be used e Very small QCIF QQVGA QCGA e Small CIF QVGA CGA e Medium VGA 4CIF NTSC D1 e Large HD 720 SVGA XGA SXGA e Very large HD 1080 SXGA UXGA Note Setting the image size and image quality is only possible for MJPEG streams of cameras for which Observer supports multiple MJPEG streams Please refer to the NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources document for information about for which cameras this functionality is supported 6 4 4 Controlling video analysis iCAT display The iCAT menu offers various options for displaying iCAT related video analysis information Please refer to 15 4 Working with iCAT on page 158 for further information 6 4 5 Replaying archived images The Replay archived images menu offers the option to directly jump into the Archive Player to replay the previous 10 minutes 1 hour 24 hours or 1 week of recordings of that camera An error message is displayed in case no such recordings are available Page 55 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Add camera Remov
162. ing into it with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it You can also have multiple zooming rectangles per view port Page 56 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Showing a zoomed view in another view port Online monitor only Draw azoom rectangle with the mouse Click into another view port Now the zoomed area is shown in the other view port You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle PW Neer You can remove the zoom by clicking the rectangle with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it Removing a rectangle will also remove the zoomed view from the other view port Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are taken for PTZ control In order to control the view port zooming hold down the CTRL key while using the mouse 6 6 Manual recording control in the Online Monitor In addition to programmed recordings you can also manually start and stop continuous recordings directly in the Online monitor When manual recording control is set up a recording button is shown in camera view ports in the Online monitor 6 6 1 Setting up manual recording control To enable recording control you must do 2 things e Enable the manual recording camera access right for the user e Setup a continuous re
163. installation 1 Start a web browser on your smartphone or tablet 2 Enter the address of your Observer server followed by browserclient e g lt Observer IP gt browserclient and login Both http and https are supported by the Client for Smartphone amp Tablet 3 When you get the camera tree tap click on camera groups to expand them and then on acamera to show its live stream Page 25 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 25 5 10 10 10 125 browserclier lt Back Live view X Logout Medium wv Letterbox v 4 You can choose whether to watch the live stream in a Small Medium or Large resolution and which Letterbox mode should be used Please note Changing the resolution only works for cameras where multiple MJPEG streams are supported Please see the NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources document for further information 5 When you are finished using it it is recommended to log out of the Client for Smartphone amp Tablet via the Logout button although there is an automatic logout after 10 seconds 2 7 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS The unique Observer Transcoding technology also called ABS for adaptive balanced streaming reduces the necessary bandwidth for video streams to a fraction of the usual values Especially high resolution cameras can thus be streamed from server to clients over low bandwidth wide area network WAN connections w
164. ion NETAVIS Observer 4 5 introduced iCAT Traffic and with it Wrong Way Detection It detects vehicles going into the wrong direction on a normal road or special segments such as an emergency or exit lane Here are the steps for configuring Wrong Way Detection 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Select a camera inthe camera tree and in the menu select Add new definition 3 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Wrong Way Detection which exposes the configuration settings 4 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this Wrong Way Detection 5 Draw the region you want to monitor in the preview pane Just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon and close it by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse 6 Next the detector learns the typical direction of the traffic inside the previously defined region Depending on the amount of traffic the duration for this learning process can range from a couple of hours to a day When the learning process is completed every vehicle going into a Page 154 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 direction other than the usual one will be detected as a wrong way driver and an event will be generated If the typical traffic direction changes temporarily e g because of construction work the detector can be reset Select the Wrong Way Detection definition right click
165. ion details Element Description Session name Name under which the session is stored Application You can either choose Observer Client or Layout Navigation Tool for further details on the Layout Navigation Tool please refer to 14 Working with Layout Navigation on page 124 The selected application will start when you press OK Previous Connections Offers you the list of previously active sessions Hostname or IP address Enter the name or IP address of the server you want to connect to Use secure connection Select this checkbox if you want to use an encrypted connection between the client and the server SSL HTTPS Please be aware that an encrypted connection needs more CPU resources on the server and on the client See also 1 3 Observer data security on page 7 Username Enter the login name of the user Password Enter the password for the user Remember password Select the checkbox if you want the password to be remembered for the next start of the application Alternative Session Here you can select another session out of the already defined session that should be started automatically when the server of this session is not accessible Show message if Select this checkbox if a message should be shown when the alternative session started alternative session is started Download client without asking Select this checkbox if you want updated versions of the client to be downloaded automatically Note Enabling this option
166. ion whereas the following parameters are inherited from the view port it is derived from e Video stream type MJPEG MPEG 4 H 264 or MxPEG e Aspect ratio incl different custom aspect ratios e Crop or stretch parameters e Current crop position e iCAT view options Note The new big view only inherits these parameters upon its initial creation Subsequent changes made in the original view port e g video stream type or iCAT view options will not affect the big view To create a permanent big view for a particular camera Create a view with this camera and adapt the settings see 6 1 Creating a new view on page 50 for details Then a double click will open that view You can group those big camera views into view groups by supplying view group names such as Big cam1 Big cam2 and so on 6 4 Modifying view port settings Observer allows you to set various options including video quality of either single view ports or all view ports in the current view at once The settings of a single view port can be modified via the view port s control menu that appears in the upper right corner of a view port when you move the mouse pointer over the view port The view port control menu offers the following options Page 53 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 6 4 1 Adding and removing cameras Cameras can be added and removed with the Add camera and Remove camera menu entries Please refer to section 6 2
167. ious platforms 14 1 Basic concepts and how it works The Observer layout navigation tool LNT allows you to define a hierarchy of graphical layouts that correspond to various aspects of your physical environment section 14 4 1 Planning your layout hierarchy on page 126 provides details on how to plan the hierarchy Layouts that belong together and other related settings can be grouped together in so called projects Depending on the user rights several users can access and share the same projects and by thus layouts and settings On each layout you can place camera control icons that correspond to cameras on an Observer server The camera icons on layouts are interactive i e trigger certain actions when you move the mouse over them or click on them Such actions can be to show camera live image streams or its recording archive in the corresponding Observer client running on the same client workstation On layouts you can also define polygon shaped zones that group certain cameras together and that allow for smart ways of highlighting on events and for good synchronization with the Observer client Additionally you can also display and acknowledge Observer events in the tool All information used by the LNT e g project and layout definitions background images and camera mappings are stored on the Observer server Users can use the same LNT information as long as they load the same LNT project regardless on which client they wor
168. ithout loss of quality Therefore even megapixel cameras can be operated over very low bandwidth connections that would normally prevent their operation The technology works for all cameras streaming resolutions and formats including MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Additional CPU resources are needed at the server and at the client for transcoding streams Transcoding can be set up in the server level by limiting bandwidth for live video and recording playback streams as well as for recording exports See 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 109 Page 26 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Important Although transcoding works with all streaming formats the best results and least CPU overhead are possible with MJPEG streaming Also the transcoding bandwidth limit must be chosen carefully Therefore we suggest e MJPEG streaming format e Limit the transcoding bandwidth to app 70 of the available server client connection bandwidth For connections like Internet connections with heavily varying bandwidth it is much better to use a lower limit than a higher limit With low limits of 256 kbit s or 128 kbit s very good results are possible Some customers have even used 56 kbit s or 30 kbit s with transcoding As mentioned above the limits are defined in 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 109 2 8 Exiting the client The Observer client can be closed by choosing Exit from the Observer
169. itor amp action action draw_bounding_box amp box x0 100 amp box y0 100 amp box x1 500 amp box y1 500 amp box linewidth 2 amp box color red amp box text M D amp box timeout 3 amp action cameraid 12 Each server offers a simple test page for URL control at the following address http lt your server gt URLtest jsp 17 4 Matrix View function of the Online Monitor VIP control With the matrix view function also called VIP control you can control which cameras defined in a bigger matrix are displayed in a view in the Online monitor For example assume you have a big area covered with 50 cameras Each of these 50 cameras cover a part of the overall area The Matrix view function now allows you to position all the cameras in a huge virtual matrix covering the whole area Page 169 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Now assume that in the Observer Online monitor you want to show adjacent cameras of this virtual matrix in a 3x3 view Whenever you double click any of the 50 cameras in any of the views in Observer this camera is then positioned as the center of the 3x3 view and the adjacent cameras of the big matrix are automatically positioned around it In the example above you see how the 3x3 view would look ike if you would double click Cam24 and Cam18 The Matrix view function is defined by XML files sitting on the server The name of the XML files follows the form server utils CameraMatrixMapping lt acti
170. k In a typical installation you would run the Observer client on one screen and the layout navigation tool on another screen see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 19 for details However you can of course run both tools on the same screen as well Please note Currently LNT can only display MJPEG camera streams MPEG camera streams are not yet supported 14 2 Installing Layout Navigation Layout Navigation is available in a locally installed client see 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 16 or alternatively via a desktop web browser see 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 Note Layout Navigation only works on Microsoft Windows and requires Windows NET 2 0 or later Page 124 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 14 3 Starting Layout Navigation Layout Navigation can be started in three different ways e inthe locally installed client please refer to 2 3 2 Starting the installed Observer client on page 16 for more details e inadesktop web browser with the Start the Layout Navigation Tool from the browser using Web Start option on the start page of Observer e in a desktop web browser with a One Click Single Sign On simultaneously with the Observer client with the Start the NETAVIS client and the Layout Navigation Tool from the browser using Web Start option on the start page of Observer When using this option entering wrong Login creden
171. k to create views for each user individually In order to help Observer offers the possibility to copy a selected view or all views including all view settings of an administrator user to other users It is important that the user who copies the views to other users must have user administration rights more specifically User admin Access to User administration and User admin Manipulate user data Page 59 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please follow these steps 1 Login as the user from whom you want to copy the view s and go to the Online monitor 2 Create the view s you want to copy Please note that only saved settings are copied 3 Open the view you want to copy open the view s Control menu and choose Copy current view to other users LA Online monitor amp Archive player Previous next test Create new view Set parameters of all view ports Rename view Delete current view Save all view settings Copy current view to other users Copy all views to other users Start automatic shuffling of views Round tours 4 Nowa user selection dialog opens 0 cere Copy to user only non logged in net Groups 6 2 System g Admin only user 5 Select the user you want to copy the current view to whereby views can only be copied to logged out users and your own account You can then choose one of the user s windows or select Crea
172. ld down the CTRL key while using the mouse 7 2 4 Playback of a time frame time zooming 2004 27 09 16 21 00 amp y 2004 27 09 16 21 00 M A a e 150 images loaded every 45 4 of the total 6772 in archive 2 21 Time intervall between frames 09 72s 2004 27 09 16 44 59 2004 27 09 16 44 59 am gt The red and blue markers A let you select a smaller time interval for detailed playback Alternatively you can click the Set Blue Marker button 2 or Set Red Marker button lto set the respective marker at the current position of the green Playback marker Click the Zoom in button to load and replay the time interval between the blue and red markers Page 77 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 7 2 5 Playback with audio If the recording also includes audio i e the recording has been done with MPEG 4 or H 264 and with Audio recording enabled then you can decide whether you also want to replay audio By default Audio is switched on when you replay To toggle audio on or off push the l button in the Playback view 7 2 6 Synchronous playback of up to four recordings 1 Select the playback time frame for the first camera as described above Then change to the Player view 2 Click the Synchronous Playback button HHI which opens the Camera tree where you can select the second camera for synchronous playback 3 Repeat camera selection until
173. les you find several XML files that are responsible for the device configuration XML file name Description server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml Actual I O device configuration server externallO deviceio DeviceTypeDescriptor Device descriptor files not intended for lt device_type gt xml modification by you Save server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu Please note If there is no such file then download the server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings sample xml 17 7 2 Edit the XML config files Edit the file server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file For each supported I O device types there is a device descriptor file server externallO deviceio DeviceTypeDescriptor lt device_type gt xml For configuring a device you must refer to one of the supported devices in server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml When you are done with editing save the file Please note The sample file has to be renamed to server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml Page 173 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 17 7 3 Upload and activate the XML config files You can upload and activate the function by following these steps 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer
174. lly it is also able to provide age and gender information of people Here are the steps for configuring Face Detection Oyi OT PF wr Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera in the camera tree and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Face detection which will expose the configuration settings In the Identifier text field enter a name for this Face detection Choose whether you want a Polygon or Rectangle shape by checking the respective check box Now you can draw the region with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse Check or uncheck the Age and gender detection checkbox depending on the requirements Hint For more details on using NETAVIS Observer for face detection please refer to the Face Detection with iCAT White Paper available in the documentation section of our website 15 3 10 Defining a privacy mask Privacy masks allow hiding private areas of a camera view from live viewing and recording This is an example of a privacy mask hiding the text on the carpet objekt stoppt vor theke Q 0H 00D 1 7 1 counter 1 Q 0H 0D 17T 1 Se Page 151 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Here are the steps for
175. login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file 3 Inthe opened file dialog choose the file server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml and upload it to the server 4 Please restart Observer to activate the configuration Hint For more details on configuring I O devices please refer to the O Contacts White Paper available in the documentation section of our website ge 17 8 AXIS T8310 Control Board configuration Observer 4 5 added support for the AXIS T8310 Video Surveillance Control Board which consists of a joystick keypad and jog dial These input devices can be used be used individually or combined Note Joystick support is only available in the locally installed Observer client on Microsoft Windows platforms 17 8 1 Installation Follow these steps to enable AXIS T8310 Control Board support on a client e Connect the AXIS T8310 Control Board to the system and wait for Windows to detect and install it e Install the latest Observer client via the corresponding option from the Observer Start page e Restart the client computer to complete the installation process 17 8 2 Use The following two figures show the controls and buttons of the AXIS T8312 keypad and AXIS T8313 jog dial For simplicity we have numbered the buttons for later reference AXIS T8312 keypad Page 174 of 189
176. lsely tracked objects which remain in the scene for too long If you experience that objects are no longer tracked though they are visible and moving this value might have to be increased Max stopped object Defines how long a detected object that stopped is tracked before it lifetime sec is dismissed by iCAT i e no longer treated as object but essentially becoming background After an object is being dismissed by iCAT if it starts moving again it will be detected as new object The setting is useful for removing false detections usually caused by environmental changes which often remain still for a longer period If objects in the scene usually stop longer than this time imit then set it higher Video processing fps This defines at what frame rate the iCAT algorithms operate If the objects you want to track move very quickly across your camera view you want to improve the speed If they move slowly across the camera view you can decrease the speed See also 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 140 Tolerance radius for Defines when how much a stopped object may move away from its stopped object stopping position before iCAT detects it to move again There is a virtual circle centered at the object s center point In this field one can define its radius proportional to the size of the object If the object s center remains inside the circle it is detected as stopped When this value is set
177. me and Optionally modify other parameters as 30 for details P address needed see 4 2 1 Adding a camera from scratch on page Push the Save button at the bottom of the dialog Note Only local cameras and remote camera groups can be duplicated It is not possible to duplicate individually mounted remote cameras 4 3 Setting up the camera recording archive The configuration of camera recordings is covered in section 7 1 Programming archive recordings on page 69 Page 37 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 4 4 Checking the Camera status Observer 4 5 added a camera status overview which enables users to quickly see whether the cameras in their system or on connected remote servers are running normally Issues such as a camera being unreachable are indicated by a red icon An overlay provides additional information about each camera and its status and configuration In order for the camera status to be available the Camera statistics display option has to be enabled in the Client preferences see 2 5 Client preferences on page 21 for details Note The camera status overview is only updated for cameras which are being actively used by Observer for recordings video analysis or live monitoring in the Online Monitor For all other cameras the status is not updated Once the option has been enabled a status icon is added next to each camera and camera group in the camera tree within the Camera admin
178. menu at the main application window You will be asked whether you really want to exit If the menu bar is hidden you can exit the client via the right mouse button menu Page 27 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 3 Guidelines for setting up a new system with Observer This section guides you how to best set up a new system with Observer It shows which steps are needed in which order and gives you some hints on how to configure cameras and users For a simple system with 1 server take these steps 1 Setup cameras 2 Setup users 3 Setup views For a bigger system with connected servers take these steps Set up servers Set up cameras Set up users ge OaE a Set up views Please note All of these steps should be taken by the administrator user usually login admin Here we describe the steps for one server for the setup of connected servers please see 12 Working with interconnected Observer servers on page 114 3 1 Guidelines for setting up cameras Usually a system consists of several cameras of the same type with similar settings Bigger systems may have many cameras of the same type and several different types Therefore Observer offers you the possibility to duplicate cameras in order to facilitate the setup Take these steps for setting up cameras 1 Define camera groups We found that a good grouping criterion is the location of the camera Another grouping criterion could be access rights f
179. mera preview choose the Tripwire check box for directional people or object counting Now you can draw the tripwire line with the mouse in the preview pane You just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You finish the line by double clicking with the mouse Here is an example of a tripwire Page 145 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 _ Rectangle _ Polygon v Tripwire This tripwire triggers a counting event whenever an object moves from the green area across the red tripwire The tripwire is smart as it only counts objects that have first been detected in the green area and move across It would not count the object if it would first be detected in the non green area then moved across the line into the green and then move across the tripwire from the green to the non green area It also would not double count an object that would have moved across the line twice Hints To count incoming and outgoing people or objects you would create two different tripwires with opposite green areas which would both trigger events You can also use the tripwire to detect objects moving in the wrong direction Please note As indicated 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 140 objects will only be detected after a few frames Therefore an object can move a bit before it is actually detected as object by iCAT Therefore it makes sense to have the green area big eno
180. n be adapted in the Client preferences see 2 5 Client preferences on page 21 for more details 2 4 2 Modifying window layouts You can modify the layout of a window by rearranging its components Once you have defined in the Client preferences dialog what components are to be shown in a window you can customize the layout Select the menu Windows gt Enable layout customization For the Event list and the Camera tree you can now define e Where they are located inside the window Just click on the title bar of the Event list or the Camera tree and drag it to a different location For example when the Online monitor and the Event list are enabled then you can drag the Event list from the default position at the right border of the window to the bottom of the window 31 03 2011 15 10 12 la anana d tay ey eee e Whether they are floating open when needed or there are new entries and collapsed or hidden otherwise or pinned always shown You can change the state of the Event list or the Camera tree by pinning M or unpinning it in the title bar Whether the Event list or the Camera tree should fill the whole window You can maximize the component by pushing the maximize button E When a component is maximized it will Page 20 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 occupy the whole space of the window and will automatically resize when you resize the window Thus you can create a window that contains only an Eve
181. n be done under Windows for example Observer will search for this directory and store the key file in it After the USB device is detected and the key has been written to it the first time an event with following text is generated IDB encryption started USB device can be removed now for creating backup copy At this time the USB device can be removed from the server and a backup copy of the directory nek can be created Note that the stick must be inserted again before any archive query is started Warning Loss of the encryption key stored on the USB device will make archive access impossible Also encryption needs much more CPU power than no encryption see also 1 3 Observer data security on page 7 In case continuous recording is run in parallel to an iCAT or event triggered recording this option defines the minimum number of days the iCAT or event triggered recordings are stored regardless of how long the continuous recordings are stored Warning f there is not enough space available for a recordings then even iCAT or event triggered recordings may be deleted sooner than configured here Please see 7 1 4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 72 for further information Any delete protected recordings older than this time limit number of days will be deleted automatically Name of a PTZ position where all PTZ cameras which have a position configured with that name will be positioned wh
182. n is play_archive e action totime to time stamp of playback YYYY MM DDTHH MM SS or millisecs since Unix epoch Should be given only when action is play_archive e action idlist comma separated list of camera ids which we want the archive playback or want to place them in the current Online monitor view Should be given only when action is show_live_stream or play_archive e action panelname name of Online monitor view that should be exposed Should be given only when mode is show_in_view or show_all_cams Following conditions exist o If panelname does not exist it will be created and all cameras listed in the idlist parameter will be placed into it If panelname exists with the cameras listed on the idlist parameter it will be popped up lf panelname exists but the idlist parameter contains more cameras as there already are in the view then 1 if we have enough view ports to show the rest of the cameras it will Page 168 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 be shown there or 2 if the view can not handle any more view ports a new view will be created where all listed cameras are then placed e box x0 upper left x coordinate of box valid between 0 and 1000 The values are in 1 10th percentages of the displayed image Box parameters should be supplied only when the action is draw_bounding_box e box y0 upper left y coordinate of box valid between 0 and 1000 e box xl lower right x coordinate of b
183. n the layout hierarchy You can position to a layout by clicking its name in the layout hierarchy You can also jump to a connected layout by clicking a link field 14 6 5 Working with events in the layout navigation tool The layout navigation tool LNT also allows you to view and acknowledge Observer events Please note Event handling will only work if the user has the rights to work with events When a new event occurs in Observer then it is displayed in the Event list at the right side of the LNT window the Event list can be switched on and off in editing mode by choosing View gt Event list The Project settings define what happens when a new event is coming in see 14 6 7 Project settings on page 136 The layout that contains the primary control for related to the event can be exposed automatically and also the control that is related to the event can be highlighted blinking rectangle Additionally a longer description is displayed in the Event description field at the bottom of the window which also can be switched on and off in Editing mode by choosing View gt Event description You can acknowledge an event by pushing Acknowledge in the Event description field Acknowledged events will be removed from the Event list Pressing Cancel sets the state of the event to seen visited but does not acknowledge it Please note that for each camera a primary control can be defined that is exposed when a new event is generat
184. nable disable the Play event sound option and configure the Maximal event count shown in the event list It is also possible to configure the Default event video export duration how many seconds of the recording before and after the event should be exported and Override default archive playback duration how many seconds of the recording before and after the event should be shown per default in the archive player This last option overrides other pre and post event recording options which may have been set up for specific events Streaming To ensure smooth video and audio playback you can configure the length of the local Live video cache with and without audio in milliseconds In case of connectivity issues itis advisable to raise the Live video cache no audio value above the default of 200ms Debug You can enable different debug options and Show Log Debug Note These debug options are only needed for advanced error diagnosis 2 6 Mobile Observer clients You can also access an Observer server from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets As of NETAVIS Observer version 4 4 0 two different mobile clients are available Client for iPad Version 2 is an app for Apple iPads requires iOS 6 or later Page 23 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 e Client for Smartphone amp Tablet is a browser based application for all platforms Please refer to the NETAVIS Observer Server Client and Storage Compatibility a
185. nd Requirements document for details on compatibility Please note These mobile clients do not support the full functionality of desktop clients see 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for more details This chapter describes how to use these mobile Observer clients 2 6 1 Client for iPad To get the NETAVIS Client for iPad follow these steps Follow this link or go to the iTunes Store and search for NETAVIS 2 Install the Observer app on your iPad To use the app Start the NETAVIS Client for iPad 2 Connect to an Observer server and login 3 Ifyou have previously configured a view port layout you will see it and be able to tap on a camera for a full screen view and access to its archive 04 49 axis 212 camera Else you first have to tap Add layout select the desired layout and then add cameras to the individual view ports It is possible to add multiple layouts and switch between them using the arrow buttons or dropdown menu in the middle of the navigation bar Page 24 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Edit layout 4 When you are finished using it it is recommended to log out of the NETAVIS Client for iPad via the Logout button on the overview screen although there is an automatic logout after 10 seconds 2 6 2 Client for Smartphone amp Tablet The Client for Smartphone amp Tablet can be run directly in a smartphone or tablet web browser and does not require an
186. nd choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify Zone dialog Context menu actions Show zone live in Observer Client In this dialog you can define the color of the zone and which actions are to be performed on certain mouse operations and events Actions The possible Actions are basically the same as for the camera control see 14 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 130 with one addition e Show zone live in Observer Client exposes the corresponding view of the zone in the Observer client that runs on the same machine If there is an Observer view that has the same name as the LNT zone and that also contains all the cameras of the zone then this view is exposed in the Observer client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone Page 132 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Events You can also modify the behavior of zones of this type for certain events like Connection to camera lost or Motion detected The event View selected in Observer Client works this way If there is an LNT zone with the same name as the view in Observer then the corresponding action is triggered Click OK to save changes 14 5 4 Adding a new zone control L Switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Editing mode or by pushing the customize button at the right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click the right mouse
187. nd decoding is kept low The time aspect means that there is limited delay between image capturing in a camera encoding transferring over the network decoding and finally displaying at the viewing station In other words MJPEG provides low latency due to its simplicity image compression and complete individual images and for this reason it s also well suited for when image processing is to be performed for example video motion detection or object tracking MJPEG gives a guaranteed image quality regardless of movement or complexity of the image scenes It still offers the flexibility to select either high image quality low compression or lower image quality high compression with the benefit of lower image file sizes thus lower bit rate and bandwidth usage At the same time the frame rate can be easily controlled providing a means to limit bandwidth usage by reducing the frame rate but still with a guaranteed image quality Since MJPEG does not make use of a video compression technique it generates a relatively large amount of image data that is sent across the network For this reason at a given image compression level defining the image quality of the I frame and JPEG image respectively the network bandwidth is less for MPEG compared to MJPEG except at very low frame rates Another difference is that most MJPEG IP cameras can produce multiple simultaneous streams and in different qualities image sizes and compr
188. nerated by iCAT that are not simple motion detection like people counting object stopping and sabotage detection are of type iCAT Object tracking Therefore if you want to filter iCAT events you have to choose the event type iCAT Object tracking You can differentiate events for the various iCAT event triggers by their names You can also create event statistics reports in Excel XLS format see 9 3 Generating an event statistics report on page 97 Page 161 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 16 Video walls with Observer The Observer video wall solution allows you to configure and operate professional video walls using standard Observer servers and clients Such a video wall can then be controlled by the Video wall control application which allows you to e Handle video walls with up to 10x10 monitors e Connect multiple monitors to a single client PC e Flexibly control the views and layouts in any of the video wall monitors e Maximize individual camera streams on any of the monitors e Work with multiple control consoles in parallel The video wall control application has been specifically designed for control center personnel to operate video walls Any configuration of the servers video wall clients cameras recordings or other administration has to be done in the main Observer client and admin consoles Here is the basic architecture of a video wall with Observer Video wall Monitors are connected
189. new view with these settings In accordance with the selection above Observer creates a new view that might look as follows your view may have a different number of view ports depending on what you selected E NETAS Observer Observer Events System administration Windows Help E Onine monitor Wh Archive player Events eos O nen Fro toordnoance non 9 Tow be tt roor 401 pec Orne Oii O rinena O EE ormazo11 er Object sto tl is D K i i sigisisis Add camera View control Next previous view View Round tour menu selector selector sjsisisisisis Event list View port 91919191999 AEAF Ji control menu A View port Status bar CPU 6 IDS 1 84KB di icensng netavis net 20 44 57 CET The view ports fill the central part of the window and each view port has its own view port controls At the right side of the window is the Event list which is explained in 9 Handling events on page 92 Choose Save all view settings from the menu in order to save all settings for your current user The next time you log on to Observer all views will then be available again If you neglect to save all changes are lost when you exit the application You can change the name of the current view with Rename view in the Control menu Please note All view settings will be stored also image quality and frame rate settings of view ports New views will be stored automatically
190. ng on an event in the event list opens the Event details dialog Motion event Main Office on camera axis 212 vierfuenf Value 9723 24 02 2014 16 01 00 5 ACKComment Classification Start live stream Short event replay Go to Archive player Classify event as Unclassified Acknowledge comment L Acirowiesoe anane Previous The first line contains the event text Further details of the event are listed at the left side of the dialog The exact contents of the event details depends on the event type but you will at least find the exact time when the event occurred and if it is camera related then also the camera ID and name are shown Page 93 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 When you move the mouse over the camera preview area you will also see the video analytics object markers and annotations related to the event trigger as seen in the screenshot above The following options are available for users Start live stream Starts live monitoring of the camera that triggered the event Short event replay Starts a playback of the event recording that triggered the event a replay is only available if the camera has been configured to record the event Go to Archive player Opens the Archive player and starts a playback of the event recording Classify event as The event can be classified as Unclassified Irrelevant Valid true
191. ng the image 3 Inthe Player move to the picture you want to export and click the Export button Sto open the Export dialog Choose Current image JPEG from Export format Enter a file name for the image to be saved Mark the first checkbox if you want to overwrite a file of the same name that might exist St Oy UM When you click OK a file dialog will be opened asking where on your client computer you to want to save the file Select the location and confirm Page 79 of 189 8 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Now you can use the exported file 7 3 2 Exporting a recording in AVI DivX format 1 2 3 In the Archive player select a camera for the export In the Calendar select the time period for exporting In the Player view or in the Calendar view click the Export button Sto open the Export dialog You have two AVI options for Export format e AVI all images This exports a video sequence with all the frames of the currently selected time frame regardless of the Playback acceleration setting e AVI Subsampled movie This exports the time lapse playback with the settings of the Playback acceleration slider E g if you have selected a Playback acceleration of 3 your exported file will be roughly a third of the size of an AVI all images export See also 7 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period on page 73 Enter the file name of video to be exported Mark the first checkbox i
192. ngs for your camera To modify values choose Modify selected camera or group menu Fields for Basic video and audio settings Field label Multi stream allowed Description Some cameras are capable of providing multiple video streams in parallel This can be helpful for example when online viewing and recording is to be done in different formats or for optimizing iCAT video analytics performance see 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 7 for a general discussion about multi streaming Usually MJPEG cameras can deliver several MJPEG streams while Page 32 of 189 Field label Allow JPEG streaming Allow MPEG 4 streaming Allow H 264 streaming Allow MxPEG streaming NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG cameras deliver only 1 MPEG stream some camera types can deliver several MJPEG streams in addition to the MPEG stream If this option is not selected then only 1 video stream will be pulled from the camera regardless of how many different formats would be needed If it is selected then multiple streams will be pulled Also consider the following checkboxes that define which formats can be pulled from the camera Please note Multi streaming has some important restrictions that depend heavily on the camera type Please refer to the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources for details on restrictions If your camera supports MJPEG vid
193. nt list After you are done with the modifications deselect Windows gt Enable layout customization The default location for the Event list is the right window border and for the Camera tree that usually only pops up when needed it is the left window border Note Only the Event list and the Camera tree can be dragged The other components in the window will then change their size accordingly 2 4 3 Positioning a window on a specific screen Positioning a window on a specific screen is very easy Use the mouse to drag the window to the desired screen and drop it there You can also maximize the window on the screen When a window is configured to be in full screen mode and therefore drag and drop is not possible there is a Send to screen option in the context menu accessible via a right mouse button click Previous P Next Single View Previous Send to screen gt Client preferences Exit Note See 2 5 Client preferences on page 21 for information on how to enable full screen mode for a window All the window states will be remembered between sessions This happens on a per user basis which means when the user logs in on a different client workstation the same window setup as on the first client workstation will be shown 2 4 4 Deleting a window In the main application window select Delete window from the Windows menu A Delete window dialog will open offering you the list of windows available for dele
194. o be notified Examples of commands to be used in any iCAT comment field 999 pop 1 shows a live view of the camera which triggered the event in all connected client sessions pop 2 my view 3 43 shows live view of camera which triggered the event and the cameras with IDs 3 and 4 in the view named my view in all connected client sessions pop 3 my_fifo 3 4 christoph 192 168 7 12 Page 67 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 shows a live view of camera which triggered the event and the cameras with IDs 3 and 4 in the view named my_fifo where the IP address of the client workstation is 192 168 7 12 and user christoph is logged in pop 4 my_dynamic 3 43 shows live view of camera which triggered the event and the cameras with IDs 3 and 4 in the view named my_dynamic in all connected client sessions Press the Save button Page 68 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 7 Working with archive recordings This section shows you how to work with the Observer recording archive particularly in the following areas e Programming archive recordings timed or triggered by iCAT video analytics events e Selection and playback of archive recordings Please note In order to work with archive recordings you need to have the appropriate user privileges and camera access rights for further details see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 and 5 3 Setting camera access rights
195. of the window You can also switch to a monthly or an annual overview via the View button and its popup menu View _ Month View Here is an example of a month view for the camera Page 74 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 View Month View v Fe People count CET Sun Mon Thu Wed Thi Fri Sat Total images 1148352 2013 August With the mouse select the time span of the archive that you want to play back To do this press the left mouse button at the start of the time range then move the mouse pointer to the end of the time range and then release the mouse button The color of the selected time range changes to dark green ECC Also select the playback acceleration by moving the Playback acceleration slider default value is 1 At the slider you can see in parentheses how long the selected time will need for playback at the selected playback acceleration Now click the Playback button This brings you to the Player view and the images for the selected time span are loaded from the server and then will be replayed with the specified acceleration you can cancel the loading process by pushing the Cancel button Page 75 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 _ Calendar Player Playback acceleration Control menu a BE Fe A 4x 00 01 59 People count 02 08 2013 07 26 00 02 08 20
196. oginStamp o2UserClientAddress o2UserClientVersion o2UserSessionType Camera Table Entry o2CameralD o2CameraHostlD o2CameraName o2Cameralype o2CameraAddress o2CameraStatus o2CameraLastErrorStamp o2CameraLastErrorMessage o2CameraRecording o2CameraVideoAnalytics o2CameraRequestedRecordingTime o2CameraArchiveLoadPerc Event Descriptor o2EventName o2EventNumber o2EventStamp o2EventCameralD NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description Accessibility information A storage can be attached to a server locally as a disk device or externally via SAN NAS or any type of network mount e g NFS Unique identifier of the host within a distributed network Internal name of the video platform within the domain of servers Software version of the video platform Overall license information A percentage value telling how much of the available image archive has been filled up with images The time in UNIX seconds since the NETAVIS video platform has been started Login name of user Unix stamp when the user has logged in Address of the login terminal Version number of the client software The type of the connection via the user is connected to a server Unique identifier of the camera Identifier of the host where this camera is connected to Name of the camera Vendor and type of the camera Address of the camera Aggregated status information Unix time stam
197. olling Observer with HTTP commands from external sources URL control URL control is one way to enable third party applications to start actions via URL encoded strings send http GET request to an Observer server The server upon receiving these special URL requests executes the actions as if they would have been generated internally For testing purposes you can execute URL control by entering an HTTP command in a standard web browser http lt your server gt arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd clientcontrol amp 17 3 1 Available URL control parameters Here is a list of available URL control parameters e selector tool name of the target tool in the client application possible values online_monitor archive_tool e selector machine optional IP address of the target client PC e selector user optional name of the logged in target user if both machine and user are specified then only the client application is selected which fulfills both conditions Further action parameters are e action action the action to be executed possible values show_live_stream show_calendar play_archive draw_bounding_box e action cameraid D of camera that is involved in the action e action mode further descriptor for the action possible values pop_if_exists show_as_large show_in_view show_all_cams e action fromtime from time stamp YYYY MM DDTHH MM SS or millisecs since Unix epoch of archive playback Should be given only when actio
198. on Do not forget this password because otherwise you cannot open the exported file When you click OK a file dialog will be opened asking where on your client computer you to want to save the file Once you select the location and confirm a File download progress dialog will show the state of the export You can cancel the export anytime by clicking Cancel The exported file is an executable for MS Windows 8 7 Vista XP Below you can find a screen of the running SAFE Player Page 80 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 2008 07 29 09 33 00 CET 2008 07 29 09 33 16 CET 2008 07 29 09 38 59 CET Zooming in exported SAFE video sequences You can zoom into parts of the camera view by drawing a rectangle and then clicking in the rectangle You can drag a zoomed view with the mouse Alternatively you can show the zoomed view in a separate window by selecting View gt Separate zoom window You can also use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out See also 7 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 76 Displaying iCAT information The iCAT info display menu accessible via a right mouse button click offers various options for displaying iCAT information Please refer to 15 4 Working with iCAT on page 158 for further information Controlling playback There are several ways to control the playback of the recording Besides the Play backward and Play forward buttons it is possible to go the Previous Frame
199. on gt xml You start by downloading and editing the file server utils CameraMatrixMapping sample xml When you are done with editing you upload the file under a specific name to the server 17 4 1 Download the XML config file You can access the XML file in a web browser from the server s web page 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 3 Inthe list of files find and save server utils CameraMatrixMapping sample xml to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu 17 4 2 Edit the XML config file Edit the file according to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file When you are done with editing save the file under a file name that reflects the trigger action for which you want to enable the Matrix view Possible trigger actions for the Matrix function and the corresponding XML file names are Trigger action XML file name double click in a camera view port server utils CameraMatrixMapping DOUBLE CLICK xml single click in a camera view port l l server utils CameraMatrixMapping SINGLE CLICK xml Page 170 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Trigger action XML file name LNT single click double click mouse over o
200. one that is sorted according to event priorities In the Client preferences you can configure for each window s event list what columns are to be displayed whether acknowledged events should stay in Page 92 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 the list or should disappear automatically and other options see 2 5 Client preferences on page 21 for more details The position of the event lists inside client windows and further layout options can be defined as described in 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 19 You can sort the event list according to column values by just clicking on the column title Little arrows after the title indicate the sorting order ascending or descending Clicking a column title again will change the sorting order For example you can sort the list according to event priority by clicking on the Priority column heading In an event list columns can be rearranged by clicking on a column title and dragging it with the mouse to the new location Unseen events have a light red background color As soon as an event has been opened in the Event details dialog its background color changes to light grey When an event is acknowledged it usually disappears from the event list However in the client preferences you can define whether acknowledged events should be displayed in the event list If so they appear with a white background color 9 1 1 Event details Double clicki
201. oose the Rectangle or Polygon check box am e w Now you can draw the field with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse 7 Now select on what object behavior you want to trigger an event When an Object is crossing field when an Object starts moving in field or when an Object stops in field You can also define when an event is triggered by either selecting Object center point Any point of object or Whole object Page 147 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 8 Inthe text field Minimum time for staying inside field sec for Object is crossing field event triggers or Min time for stopping staying inside sec for Object stops in field triggers you can enter a minimum time required for an object that either stops or stays inside a field before an event is triggered 9 When you press the Next button you can define additional constraints for the event trigger You can limit the counting only to certain object sizes certain aspect ratios and a certain speed Currently those measures are definable in pixels please keep in mind that the resolution iCAT works on is either CIF or QVGA depending on the aspect ratio of the camera Zero values in these fields mean that there is no constraint 10 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger
202. ople counting and stopped objects 15 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online Monitor and when playing recordings For each camera that has active iCAT schedules enabled you can display additional iCAT information like object markers and bounding boxes and event trigger fields in the Online monitor and also when playing back recordings in the Archive or an exported SAFE Player Here is an example of additional iCAT information displayed a a objekt stoppt auf teppich d 04 0n o0 7 173 je W counter 1 Q 1 H 2 D 3 T 133 V To choose what iCAT information to display you have these options In the Online Monitor in the view port of a camera that has iCAT processing enabled the view port control menu offers an iCAT info display menu for setting the display for all view ports in a view the same menu is also available via the View control menu Set parameters of all view ports Also in the Archive player you also have an iCAT button with the same menu The iCAT info display menu allows you to select from various display options For each of these options you can select Show always Show on mouse over and Do not show For some you also can select Show on event The display options are Field label Description Tracking boundaries Defines whether the object tracking region boundaries should be shown Event trigger i IEE Defines whether the event triggers like tripwires and object starting stopping fields lines boxes shoul
203. or various users groups See 4 7 Working with camera groups on page 40 for details 2 For each of the cameras that are of the same type and have a similar setting for recording and possibly motion detection create a camera that serves as a blueprint for other cameras and can be duplicated later Define also the recording settings for this camera For motion detection MD take useful default values that can be tuned later on please note that first you have to create the MD definition and then you set up the scheduling recording for the MD setting Since most video analytics settings are different between cameras it does not make a lot of sense to create default values for video analytics at this point in time One exception could be that you may want to set up the same object tracking regions for several cameras For further details please refer to 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 30 and 8 Working with simple motion detection on page 86 3 Now duplicate clone the cameras and if necessary move them to different camera groups After that you can fine tune the camera setup and define special settings like video analytics for various purposes see 15 Video analytics with iCAT on page 138 Page 28 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 3 2 Guidelines for setting up users Usually a bigger system will allow several users to login with different privileges and rights Therefore it can be us
204. ores its configuration information like monitor settings linked servers etc on the server where it was started from If you want to control more than 1 Observer servers with your VWCA you have to start it always from the same server VWCA has the following components Page 164 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Camera tree aJ usti Cameras P412 792 Name default ALLNET ALL2297 g atl wR y Sony ch120 Columns 4 fe 5 LJ Sony ch140 Zoom Pa anan Si p f Aspect 43 wl F dj cust Cameras ratio es poi Active trame 994242 gt ALLNET ALL2297 Passive i EAC frame color STS9AFF pi Back color Properties Camera Video wall monitors tree e Left side Camera tree separate for each server link e Middle Video wall monitors here you can control the contents of the video wall monitors e Right side Properties of the current selection here you can see and modify the properties 16 2 2 Configuring the video wall control application VWCA Before you can control the video wall with the video wall control application you have to configure it We assume that you have already set up your video wall physically and you have already configured the video wall client workstations PCs that connect to the various monitors of your video wall see 16 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer on page 162 Configuring the basi
205. ou to set several server parameters To access them follow these steps L Choose Host admin from the System administration menu This opens the Host admin dialog Select your own server indicated by bold face default is netavis Here you see the Hostname Network name or IP address and Observer Host ID of your server are read only The Observer Host ID is needed for working with distributed Observer server see next section If this server is cooperating with other servers then the settings for synchronization group may be relevant see also 12 Working with interconnected Observer servers on page 114 If this server should be part of a synchronization group then enter the name of the synchronization group in the field Name of synchronization group f this server should be the master of the synchronization group then select the check box Master of the sync group Please refer to 12 1 2 Keeping multiple users servers in sync synchronization groups on page 114 for a general explanation of synchronization groups Page 109 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please note Modification of configuration data is only possible at the master of the synchronization group and not at the slaves as they will be updated by the master automatically As long as there is no master in the sync group which may happen during set up of the sync group no modification is possible at all Click on the Next button Now you see the
206. ox valid between 0 and 1000 e boxyl lower right y coordinate of box valid between 0 and 1000 e box linewidth line width used when drawing the box e box color color of the box possible values black blue cyan darkgray gray green lightgray magenta orange pink red white yellow e box text text which is written into the box e box timeout seconds after the box disappears automatically 0 mean click to disappear Please note URL control is only enabled for allowed computers whose IP addresses are known to the server see 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 109 for details All other requests are blocked Please refer to the Release Notes for further details or updates on URL control 17 3 2 URL control examples Create an action that brings up images of camera ID 12 in a large view on a client machine where the admin user is logged in we assume that the address of the server to which we are sending the URL control is 192 168 7 2 http 192 168 7 2 arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd clientcontrol amp selector user admin amp selector tool online_monitor amp action action show_live_stream amp action mode show_as_large amp action cameraid 12 Create action which draws a red box for two seconds onto the frame of camera ID 12 in the Online Monitor of the admin user http 192 168 7 2 arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd clientcontrol amp selector user admin amp selector user admin amp selector tool online_mon
207. p 3 Choose Add new camera from the menu The Properties dialog opens in which you can configure the camera Enter your camera data in the corresponding fields Use the following table as a guide Fields labeled in bold are mandatory while all others are optional Field label Description Camera name Enter the name that you want to give your camera This is the name Page 30 of 189 Field label Comment Time zone Camera type Name of camera admin Pwd of camera admin Camera IP address Camera server port Aspect ratio Streaming mode Mobotix only NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description by which you will select or display this camera e g camera 2 Here you can add text that describes your camera Select the time zone of your camera s location e g CET fora camera installed in Vienna Specify the type of camera by selecting it from the camera pop up menu Important f you want to connect an analog camera via a video server then select the type of the video server from the menu If you connect an analog camera to a video capture card directly in the Observer server then select NDS Observer Digitizer Server as your camera type If the camera needs authentication for administrating then enter the user name of the camera administrator here Enter the password of the administrator account of the camera only if used Specify the IP address or network name of your cam
208. p of the last error essage from the camera or network for the last error event Shows if a recording is scheduled to run on the camera at this point in time Shows if an iCAT definition is scheduled to run on the camera at this point in time Length of the camera archive in hours Percentage telling how much of the image archive is filled up with images Short name of the event i e name of concrete container class Netavis internal unique identifier of the event Time stamp when the event has happened in seconds Netavis internal unique identifier of the camera if event is not Page 180 of 189 NETAVIS MIB Name o2EventCameraName o2EventUser D o2EventUserName o2EventDescription camera spec a a Hu etavis inter related in other cases its value is zero me of the Observer events available with SNMP Trap Observer Event AgeGenderDetection ArchiveAccess BaseDataChange CameraAuthenticationFailure CameralOStateChange CameraPTZChange ConnectionLostToHost ConnectionRestoredToHost ConnectionToCameraLost ConnectionToCameraRestored CustomEvent DegradedimageSaving DiskSubsystemFailure FaceDetection GUIControlChange ImageExportEvent InCameraDetection InverseTrafficEvent MotionDetection PlateNumberRecognition RecordingSwitched Off RecordingSwitchedOn SMSSendError StoppedVehicleEvent TrafficStateChange Eve Eve Eve iCAT Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve
209. pens the PTZ dialog 2 From the camera tree select the PTZ camera whose PTZ positions you want to program 3 Inthe menu select Add new definition 4 In the Name field enter a designation for the position and then use the PTZ control elements to move to the desired position detailed explanation of control elements in Section 10 4 Controlling PTZ cameras on page 101 5 Click on Save to save your configuration Then you can repeat steps 3 to 5 to define additional PTZ positions 6 From the Online Monitor you can select these predefined positions see below 7 Double clicking on one of the predefined positions lets you position the camera Proceed similarly in order to change positions 10 3 Defining PTZ routes In addition to individual PTZ positions you can also define position routes that can be followed on command A position route consists of a list of PTZ positions that are automatically sequentially followed and a duration per position Define a PTZ route as follows 1 Choose PTZ from the System administration menu This opens the PTZ dialog 2 From the camera tree select the PTZ camera whose PTZ route you want to program 3 Ifyou have not already defined PTZ positions that now appear in the list or you can create new positions now See the previous section for defining new positions 4 Click on the Next button at the bottom right This takes you to the Routes dialog whose layout resembles the Positions dialog abo
210. played that lets you choose the language that you want to use Click on your language of choice and push Start This takes you to the start page of Observer Click on Start Observer client from the browser using Web Start Depending on the browser you are using you might be asked whether you want to execute the Java JNLP link Click on OK to tell the browser to automatically start see 2 2 1 Optimizing the Web Start behavior of your browser on page 15 Now you will be advised that the program is being loaded How long loading takes depends on your network On completion of loading you will be notified that Observer is initializing Then user data are loaded Note By clicking on Install the Observer client on your PC you can also install the Observer client on your machine locally see 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 16 Before starting the Observer client you will be asked if you allow to execute the downloaded trusted applet Page 13 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Sicherheitswarnung von Xperts Software Ltd Authentizit t des Herausgebers best tigt durch VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2001 CA Hinweis Xperts Software Ltd versichert dass dieser Inhalt sicher ist Die Installation bzw das Anzeigen des Inhalts sollte nur erfolgen wenn Sie Xperts Software Ltd vertrauen Zugelassene Signatur Volle Zuariffsrechte C Inhalt von Xperts Software Ltd immer vertrauen S
211. priorities All events also have an event priority that defines the relative importance of events The default event priority is 100 Informational events have a lower priority of 50 system and camera malfunction events have a higher priority of 300 For events generated by video analytics triggers you can specify individual event priorities Event lists can also be sorted according to priority User privileges for accessing and handling events In the User admin under the System administration menu you can define for each user some basic event handling privileges For example whether user you can access events at all or what kinds of system events are displayed at the users event list see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 44 The number of events stored in the database can be defined in the server parameters see 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 109 9 1 Event list and event details The most recent events are displayed in the Event list 02 2011 11 26 24 lems2 User Video admin user has acknowledged ey 02 2011 10 50 50 lems2 User admin 10 0 0 2 logged in ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam lems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can ee 89 011 23 35 22 9 1 Sec 011 20 44 13 9 1 Each client can have multiple event lists for example one that is sorted chronologically and another
212. quested recording period are automatically deleted as long as you do not manually protect them from deletion see 7 2 8 Protection of recordings against automatic deletion on page 79 For cases like motion detection based recording it can be very difficult if not impossible to estimate the required storage space and therefore space for all requested recordings could be too short To help with this hopefully rare case Observer uses an intelligent storage management process This process always tries to store all requested periods for all recorded cameras However if there is not enough space available the allocation process is doing two things e it generates a system event once a day and sends an email SMS to the Observer administrator telling him that there is not enough space for all recordings e t automatically truncates the recordings of cameras to allow a proportionally even distribution of the available space among all cameras For some special cameras that have to record the requested storage period in any circumstances Observer offers the Priority over other cameras if storage space is short flag If this flag is set for a camera Observer always tries to store the requested period for this camera and truncates other cameras that do not have this flag set a little more If there is more than 1 camera that has the flag set the storage management process tries to store all of those cameras Algorithm of the dynamic storage man
213. r conte meni Ora camera eon server utils CameraMatrixMapping LNT xml In addition to the above you can also control on which Observer clients the Matrix view function should be triggered You can do that by downloading and editing the file server utils TargetActionMapping sample xml 17 4 3 Upload and activate the XML config files You can upload and activate the Matrix function by following these steps 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file 3 Inthe opened file dialog choose the file that you want to upload and push Open Repeat this step for all files you want to upload 4 Uploading a properly filled CameraMatrixMapping file to the server will activate the mapping function No server restart is necessary changes become active within 10 seconds after upload 17 5 Holiday calendar A holiday calendar allows you to define a list of special days holidays and to modify the standard recording schedules of cameras for these days enable or disable recordings The holiday calendar is defined in an XML file that can be accessed via the standard server web page 17 5 1 Download the XML config file You can access the XML file in a web browser from the server s web page 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area
214. r upgrade master Request license from remote server license master Use secure connection HITES NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description remote host Check this option if you want to import cameras from the remote server Check this option if you want to export cameras of your server to the remote server If this option is not enabled the remote server cannot access your cameras Check this option if you want to monitor the status of the remote server in System information dialog Check this option if you want to allow automatic distributed software upgrades of the remote server initiated by your current server In such a case your current local server is the upgrade master and the remote host the upgrade slave For details about distributed upgrades please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Check this option if you want to accept automatic distributed software upgrades of the current server slave initiated by the remote server master In such a case your current local server is the upgrade slave and the remote host the upgrade master For details about distributed upgrades please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Check this option if your current Observer server should check out licenses from the remote server license master For details about floating network licenses please refer to the manual NETAVIS
215. r installed client components 18 New system setup 28 NNS synchronization groups of servers 114 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Notification on events and alarms 98 NTSC 10 NUS user server 114 o ject bounding boxes iCAT 159 ject counting iCAT 145 ject markers iCAT 158 ject tracking region 139 Oo OC GO GO OC SO Ss nline monitor 50 creating views 50 defining views for new user 48 manual recording control 57 navigating in the 52 view port quality settings 54 view settings 53 working with iCAT 158 zooming in a view port 56 76 Online Monitor Archive Access 62 dynamic control with iCAT and motion detection 62 dynamic control with the Matrix function VIP control 169 Overlay painting 19 P PAL 10 pan tilt zoom 100 Password changing 48 PDAs mobile devices 23 People counting iCAT 145 Playback of archive recordings 73 Port mapping of analog cameras on video server 41 Preferences of the client 23 Priority of events 92 Page 186 of 189 sorting event list 92 Privacy mask iCAT 151 Privileges of users 44 Protect archive recordings against deletion 79 PTZ pan tilt zoom 100 automatic routes 105 control with motion detection 88 controlling camera 101 joystick control 104 routes 100 user priority 43 Q QCIF 10 Quality settings changing in view port 54 Quitting the client 27 R Recording 69 AES encryption of video recordings 112
216. r it is helpful to watch a few objects passing the triggers and switch on the object markers Page 146 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 9 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger An example name for a people counter would be Entrance 1 incoming 10 Press Save to save your definition Please note e Ifyou add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 15 3 14 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 155 e Ifa definition is not assigned to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated 15 3 5 Defining an event trigger for object starting and stopping In addition to object counting iCAT also offers to detect stopping and starting objects in a defined field Here are the steps for creating an event trigger for object starting and stopping 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Select acamera and make sure that you have a suitable object tracking region defined that allows for object counting see 15 3 3 Defining an object tracking region on page 142 In the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Event trigger which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview ch
217. r providing the streams for the video wall this depends ch a case the VWCA and also the video wall ers For simplicity and easier using one Observer server for driving the video Each video wall client workstation PC can drive several monitors of the video wall how many depends on your hardware setup i e graphics card Each such video wall monitor has to map to one window in the Observer client User management for the video wall You will need a few users to manage video wall functions appropriately Generally these users must have access rights to all cam You can create a user group create the above users be Please note these special issu eras that are to be displayed on the video wall e 1video wall management user with which you login in to the VWCA e For each video wall cli e Itisimpossiblet ent workstation PC you need 1 user that has privileges and access rights to all rel eS o display a camera on a video wall monitor which where the video wall client connects to Depending on your setup you cannot display every camera on any video wall monitor evant cameras and then onging to this group automatically inheriting the privileges and rights is not available on the server it is therefore possible that e Thevideo wall control application itself does not display live video streams of the cameras but snapshot images for better orientation instead The real video streams appear in the video
218. r recording time limits are reached IDB details are updated once a minute Overloaded state of the IDB engine The IDB engine is overloaded if the server receives more video data from the cameras than it can record Save on storage In this case the server will drop frames OVR shows the percent of dropped frames If the label OVR does not appear then the server can save every incoming frame Swapping This display appears if the server starts heavy swapping which means that the amount of main memory of the server is insufficient If this is situation persists the server must be extended with additional RAM Page 107 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 11 1 2 System information dialog L Choose System information from the System administration menu This opens the System information dialog The table shows the connected servers and their state Name shows the name of the server and the Observer version running State shows whether the server is running and if there is a failure License shows the license of the Observer server e OBS represents the basic functionality e Server network licensing UNW unlimited number of connected servers LNW max 3 connected servers e Licensed features SNMP SNMP support EIDB Encrypted image database AD Active Directory LDAP support ABS ABS Adaptive Balanced Streaming transcoding for low bandwidth connections CAM shows the number of total camer
219. ra status display settings which opens the Status display settings dialog This dialog now allows you to define the status settings for camera and zone controls You can modify the status display settings according to your needs You can also enable disable certain status displays by setting the Enabled flag 3 Push OK to save your changes or Cancel to discard them When you switch to navigation mode the new settings become effective 14 6 7 Project settings The layout navigation tool LNT allows you to set several project settings that define the workings of the tool In the Project menu choose Project settings to open the Project settings dialog Here you can set the following values Setting Description Show home layout on load Defines whether the Home layout is shown when the tool is started In order for that to work you must have a home layout defined Highlight zone under mouse Defines whether zones will be highlighted when you move Page 136 of 189 Setting CUrSOFr Automatically jump to layout on event Visiting order of events Set event state to seen visited by Only suggest events of mapped images for visiting Standard view size for layouts Event list insertion mode NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description the mouse over them This can be useful for distinguishing when the mouse cursor is over the zone or over the camera control icon on top of the zone In case of an
220. ration for further details Page 119 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 13 Active Directory Integration You can configure your Observer server to import users from an Active Directory AD LDAP server In this case the users are maintained in AD LDAP and users are imported mapped to a user group in Observer The privileges and camera access rights of the users imported via Active Directory LDAP can be defined with the Observer user group they belong to When the Observer server connects the Active Directory LDAP server for the first time it loads all matched users into the user group in Observer These users are then cached in Observer no user passwords are stored in Observer Every 2 minutes the list of users is reloaded from the Active Directory LDAP server Each time when a user that is defined in Active Directory LDAP logs into Observer the password is checked authenticated with the Active Directory LDAP server This means that at login time a connection to the Active Directory LDAP server has to be possible Note No Observer specific information is stored in Active Directory LDAP 13 1 Configuring the users on the Active Directory server All the users on the Active Directory server which should have access to Observer must be members of the group which will be imported by Observer though of course they can also be members of additional other groups 1 Create a new Group with the desired Group Name e
221. receive the events Page 118 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Event entries in the event database of remote servers look the same as local events they just start with the remote server s name and not with the name of the local server The same kind of search and listing is available as with local events In order to receive events from another Observer server the following prerequisites must be fulfilled e The servers must know of each other 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 115 e The server that exports events must have the option Send local events to remote server set 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 115 12 5 Monitoring remote servers You can monitor the status of remote servers in the System information dialog see 11 1 Server system information and restarting on page 107 Before you can do that you have to tell your server to monitor the remote server by checking the option Monitor remote server status see 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 115 12 6 Distributed upgrades When there are several Observer servers in a network upgrading servers to a newer release of Observer one by one can be a very cumbersome and time consuming task In order to ease this task Observer offers an automatic distributed upgrade of all interconnected servers in a network Please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administ
222. ree functions See also 6 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio on page 61 In some cases Laws do not allow the transmission or recording of people s voices The criterion often is whether one can recognize a person by listening to its voice Therefore Observer allows anonymizing the audio stream by distorting it If this checkbox is marked then the live and recorded audio will be anonymized distorted The Default settings for MPEG 4 H 264 MxPEG and Default settings for single stream JPEG cameras define the streaming format for the various streaming types These settings will be used in the Online Monitor and also for recordings For multi stream JPEG cameras the Default settings for single stream JPEG cameras are of no importance because for each view port in the Online Monitor and also for recording separate formats can be specified Please note In the current version Observer only supports 1 streaming format for MPEG cameras for live viewing and recording Page 34 of 189 Field label Use these settings Image quality Image size Frame rate GOP size NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description Usually this checkbox must be set It defines whether the default camera settings are set via Observer or in the camera directly via its own setting utilities When it is switched on the settings in the camera are overwritten by the values of this dialog When it is switched off the values from the
223. reparing movie on server 1 3 21 07 08 2013 14 05 12 20 07 08 2013 14 07 08 21 07 08 2013 14 15 09 23 07 08 2013 14 17 23 bjm a x 8 You can replay the events by just selecting the event with the mouse The playback time before and after the event can be defined by the Pre Post event sec fields You can change the values according to your needs Please note that there must be archived pre and post event recordings available in order to be replayed 9 You can step through the events by pushing the Previous Aland Next buttons 7 5 External archive management NEA 7 5 1 Introduction to external archives NEA Starting with release 4 4 Observer offers external archives NEA for portable archive recordings Simply connect an external storage the external storage in additi device via eSATA to the server then Observer can save video streams on on to the main archive storage Thus it executes a second mirrored or double recording recording on the external NEA device in addition to standard recording The external archive can the analysis NEA also offers a swap funct n be carried and connected to another Observer server for replay and ion that allows the easy exchange of external storage devices during active recording without additional user interaction therefore no particular operator expertise is needed for the exchange This chapter describes how you can manage removabl
224. restrictions 1 4 2 Motion JPEG A network camera captures individual images and compresses them into a JPEG format The network camera can capture and compress for example 30 such individual images per second 30 fps and then make them available as a continuous flow of images over a network to an Observer server which then distributes it to Observer clients and or stores it in the camera archive At a frame rate of about 16 fps and above the viewer will perceive full motion video As each individual image is a complete JPEG compressed image they will all have the same guaranteed quality determined by the compression level as defined for the network camera or network video server Example of a sequence of three complete JPEG images ZX RIA 1 4 3 MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Some of the best known audio and video streaming techniques are defined by the so called MPEG consortium Moving Pictures Expert Group Under the MPEG umbrella several streaming methods are available like MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG strictly taken MxPEG is not part of the standards defined by the MPEG group but is a proprietary standard by the company Mobotix However because of reasons of simplicity we refer to MxPEG also as an MPEG format MPEG 4 and H 264 are well known and widely supported MPEG streaming standards Simply described MPEG s basic principle is to compare two compressed images to be transmitted over the network and using the first
225. rom external sources 167 Anonymize voice 32 Apple iPad 23 Apple iPhone 23 Archive See Recording Aspect ratio of JPEG images 10 31 of Online monitor views 50 PAL NTSC VGA HDTV 50 Audio playback in archive 78 settings 32 working with cams 61 AVI exporting from archive 80 Bandwidth limiting overall outgoing bandwidth of server 112 support for low bandwidth via Transcoding 26 Brightness 39 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 c Calendar in archive 73 Camera access rights for users 46 default settings 32 duplicate existing camera with similar settings 37 groups 40 moving in camera tree 40 multicast streaming for MPEG 32 port mapping on video server 41 privacy mask 151 sabotage detection 148 setup 30 status 38 status display LNT 136 video analytics iCAT 138 Camera server NCS 114 Camera tree drag and drop cameras 51 how to work with it 51 positioning in the window 20 CIF 10 Client installation directory for client components 18 introduction 11 anguages 13 ocally installed 16 multi window multi screen operation 19 overview of components 23 preferences 21 23 starting 16 support for low bandwidth connections 26 web browser 12 Clone camera 37 Contrast 39 CPU load and streaming formats 8 Page 183 of 189 display of server CPU load 107 for video analytics ICAT 140 Cropped view ports define which part to display 56 D Data int
226. rrect ports visually In order to swap the ports of two analog cameras visually please follow these steps 1 Inthe Online Monitor go to the view that shows the first analog camera in a view port 2 CTRL click into the view port that shows the first analog camera 3 Now go to the view that shows the camera that you would like to swap with and CTRL click in the view port Now the ports of the two cameras have been swapped Page 41 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 5 Managing users Observer requires users to login in order to work with the system This chapter describes how to create and manage users in Observer Generally you can either e use Observer to administer users See 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 42 or e use Active directory or LDAP to manage users see 5 8 Working with Active Directory and LDAP users on page 49 5 1 Creating a new user account An Observer administrator can create user accounts in the system Please note At initial product installation a set of predefined users accounts and groups are created These users and groups model typical permissions of users in various roles Instead of creating a new user account you can take one of these predefined users and modify the settings accordingly Here are the steps for creating a new user account 1 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog 2 Select a user group to
227. rror No route to host Continuous recording scheduled No Status One of the first three error states described above or Normal Last error information Includes the exact timestamp and a short description of the last error Continuous recording scheduled If a recording is scheduled to run on the camera at this point in time Video analysis iCAT scheduled If an iCAT definition is scheduled to run on the camera at this point in time 4 5 Optional Configuring video analytics iCAT The configuration of video analytics with iCAT is covered in chapter 15 Video analytics with iCAT on page 138 4 6 Defining brightness contrast and saturation If you are not satisfied with the brightness contrast or saturation of camera video images then you can modify them For IP cameras and analog cameras there are two different ways of modifying those video parameters IP cameras Each IP camera has its own setup interface usually available via web browser to define modify the video parameters Please consult the admin setup manual of the IP camera Analog cameras Observer allows you to define video parameters via the System Admin menu Please see below for details 4 6 1 Defining video parameters for analog cameras aly Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog Select the camera in the camera tree for which you want to set the image values Press the Next button 4 times star
228. rs 59 settings 53 VIP control matrix view function 169 Visual Statistics iICAT 159 VWCA video wall control application 164 Ww Web pages embedding live video streams 167 Windows create a separate Event list window 20 deleting 21 Page 188 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 modifying layouts 20 Zooming in an Online monitor view port 56 76 Z in SAFE exports 81 of PTZ cameras 103 Zones in layout navigation LNT 128 Page 189 of 189
229. s Preparing movie on server 1 3 bE a amp From the Detection field pop up menu choose the motion detection field definition you want to use for this motion detection If you do not yet have a detection field defined or want to change an existing definition then you can push the Manage detection fields button to jump to the Detection fields view in Administration Please refer to 8 1 2 Basic configuration of server Page 82 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 based motion detection on page 86 for details on how to setup detection fields Continuing here we assume you have a correctly set up detection field definition 6 To start the server based motion detection Push the Start button amp You can see the progress of the motion detection at the progress bar You can always stop a running motion detection by pushing the Stop button Sl Caution Since the motion detection actually runs on the Observer server and can potentially use up a lot of CPU resources please be careful selecting the detection fields and also the time period Especially if you have selected a long time period in the Calendar the motion detection can take a lot of time As mentioned above you can always stop a running archive motion detection 7 While the motion detection is running the detected motions are displayed in the hit list sorted by the time in which the motion occurred In our example we have 2 hits P
230. s assigned during calibration The joystick must be calibrated before use found in the System Information menu beside the language change menu Please note In order for the joystick support to work the Java version 32 bit or 64 bit installed on the client PC has to match the system s processor architecture Jump to a predefined PTZ position and follow PTZ routes 1 Tosendacamera to a predefined PTZ position activate the PTZ control right click to open the context menu and select a position from the list at the top of the menu see 10 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions on page 100 Page 104 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Position Center Position Right Add camera Remove camera from view PTZ gt Video parameters d Camera name appearance gt Rendering preference gt iCAT info display b iCAT visual statistics gt Replay archived images Camera port control Client preferences Exit 2 To automatically follow a predefined PTZ route choose it from PTZ gt Select PTZ route in the view port control menu of the PTZ camera 3 Inthe view port control menu of the PTZ camera click PTZ gt Select PTZ route gt Stop route to stop control of the PTZ camera Stop PTZ control You can stop PTZ control by pushing the l button or deselect PTZ gt Activate PTZ control in the view port control menu Note Please do not forget to stop PTZ control otherwise other users cannot assum
231. s to manage and organize users For instance you can set privileges for groups that are then inherited by the users belonging to this group 5 4 1 Creating a user group 1 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog 2 Inthe list of users and groups select a user group to which you want to add a new group 3 Inthe menu select Add new group which will open the new group dialog that allows you to define a Group name 4 Press Next to edit the group Privileges The privileges are the same as for a user Inherited privileges are displayed in normal font while privileges defined at this group level are displayed in bold font 5 Press Save to create the new group 5 5 Defining Online Monitor views for a new user If a new user needs to work in the Online Monitor then camera views need to be defined Generally there are 2 ways for doing that e Login as the new user and manually create new views as described under 6 1 Creating a new view on page 50 or e copy existing views from another administration user as described under 6 8 Copying views between users on page 59 5 6 Information about logged in users Observer allows you to get information about logged in users 1 Choose Users from the System administration menu Now you see the list of logged in users with information about the host from which the user logged in login time total bytes transmitted since login and bandwidth
232. selected For MPEG streams defines the how many frames are sent and stored in a GOP group of pictures One GOP is an integral data packet that is transmitted and recorded Our default value is 10 which means that there is 1 reference frame I frame and 9 difference frames P frames A bigger GOP size means a higher compression rate but also a somewhat lower quality and a bigger delay between a real scene and its viewed images which is relevant e g for live viewing in the Online Monitor We think that a GOP size of 10 is optimal for most case which dependent on camera model covers a time between 0 5 1 sec Page 35 of 189 Field label Bandwidth limit Kbps NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description This setting limits the maximum bandwidth in kilobits per second for the transmission of MPEG streams between the camera and the server As a consequence also the bandwidth between the server and the clients is thus limited and also the required storage in the archive is influenced limited If this value is zero then the bandwidth is not limited This actually is a setting in the camera The camera always optimizes for the desired image quality and will sacrifice frame rate in favor of quality in the case the bandwidth would exceed the supplied limit Fields for In camera motion detection please refer to 8 3 n camera motion detection on page 89 for further details Field label R
233. ser Manual December 2014 14 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior 1 Switch to editing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button at the right side of the tool bar 2 Inthe control icon list click on a camera icon with the right mouse button and choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify control dialog Mouse over Mouse over delay Context menu actions Show live stream in LNT Stop motion detection Start continuous recording Stop analog video decode Start motion detection Show archive calendar in Observer Client Show live in Observer Client Decode video to analog Stop continuous recording cl Action Caer MI nny 255 ho Connection to camera restored Color IJ Opacity 255 Interval Connection to camera lost Color BB Opacity 255 Interval In this dialog you can define the control name and image and which actions are to be performed on certain mouse operations and events Actions The possible Actions are e Show live in Observer Client exposes a large live view of the respective camera in the Observer client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happening Page 130 of 189 3 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 e Show archive calendar in Observer Client exposes the archive calendar view of the respective camera in th
234. sizes small Creating a new layout To create a new layout follow these steps 1 Inthe layout navigation tool LNT switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing mode button at the right side of the tool bar 2 Inthe Layout menu choose New which opens the Layout dialog Page 126 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Layout name Ground floor Preview background image Layout background file mx10 2 36 49_2008 01 24_164430 jpg floor_plan4 jpg floor_plan3 jpg floor pian 1 pa 3 Enter a name for the layout 4 Select a background image from the list of available uploaded images or push Upload to upload a new background image for the layout you can also delete uploaded images from the server by selecting an image from the list and pushing Delete 5 Ifthe layout is subordinate to another layout then choose the parent layout from the Parent pop up menu you can change the layout hierarchy later on via the Layout gt Properties dialog 6 Push OK to create the layout Now you see that the layout with the selected background image has been created Mapping cameras 1 From the list of controls at the right side drag a camera control icon with the mouse onto the layout and drop it there A camera selection dialog opens automatically Choose the I O device and contact and push OK Now you have mapped the camera to your camera icon
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237. starts This initialization is only executed once per device and it may take a while before it is finished When initialization is done recording will start automatically Next time recording will start immediately when you push the button Page 84 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please note All data on a storage device will be deleted when it is initialized for NEA Stopping NEA recording and or ejecting a device In the NEA storage management dialog accessible from the System administration menu of the main window you can stop a NEA recording on the device by pushing the Stop eject button When you push the button all NEA recordings on the device will be stopped and the device will be unmounted ejected A dialog will open and ask you to unplug the device before pushing OK If you leave the device connected when you push OK the archive of the device will be shown again in the camera tree of Archive player of users who have the appropriate privileges see above In such a case you have to execute the command Stop eject again before unplugging the device 7 5 3 Accessing NEA archives at another Observer server Any user with the appropriate privileges can play back NEA archives easily at any Observer by just connecting the NEA storage device to the server The user privilege for accessing the NEA archives in the archive player is Recordings View external archive recordings NEA In the Archiv
238. t is When you release the mouse the movement will stop though depending on the camera and network it is possible that there is a small delay Page 102 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Axis MAILER Center on Click A single mouse click somewhere in the view port commands the camera to center on the mouse click location Zooming Zooming is available via the mouse wheel zoom in forward scroll and zoom out backward scroll The amount of the zoom will be indicated by 3 red dots after the mouse is released Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are taken for PTZ control In order to control the client based view port zooming see 7 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 76 hold down the CTRL key while using the mouse Crosshair When this mode is enabled a crosshair for relative control mode is shown in the view port Page 103 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Large zoom in Controlling PTZ cameras with a joystick The locally installed version of Observer is able to handle USB joysticks as input device from Java VM 1 4 and newer for information on how to install the application version locally please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 16 The joystick can be used for panning tilting the camera while its buttons for zoom in and zoom out operations which button is used for which operation i
239. tal camera failure b Grabber card failure b Unstable grabber card b Unstable video signal b Video signal lost L Video signal restored L Video annotation e System events i Informational messages m c Image archive access message fA Data change W In each of the dialogs it is possible to make multiple selections For example to search for the event types In camera motion detection Simple motion detection and iCAT object tracking hold down the CTRL key and select these event types with left mouse clicks amp All events Camera specific messages 9 State change events Video analysis ICAT Age and gender detection Face detection C In camera motion detection Traffic events Simple motion detection iCAT object tracking b Change of the input port You can also search for events which have been acknowledged or not acknowledged by selecting the appropriate check box With the Number of records options you can also select how many search results should be displayed After setting different search criteria and filters press the Search button to display the results By clicking the Next button you can step forward in the result list and with Previous button you can step backwards Page 95 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 9 2 1 Saving results in an HTML file You can export the search results to an H
240. te new window as a target for the current view After you have finished the selection Page 60 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 press the Copy button Now the selected user receives a copy of the current view in the designated window 6 The user who received the views has to log in again in order for the changes to take effect You can also copy all views of the current user by choosing Copy all views to other users from the view s Control menu Please note f the users already have views with the same name as the copied views then the existing views will be overwritten by the newly copied ones 6 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Note In the current version of Observer MPEG and bidirectional audio is only supported by clients running on MS Windows For further details please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page dil Observer also supports MPEG cameras MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG with audio streaming see also 4 2 Adding anew camera and setting basic properties on page 30 If the camera allows MPEG streaming you can select the MPEG streaming format from view port control menu Once the MPEG streaming is activated additional MPEG controls appear on the view port s These controls allow you to see and modify Audio aspects Audio from the camera Zl indicates that audio from the camera is on Blindicates that audio from the camera is off Aclick on
241. tect a protected period you must select this period in the Calendar view and Press Unprotect selected images With the Day limit of remove protected archive option see 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 109 it is possible to limit the time that these manually protected recordings are stored Afterwards they are deleted automatically Caution Please be careful when using this feature Unless you set the aforementioned Day limit of remove protected archive option the protected recording periods will never be deleted automatically by Observer This means that the space will be locked as long as you keep them protected 7 3 Exporting recordings images and video sequences Observer allows you to export individual images and video sequences in various formats e JPEG for single images e AVI Divx for video sequences e SAFE This is a proprietary format that stores the video together with the player in an executable format exe that can be run on MS Windows platforms The file can be password protected and you can export synchronous video sequences of up to 16 cameras simultaneously The following sections describe how you can export from the recording archive In 9 2 2 Exporting event related recordings on page 96 you learn how to export recorded video sequences based on events 7 3 1 Exporting a single JPEG image the current frame 1 Inthe Archive select a camera for the export 2 Inthe Calendar select the time for exporti
242. tection video analysis NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description archive Defines if the user group can export archive recordings Defines if the user group is required to enter a reason for accessing an archive recording which is stored on the system Defines if the user group is required to enter a reason for accessing an archive recording which is stored on the system Defines if the user group is able to manually start and stop recordings in the Online monitor Defines if the user group is able to manually control PTZ cameras and set I O ports Defines if the user group is able to modify the configuration of cameras and camera groups Defines if the user group is notified about camera malfunction events in the client Defines if the user group is notified about camera malfunction events via email Defines if the user group is notified about camera malfunction events via SMS Defines if the user group is notified about in picture events in the client Defines if the user group is notified about in picture events via email Defines if the user group is notified about in picture events via SMS Page 47 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 To set access rights for the selected user for all cameras in the system you can select and modify the root camera group 7 Click Save to save your changes 5 4 Working with user groups User groups are a powerful mean
243. th this dialogue If you do not yet have a permanent license string for Observer a License dialog appears To continue without a permanent license just push Continue In this case the full functionality may not be available See also 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for further details about licensing Using a different directory for the installed client application components Per default the downloaded client application components will be installed in the directory SUSERPROFILE netavisLibs e g C Documents and Settings user netavisLibs You can change this directory by setting the environment variableNETAVIS DIRECTORY The directory must exist prior to starting the Observer client If the variable does not exist the client components will be installed in the standard directory Here is how you can set an environment variable in Windows 7 1 Right click on the Computer icon in your Explorer or on your Desktop and choose Properties 2 Inthe System window click on Advanced system settings in the left pane 3 Inthe System Properties window select Advanced tab and click on the button Environment Variables at the bottom of the dialog 4 Inthe Environment Variables window you will notice two tables User variables for the current user and System variables for all users 5 Toadd anew User variable click on New button In the New User Variable dialog box enter the variable name NETAVIS DIRECT
244. the icon turns it on or off Audio to the camera 2 indicates that audio from your microphone to the camera is on Blindicates that audio from your microphone to the camera is off A click on the icon turns it on or off If you have the Default settings in the Camera Admin set to Audio from and to share single button then you will see only one control icon Bidirectional Audio indicates audio in both directions is on loudspeaker and microphone is on indicates that audio in both directions is off loudspeaker and microphone is off Page 61 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 6 10 Dynamic View Control in Online Monitor The use of dynamic views triggered by iCAT and motion detection events was significantly simplified by the addition of a new configuration menu in Observer 4 5 Combined with the dynamic view control feature archive access within the Online Monitor view ports now allows operators to quickly view event triggered recordings without having to switch to the Archive They are therefore able to keep an eye on live camera streams while reviewing critical events Hint Aside of controlling views with iCAT and motion detection triggers it is also possible to control them with the Matrix view function see 17 4 Matrix View function of the Online Monitor VIP control on page 169 for more details 6 10 1 Controlling views via iCAT events Dynamic view configurations can be added to any of iCAT trigg
245. the mouse pointer over a view port and turn the mouse wheel The view port will zoom accordingly You can move the zoomed area in a view port by dragging it with the mouse Use the mouse wheel again to zoom out Zooming by drawing a zoom rectangle With the mouse draw a rectangle in a view port Click in this rectangle which will cause the view port to zoom accordingly You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can also modify its size by turning the mouse wheel Click outside the rectangle to return to normal not zoomed view You can remove the zoom rectangle by clicking into it with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it You can also have multiple zooming rectangles per view port Showing a zoomed view in another view port Online monitor only O sn a Draw azoom rectangle with the mouse Click into another view port Now the zoomed area is shown in the other view port You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can remove the zoom by clicking the rectangle with the mouse and pressing the Delete or Backspace key Alternatively you can drag the rectangle outside of the view port to remove it Removing a rectangle will also remove the zoomed view from the other view port Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are taken for PTZ control In order to control the view port zooming ho
246. tials will result in two separate error messages Hint The size and position of the Layout Navigation window is saved and restored upon the next start of the application The Layout Navigation main window looks like this amp 2 Layout Navigation Tool christian 80 81 130 20 OOA aR Test Event list Event description Jung im Bidsegment Gevator Comes der Kamera netavis Axis2120 Event count unacknowledged and not yet visited 4 3 Status line 14 4 Setting up a project and defining layouts Editing mode In order to setup LNT for work you have to execute a few steps e Plan your layout hierarchy e Select and upload images to be used for layout backgrounds Page 125 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 e Define the hierarchy and map your cameras In the next subsections we will cover the above topics 14 4 1 Planning your layout hierarchy Before you create a project and start to upload graphics images for your layouts it makes sense to plan the layout hierarchy For example if your Observer system covers a building then you could have an overview layout image for the building and then separate subordinate layout images for each floor For an even bigger setup If your Observer system covers a whole area with several office or plant buildings then you could have an overview layout image for the whole area and subordinate layout images for each of the buildings and additional images for t
247. timal frame rate for object detection and tracking is 8 10 fps Page 141 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Note Not the absolute speed of the objects influences what processing speed you need but the relative speed that these objects have in your camera view This relative speed is influenced by the camera perspective and distance from objects Example Cars on a highway are moving very fast However if you look at them with a camera from a larger distance and from a perspective with a flat angle the cars are actually are moving pretty slowly in your camera s view Therefore you can choose a slower video processing speed even for such fast objects like cars on a highway 15 3 Setting up a camera for video analytics with iCAT 15 3 1 Working with iCAT definitions Several options for working with iCAT definitions are available in the right click mouse menu e Add new definition Opens the dialog for adding a new iCAT definition e Delete selected definition Deletes the iCAT definition e Modify selected definition Allows the modification of the iCAT definition e Duplicate definition Creates a copy of the selected iCAT definition on the same camera e Deny modification of selected definition Make an iCAT definition read only so other users cannot modify or delete it The names of read only definitions are displayed in italics e Reset traffic direction learning Only applicable for Wrong Way Driver definitions
248. ting from basic properties to scheduling to I O control to Image settings Now you should see the Video parameters dialog Page 39 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Axis 88 Video parameters 5 Brightness sal 1 1 Contrast FFS Pint i i oe rl Saturation aoe Original values 4 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group and then modify the brightness Contrast and Saturation values according to your needs Please be aware that light conditions may change during the day 5 To store the settings press Save 4 7 Working with camera groups Camera groups are a powerful means for managing and organizing cameras 4 7 1 Creating anew camera group 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the group in which you want to create the new camera group 3 Inthe menu select Add new camera group which will open new dialog that allows you to enter the name and description for the new camera group 4 Optionally select the Use group name as camera name qualifier checkbox If this checkbox is selected then the name of the camera group is displayed as prefix to the camera name e g group name camera name 5 Press Save to create the new camera group 4 7 2 Moving a camera or camera group in the camera tree A camera or a group of cameras in the camera tree can be moved to another location
249. tion 2 5 Client preferences The Observer client offers many configuration options which can be adjusted via the Client preferences accessible via the Observer menu or the right mouse click menu in the main application window Note Depending on the authorization that your Observer administrator has assigned to you some of the client components could be disabled menu shown in grey color If you need more authorization please contact your local Observer administrator Page 21 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Archive player Event list Camera tree 2 5 1 Window preferences Here you can set some general configuration options for each individual window e The Window title is shown in a window s title bar Note that the number in brackets after the window title in the left hand menu is the ID of the window That is important as only the main application window designated by 1 can contain the Archive player Similarly the Display menu bar Display status bar and Display toolbar options are also only available for the main application window e The Fullscreen requires restart option is available for every window In full screen mode a window is shown without a title bar or the Windows task bar and fills the whole screen Obee Bet Salemann Windows Help Ce DA EBON pea g amen imne noema Page 22 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 2 5 2 Defining whi
250. tions of this NIC If you enter the keyword NUS instead of the IP address of the NIC then only traffic to a NUS Observer user server is transcoded Local client connections to this server will not be transcoded It also works this way if the server has only 1 NIC for all traffic to cameras local clients and a NUS Total bandwidth limit for all outgoing connections of the specified network interface NIC Port number generally used for RTSP communication e g for some MPEG cameras Please note that modifying the value here does not change the RTSP port setting in the cameras The cameras need to be configured separately for the RTSP port This defines whether the image data are encrypted with AES Value 0 switches off encryption default Entering the value 1 or 2 will switch on AES encryption of the video recording Value 1 means the system will store the encryption key on a local server disk Value 2 will store the key on a USB device formatted with FAT32 which has to be plugged into the server If the device is not accessible then archive access is not possible Prior to inserting the USB device a writable directory nek Page 112 of 189 Field label Length of alarm recording image database in days Limit for manually protected recordings in days Name of logout PTZ position NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Description must be created on the device this ca
251. tiple formats and having different video stream settings in the Online Monitor and the recording Please refer to the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources for information about supported cameras and their streaming capabilities Fillin the Requested recording period for this camera This value defines how long Observer will keep recordings Recordings that are older than Requested recording period will be automatically deleted by Observer see also 7 1 4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 72 You can also select Priority over other cameras if storage space is short to give this camera priority over other cameras if the available storage space is too small for all requested recordings of all cameras for further details see 7 1 4 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 72 You can also define what the requested recording period refers to either Recording period is measured from now or Recording period is measured from youngest recording here can be quite a difference between these two choices for the following case Assume a motion detection based recording that only triggers recording once every few weeks Optionally in order to save disk space you can lower the frame rate of older parts of the archive To do that click on Reduced frame rate settings JPEG only to open a small dialog that allows you to enter a reduction period and a reduced frame rate Page 71 of 189 NETAVI
252. tiplied by this retry count gives the number of seconds after which an event is generated when an IP camera is unreachable Defines the time after which the guest user is forced to logout If the value is 0 then the guest is never forced to logout Defines the time after which an event Connection lost to server is generated and the cameras mounted from that server disappear from the camera tree only the root element of the mounted camera tree remains visible painted in red This setting is only important for IP cameras that must actively access the server e g for FTP upload with in camera motion detection and only when the server is not accessible by the cameras at its set IP address but at a different address e g due to address mapping Per default this address always reflects the IP address of the server You can enter an IP address or a network name URL control is one way to enable third party applications to start actions via URL encoded strings send http GET request to an Observer server The server upon receiving these special URL requests executes the actions as if they would have been generated internally URL control is only enabled for computers whose IP addresses are entered in this fields comma separated list All other requests are blocked Please refer to the Release Notes for further details on URL control Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing live view streams ABS
253. tline gt opti lt additional camera IDs gt shown in addition to the camera th lt user names gt is an optional com all users are going to be notified lt IP addresses gt is an optional con ntline gt defi tionali tionali onise isan optional com Lb yandle nabled th the lt user names gt T he user Plea hown until a ew The opt ents where e used at triggered the event ew The opt and optional lt additional camera IDs gt in the view named lt view ust be supplied The cameras are placed in empty view ports They have a ted with them When the user clicks the close button the cameras are ew freeing the view port for another camera to be shown most recent events are always se note When all view view port is freed ional lt additional his causes that these he supplied users are ional lt additional th the in the lt IP addresses gt This causes that n large view at the supplied clients workstations nes whether the events will be shown in the view port s event line nables it the archive event replay is shown in the view port nables it This functionality can only be used if the ma separated list of camera IDs which should be ma separated list of user names to notify If not defined then nma separated list of client workstation IP addresses to which the notification is sent If not defined then all connected workstations are going t
254. to select the correct user login for the monitor You have to take the user login of the video wall client workstation PC where the monitor is connected to choose from the available windows of the user Push Validate If you entered the correct server and login combination you will be offered to Choose the window that is associated with the monitor please remember that each monitor has an associated Observer window for a basic explanation please refer to 16 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer on page 162 You will notice that a view of the window has been selected by default Repeat the above steps for all monitors of the video wall 16 2 3 Operating the video wall with the video wall control application VWCA Yo monitor by cl Select a view u have severa icki from the View Drag drop a camera from th camera only drops are prohibited and are shown with a red cross Push the Bac to the view port ist Please note that each window in Observer can have severa e camera tree to a view port in a monitor Please note that you t of a monitor that also has the appropriate server link Imposs and Next but possibilities for controlling the contents video wall monitors When you select a ng on the monitor title bar inside VWCA you can views draga ible camera select a point in the history by selecting it from the History tab in the Properties pane Please note t monitor view hat
255. u can also create a view hierarchy by using a colon between the names In the example below we created a view in the group called First floor with a name Entrance hall There might also be a view called Office 1 or Kitchen The Aspect ratio pop up defines the aspect ratio of the view ports in the view o Fixed aspect ratios PAL NTSC VGA double VGA or HDTV 16 9 o Fill available space This is the default setting and will adapt the view port size and hence the aspect ratio to fill the available space o Custom aspect ratio here you can freely define an N M aspect ratio The setting Stretch image to fit into view port selected by default defines whether a camera image can be stretched to fit into the view port This may cause distorted images for aspect ratios that do not fit the current view port aspect ratios The setting Crop image to fit into view port defines whether a camera image can be cropped to fit into the view port This may cause that some parts of the image are not visible in the view port In the section 6 4 Modifying view port settings on page 53 you can define what part of the cropped camera image is to be shown in the view port Page 50 of 189 5 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Please select an aspect ratio that fits most of your cameras you plan to show in the view Selecting an improper aspect ratio can lead to unused space on the screen Press OK to create a
256. ugh to allow iCAT time for the object detection If that is not the case it might be possible that quickly moving objects are not detected before they cross the tripwire and therefore would not be counted The ideal settings depend on viewed relative object speed and iCAT video processing frame rate Do not place the tripwire too close to areas where objects exit the scene e g image borders doors because they might disappear before crossing the tripwire It is a good practice to draw the tripwire about half the average object size away from such areas You can also define when an object is counted by either selecting Object center point Any point of object or Whole object The most appropriate choice in most cases Object center point because of its robustness When you push the Next button you can define additional constraints for the event creation You can limit the counting only to certain object sizes certain aspect ratios and a certain speed Currently those measures are definable in pixels please keep in mind that the resolution iCAT works on is either CIF or QVGA depending on the aspect ratio of the camera Future releases of iCAT will allow for real world measures Zero values in these fields mean that there is no constraint Hint for constraining the object size or speed The size is the area of the object in pixels and the speed is also measured in pixels per second To know what object sizes or speeds you want to filte
257. urred in the view port To navigate between the events turn the mouse wheel up and down while hovering over the list at the bottom of the view port By double clicking on an event in the list the Event details dialog is shown whereby the Acknowledge and next Previous and Next buttons are disabled 2013 12 16 16 56 Motion event test_md on camera Sony 240 pop 1 1 1 1 1 2 Please note he background color of the event line is the Highlight color which has been set for that iCAT or motion detection definition As of NETAVIS Observer 4 5 and similarly to the camera name label it is also possible to change the size CTRL key mouse wheel up or down and contrast CTRL Shift keys mouse wheel up or down of the event list Page 64 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Action Show live streams in view Dynamic view configuration Additional cameras Sony 240 ms Users Video admin user cde Gaam Any Window Window View Event_Overview Display mode insert into empty viewports Limit to IP address IP address OOo Picture in picture features E Show event in viewport s event line C Show archive event replay in viewport Show archive event replay in view port This option enables Archive Access from within the Online Monitor view port which contains the camera which triggered the iCAT definition It can only be used if the Show event in view port s e
258. ve 5 Inthe menu select Add new definition Page 100 of 189 10 11 12 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Inthe Name field enter a designation for the route Optionally you can enter a description Click on Next to move to the Route details dialog Route details Axis 88 Default Position Entrance Windows New Delete Position Overview Up Down Stay on target time 5 0 nevus ie Click the New button to create a new entry in the Position list of the route and select a position from the list of predefined positions via the Position popup menu In the Time at position field enter the duration in seconds that the camera is to spend at the position Note that this time includes the positioning time of the camera Repeat Steps 8 and 9 for each entry in the position list You can change the sequence within the position list by selecting a position and then clicking the Up or Down button You can remove an entry from the Positions list by selecting it and then pressing the Delete button Click the Save button to save your route or Cancel to discard changes You can select the saved route in the Online Monitor via the PTZ menu of the view port control menu of the PTZ camera Proceed similarly to modify a route 10 4 Controlling PTZ cameras 10 4 1 Controlling PTZ cameras in the Online Monitor Control PTZ cameras as follows Page 101 of 189 NETAVIS Obs
259. vent line option is enabled Page 65 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Axis 206 MAIAREN E 12 18 51 2014 01 20 12 18 To watch the event you can either drag the timeslider to the corresponding position or click on the preview window to watch 10 second segments of the recording The Archive Access window can be moved by pressing the CTRL key and dragging the window with the mouse and it can be resized by pressing the CTRL key and turning the mouse wheel The event line and archive replay window are automatically removed when all the cameras in the corresponding view port are removed Please note Until all the cameras are removed the event list and archive playback window configuration in the corresponding view port stay the same as configured in the definition of the iCAT or motion detection event which first triggered a video stream to be shown in it Alternatively it is also possible but not generally recommended to use the Comment field to add a dynamic view command to an iCAT definition pop lt mode gt lt view name gt lt window ID gt lt viewport eventline gt lt viewport archive replay gt lt additional camera IDs gt lt user names gt lt IP addresses gt where lt mode gt is one of e 1 shows the camera in a large view e 2 shows the camera and optional lt additional camera IDs gt in the view named lt view name gt must be supplied The cameras are placed in the
260. ver and works very efficiently The CPU overhead caused by iCAT is directly proportional to the following aspects see also 15 2 Basic iCAT concepts on page 139 Page 140 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 e The size area of all the active tracking regions of all cameras of a server This means that optimizing the tracking regions will save CPU power The number and shape of event triggers is negligible e The video processing speed in fps of iCAT e Thestreaming format see above An Observer server running with iCAT on standard not high end desktop server hardware can easily handle approximately 10 iCAT enabled cameras with standard settings Additional CPU power like quad core enhanced RAM speed and bigger L2 caches help to boost the iCAT performance Multi streaming operation with iCAT As indicated above iCAT normally needs much more CPU power for processing MPEG streams MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG than for processing MJPEG streams Therefore Observer can pull two parallel streams from the camera if the camera supports that one MPEG stream for live viewing and recording and 1 additional MJPEG stream for iCAT operation In the Default settings dialog in Camera Admin the checkbox Multi stream allowed enables or disable this dual stream iCAT processing see also 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 30 If this checkbox is selected and live viewing or recording is active wit
261. ver tries to retrieve only 1 video stream with 1 quality and frame rate setting whenever possible This also helps to keep the CPU load for the server and the camera at a minimum Here is some information about how event based recording depending on the video format and pre post event frame rate setting is done This can help you to tune your system to better fit your needs while reducing burden on the server and the camera For further information on which video format is best for iCAT please refer also to 15 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 140 Please note f the recording event is not generated by iCAT then the recording behavior is the same as described here just iCAT is not analyzing the video stream Simple motion detection involves iCAT If both iCAT based and other event triggered recording is active at the same time iCAT recording parameters have priority for obtaining pre alarm streams Event based recording for iCAT in MJPEG format e Different frame rates for pre and post event recording Page 156 of 189 NETAVIS Observer 4 5 User Manual December 2014 Observer obtains a QVGA stream for iCAT analyzing and also uses this stream for pre event recording In case of an iCAT based event or alarm Observer switches to the frame rate and quality defined by the main recording settings post event Please note Depending on the camera there can be a small delay caused by the camera needed to switch from t
262. with interconnected Observer servers on page 114 To show the details of a server double click an entry or select a server in the table and then choose Details from the System menu Now you see detailed information for the selected server with hard disk partitions and their state Partition ctrl shows the number of the hard disk controller dev shows the hard disk number on the controller On the screen dump we have 5 disks on 3 controllers Type indicates the type of the partition DB is a database holding configuration and event data and Lis an image partition that holds the actual video image data Status indicates whether there is a failure on the partition Such a failure needs to be reported to your Observer Administrator Capacity indicates the size of the partition in MB Used shows how much space of the partition is used Click on the Back button to leave the server details dialog and go back to the list of servers 11 1 3 Restarting Observer and rebooting the server 1 2 Choose System information from the System administration menu This opens the System information dialog Select a server in the table In the System menu you have the following actions available Stop Observer system This stops all video system processes but does not shut down the server Switch off server This shuts the server down Reboot server This reboots the server 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters Observer allows y

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