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2. 6 4 Motion detection in archive recordings NVR System 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 NVR System supports archive motion detection only for MJPEG recordings and not for recordings of other streaming formats like MPEG 4 or H 264 1 Push the Picture archive button 55 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 o 4 Inthe Upper left corner of the Player view select Archive motion detection from the Mode pop up menu _ Calendar Player Fe s HHI Archive playback Playtac Ar he motion detection oo y 00 00 025 Now the motion detection pane is opened on the left side in the Player view Fel s An Archive motion delection Detection fields eingang Manage detections tlds amp PrePost alarm sec i 3 T Original size 5 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
3. You can access an NVR System server also from mobile devices like PDAs and mobile phones This version supports the live viewing of video streams from an NVR System server This chapter describes how you can install and run NVR System on such mobile devices 12 1 Supported devices Currently NVR System allows you to install the mobile client on these systems e Apple iPhone and iPad with OS 3 0 or newer e PDAs and PocketPCs with Windows Mobile 2003 Mobile 5 Professional and 6 Professional or newer e Smartphones with Windows Mobile 2003 Mobile 5 and 6 or newer e Any PDA and mobile phone with Java Midlet J2ME support For further details refer to the NVR System start page 12 2 Installing the NVR System client on a mobile device 12 2 1 Apple iPhone 1 Goto the iTunes Store and search for NETAVIS 2 Install the NVR System application on your iPhone 12 2 2 Windows mobile and Java enabled devices 1 Goto the start page of your NVR System server and choose your language 2 Click on the link NETAVIS Mobile Client Installation 3 Choose one of the installation options that is compatible to your device and setting by clicking on the appropriate link 4 Follow the instructions for installing the mobile client 12 3 Running the NVR System client on a mobile device 12 3 1 Apple iPhone 1 Start the NVR System iPhone client 2 Connect to an NVR System server and login 3 When you get the camera tree tap on a camera to
4. If there is an NVR System view that has the same name as the LNT zone and that also contains all the cameras of the LNT zone then this view is exposed in the NVR System client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone Details for zone actions can be found under 13 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior on page 95 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
5. PAL 8 pan tilt zoom 70 Password changing 33 PDAs mobile devices 87 People counting ICAT 106 Playback of archive recordings 47 Port mapping of analog cameras on video server 27 Privacy mask iCAT 112 Privileges of users 31 Protect archive recordings against deletion 53 PTZ pan tilt zoom 70 automatic routes 74 control with motion detection 60 controlling camera 72 joystick control 74 routes 70 user priority 30 Q QCIF 8 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Quality settings changing in view port 37 Quitting the client 19 R Recording 44 See also Archive Release notes 5 Remote servers 83 events 86 monitoring 86 upgrading 86 Restarting and rebooting 78 Round tours 41 S Sabotage detection iCAT 109 SAFE format archive export 54 Saturation 25 Scheduling iCAT activities 46 115 Secondary password for login 29 Security 5 Sensitivity setting ICAT 105 Server network 83 Server parameters 79 Servers administrating 76 information about running 76 load display 76 remote distributed 83 Smart guard function 41 Smart Tripwire iCAT 106 Smartphones mobile devices 87 Statistics events 68 125 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual iCAT Visual Statistics 119 Status line in the browser 14 Storage management in archive 46 Streaming formats 6 changing in view port 37 iCAT video analytics 102 Synchronous playback of mutiple cameras in archive 52 T Time zone of server 79 Time zoomim
6. The solution is to either disable these overlay fields in the camera or to mask them out in iCAT see 14 3 7 Defining a privacy mask on page 112 110 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 camera 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 iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Ilcon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 2 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 14 3 5
7. following actions available Stop NVR System 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 10 2 Setting NVR System server parameters NVR System allows you to set several server parameters To access them follow these steps 1 Click on the Admin button Admin There chose the Host Admin dialog 2 In 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 NVR System Host ID of your server are read only The NVR System Host ID is needed for working with distributed NVR System server see next section 3 Click on the Next button Now you see the Server Parameters dialog Following settings are available Field label Event storage period days Max number of events stored on server Server timezone abbreviation Description Defines how many days events are stored Any events that are older than these days will be deleted from the event database Defines how many events can be stored in the event 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 Defines the server timezone Available values are 79 Thecus NVR System
8. 21 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 22 settings for your camera To modify values select Modify selected camera or group the menu Fields for Basic video and audio settings Field label Multi stream allowed Allow JPEG streaming Allow MPEG 4 streaming Allow H 264 streaming Allow MxPEG streaming Stream MPEG 4 via Multicast Your input 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 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 102 Usually MJPEG cameras can deliver several MJPEG streams while 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 This option defines whether NVR System can pull multiple streams from the camera If it 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 Supported Video Sources for details on restrict
9. Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Document version V7 2 Release 3 4 19 Published in August 2010 The software described in this manual is licensed under the terms of the Thecus end user license agreement and may only be used in accordance with these terms Copyright Copyright 2003 2010 NETAVIS Software GmbH All rights reserved Thecus and NVR System are trademarks of Thecus Technology Corporation All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective holders Thecus Technology Corporation 15F No 79 Sec 1 Sintai 5th Rd Sijhih City Taipei County Taiwan R O C Tel 886 2 2698 1788 Fax 886 2 2698 9098 info thecus com www thecus com Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Contents introductio Masisisi aa a hasten a AA 5 1 1 The NVR System documentation Set cccccsesccccccessseceecceeseeeeeceeeueeeeeseeaeeceeesseaeeeessseageeeeseas 5 1 2 What is new with this release ccccecccccsssseccceeseeccesececseuseeceeeeecseaseeessageeessegseeessueeesseaseesees 5 tS NVR System data SECUMLY reunise a a a ea ae 5 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression cccccseeeccecceeeseeeeceeeeeeeeeaaeseeeeseaaeeeeeesaeseeeeeeas 6 2 Starting and operating the NVR System CIIe NH cccccceeeteeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeseeeeeesneeeeeeeeennenenss 9 2 1 Introduction to NVR System CIENTS eimina aa e E 9 2 2 Starting the NVR System c
10. 1 Just move the mouse pointer over a view port and turn the mouse wheel The view port will zoom accordingly 51 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 Zooming by drawing a zoom rectangle 1 With the mouse draw a rectangle in a view port 2 Click in this rectangle which will cause the view port to zoom accordingly 3 You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can also modify its size by turning the mouse wheel 4 Click outside the rectangle to return to normal not zoomed view 5 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 Draw a zoom 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 oe 1 Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are t
11. Defines when how much a stopped object may move away from its stopping position before iCAT detects it to move again 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 14 4 2 Displaying Visual Statistics on page 119 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 105 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 10 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 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 wil
12. 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 60 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual For information on how to setup PTZ preset positions refer to 9 Working with PTZ cameras on page 70 Example 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 commands 7 2 Motion detection in archive recordings NVR System supports server based motion detection not only in live streams but also in archived recordings Please refer to 6 4 Motion detection in archive recordings on page 55 7 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 NVR System NVR System implements a general mechanism to handle this feature This section describes how NVR System supports in camera motion detection and also how to configure it in NVR System Please note Since the camera carries out the detection the actual c
13. 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 Field label List of IP addresses from which URL control is enabled Transcoding bandwidth limit for live view video streams kbit s 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Description 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 NVR System server The server upon receiving these special URL requests converts and executes them as if they would have been generated internally URL control is only
14. 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 fos menu of the view port of the PTZ camera Proceed similarly to modify a route 71 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 9 4 Controlling PTZ cameras 9 4 1 Controlling PTZ cameras in the Online monitor Control PTZ cameras as follows 1 Click on the Monitor button 2 Switch to a view that contains a PTZ camera how to create views and assign cameras Is covered in section 5 Using the Online Monitor on page 34 3 From the camera menu of the view port of the PTZ camera select Start PTZ Eta The icon of the view port indicates that you have PTZ control over the camera w a o 3 pee a a HE ki F B Te r B j E hee PIA Control area gt E T gt a i a e Jana ae Er ll P r m ww i f Note For each user a PTZ priority and allocation timeouts can be defined see 4 7 Creating a new user account on page 29 If another user with equal or higher priority has already assumed PTZ control over the camera you will
15. similarly in order to change positions 9 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 Click on the Admin button Admin 70 So 10 11 12 13 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual There chose the PTZ tab From the camera tree select the PTZ camera whose PTZ route you want to program If you 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 Click on the Next button at the bottom right This takes you to the Routes dialog whose layout resembles the Positions dialog above In the 8 menu select Add new definition In the Name field enter a designation for the route Optionally you can enter a description Click on Next to move to the Route details dialog is Route detalls AXIS 2130 Routet Posiinn Untan o e Vesting Room 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
16. 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 NVR System 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 NVR System 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 NVR System clients on page 9 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 three functions See also 5 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio on page 42 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 NVR System allows anonymizing the audio stream by distorting it If this checkbox is marked then the live and recorded audio will be anonymized distorted The fields for Default settings define the default values f
17. 102 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 103 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual e The video processing speed in fps of iCAT e The streaming format see above An NVR System 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 Please note Setting up iCAT definitions for PTZ cameras is problematic since most of the iCAT functions require a fixed camera position 14 3 Setting up a camera for video analytics with iCAT 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region 1 Click on the Admin button There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose a camera 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 6 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 exa
18. 3 4 User Manual 80 Field label Timeout for IP cameras sec Retry count for IP cameras after which an event is generated Maximum login time for the guest user sec Timeout for server server communication sec Server network address for camera access Description GMT Greenwich Mean Time CET Central European Time GMT 1 MIT PaciticfApia STM 11 HST Hawaiian Standard Time GMT 10 AST America 4nchorage GMT 9 PST Pacific GMT 3 MST Mountain GhIT CST Central GMIT 6 EST Eastern GMT 45 PRT Armerica Puerto Rico GMT 4 CNT America St_Johns ShiT 3 6 AGT Americaffuenos Aires GMT 3 ART Africa Cain GMT 2 EET Europelstanbul GMT 2 EAT Africa Addis Ababa GMT 3 MET Asia Tehran ShiT 3 5 NET Asia Yerevan GhiT 4 PLT Asia arachi GMT 5 IST 4sia Calcutta GMT 5 5 BST AsiafDacca GMT 5 VST Asia Saigon GhiT CTT AsiafShanghal GMT 8 JST Asia Tokyo GMT 3 ACT Australia Darin GMT 3 5 AET Australis Sydney GMT 10 ool Pacihicsuadalcanal GhIT 11 NST PacticfAuckland MT 12 Defines the time after which the message Camera not responding appears in the Online Monitor Defines the number of retries after which the server raises a camera not reachable event The Timeout for IP cameras sec multiplied 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
19. Field label Your input Camera name Enter the name that you want to give your camera This is the name by which you will select or display this camera e g camera 2 Comment Here you can add text that describes your camera Time zone Select the time zone of your camera s location e g CET fora 20 Field label Camera type Name of camera admin Pwd of camera admin Camera IP address Camera server port Aspect ratio Streaming mode Mobotix only Non interlaced mode enabled Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Your input camera installed in Vienna Specify the type of camera by selecting it from the camera pop up menu Important If 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 NVR System server then select NDS NVR System 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 camera 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
20. I O contacts of your camera If you do not want to use I O contacts you can just jump to the next step Set your values Field label Input handling enabled Input poll interval msec Output handling enabled Your input Select this check box if you want to process the state of the digital input contact port of the camera The poll interval defines how often the state of the input port is checked Minimum time is 500 milliseconds Select this check box if you want to enable switching the digital output port of the camera from within view port menu 7 Push the Save button at the bottom of the dialog 3 3 Setting up the camera recording archive The configuration of camera recordings is covered in section 6 7 Programming archive recordings on page 44 3 4 Optional Configuring video analytics iCAT The configuration of video analytics with iCAT is covered in chapter 14 Video analytics with iCAT on page 101 3 5 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 e 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 25 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual e Analo
21. 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 Now enable the statistics again by repeating the above steps accordingly Do not forget to push Save again gt eo PP 14 4 3 Working with iCAT events Working with iCAT events is the same as working with other events of the NVR System event management system EMS as described in 8 Handling events on page 63 Currently iCAT generates event of the following types as shown in the event type hierarchy dialog of the Event search see 8 2 Event list on page 64 Camera specific messages State change events Video analysis iCAT events Simple motion detection ICAT object tracking All events that are generated 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 8 3 Generating an event statistics report on page 68 121 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 15 Index 4CIF 8 A Anonymize voice 22 Apple iPhone 87 Archive 44 Audio playback 52 calen
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23. 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 sensibility and other settings iCAT currently detects objects of 8x8 pixels or bigger in size 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 sensibility setting iCAT video processing speed lf 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 Please 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 CPU load of iCAT iCAT runs on the server and works very efficiently The CPU overhead caused by iCAT is directly proportional to the following aspects see also 14 2 Basic iCAT concepts on page
24. 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 Show home layout on load Highlight zone under mouse cursor 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 Description 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 Defines whether zones will be highlighted when you move 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 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 lf this checkbox is marked then only events of mapped cameras will be suggested for automatic visiting If it is unchecked then all events
25. address of camera 21 iPhone 87 J Java applet runtime parameters 13 Joystick control for PTZ cameras 74 JPEG aspect ratio 8 21 exporting from archive 54 image sizes and quality 8 MJPEG vs MPEG 6 L Languages 11 Layout navigation 89 editing mode 90 installation 89 navigation and operation 97 zones 92 License displaying current license 77 license string 9 Login secondary password 29 124 the locally installed client 16 the web based client 12 Low bandwidth connections with Transcoding tm 19 M Manual recording control in the Online monitor 39 MJPEG 6 versus MPEG streaming 7 Mobile devices PDAs 87 Motion detection 58 in archive 55 in camera 61 recordings based on 46 115 server based 58 Motion JPEG 6 MPEG 6 settings 22 versus MJPEG streaming 7 working with cams 42 MPEG 4 6 See also MPEG Multi streaming parallel video streams enabling 22 optimizing iCAT operation 103 Multicast streaming for MPEG cameras 22 Multi screen operation 18 batch file for starting 18 MxPEG 6 See also MPEG NTSC 8 O Object bounding boxes iCAT 119 Object counting ICAT 106 Object markers iCAT 119 Object tracking region 102 Online monitor 34 creating views 34 defining views for new user 32 manual recording control 39 navigating inthe 36 quick camera finder 37 view port quality settings 37 view settings 37 working with iCAT 118 zooming in a view port 39 51 Overlay painting 17 p
26. and in the clients Therefore there is always a tradeoff between bandwidth utilization and CPU power needed 1 4 3 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 and decoding is kept low The time aspect means that there is limited delay between image capturing in a camera encoding transfer over the network decoding and finally display 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 lt 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
27. button pop up menu Defining zones LNT allows you to group several cameras on a layout into so 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 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 NVR System client This for example will either create a new view in the NVR System 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
28. camera is connected to which port e You can also swap the ports in the Online Monitor This has the advantage that you see the video pictures and therefore you can identify the correct ports visually In order to swap the ports of two analog cameras visually please follow these steps 27 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 28 4 Managing users Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual NVR System requires users to login in order to work with the system This chapter describes how to create and manage users in NVR System 4 1 Creating a new user account An NVR System administrator can create user accounts in the system Please note At initial product installation of 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 Move to the System Admin area Here select the User Admin tab see illustration below 2 Select a user group to which you want to add the
29. cameras from another NVR System server following prerequisites must be fulfilled The servers must know each other see 11 1 Adding and defining a remote NVR System server on page 83 The server that exports cameras must have the option Export local cameras to remote server set see 11 1 Adding and defining a remote NVR System server on page 83 The server that works with cameras of another server must have the option Import of cameras from remote server enabled set see 11 1 Adding and defining a remote NVR System server on page 83 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 84 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual appropriate administrator rights you can also modify camera settings like PTZ scheduling or motion detection 11 2 1 Mounting cameras of another server 1 Click on the Admin button a ir F ce s Admin There chose the Camera Admin dialog 2 Inthe menu select Mount remote camera or group 3 Select from Known remote machines menu item this remote NVR System host from where you want to import cameras Now the basic data of this remote NVR System host are shown again hostname IP address 4 By clicking on Camera on remote host selection dialog the whole camera tree from the selected remote host appears and you can select a single camera o
30. client installer Save the client installer executable at an arbitrary location 2 Execute the just downloaded client installer Observer_setup exe 3 Follow the steps of the setup program standard Windows installation 2 3 2 Starting the locally installed NVR System 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 A Start Application window appears Start Application Configuration Previous configurations 02 small Previous connections admingwiww observer x Hostname or IP Address WWW ODServer2 net Usemame admin Password p w Remember password Application Observer Client Window width 950 Window height Foo Upper left comer X 200 Upper leit comer Y 200 Initia manilo view name I Window decoration visible W Tool control bar visible Event bar visible Online monitor control bar visible C Overlay painting enabled OK Cancel 16 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Working with start configurations The start window allows you to recall settings that you entered in previous sessions by selecting a so called Configuration You can create a new Configuration by setting all the values according to your needs and then entering a new name in the Configuration text field and pressing Enter To recall a previous Configuration select it from the Previous configurati
31. double counting and works even with the most difficult entrance situations Ikea ye oe ee fe 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 Se 101 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual e Seamless integration with the NVR System event management system EMS and other NVR System functions Additionally iCAT offers camera sabotage detection and lighting change detection e iCAT algorithms have been tuned for the highest performance and least burden on the server 14 2 Basic iCAT concepts iCAT basically consists of the following components that are tightly integrated with NVR System 1 An object detection engine that analyzes the video stream and detects and tracks objects Please be aware that only moving objects are detected and tracked 2 An object tracking engine with configurable event triggers decides when a tracked object triggers an event 3 A real 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 obj
32. 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 Zero means no transcoding and no limit for live view video streams Please read 2 4 NVR System Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections on page 19 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive playback streams Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive playback streams Please read 2 4 NVR System Transcoding for low bandwicdth client server connections on page 19 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive export streams Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive export Please read 2 4 NVR System Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections on page 19 for choosing the best limit values IP address of the network interface NIC for which bandwidth limitation is applied If zero then the bandwidth limit is applied in total for all available network interfaces If transcoding is switched on then it will only be applied to connections of this NIC If you enter the keyword NUS instead of the IP address of the NIC then only traffic to a NUS NVR System user server is transcoded Local client connections to this server will n
33. images via FTP Receive event images via HTTP Post recording length sec Your input If this checkbox is marked you enable the In camera motion detection and tell NVR System 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 NVR System 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 FTP HTTP are merged with this server side recording This field defines how long this parallel post event recording is If it set to 0 then NVR System does not start its own server side Field label Recording frequency Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Your input recording of images and just stores the event images it receives from the camera via FTP HTTP This field defines the recording frequency of the above mentioned parallel server side post event recording 5 Push the Next button at the bottom of the dialog This invokes the Scheduling dialog Please refer to 6 1 Programming archive recordings on page 44 on how to set up the camera archive and scheduling 6 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
34. information on how to do that At the login panel enter your Login name and Password and click OK If you do not yet have a permanent license string for NVR System 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 7 Introduction to NVR System clients on page 9 for further details about licensing Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Please note The authentication data transferred between client and server are encrypted with MD5 strong encryption only if you use Java VM 1 4 or newer otherwise unencrypted The administration user admin has the default password admin For security reasons you should change this password please see 4 Managing users on page 29 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 NVR System 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 NVR System administrator Please note You can also start NVR System directly via a URL Please refer to 2 2 4 Options for starting NVR System directly via a browser URL index jsp on page 14 for details F NetAV6 Obeereer your online nebeork audar vider system Wicresofi Interne Explores archiva A TEI iaka Admin See ec TE 28 11 CET mi n
35. 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 NVR System server for this feature to work Refer to the manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 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 the PTZ camera is freed automatically after thi
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37. show the live stream 4 To zoom a camera view in and out in pinch your fingers together or apart You can also double tap tap twice quickly to zoom in then double tap again to zoom out 12 3 2 Windows mobile and Java enabled devices Once you have installed the NVR System mobile client on your device you can start it 1 Start the NVR System mobile client the exact way how to do that depends on your mobile device 2 After starting you get the NVR System login screen 87 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual NetA IS Login a Ty d ok Server fwwwaobsaneranet F Leer name Password Remember Password 3 Enter your server address and your authentication information and press Login Optionally you can also select Remember Password so that the password is remembered at the next login 4 After the successful login you get the camera tree of this server CameraTree NetaAviS public cameras Europe Hungary lt Budapest Szervita ter Mobo Right Eye Summacomp Trigger Radiant PTZ Moszkva tt Si fok MAHART kik t B kescsaba Csaba Center Bek scs Aisha Asia Tahar Taipei City 5 Select a camera from the camera tree Now you get the live images of the selected camera The frame rate is dependent of your connection bandwidth 6 Togo back to the camera tree just click somewhere in the live image 7 You can quit the application like any other application on your mobile de
38. the tour by pushing the Up 2 and Down buttons Please note You can have the same view several times at different locations in a round tour 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 NVR System 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 choosing an existing round tour from the Round tours list and choosing Modify round tour from the e menu of the dialog A tour can be deleted by opening the Round tours dialog choosing an existing round tour from the Round tours list and choosing Delete round tour from the menu of the dialog Then you have to enter the administrator password to confirm the delete 5 7 2 Working with round tours The Smart guard function 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 41 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual automatic walkthrough all of the views in the round tour Smart Guard function The name of the round tour now appears in green
39. this period in the Calendar view and Press Unprotect selected images 53 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Caution Please be careful when using this feature since the protected recording periods will never be deleted automatically by NVR System This means that the space will be locked as long as you keep them protected 6 3 Exporting recordings images and video sequences NVR System allows you to export individual images and video sequences in various formats With the SAFE format you can also export synchronous video sequences of up to 16 cameras simultaneously 6 3 1 Exporting a single JPEG image the current frame 1 2 or a p In the Archive select a camera for the export In the Archive playback view or in the Archive calendar view click the Export button S to 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 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 Now you can use the exported file 6 3 2 Exporting an archive recording in AVI DivX format 1 2 p In the Archive select a camera for the export In the Archive playback dialog or in the Archive calendar dialog click the Export button 3 to open the Export dialog You have two AVI options for Exp
40. 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 5 8 Copying views between users lf there are several users in a system it can be a lot of work to create views for each user individually In order to help NVR System offers the possibility to copy complete views including all view settings or even all views of an administrator user to another user Important is that the user who copies the views to other users must have user administration rights User admin Access to User administration and User admin Manipulate user data Here is how you can do that 1 Login as the user from whom you want to copy the view s and go to the Online Monitor 2 Create define the view s you want to copy Please note that only saved settings are copied 3 Select the view you want to copy and then choose Copy current view to other users from the 8 menu Now a user selection dialog opens 4 Select the users to whom you want to copy the current view Multiple users can be selected by holding down CTRL while clicking on user names After you have finished selecting the users press the Select button Now the selected users receive a copy of the current view You can also copy all views of the current user by choosing Copy all views to other users If the users already have views with the same name as th
41. user Please refer to 4 4 Working with user groups on page 32 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 Login name Full user name Password Re enter password Secondary password Re enter sec password Forgot question Your input This is a short name that the user will use to log in This is the complete name of the user Enter a password for the user The user can change this later on see 4 7 Changing the password on page 33 Enter the password again for verification 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 Enter the secondary password again for verification Formulate a question that only the user can answer if he has forgotten his password 29 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual T Field label 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 Your input Provide the answer to the above
42. 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 99 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 100 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 14 Video analytics with iCAT iCAT is the video analytics toolkit of NVR System 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 Thecus Technology Corporation Please note Since iCAT and some functions are licensed separately of NVR System you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 10 1 Server system information and restarting on page 76 for details about what license you have 14 1 iCAT highlights iCAT works with any camera that can deliver an MJPEG stream this covers also analog cameras that are connected via a video server or directly connected to a video grabber card in the NVR System server ICAT is easy to configure and setup and it works in difficult situations also with extreme camera perspectives lt 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 Smart Tripwire function for people and object counting prevents wrong and
43. you have up to 4 cameras for synchronous playback The following illustration shows synchronous playback of two cameras calendar Prayer SFe 2 HH i Archies perba Playback accalaraliun S00 00 00 07 A Previous imeline selections TEGO p0 10345 rye Sen Hall eN i Biz zegg 113836110 CET m 2 Original sine 1622007 10 27 00 E E W E 16022007 11 3459 iazz007 102701 Bg A M oror 3253 a m gt M am 6 2 7 Displaying video analysis iCAT information for recordings The iCAT menu cat offers various options for displaying iCAT related video analysis information also for recordings Please refer to 14 4 Working with iCAT on page 118 for further information 6 2 8 Protection of recordings against automatic deletion Normally NVR System 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 unprotect a protected period you must select
44. 8 Handling events on page 63 4 Select Save all view settings from the 8 menu in order to save all settings for your current user The next time you log in to NVR System all views will be available again If you neglect to save all changes are lost when you quit NVR System 5 2 Selecting cameras 1 Inthe view menu of a view port click on the add camera button ela Please note that you first have to setup a camera before you can select it in one of the view ports 3 Setting up cameras on page 20 2 Select a camera from the newly opened camera tree it is then highlighted in light blue 35 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Push the Add camera button 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 NVR System lets you manually switch between cameras by clicking on the camera selection menu at the upper left corner of the view port AXIS 2130 5 Inthe camera selection menu of a view port you can also select the option Shuffle Then NVR System cyclically switches through all the cameras assigned to the view port 6 Please select Save all view settings from the menu in order to save all settings The next time you log in to NVR System all views and view ports will be available again 5 3 Navigating in the Online monitor You have several options for navigating in the Onli
45. 9 Click on Save to save your settings 5 6 2 Manually controlling recordings in the Online monitor When everything is set up as described above then for the enabled user and camera a manual recording button is shown in any view port displaying the camera 40 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Del ABS Sips 966 kbps 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 5 7 Working with round tours the Smart guard function NVR System allows you to make virtual round tours of views You can define round tours that contain certain views When a tour is started NVR System 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 5 7 1 Defining a round tour Steps to add a new round tour 1 Choose Smart guard round tours from the e menu Now the Round tours dialog opens In the Round tours dialog choose Add new round tour from its menu In the Tour name field enter the name of the round tour N Now you can select a view from the Views list and push the WE button to include it in the tour By pushing the Ai button you can remove a view from the tour You reorder views in
46. CAT processing enabled the view menu offers an iCAT button with a Visual statistics menu the same menu is also available via the menu gt 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 got colors mean high object counts When you move the mouse over the camera view you can see 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 acomparison here you see the Visual Statistics of the stopped object counts of the same camera objet stoppt auf teppich 0 CHAROT counter ii 0 H 0 0 0 T 128 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 Resetting the Visual Statistics To reset the statistics to zero follow these steps 120 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 1 Click on the Admin button Admin There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose the camera and then the object tracking region In the menu select
47. Defining simple motion detection Prior to release R1 12 NVR System offered simple motion detection only based on a detection of changed pixels between video frames detection cycles 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 7 Working with simple motion detection on page 58 14 3 6 Detecting a lighting change Please follow these steps to enable lighting change detection Please note For lighting change detection an object tracking region is NOT needed 1 Click on the Admin button Admin There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose a camera and in the menu Select Add new definition 4 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Lighting change detection which will expose the configuration settings 5 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 a You can also enter values in the Brightness high limit and Brightness high 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 6 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this definition 7 Push Save to save your definition 111 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Please note If you add a new ICAT definition it will auto
48. NVR System to use Start ie i Magyar E Deutsch Czech Srpski Hrvatski ae PycckKHa Polski Bbnrapckn Sloven ina Frangais suomi 2 Click on your language of choice and push Start This takes you to the start page of NVR System lf your browser is Internet Explorer and client system is Windows XP SP2 service pack 2 then a special paragraph is shown explaining that additional browser settings are necessary O Your Internet Explorer applicston is already buit with the new Microsof sscunte saluton contained in Servic Pack 2 SP2 In order to run Nebavis Observer I correcty please vist our setup page Follow the link and apply the settings as described on the SP2 page After that restart the browser and continue 3 After you click on Start Thecus NVR System 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 NVR System is initializing Then user data is loaded Note By clicking on Download Thecus NVR System client installer you can also install the NVR System client on your machine locally 2 3 Working with the locally installed NVR System client Windows only on page 16 trusted applet Before starting the NVR System client you will be asked if you allow to execute the downloaded Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 12 Sicherheit swarnune haalisren und Auefuhren NetAViS Observe
49. NVR System 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 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 MPEG 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 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 102 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Analog cameras that are connected either via video server or directly connected to an NVR System server with a grabber card installed 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
50. 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 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 3 Click OK to save changes 13 5 2 Adding a new camera 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 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 above 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 13 5 3 Modifying zone 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 a zone icon with the righ
51. a security 5 Default settings for cameras 22 Demo mode license 9 Distributed upgrades of servers 86 DivX exporting from archive 54 Documentation set 5 E Event triggers ICAT 102 106 Events 63 details 63 Event list 64 event based recording 115 filtering 65 HTML export 67 in layout navigation 98 remote servers 86 short replay 63 Statistics 68 task bar 63 video analysis iCAT 121 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Exiting the client 19 Exporting archive recordings 54 F Firefox getting rid of status line 14 Four eyes principle 29 Frame rate changing in view port 37 maximizing 37 H H 264 6 See also MPEG HDTV 16 9 aspect ratio in Online monitor 34 I O contacts settings 25 working with 43 iCAT 101 considerations for setting up 102 CPU load 103 event triggers 102 106 event based recording 46 115 events 121 object bounding boxes 119 object counting 106 object markers 119 object tracking region 102 104 people counting 106 privacy mask 112 recording based on 46 115 removed abandoned objects 113 sabotage detection 109 scheduling activities 46 115 123 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual sensitivity setting 105 Smart Tripwire tm 106 starting and stopping objects 108 video processing speed 103 video streaming formats 102 Visual Statistics 119 working with in Online monitor 118 In camera motion detection 61 settings 24 Internet Explorer getting rid of status line 14 IP
52. 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 Future releases will also allow you to select higher resolutions for the iCAT algorithms Multi stream 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 NVR System 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 checkboxes Multi stream allowed and Allow JPEG streaming enable or disable this dual stream iCAT processing see also 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 If these two checkboxes are selected and live viewing or recording is active with an MPEG stream with a frame rate of more than 5 fps or a resolution bigger than VGA 640x480 pixels then NVR System will pull a second MJPEG stream in QVGA fine from the camera for iCAT processing The frame rate of this second stream depends on the iCAT function This is helpful because the server CPU load for iCAT processing thus is reduced significantly Please note Dual streaming iCAT processing will not be activated automatically after selecting the Multi stream checkboxes
53. ain control buttons at the right side of the window e hide Event bar o hide Online Monitor controls w hide window decoration Please note that the values can be combined E g you can write amp hide mew to hide the main control buttons the Event bar and the window decoration Example To start NVR System directly and login as a user guest with password honey and show a defined view first floor http lt your server gt video index jsp lang en amp jvm 14 amp user guest amp pwd honey amp panel tfirst floor Please note that the password for this user is displayed in plain text and saved as such in the browser bookmarks Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 2 3 Working with the locally installed NVR System client Windows only Alternatively to starting the NVR System client as applet in a web browser you can also install the Java client application locally on your machine This has the advantage of a quicker start of the NVR System client since the applet does not need to be downloaded from the server at each invocation Note Currently joystick PTZ control and the layout navigation tool are available only in the locally installed client For running the layout navigation tool at least Microsoft NET 2 0 must be installed 2 3 1 Installing the NVR System client locally To install the client locally please follow these steps 1 Atthe NVR System Start page click on the link Download NETAVIS NVR System
54. aken for PTZ control In order to control the view port zooming hold down the CTRL key while using the mouse 6 2 4 Playback of a time frame time zooming 150 imagas laded every 45 4 of he total Ore in arches 2 21 Time intervall between frames 04 7 2s zonaz709 162100 E W FE 20042709 16 44 55 soowerme 1600 W d A aje cone 708 16 44 59 iM ajm p gt pil 1 The red and blue markers amp let you select a smaller time interval for detailed playback Alternatively you can click the Set Blue Marker button Z or Set Red Marker button lto set the respective marker at the current position of the green Playback marker 2 Click the Zoom in button to load and replay the time interval between the blue and red markers 6 2 5 Playback with audio If the recording also includes Audio i e the recording has been done with MPEG 4 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 button in the Playback view 6 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 52 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 2 Click the Synchronous Playback button Hal which opens a Camera Selection dialog where you can select the second camera for synchronous playback 3 Repeat camera selection until
55. ame 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 Press Save to create the new group 4 5 Defining Online Monitor views for a new user lf 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 Login as the new user and manually create new views as described under 5 1 Creating a new view on page 34 or copy existing views from another administration user as described under 5 8 Copying views between users on page 42 4 6 Information about logged in users NVR System allows you to get information about logged in users 1 32 Click the Admin button Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 2 Select the Users tab 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 4 7 Changing the password Each NVR System administrator with the appropriate privileges can change the passwords of other users see also 4 7 Creating a new user account on page 29 Additionally each user can change his own password by following these steps 1 Inthe Info 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 pas
56. amera 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 indicated that audio in both directions is off loudspeaker and microphone is off 5 10 Working with PTZ cameras and I O contacts view port Camera menu The camera menu of a view port offers the following options If the respective camera has a PTZ head you can start control it with Pie move to a predefined PTZ position with Pos or select a PTZ route with ae For more information see 9 Working with PTZ cameras on page 70 You can also switch the camera output port with om For information on how to setup I O port control please refer to 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 43 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 6 Working with archive recordings This section shows you how to work with the NVR System 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 6 1 Programming archive recordings Two types of programming are available in NVR System 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 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings 1 P
57. ameras this value is of no importance since separate image sizes can be set for recording and in each view port in the Online Monitor 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 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 7 3 In camera motion detection on page 61 for further details Field label Receive event
58. arkers 10 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger 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 74 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 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 iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 2 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 14 3 4 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 an iCAT based sabotage detection 109 Thecus NVR Sy
59. as 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 NVR System offers the Priority over other cameras if storage space is short flag If this flag is set for a camera NVR System 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 management process Fill time percentage FTP 100 Actual recording time Requested recording time NVR System 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 record
60. ased 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 7 3 2 Setting up in camera motion detection To configure NVR System for in camera motion detection follow these steps 1 Push the Admin button 61 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual There click on Camera Admin Assuming that you have already defined the basic properties of the camera in NVR System select the camera in the camera tree On the Properties dialog push 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 Receve evert images wia FTP Receive evert images wia HTTP Post recording length sec o Recording frequency hex fos 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 NVR System 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 record
61. at offer this feature and that the motion detection settings have to be programmed in the camera directly 7 1 NVR System s own server based motion detection The simple motion detection feature of NVR System 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 e Display of an Event button in the Event bar at the bottom of the NVR System screen optionally accompanied by an acoustic signal e Changes in recording behavior e g higher recording rate if that has been programmed see 6 Working with archive recordings on page 44 Here you find the steps how to configure the parameters for simple motion detection 7 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 NVR System administrator Please note Motion detection for PTZ cameras is problematic since normal movement of the camera will trigger a motion detection event 7 1 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection If you are not already running the NVR System client application open your Internet Explorer and log in to your NVR System server and your NVR System system 1 Push the System Admin button 58 2 O N op e 10 11 12 13 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual There click on Video analys
62. authorization 3 1 Preparations Before you begin to set up a new camera in NVR System be sure to have the following information available e Your camera type e lis your camera type supported by NVR System Please consult the document Thecus NVR System 3 4 Supported Video Sources e Are there available licenses for setting up additional cameras e IP addresses of cameras or camera servers Please note Here we describe how to setup a camera in NVR System 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 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties If you are not already in the NVR System client application open your web browser enter the address of your NVR System server and log in to your NVR System system see 2 Starting and operating the NVR System client on page 9 1 Click on the System Admin button There click on the Camera Admin tab 2 With a mouse click select a 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 group 3 Inthe menu choose Add new camera 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
63. ayed as prefix to the camera name e g group name camera name 6 Press Save to create the new camera group 3 6 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 by following these steps 1 Click on the System Admin button There click on the Camera Admin tab With a mouse click choose the camera or group you want to move 3 Inthe menu select Move camera or group A new 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 3 6 3 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 NVR System 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
64. be denied control and notified in a window Then you need to wait until this user surrenders control or reaches his timeout A user with a higher PTZ priority can take away PTZ control from a user with lower PTZ priority 72 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Direct PTZ control inside a view port You have several options for directly controlling PTZ cams The various modes can be selected via PTZ Mode in the menu of the view port of the PTZ camera 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 line indicates how fast the movement is When you release the mouse the movement will stop 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 6 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 51 hold down the CTRL key while using the mouse Crosshair When this mode
65. bjects 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 enough 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 soeed and iCAT video processing frame rate You can also define when an object is counted by either selecting Object center point Any point of object or Whole object 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 soeeds you want to filter it is helpful to watch a few objects passing the triggers and switch on the object markers These markers show the size and speed of the object in pixels These are exac
66. button to jump to the Detection fields view in Administration Please refer to 7 1 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection on page 58 for details on how to setup detection fields Continuing here we assume you have a correctly set up detection field definition 56 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual To start the server based motion detection Push the Start button 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 Caution Since the motion detection actually runs on the NVR System 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 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 PreaPost alarm seck 47 sf 4 of 2PO22007 15 25 24 G2 200 126 25 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
67. 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 4 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 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 frame rates than in single picture mode If you activate the streaming mode you also must set the according option in the camera with the Admin tools of the camera This option is only relevant for digital cameras or video servers that support 2CIF resolution to reduce the interlace effect Please refer to the camera s documentation Push 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
68. ch will expose the configuration settings oo 112 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box 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 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 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 iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 2 You can also choose a specific Icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 14 3 8 Defining removed abandoned object detection iCAT offers to detect removed and abandoned objects in a define
69. control for a camera you have to define a continuous recording schedule please refer to 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 44 for a general description of setting up schedules for continuous recordings 1 Push the Admin button and select the Camera Admin tab 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 This activates the edit function of the dialog 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 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 44
70. ction of the server web page To access this batch file follow these steps On the NVR System Start page click on the link Start Customizer Login as admin user After logging in click on Download configuration files Now you get a list of configuration files Click on the file START NETAVIS on 4 Monitors_v2 bat to download the file to your client machine 5 Edit and modify the file to fit your needs The file contains further details and explanations in the form of batch file comments i ie 18 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 2 4 NVR System Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections The unique NVR System Transcoding technology 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 areas network WAN connections without 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 by limiting bandwidth for live video and recording playback streams at the server level defined in 10 2 Setting NVR System server parameters on page 79 Important Although transcoding wor
71. d e Comment as specified in the Motion Detection Definition the Comment field e Time date and time of the event A click on the Start Online View button starts live monitoring of the camera that triggered the event in the preview area 63 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Click on the Short Event Replay button to start a playback of the event recording that triggered the event a replay is only available if the camera has been configured to record on the event A click on the Go to Archive View bution starts playback of the event recording in the Archive player If you click on the Cancel button the Event viewer closes and you can select and examine events from the Event bar Unseen and unacknowledged events are displayed in red Once it has been viewed by any user the symbol turns blue on all open screens of all logged in users Thereby other users in the system know that this particular event has been viewed A click on the Acknowledge button at the bottom right of the Event viewer acknowledges the event and closes the dialog An acknowledged event turns green at the screen of all logged in users 8 2 Event list In addition to be shown in the Event bar events are stored in the Event list 1 Push the Events button 2 The Current events dialog appears with a list of current events 64 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Similar to the Event bar a double click on an event line or a click on the Detai
72. d region Please note For removed abandoned object detection an object tracking region is NOT needed Be careful with the size of the region since a greater size will cause a more CPU overhead on the server Here are the steps 1 Click on the Admin button Admin There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera and in the 8 menu choose Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Removed abandoned object which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box Now you can draw the field with the mouse in the preview pane in which you want to detect removed or abandoned objects 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 such a field 113 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 114 Rectang Polygon Please note The size of the region for removed abandoned objects should be at least 20 larger than the objects you want to detect Select whether you want to Detect removed objects Detect abandoned objects or both In the field Min stay time for removed abandoned objects sec you can enter a minimum time a recognized object must stay before a remove or abandoned detection on the object and a corresponding event is triggered In the field Minimum size removed abandoned objects area
73. dar 48 continuous timed 44 DivX export 54 event based recording 46 115 exporting 54 iCAT based recording 46 115 manual recording control in the Online monitor 39 motion detection in 55 Playback 47 programming 44 protection against deletion 53 SAFE format export 54 save space with frame rate reduction for older parts of the archive 46 storage management 46 synchronous playback of mutiple cameras 52 time zoomimg 52 Aspect ratio of JPEG images 8 21 of Online monitor views 34 PAL NTSC VGA HDTV 34 Audio playback in archive 52 122 settings 22 working with cams 42 AVI exporting from archive 54 Bandwidth limiting overall outgoing bandwidth of server 81 support for low bandwidth via Transcoding tm 19 Brightness 25 Browser optimizing Java applet runtime parameters 13 optimizing settings 14 Status line 14 C Calendar in archive 48 Camera access rights for users 31 default settings 22 groups 26 moving in camera tree 27 multicast streaming for MPEG 22 port mapping on video server 27 privacy mask 112 sabotage detection 109 setup 20 status display LNT 98 video analytics iCAT 101 Camera finder in the Online monitor 37 CIF 8 Client languages 11 locally installed 16 starting 9 16 starting via URL 14 support for low bandwidth connections 19 web browser 10 Contrast 25 CPU load and streaming formats 6 display of server CPU load 76 for video analytics ICAT 103 D Dat
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75. 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 NVR System client Additionally you can also display and acknowledge NVR System 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 NVR System server Users can use the same LNT information as long as they load the same LNT project regardless on which client they work In a typical installation you would run the NVR System client on one screen and the layout navigation tool on another screen see 2 3 3 Multi screen operation with NVR System on page 18 for details However you can of course run both tools on the same screen as well 13 2 Installing the layout navigation tool The layout navigation is available only in the locally installed client which currently runs on MS Windows platforms only see 2 7 Introduction to NVR System clients on page 9 The Layout Navigation is installed automatically when you install the locally installed NVR System client Please refer to 2 3 Working with the locally installed NVR System client Windows only on page 16 Note Currently the layout navigation tool is available only in the locally installed client For running the layout navigation tool Microsoft NET 2 0 or a newer version must be installed 13 3 Starting the layout navigation tool You can
76. dex jsp You can also start NVR System directly via a URL without having to go through the various start pages in your browser This can be done by accessing a URL in the form http lt your server gt video index jsp option1 amp option2 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Such URL commands can be stored as bookmarks and will shortcut some or all of the NVR System start pages Options for index jsp are index jsp Option Description lang en de hu cs defines in what language the client will be started default is en for hr sr ar ru English amp jvm 14 must be supplied and defines the Java version 1 4 and newer amp user lt username gt directly log in as user lt username gt amp pwd lt password gt directly log in with lt password gt amp panel lt view name gt after login choose view lt view name gt amp awidth lt pixels gt defines the width of the applet in pixels if not supplied the available screen space will be used amp aheight lt pixels gt defines the height of the applet in pixels if not supplied the available screen space will be used amp ulx lt pixels gt defines the upper left corner X position of the NVR System application window in pixels zero by default amp uly lt pixels gt defines the upper left corner Y position of the NVR System application window in pixels zero by default amp hide m e o w allows to hide certain parts of the NVR System client window m hide m
77. ding camera will be shown in full size in the NVR System client This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 93 Please note that the NVR System 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 13 6 3 Positioning to the camera recording archive in the NVR System client When you double click a camera icon in LNT then recording archive of the corresponding camera will be shown in the NVR System client running on the same machine This behavior can be changed with 97 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 93 Please note that the NVR System 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 13 6 4 Navigating in 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 13 6 5 Working with events in the layout navigation tool The layout navigation tool LNT also allows you to view and acknowledge NVR System events Please note Event handling will only work if the user has the rights to work with events When a new event
78. e Add button Please make sure that the check box Require server verification https for all sites in this zone is not selected Then push the OK button twice to close the two windows 3 Restart the browser with NVR System Remove the status line in Firefox Select Tools gt Options In Options dialog select the Web Features tab Under Web Features push the Advanced bution In the Advanced JavaScript Options select the Hide the status bar checkbox and push OK Restart the browser with NVR System ee Note Depending on the authorization that your NVR System administrator has assigned to you some of the four buttons at the top could be disabled shown by grey color If you need more authorization please contact your local NVR System administrator 2 2 3 What is next If your NVR System server already has cameras configured then you can go to chapter 5 Using the Online Monitor on page 34 If you have to setup cameras first then continue with chapter 3 Setting up cameras on page 20 Furthermore because NVR System 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 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 2 4 Options for starting NVR System directly via a browser URL in
79. e buildings and additional images for the 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 90 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 13 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 13 4 3 Creating layouts and mapping your cameras 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 tool LNT 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 To create a new layout follow these steps 1 Inthe layout na
80. e copied views then the existing views will be overwritten by the copied ones Please note The user who was copied to has to login again in order to see the newly copied views 5 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Note In the current version of NVR System MPEG and bidirectional audio is only supported by clients running on MS Windows Vista For further details please refer to 2 1 Introduction to NVR System clients on page 9 NVR System also supports MPEG cameras MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG with audio streaming see also 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 If the camera allows MPEG streaming you can select the MPEG streaming format from the quality menu of the view port or in the a menu of the Online Monitor Once the MPEG streaming is activated additional MPEG controls appear on the view port s iE i i Eb Ei T i a er i T ii n ar mre Wink i iii k i ah These controls allow you to see and modify Audio aspects 42 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Audio from the camera indicates that audio from the camera is on l indicates that audio from the camera is off A click on the icon turns it on or off Audio to the camera indicates that audio from your microphone to the camera is on I indicates 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 C
81. ec 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 objekt stoppi wor theke GQ 1H 1D 27 2 counter QSHID4T 4 a 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 14 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 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 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region on page 104 This is an example of visual object count statistics 119 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual objekt stoppt aut teppich G G HeG foO Tare counter 1 Q 0H 0 0 0 T 428 To choose what Visual statistics to display you have these options In the Online monitor in the view port of a camera that has i
82. ect 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 iCAT is directly proportional to the size area of all the active tracking regions of all active cameras of a server optimizing the tracking regions will save CPU power For each tracking region you can also define what object statistics should be measured by iCAT Such statistics can then be visualized 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 NVR System 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 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT Camera placement Generally the iCAT algorithms work with in and outdoor cameras as well as for different perspectives The configuration of the algorithms in
83. ed Click OK to save changes Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 13 5 4 Adding a new zone control 1 Switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Editing mode or by pushing the customize button atthe right side of the tool bar 2 Inthe control icon list click the right mouse 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 above see there for details 3 Click OK to create the new zone control 13 6 Layout navigation and operation Navigation mode Switch to Navigation mode by clicking the navigation mode icon at the right side of the tool bar or by choosing Project gt Switch to navigation mode Please note An NVR System client must be running under the same user on the same client workstation so that it can be controlled by the layout navigation tool 13 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 the stream disappears This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 93 13 6 2 Showing a camera in the NVR System client When you single click a camera icon in LNT then the correspon
84. eed to install clients matching the servers versions As asummary NVR System 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 e automatically upgrade themselves when the server has a new version 2 2 Starting the NVR System client in a standard 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 locally installed NVR System client Windows only on page 16 1 Launch an Internet browser and enter the address of your server http IP of your server T about blank Microsoft Internet Explorer i F Datel Bearbeiten Ansicht Favorhem Extras Adresse http 80 80 126 30 p Now a page that checks the availability of the Java on your computer appears This page should disappear in a few seconds Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 2 package and then start the browser anew Now the screen should disappear and you can continue as shown below Next a startup screen is displayed that lets you choose the language that you want
85. eleration DEP ieee n i a a 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 of the window You can also switch to a monthly or an annual overview via the View button and its popup menu View Here is an example of a month view for the camera 49 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 50 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 MERER dal do kl Ae 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 Thec
86. em 3 4 User Manual 1 Introduction Thank you for choosing Thecus NVR System 3 4 as the management software for your video monitoring system As you use it you will find that NVR System 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 If you have questions that are not answered in the NVR System documentation set please contact your Thecus distribution partner or our product management team directly by e mail or telephone 886 2 2698 1788 We wish you an interesting and productive experience with Thecus NVR System 3 4 Your Thecus Team 1 1 The NVR System documentation set These documents are available e Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual e Thecus NVR System 3 4 Supported Video Sources e Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration e Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server and Client Compatibility e Thecus NVR System 3 4 SNAP XML Interface These documents are available online as PDFs directly on each NVR System server via the standard web interface and also from each client via the Info menu at the lower right corner 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 of each NVR System server and also under the following direct link http lt yo
87. em 3 4 User Manual Bandwidth Frame rate 1 4 4 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 NVR System supports all image sizes that a camera offers The following are some values for typical JPEG images JPEG Image size Image quality Storage per image approximately Small Low 3 KB 176x144 QCIF PAL 176x120 QCIF NTSC 160x120 QQVGA Medium 5 KB High 8 KB Medium Low 8 KB 352x288 CIF PAL 352x240 CIF NTSC 320x240 QVGA Medium 13 KB High 20 KB Large Low 20 KB 704x576 4CIF PAL 704x480 4CIF NTSC 640x480 VGA Medium 34 KB High 52 KB For mega pixel cameras the image size will be much bigger than shown in the table Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 2 Starting and operating the NVR System client 2 1 Introduction to NVR System clients Once you have successfully installed NVR System on your server authorized users can access the server via an NVR System client Normally the NVR System 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration for further information on how to create a client on server installation Licensing issues The available functionality of your NVR System installa
88. ents for recording For low bandwidth client server connections NVR System offers the unique Transcoding feature see 2 4 NVR System Transcoding for low bandwiath client server connections on page 19 Please note NVR System supports multi streaming from the camera multiple parallel streams in different formats However multi streaming has some important restrictions that depend heavily on the camera type Please refer to the document Thecus NVR System 3 4 Supported Video Sources for details on restrictions 1 4 1 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 NVR System server which then distributes it to NVR System clients and or stores it in the camera archive At a frame rate of about 16 fos 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 a fla 1 4 2 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 u
89. ephone is removed from the table you can define a relatively small region around the phone to avoid false detections elsewhere but the region must be a bit larger than the phone allowing the robust detection of its contours The situation is the same in case of abandoned objects Abandoned objects which are partially located outside the region may not be detected The objects which are apparently static stopped person who moved before person sitting in an office can also cause false alarms The detector tries to track moving objects and keep their position when they stop in order to ignore such objects during detection of really static ones However through the failures of the tracking such objects may be lost and wrongly classified as an abandoned one A stopped person who is lost by the tracker becomes the subject of removed abandoned classification after a given alarm timeout If it starts moving before the timeout reached there will be no false alarm raised The possibility of the above mentioned problem increases with the number of person in the scene as tracker reliability decreases or with people who only show movement rarely person working in an office In the former case you can increase the abandoned detection timeout in order to be more robust but in the latter one masking out the area where the apparently static person is should be the best There are two alarm timeouts to be set One for abandoned and one for removed objects If t
90. event streaming format e The same frame rate for pre and post event recording NVR System 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 images for pre post event recordings No delay between pre and post event recording 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 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 e There is no pre event recording recording time is 0 NVR System 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 from the pre event streaming format MJPEG to the post event MPEG format e There is pre event recording recording time is bigger than 0 NVR System obtains the MPEG
91. further considerations on pre and post event recording 8 ICAT events for this camera are only stored in the Event database and only appear on the Taskbar if the flag Save event in Event list is switched on Otherwise only the recording will start but no event will be stored in the database You can override this setting for individual iCAT events selectively in the corresponding iCAT definition e g 14 3 2 Defining an event trigger for people and object counting Smart Tripwire on page 106 9 For all other recording settings please refer to 6 7 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 44 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 NVR System 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 116 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual NVR System needs to analyze the video stream that it later stores Some cameras have limitations when providing multiple video streams at different qualities and frame
92. g Show archive calendar in Observer Client exposes the archive calendar view of the respective camera in the NVR System client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happening 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 Start Stop continuous recording starts or stops continuous recording of the camera in NVR System 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual recording interval for the camera for this to work refer to 6 7 7 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 44 for details e Start Stop motion detection enables or disables motion detection of the camera in NVR System 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 7 7 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection on page 58 for details e
93. g cameras NVR System allows you to define video parameters via the System Admin menu Please see below for details 3 5 1 Defining video parameters for analog cameras 1 Click on the System Admin button There click on the Camera Admin tab 2 Select the camera in the camera tree for which you want to set the image values 3 Press the Next button 4 times starting from basic properties to scheduling to I O control to Image settings Now you should see the Video parameters dialog eo Analog 2 Video parameters ER ie fa a WELE w 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 3 6 Working with camera groups Camera groups are a powerful means for managing and organizing cameras 26 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 3 6 1 Creating a new camera group 1 Click on the System Admin button 2 There click on the Camera Admin tab 3 Inthe camera tree select the group in which you want to create the new camera group 4 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 5 Optionally select the Use group name as camera name qualifier checkbox If this checkbox is selected then the name of the camera group is displ
94. g in archive 52 Transcoding tm for low bandwidth connections 19 setting up 81 Tripwire for object counting ICAT 106 U Upgrading remote servers 86 URL controlling via URL requests 81 starting web client via 14 Users adding 29 camera access rights 31 copying view between 42 groups 32 info about logged in 32 126 managing 29 privileges 31 V VGA 8 Video analytics 101 Video compression 6 MPEG vs MJPEG 6 Transcoding for low bandwidth connections 19 View ports creating 34 quality settings 37 zooming camera views 39 51 Views copying between users 42 Online monitor 34 round tours 41 settings 37 Visual Statistics iCAT 119 Z Zones in layout navigation LNT 92 Zooming in an Online monitor view port 39 51 in SAFE exports 55 of PTZ cameras 73
95. have a suitable tracking region defined that allows for object counting 3 Select Add new definition 4 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Event trigger which will expose the configuration settings 5 Under the camera preview choose the Tripwire check box for directional people or object counting 6 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 106 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Rectange _ Polygon v Tripwire Toggle 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 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 102 o
96. he scenery is clear the interesting object is visible then the alarm event will be raised by and large if the timeout is reached But when another moving or stopped objects for example the actor itself who is going to leave a luggage hides or overlaps the interesting object such that it is visible only partially or not at all the detection time may be longer So these timeouts are not guaranteed detection timeouts but rather parameters which can increase robustness setting them longer or to increase sensitivity Setting them shorter Of course the alarm event will follow the detection some time around the timeout but the difference depends strongly on the observed scenery 14 3 9 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 1 Push the System Admin button 115 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Then select the Camera Admin tab 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera for which you want to program archive recording Go to the Scheduling dialog by clicking on Next at the bottom 3 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group This activates the edit function of the dialog 4 Press the Add button below the Time intervals list and choose Video analysis iCAT from the type button labeled Change 5 Now define the days and times when iCAT should be enabled for this camera You can ac
97. hen 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 13 6 7 Project settings on page 99 You can for example mark a new event as seen and jump to the next event by moving the mouse over the blinking control 13 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 ie b q 98 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 Camera 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 13 6 7
98. in pix you can constrain the object size 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 Hint for constraining the object size 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 filter it is helpful to watch a few objects passing the triggers and switch on the object markers These markers show the size and speed of the object in pixels These are exactly the same measures that you can use for the trigger Here is an example of an object marker Object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels speed is 208 pixels sec The section 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings on page 118 shows you how to view object markers In the Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 If a definition is not assigned
99. ing length sec that defines whether and for how long the NVR System 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 NVR System 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 Push 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 Requested recording period days hours enter the values that fits 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 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 44 and 6 1 3 Operation of the NVR System dynamic storage management on page 46 Push the Save button to store your changes Now you have to configure your camera for pushing the in camera events and images to the NVR System server Since the steps for doing that are very camera specific you must consult the document Thecus NVR System 3 4 Supported Video Sources To program the camera s detection algori
100. ing 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 NVR System truncates the archives of all other cameras in favor of this camera If available storage space is much too short relative to the requested storage periods of all cameras this can lead to strongly truncated archives 6 2 Playback of archive recordings NVR System features a multitude of powerful functions for working with archives 6 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period 1 Push the Archive button Either the Camera selection dialog with the camera tree appears immediately or you have to push the Select camera button l 47 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 2 Select the camera from the camera tree and push Select An overview for the selected camera on the current day is displayed 48 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Cafandar Player Fe yisi Dar iay Analog 1 CET 10 2 a0 4 a 3a TAA haea SESDE ee a D bmn Bi EEES 9 2007 Februaryz Payback mervat MOT o 27 15 44 Steet hme 200 a7 15 44 Eri lie Plagikack acc
101. ions lf your camera supports MJPEG video streaming you can allow using this mode by marking this checkbox 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 7 Introduction to NVR System clients on page 9 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 7 Introduction to NVR System clients on page 9 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 7 Introduction to NVR System clients on page 9 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 Field label Allow Audio to camera Allow Audio from camera Audio from and to share single button Anonymize distort audio Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Your input 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
102. ir a al CEEI 2 2 1 Optimizing Java applet settings For the best client performance some Java applet runtime parameters need to be adjusted Normally when you start the client the first time you will get a message telling you to adjust these settings Here is how you can do that on MS Windows Open the Windows Control Panel Start the Java Control Panel by double clicking Java In the Java Control Panel click on the Java tab In Java Applet Runtime Settings click on View In the newly opened dialog enter Xmx170m Xms64m Xmn1 6m in the field Java Runtime Parameters oS o Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 6 Push OK in all opened Java dialogs 7 Close all instances of your web browser and restart the browser again Now the message at the start of the NVR System browser client telling you to adjust the Java applet runtime parameters should not appear anymore 2 2 2 Optimizing browser settings Sometimes your browser shows a status line at the bottom of the window that covers part of the NVR System screen mm I r Applet scit op paare To get rid of this status line please follow these steps and restart NVR System in a new browser Removing the status line in Internet Explorer 1 Select the menu Tools gt Internet Options 2 Select the Tab Security and select Trusted Sites and then click on Sites In the Trusted Sites dialog enter the IP address of your NVR System server and push th
103. is iCAT The Video analysis iCAT dialog displays l Rectangie F Potygon Enabled Type Simpe motion detection Sensibity Normal identifier MO Sample frequency fps 1 picisec Comment Time between everts sec 3 0 kan Defaut Pixel change threshold k 20 0 Sount Defaut Cancel fave 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 see below Assign a name for the field in the Identifier text box e g Movement Optionally you can enter a Comment 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 In the Time between events sec field you can enter the minimum time that must elapse before a following event is triggered This helps t
104. is enabled a crosshair is shown in the view port 73 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Medium movement up omall movement nghi Large movement down and night Predefined positions Large zoom in Controlling PTZ cameras with a joystick The locally installed version of NVR System 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 locally installed NVR System client Windows only 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 is assigned during calibration The joystick must be calibrated before use found in the System Information menu beside the language change menu To assign the joystick input focus to a camera click into the frame while holding the SHIFT and CTRL buttons This is visible via an in picture icon drawn when the assignment is successfully done Jump to a predefined PTZ position and follow PTZ routes 1 To spot a camera to a predefined PTZ position click on the right arrow at the lower right corner of the view port and select a position from the list see 9 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions on page 70 To automatically follow a predefined PTZ route click on PTZ Route fos in the menu of the view port of the PTZ camera In the menu of the vie
105. ks 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 indicated above the limits are defined in 10 2 Setting NVR System server parameters on page 79 2 5 Logging out and exiting the client Logging out You can log out by choosing Logout from the Info menu at the lower right corner of the client window You will be asked whether you really want to log out Exiting The NVR System client can be exited by choosing Exit from the Info menu at the lower right corner of the client window You will be asked whether you really want to exit If the main controls are hidden then also the Info menu is not available For such a case you can exit the client with a CTRL right button mouse click somewhere in the client window Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 3 Setting up cameras NVR System allows any authorized user to set up cameras in the system Ask your NVR System system administrator whether you have such
106. l be generated iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Ilcon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 2 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 14 3 2 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 NVR System event is generated by iCAT Such events can trigger automatic recording and are stored in the normal NVR System event database that can be queried and exported Currently iCAT supports the following event triggers e 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 e 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 Here are the steps for creating a counting tripwire 1 Click on the Admin button Admin There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose a camera and in the menu and make sure that you
107. l or recording time limits are reached IDB details are updated once a minute OVR xx 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 SWP xx MB 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 10 1 2 System information dialog in the Admin area 1 Click on the Admin button There chose the System information dialog 76 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Usor Admin Camera Admin Detection Getds Users Host Adnin System information Sate of HAAS nodes Archive ips JAB Mondor ipa MBs Chaa SN SCOT Chan Meta WTS system Detela The table shows the connected servers and their state Name shows the name of the server and the NVR System version running State shows whether the server is running and if there is a failure the server in the screenshot above is running OK License shows the license of the NVR System server e U shows the number of total and in parentheses the number of used up user licenses If the number contains an R then it is a floating lice
108. layout hierarchy You 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 92 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 13 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 Icon image 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 NVR System related to cameras or zones Also you can create new control icons with your o
109. lect the route from the Route Name pop up menu in the example above we selected Route 1 Click on Save to store the scheduling settings Note You can add several PTZ route schedules for a single camera This means that you can follow different routes at different times 15 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 10 Administrating NVR System servers This chapter describes how to get status information about an NVR System server and how to set server parameters Further information about administrating servers you find in the document Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration 10 1 Server system information and restarting NVR System 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 10 1 1 Server load display The server load display is located at the right side of the client window and shows the following information CPU xx Server CPU load in percent This display is updated every 5 seconds IDB xx Load of Image database IDB engine This parameter shows how busy the server is with saving video data on storage The xx KB s 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 ful
110. lets you create an unlimited number of named views Each of these views can contain up to 100 view ports 1 Inthe menu select Create new view 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 you can also create a view hierarchy by using colons between the names In the example above we create a new view in the group called Main Building with a name First Floor There might also be a view called Second Floor or Third Floor The Aspect ratio pop up defines the aspect ratio of the created view ports PAL NTSC VGA double VGA or HDTV 16 9 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 acknowledge your input 3 In accordance with the selection above NVR System creates a new view that might look as follows your view may have a different number of view ports depending on what you selected 34 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual The view ports fill the central part of the window and each view port has its own view port controls The bottom of the window is the Event bar which is explained in
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112. ls button takes you to the Event viewer and the details of the selected event In addition you can filter or search for events in the Event list via the Search button 8 2 1 Searching in the Event list 1 Click on the Search button The Event Search dialog appears 2 Select the Time filter according to your needs 3 To search for Event type Name of camera Name of user or Event ID from to click on the button next to the field An appropriate dialog will open e g the Event selection dialog 65 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual It each of the dialogs it is possible to make multiple selections For example to search for the event types User logged in and User logged out hold down the CTRL key and select these event types with left mouse clicks You can also search for events which are acknowledged or not acknowledged by selecting the appropriate check box 4 After selecting all mandatory entries and clicking the OK button the search results will be displayed 66 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 5 N Sea ee m Und priceless By clicking the Next button you can step forward in the result list and with Previous button you can step back If you are finished searching for events you can go back to the current events by clicking on Current messages button Saving results in an HTML file 1 You can also save the search results directly to an HTML file by selecting the Show results in a HTML doc
113. mates 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 something 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
114. matically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually see 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 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 iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 You can also choose a specific Icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 2 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 14 3 7 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 m me objett stoppl vortheke G 0H Of 1T 1 puie GOH OG tT 4 Here are the steps for 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 Click on the Admin button There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose a camera and in the a menu Select Add new definition 4 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Privacy mask whi
115. mbrella 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 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 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
116. mote 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 NVR System server following prerequisites must be fulfilled e The servers must know of each other 11 1 Adding and defining a remote NVR System server on page 83 e The server that exports events must have the option Send local events to remote server set 11 1 Adding and defining a remote NVR System server on page 83 11 4 Monitoring remote servers You can monitor the status of remote servers in the System information dialog see 10 1 Server system information and restarting on page 76 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 11 1 Adding and defining a remote NVR System server on page 83 11 5 Distributed upgrades When there are several NVR System servers in a network upgrading servers to a newer release of NVR System one by one can be a very cumbersome and time consuming task In order to ease this task NVR System offers an automatic distributed upgrade of all interconnected servers in a network Please refer to the manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration for further details 86 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 12 NVR System on mobile devices PDAs mobile phones
117. mple of a tracking region A 1 Please note As indicated in 14 2 Basic iCAT concepts on page 102 and 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 102 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 NVR System server Also be aware that the tracking region should approximately at least be twice the size of the biggest objects you want to track 104 9 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Now you have to set the configuration parameters of the tracking region Field label Indoor camera Overhead downward looking Sensitivity Max object lifetime sec Max stopped object lifetime sec Video processing fps Tolerance radius for stopped object pix Your input 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 if the detection tracking quality is not ideal Enable this 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 Usually this setti
118. ne monitor e Select a view from the View selector pop up 36 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual B View and Round tour selector Next previous view View main menu e Select a Round tour from the Round tour selector pop up e Use the next previous view buttons to navigate to the previously displayed views e Double click in a view port to get a big view of the actually 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 exposed Otherwise a new temporary view with the camera will be created You can then go back to the previous view by pushing previous view button e Use the quick Camera finder You can just start typing at your keyboard A little Camera finder pop up will show at the lower right corner of the client window and will show a list of cameras with matching names and ids camara Finder Press ESC to exit axis223 azg You can double click a camera or select it with the keyboard and press ENTER which will expose a big view of the camera which is the same action as a double click in the view port The behavior of the action can be customized see document Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Customizing 5 4 Modifying view port settings NVR System 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
119. ng 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 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 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 Defines how long a detected object that stopped 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 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 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 102
120. nnected NVR System servers on page 83 2 To list details about a server select a server in the table and then click on the Details button Now you see detailed information for the selected server Camera Admin Moton Detector FP iers Hosti Admin System information netavis 1 6 5 65 130 y Perhiz YP Sehis Capecty ME ised amsoi eooo odo o s a E E T T anzawo ftw o os de ct Rae SI cil Odew g Black TEE i te er eee Here you see the 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 l is 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 NVR System Administrator Capacity indicates the size of the partition in MB Used shows how much space of the partition is used 3 Click on the Back button to leave the server details dialog and go back to the list of servers 10 1 3 Restarting NVR System and rebooting the server 1 Click on the Admin button 78 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual There chose the System information dialog 2 Selecta server in the table and then click on the Choose an action button Here you have the
121. nse from a remote licensing server e C shows the number of total and in parentheses the number of used up camera 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 e L shows the type of the license P permanent license D demo license E NVR System Enterprise license B NVR System Basic license also called Limited license X NVR System Extended license R NVR System Recorder license also called Small Business license SNAP SNAP license AS NVR System Application server license OPC iCAT object tracking license ROA removed and abandoned object detection license SB camera sabotage detection license LNT Layout navigation tool license For further information about licensing please refer to the manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration Archive shows the sum of fps and Kbytes per second of archiving on that host TT Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Monitor shows the sum of fos and Kbytes per second of all logged in users Please note that you usually only see the status of your server If you want to monitor the status of other NVR System servers as well you have to make other servers known to your server please refer to 11 Working with interco
122. o filter out repetitive events 59 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 14 In the 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 15 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 bar in the bottom of the NVR System window to notify an operator when an event related to this definition occurs TT Click on the Sound button to assign a specific sound to the definition This sound is played when a user notification event related to the definition occurs 16 After you have entered all parameters for your definition save it by clicking on the Save button 17 Ifyou 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 7 1 3 Scheduling motion detection on page 60 Click No if you want to do that later Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automa
123. obile devices PDAs mobile phones on page 87 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual The minimum screen resolution for running the NVR System client on a desktop PC is 1024x768 pixels 2 1 1 Advanced client technology The NVR System uses advanced technologies to ease the operation of clients on MS Windows platforms e Lazy loading client technology NVR System 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 now stored locally on the client machine The path is lt user s home directory gt netavisLibs lt version gt e g D Documents and Settings user netavisLibs 1 9 0 110 200 e Automatic client upgrading Whenever the NVR System 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 Starting with R1 9 the client application has to be installed only once and every further NVR System version will be seamlessly accessible without having to manually upgrade the client e Different versions between servers and clients Starting with R1 9 NVR System clients can connect to servers running different versions R1 9 or newer without the n
124. occurs in NVR System 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 13 6 7 Project settings on page 99 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 generated 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 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 W
125. onfiguration and programming must be done directly in the camera via the setup interface e g parameters like detection settings image quality soeed etc This can usually be done by connecting with a web browser to the camera by entering its IP address Please refer to the most actual document Thecus NVR System 3 4 Supported Video Sources and the camera s user manual for further details 7 3 1 How NVR System 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 NVR System server These event images are transferred via FTP or HTTP to the NVR System server Most cameras also support the transmission of pre and post event images The configuration of for these pre and post event images must also be done in the camera NVR System 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 NVR System Event database these events can also be displayed in the Task bar e Receive pre and or post event images from the camera pushed by the camera and record these images in the standard NVR System camera archive e 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 b
126. ons drop down list box To delete a previously stored Configuration select that name in the Previous configurations drop down list box and then choose lt lt Remove selected item gt gt from the same drop down list box Description of elements Element Hostname or IP Address Username Password Remember password Application Language Window width height Upper left corner X Y Initial monitor view name Window decoration visible Tool control bar visible Event bar visible Online monitor control bar visible Overlay painting enabled Meaning Enter the name or IP address of the server you want to connect to Enter the login name of the user Enter the password for the user Select the checkbox if you want the password to be remembered for the next start of the application You can either choose NVR System Client or Layout Navigation Tool for further details on the Layout Navigation Tool please refer to 13 Working with Layout Navigation on page 89 The selected application will start when you press OK Defines in what language the selected application will be started Define the size of the client window in pixels 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 Is optional and defines the initial Online monitor view Defines whether the windows decoration border is visible Defines whether the tool control bar at
127. oon as the scheduled time is reached recording is started with these settings 6 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 6 1 3 Operation of the NVR System 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 NVR System Any recordings that are older than the requested recording period are automatically deleted as long as you do not manually protect them from deletion see 6 2 8 Protection of recordings against automatic deletion on page 53 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 NVR System uses an intelligent storage management process This process always tries to store all requested periods for all recorded cameras 46 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 NVR System administrator telling him that there is not enough space for all recordings e lt automatically truncates the recordings of camer
128. or single stream JPEG cameras and for MPEG streaming MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG These image settings will be used in the Online Monitor and also for recordings For multi stream JPEG cameras these values are of no importance because for each view port in the Online Monitor and also for recording a separate image format can be specified Field label Image quality Your input Defines the image quality of the streaming for single stream JPEG cameras and for MPEG cameras see 1 4 4 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 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 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 23 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 24 Field label Image size GOP size Bandwidth limit Kbps Your input Defines the image size of the streaming for single stream JPEG cameras and for MPEG cameras 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 see also 1 4 4 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 The default value is Medium which refers to CIF or QVGA whatever your camera supports For multi stream JPEG c
129. ority over other cameras if the available storage space is too short for all requested recordings of all cameras for further details see 6 1 3 Operation of the NVR System dynamic storage management on page 46 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 There 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 For example setting 30 days of Requested recording period with 25 fos 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 Please note that 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 s
130. ort 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 6 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period on page 47 Enter the file name of video to be exported Mark the first checkbox if 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 6 3 3 Exporting an archive recording in SAFE format 1 2 54 In the Archive select a camera for the export In the Archive playback dialog or in the Archive calendar dialog click the Export button to open the Export dialog Choose SAFE All images from Export format Enter the file for the video sequence to be exported Mark the first checkbox if you want to overwrite a file of the
131. ot 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 81 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 4 To modify any of these values select Modify host in the 98 menu set the values and then press Save 82 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 11 Working with interconnected NVR System servers NVR System allows you to work with the resources of interconnected remote distributed NVR System 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 NVR System servers and you can also export your locally defined cameras to other NVR System 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 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 Please note This chapter just provides a basic introduction to working with interconnected servers For further details on setting up and administrating a distributed AS system please refer to
132. own in the event task bar 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 14 3 3 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 olor 108 Click on the Admin button Teo oe E Admin There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose a camera and make sure that you have a suitable object tracking region defined that allows for object counting see 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region on page 104 In the 2 menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Event trigger which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box 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 Here is an example of a tracking region 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 Objec
133. r group to be imported e g PTZ camera on remote host netavis hu Tobbchines al a7 HiG I iil wF 2420 osszik s nevi kamerax F FTZ _ posta _ pone wF 21 Deske a7 ujfirmverss 1eske aP PT ST IC Hicap aF Hi F He aF H3 wF Ha Confirm your selection by clicking on Add camera button Now your camera tree shows this imported camera or group in bold with the name of the remote server in brackets e g PTZ netavis hu 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 85 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual T Xperts cameras Y Digtal Cama AS MaF AMIS 2100 aw ANS 2120 or AS 2130 Lew AXIS 205 1 Y Panasonic ba Panasonic KX HCM230 LaF Panasonic WV NS320 AF Panasonic Viv NPdT2 T Mobatix a Strasse Anabg Care T Frame Grabber aF Fanssonic NP472 analog Las SAMSUNG SDC 240 anaiog a PTZ netavis hu 5 With imported cameras you can work the same way as with local cameras For example you can display them in a view port in the Monitor please refer to 5 2 Selecting cameras on page 35 11 3 Working with events of remote servers NVR System 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 receive the events Event entries in the event database of re
134. r logged in 7730 07 09 2004 15 79 54 netavis User logged out 7729 07 00 7004 16 02 02 netavis User logged out 7808 09 09 2004 09 52 12 netavis User logged in 7838 09 09 2004 09 59 13 netavis User logged out 7841 09 09 2004 10 18 29 netavis User logged in 7859 09 09 2004 10 24 30 netavis User logged out interret 8 3 Generating an event statistics report NVR System allows you to create an event statistics report in MS Excel XLS format To create a statistics report file follow these steps 1 Push the Events button 2 The Current events dialog appears with a list of current events 3 Push the Statistics button which will bring up the Event statistics dialog 68 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 4 Select for which Start time Time period and time Resolution you want to create the report Also you can filter according to certain Even type Camera and User multiple selection by CTRL click is supported for all filters If you do not select any values for Event filter then a summary statistic report will be created 5 Push OK to start creating the report file You will be prompted for a file name where the report should be stored 6 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 Analog 1 eingang MWotion detection Analog 1 aingarngy 18 22 05 00 69 Thecus NVR Sy
135. r tl sigriet zu einem unbesnnten Datum hret und herausgegeben won Zperts Software Lid Hinweis pete Sofbware Lid verichen dass dieser Inhalt sicher ist Die Installation baw des Anzeigen des Inhalts salte nur afolgan wenn Sie Xperts Software Lid zugelassene Signatur O ihat von Xperts Software Ltd immer vertrauen lt Vet Hrane Select 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 information eio rT i Your chent needs further program components Install program components from Server over nelwork 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 NVR System 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 NVR System Please consult the manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration for
136. ra specific Please refer to your camera s manual Please note that for MPEG cameras you cannot change the size of streamed images The sizes of streamed MPEG sets the frame rate The options are Max fps various fps and fpm values and Stop defines the position where the camera name is displayed in the view port defines which scaling algorithm will be used when images need to be scaled to fit the available view port space In the Optimized for speed means that the scaling is done with a faster algorithm that may cause lines to be not so smooth Optimized for quality means that the scaling is done with a more CPU intensive anti aliasing which causes straight lines to be smoother These settings can be modified all at once for all view ports in the current view via the Set parameters of all view ports from the B menu Holding down the CTRL key while selecting any of the Set parameters of all view ports commands will modify all view ports of all views not just the current view 5 4 2 Adding and removing cameras Cameras can be added and removed with the ck and ain buttons Please refer to section 5 2 Selecting cameras on page 35 for more details 5 4 3 Temporarily maximizing the frame rate of a view port If you press the FeS button of a view port its frame rate will be maximized while the frame rates of the other views will be minimized if favor of the one with maximized frame rate The Wl icon indicates the view port with maximi
137. rates Therefore NVR System 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 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iICAT on page 102 Please note If 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 NVR System 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 NVR System 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 the pre event streaming format to the post
138. recording button is shown in camera view ports in the Online monitor 5 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 39 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual e Setup a continuous recording 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 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 for a general description on how to set camera access rights Login as administration user or another user with the right to modify user data Push the Admin button and select the User Admin tab Select the user or group for which you want to enable manual recording control Click the Next button twice to get to the Camera Access Rights dialog Select the camera or camera group for which you want to enable manual recording control Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Enable the right Manual recording control from Online monitor by choosing Enabled from the pop up menu 8 Push Save to save your changes ee S a Set up a continuous recording schedule In order to use manual recording
139. recordings Here is an example of additional iCAT information displayed a E 7 Ur EE obleki stappt auffeppich Gi0H OH oT 173 countent G tH 20 37 133 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 menu offers an iCAT button with a iCAT info display menu the same menu is also available via the menu i gt 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 Tracking defines whether the object tracking region boundaries should be shown 118 boundaries Event trigger lines boxes Object markers Event count fields Object bounding boxes Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual defines whether the event triggers like tripwires and object starting stopping fields should be shown defines whether object markers should be displayed Object markers show the object 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 s
140. recordings available in order to be replayed You can step through the events by pushing the Previous and Next _ buttons 57 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 7 Working with simple motion detection Please note Since release R1 12 NVR System 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 14 Video analytics with iCAT on page 101 NVR System offers two mechanisms for simple motion detection e NVR System s own server based motion detection The images are analyzed by the NVR System 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 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 NVR System 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 th
141. rver 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration Check this option if your current NVR System server should check out licenses from the remote server license master For details about floating network licenses please refer to the manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 Server Installation and Administration Click on Save to save your settings Now you are ready to import cameras or camera groups from a remote NVR System server 11 2 Working with cameras of another server In order to work with
142. s timeout Zero means no timeout Push Next to go the Privileges dialog Here set the privileges for the new user see 4 2 Setting general user privileges on page 30 for details Push Next to go the Camera Access Rights dialog Here set the camera access rights for the new user see 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 for details Push Save to create the new user account with the settings you entered 4 2 Setting general user privileges 1 30 Move to the System Admin area Here select the User Admin tab Select the user or group you want to modify Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Set the privileges according to your needs To change a privilege click on its button and select the status from the pop up menu either Inherited Enabled or Disabled 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 o
143. same name that might exist Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 5 Optionally you can create a Multi camera export synchronous video sequences by clicking on the Select camera button el This opens the camera tree in which you can select multiple cameras by holding the CTRL key while clicking on the cameras 6 Enter an Export file label which should describe the exported scenes 7 Optionally you may enter an Export file password This password is asked when the export file is executed played Caution Do not forget this password because otherwise you cannot replay this exported file 8 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 9 The exported file is an executable for MS Windows XP Vista 2000 Here is a screen dump of a running SAFE file 200607 29 08 3418 CET 2000 07 29 35 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 6 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 51
144. sday Sunday Thursday Al Previous Scheduling Recording format JPEG stream _ Save audio Image quality Medium Frame raje 5 picisec Image size 320x240 QVGA gted recording penod daya hours 10 fo Regue _ Priority over other cameras if storage space amp short Recording paned is measured form now Reduced frame rate settings JPEG only Actual recording penod days hoursk 0 0 Storage used by this camara MB Total storage spaca MB 218051 Free storage space IMB 218051 Cancel 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 Please make sure 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 8 In addition to defining the weekdays and times you need to specify the Recording format If 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 6 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
145. start the layout navigation tool the same way as you can start the locally installed NVR System client Please refer to 2 3 2 Starting the locally installed NVR System client on page 16 89 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual The layout navigation tool LNT main window looks like this chistan 6081 1 3020 Layout hierarchy Ads 2120 Jretavis Ca asiu 25 02 20 Event list Linkfieldto Me different layout Event description 5 isin Bidsegnert BevatorComes der Kamera retea Axia 2120 0 Event count unacknowledged and mot yet visited 4 3 Status line 13 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 e Define the hierarchy and map your cameras In the next subsections we will cover the above topics 13 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 NVR System 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 NVR System 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 th
146. stem 3 4 User Manual 1 Click on the Admin button Admin There chose the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose a camera and in the menu Select Add new definition 4 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Sabotage detection which will expose the configuration settings 5 Select any of the three sabotage detection types In the Identifier text field enter a name for this sabotage detection 7 Push Save to save your definition mo P 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 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 esti
147. stem 3 4 User Manual 9 Working with PTZ cameras NVR System features the control of PTZ cameras pan tilt zoom Note To configure and work with PTZ cameras you need the corresponding user and camera authorizations see 4 2 Setting general user privileges on page 30 and 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 If you find that you do not have the authorizations you need please contact your NVR System administrator 9 1 Setting up a PTZ camera Setting up a PTZ camera is the same procedure as setting up a camera without PTZ functionality 3 Setting up cameras on page 20 The user must possess the user specific camera authorizations see 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 to permit PTZ access 9 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions 1 Click on the Admin button There chose 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 Inthe 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 9 4 Controlling PTZ cameras on page 72 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
148. stream from the cameras and also does iCAT based on it Recording is also done with this stream Please note that iCAT based on MPEG stream needs more CPU power on the server see also 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iICAT on page 102 117 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Continuous and event based recording at the same time If the continuous recording has the same frame rate quality like 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 then the stream will be restarted with the post event frame rate und quality in the case of an 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 14 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 people counting and stopped objects 14 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
149. sword 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 NVR System administrator with the appropriate privileges 33 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 5 Using the Online Monitor In the Online Monitor you can view current live images from cameras that are setup at the NVR System server The prerequisite is that you must have general authorization to access the Online Monitor see 4 2 Setting general user privileges on page 30 Furthermore you can access only those cameras that have been released for you as explained in 4 3 Setting camera access rights on page 31 You can activate live image viewing via the Online Monitor button When a new user logs in the first time he will encounter an empty Online Monitor screen waiting for new views to be defined Once you have defined your camera views you can save them and they appear again each time you log in Important If 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 NVR System See 2 4 NVR System Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections on page 19 for further details 5 1 Creating a new view NVR System
150. t mouse button and choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify Zone dialog 95 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 96 Highlight color Single click Double click Mouse over Mouse over delay Contest menu actions Show zone live in Observer Cheri Stop motion detection Start continuous recording Stop analog video decode Stet motion detection Decode video to analog Step continuous recording View selected in Observer Connecion fo camera lost 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 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 93 with one addition e Show zone live in Observer Client exposes the corresponding view of the zone in the NVR System client that runs on the same machine If there is an NVR System 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 NVR System client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone 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 NVR System then the corresponding action is trigger
151. t 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 8 Inthe field Min time for stopping staying inside sec 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 push 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 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 soeeds you want to filter it is helpful to watch a few objects passing the triggers and switch on the object markers These markers show the size and speed of the object in pixels These are exactly the same measures that you can use for the trigger Here is an example of an object marker Object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels speed is 208 pixels sec The section 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings on page 118 shows you how to view object m
152. 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 compression 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 Thecus NVR Syst
153. the manual Thecus NVR System 3 4 Distributed AS Administration 11 1 Adding and defining a remote NVR System server 1 Click on the Admin button There chose the Host Admin dialog In the menu select Add host Fill in the basic information of the desired remote NVR System host server Field label Your input Hostname This is the name you give to the remote NVR System 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 NVR System address server Comment A descriptive text Observer Host ID This is an internal ID that uniquely identifies the remote server The ID of an NVR System server can be obtained by reading its own entry under the Host Admin tab 2 Now you can define what you want to do with the remote NVR System server Set options according to your requirements 83 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Field label Send local events to remote server Import of cameras from remote server enabled Export local cameras to remote server Monitor remote server status Upgrade software on remote server upgrade Slave Accept software upgrades from remote server upgrade master Request license from remote server license master Your input Check this option if you want that your local events are sent to the remote host Check this option if you want to import cameras from the remote se
154. the right side of the window is visible This bar allows switching between Online Monitor Archive Player Event Management and Administration Defines whether the event bar at the bottom of the window is visible Defines whether the menu and the history buttons for Online monitor control are visible When 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 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Element Meaning 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 Pushing OK will open the client window and connect you to the NVR System server All other operations are basically the same as for the browser based NVR System client 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 tn j i Your chent needs further program components A install program components from Local media Server over neivwork Cancel Normally you want choose to install the program components from Server over network However if yo
155. thm please consults 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 62 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 8 Handling events NVR System can record and display events of various types They can be motion detection events camera failures but also system events like user logon and logoff Events are displayed in two locations e inthe Event bar at the bottom of the NVR System window e inthe Event list Events are stored in the Event database on the NVR System server The number of events stored in the database can be defined Please see 10 2 Setting NVR System server parameters on page 79 for details 8 1 Event bar User Notifications are displayed chronologically in the Event bar If you want to examine details of an event simply click on its symbol An Event viewer opens netavis Motion event has happened on the AXIS 2120 camera in sector Movement up or downstairs Hare Value n aP Start Onine View Short Event Replay Geo to Archeve View The title of the Event viewer dialog contains a brief description of the event The table that follows shows more details of the event its exact contents is dependent on the event e Camera ID the number of the camera that detected recorded the event e Camera Name defined name of camera e Event Name as specified in the Motion Detection Definition in the Name fiel
156. tically 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 7 1 3 Scheduling motion detection The scheduling for simple motion detection is the same as for other iCAT definitions Please refer to 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 7 1 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with server based motion detection events lt is 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 sequence 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 CameraAdmin 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 There can be any number of lt PresetName gt lt WaitTimes gt pairs added
157. tion is defined by the license string The document Thecus NVR System 3 4 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 push the Continue button to operate NVR System in the demo mode See 10 7 Server system information and restarting on page 76 for how to display the current license of your server Different clients You can choose among these NVR System clients operating systems and platforms NVR System client OS and platform Supported functionality Standard web browser MS Windows 7 XP Vista etc All except layout navigation and Joysticks for PTZ control Linux also client on server All except audio layout Unix Mac OS X navigation and PTZ Joysticks Mac OS X no MPEG streaming MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Locally installed client MS Windows 7 XP Vista etc All Linux Unix Mac OS X not available Mobile client Apple iPhone and iPad Windows Online viewing only Mobile 2003 and 5 Java enabled devices Please be aware that some functions like Layout Navigation and running SAFE export files may only be available on the MS Windows platform This chapter describes how to start the NVR System client on a desktop PC If you want to run NVR System on a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA please refer to 12 NVR System on m
158. tivate individual days or with the 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 6 Check the assigned iCAT definitions to this interval via the Assigned iCAT definitions popup menu at the 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 7 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 6 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 44 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 Pre Post event recording sec you can specify how long before and after the event you want to record Please note If 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 done in one quality See also below for
159. tly the same measures that you can use for the trigger Here is an example of an object marker Object ID is 10 object size is 9110 pixels speed is 208 pixels sec 107 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 11 12 The section 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings on page 118 shows you how to view object markers In the Identifier text field enter a name for this event trigger An example name for a people counter would be Entrance 1 incoming You can also choose a specific lcon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 Push Save to save your definition Please note e 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 e lf 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 iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 2 You can also choose a specific icon and Sound for the event when it is sh
160. to a schedule then it will not be activated and no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual iCAT event settings You can also specify event related properties on an iCAT definition 1 2 You can also choose a specific icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 115 Further considerations and limitations Abrupt brightness changes and large variation of white balance as automatically set by several cameras may cause false detection especially false detection of removed objects In general if these two conditions become worse the algorithm become less reliable The best conditions are provided by a stably lit indoor situation However the algorithm can also work successfully in outdoor situations If the lighting conditions are varying heavily it is recommended to use just abandoned detection removed detection is switched off because it is more robust to such varying lighting conditions through longer detection timeout The region must be carefully defined i e the interesting objects for example objects of a theft detection must be fully located inside the region For example If you want to detect when your tel
161. u 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 NVR System installation CD Once you choose the correct location and push OK the components will be installed If you do not yet have a permanent license string for NVR System 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 NVR System clients on page 9 for further details about licensing 2 3 3 Multi screen operation with NVR System NVR System supports multi screen operation by allowing you to automatically position windows of the locally installed client on certain screen positions With graphics cards that support multiple screens you can therefore position windows at certain locations that are displayed at different screens For example you can display the NVR System client window at the first screen which would correspond to position 0x0 and the layout navigation tool at the second screen which would correspond to position 0x1280 on a multi screen graphics card that drives 2 screens with 1280x1024 resolution each Sample batch file for starting the client on multiple screens A sample batch file for MS Windows for starting the locally installed client on 4 screens can be found in the Customizer se
162. ument checkbox 2 Set the Number of records pop up menu to All 3 After clicking the OK button a file dialog will open asking for a file name Enter a file name and choose a location and click Save Now the file is created You can open the file in a normal web browser 67 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual NetaVlS Observer Il Frent hsiinp Datei Seabelten Arndiht Fawonien Extas 7 ERT gt x E di j Suchen Sip Favanten PP Heden Events 07 09 7004 17 07 10 09 09 2004 10 74 30 7638 02 09 2004 17 07 10 netavis User logged in 7641 07 09 2004 17 07 22 netavis User lagged out 7665 06 09 2004 10 44 01 netavis User logged in 7668 06 00 2004 10 53 33 netawe User logged out 7671 06 09 2004 11 21 58 netavis User logged in F676 06 09 2004 11 24 25 netavis User logged out 7679 06 09 2004 13 13 39 netavis User logged in 7682 06 09 2004 13 14 53 netavis User logged out 7685 06 09 2004 13 15 01 netavis User logged in 7688 06 09 2004 13 18 17 netavis User logged out 7691 07 09 2004 11 00 37 netavis User logged in 7697 07 09 2004 11 49 21 netavis User logged out 7700 07 09 7004 11 58 12 netavis User logged in T703 07 00 2004 12 12 58 netavis User logged out 7706 07 09 2004 14 42 42 netavie User legged in 7721 OF 09 2004 14 53 28 netavis User logged out 772a 07 09 2004 15 22 53 netavis User logged in 7727 07 09 2004 15 29 46 netavis Use
163. ur server gt relnotes or on the public demo server showroom netavis net relnotes There you also find the release information of previous releases 1 3 NVR System data security NVR System has been designed to provide the highest level of robustness and data security The following aspects of the NVR System system document that e All video and configuration data on an NVR System server are stored in specially secured partitions protected by multiple levels of security e The transmission of video data between clients and servers is encrypted by a special ultra fast encryption mechanism e The authentication data transferred between clients and servers are encrypted by MD5 strong encryption Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression NVR System 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 requirem
164. us NVR System 3 4 User Manual Taani Player Ep Anhan pipen Playback acceleration os 00 00 07 A Previous timeline selections Analog 1 TER 200 OS 2500 10 3 1622007 10 27 00 E E W BE 16022007 11 3259 1 022007 10 2700 Bg A E oer 1 359 n 4 a 3 r z 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 6 2 2 Moving forward and back in the recording Automatic playback By clicking the Playback buttons La or gt you can let the recording automatically play forward or back With the Playback Speed slider at the left of the window you can vary the playback speed Press the Stop button Wl to 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 6 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings NVR System 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 Zooming with the mouse wheel
165. ush the Admin button Then select the Camera Admin tab 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 This activates the edit function of the dialog 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 Only when you select Modify selected camera or group in the menu they become editable 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 8 AXIS 2130 14 Time intervals 00 00 24 00 E Change 44 The new entry will be selected Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 6 Click the Change button now enabled and choose Continuous recording Now the Scheduling dialog shows the settings for configuring continuous recording e 207 mw 4 9 12 Time intervals ATWTFSS 00 00 24 00 E Continuous recording 4 Add Delte Continuous r cording Enable interval co 2e or Monday Friday Tuesday Y Saturday Y Wedne
166. verridden Push Save to save your changes 4 3 Setting camera access rights 1 Move to the System Admin area Admin Here select the User Admin tab 2 Select the user or group you want to modify 3 Click the Next button twice to get to the Camera Access Rights dialog 31 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Analog to the user privileges the camera access rights are inherited from the upper group level Inherited access rights from the group to which the camera or camera group belongs are displayed with normal font while values that are defined at the current 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 set access rights for the selected user or group for all cameras in the system you can select and modify the root camera group Push Save to save your changes 4 4 Working with user groups User groups are a powerful means to manage and organize users For instance you can set privileges for groups that are then inherited by the users belonging to this group 4 4 1 Creating a user group 1 Move to the System Admin area Admin Here select the User Admin tab In the list of users and groups select a user group to which you want to add a new group In the menu select Add new group which will open the new group dialog that allows you to define a Group n
167. via the view port s view menu l that appears in the upper right corner of a view port if you do not see the controls click once with the mouse in the view port to show them a 3 Hide view port controls on Camera menu A click on the close button hides the view port controls Alternatively you can hide the view port controls of all views by selecting Set parameters of all view ports gt Hide controls from the a menu The View menu of a view port offers the following options clm FPS Qual arch CAT cam 5 4 1 Setting quality The Quality menu aust offers the following options 37 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Set streaming format Set image quality Set size of streamed frames Set frame refresh rate Set camera name appearance Rendering preference defines how the camera images should be streamed The available options depend on your camera and your setup of the cameras inside NVR System see 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 Please refer also to 7 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 6 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 7 4 4 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 for details on these values sets the image size of the streamed images The available size options are came
168. vice 88 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 13 Working with Layout Navigation NVR System offers powerful layout navigation features that allow you to navigate based on layouts floor plans and also other images In this chapter you learn how to use the layout navigation features Please note Since Layout navigation is licensed separately of NVR System you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 10 1 Server system information and restarting on page 76 for details about what license you have 13 1 Basic concepts and how it works The NVR System layout navigation tool LNT allows you to define a hierarchy of graphical layouts that correspond to various aspects of your physical environment section 13 4 1 Planning your layout hierarchy on page 90 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 NVR System 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 NVR System client running on the same client workstation On layouts you can also
169. video for H 264 video streams e MxPEG video for MxPEG video streams For the MPEG video formats you can additionally select Save audio 45 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 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 3 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 20 lf 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 4 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 8 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 multiple formats and having different video stream settings in the Online Monitor and the recording Please refer to the document Thecus NVR System 3 4 Supported Video Sources for information about supported cameras and their streaming Capabilities 9 Fill in the Requested recording period for this camera This value defines how long NVR System will keep recordings Recordings that are older than Requested recording period the will be automatically deleted by NVR System see also 6 1 3 Operation of the NVR System dynamic storage management on page 46 You can also select Priority over other cameras if storage space is short to give this camera pri
170. vigation tool LNT switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing mode button atthe right side of the tool bar 2 Inthe Layout menu choose New which opens the Layout dialog Lavoul name round floor Preview background image Paet Alarm Layout background file roc 10 2 36 49_A008 01 24_ 164430 pg Hasor plan jpg foor_plan 3 jpg ee sett I 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 If the 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 Map your 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 camera and push OK Now you have mapped the camera to your camera icon Repeat the above step for other cameras 91 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual You can delete a camera by selecting it with the mouse by choosing Delete from the right mouse
171. w a rectangle in a view port 2 Click in this rectangle which will cause the view port to zoom accordingly 3 You can position the zoom by dragging the rectangle You can also modify its size by turning the mouse wheel 4 Click outside the rectangle to return to normal not zoomed view 5 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 Draw a zoom 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 oe aa 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 5 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
172. w port of the PTZ camera click Stop PTZ Pre to stop control of the PTZ camera Note Please do not forget to stop PTZ control otherwise other users cannot assume control When you end the NVR System client all PTZ control is automatically released For further details on user specific PTZ priorities and timeouts please refer to 4 1 Creating a new user account on page 29 9 4 2 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events lt is possible to automatically control PTZ cameras with motion detection events Please refer to 7 7 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with server based motion detection events on page 60 9 4 3 Scheduling PTZ routes lt is possible to schedule time intervals for PTZ camera to follow predefined routes 74 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual Note Before you can schedule a route you first must define the route please refer to 9 3 Defining PTZ routes on page 70 To schedule a PTZ route follow these steps ey 8 9 Press the Admin button and go to the Camera Admin tab Select a PTZ camera Press the Next button to go to the Scheduling dialog In the menu select Modify selected camera or group This activates the edit function of the dialog 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 Se
173. wn icon images 13 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 93 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 94 Indoor ngit icon Tb png oa Single dick Show live stream in LMT Double click Show archive calendar in Observer Client Mouse over No action Mouse ower delay 400 Contes menu achone Achone Show live stream in LNT Stop motion detection Stat continuous recording stop analog video decode Start motion detection Show archive calendar in Observer ient Show live in Observer Chent Decode video lo analog Step continuous recording Mabon detected nk Color FD Opacity 255 Interval Connection to camera restored Blink Color BE opact 255 Interval Lonnection to camera lost Blink 7 Color 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 Show live in Observer Client exposes a large live view of the respective camera in the NVR System client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happenin
174. zed frame rate while an H icon is displayed in all other view ports to show that their frame rate is reduced Pushing the B icon resets all views to their normal frame rates that they had before maximizing while pushing the E icon just resets this view port to the normal state while the others stay maximized and reduced respectively 5 4 4 Jumping to the recording archive The recording archive menu aron offers entries for switching to the recording archive of the actual camera for replaying the certain time intervals For more information about using the archive please refer to 6 2 Playback of archive recordings on page 47 38 Thecus NVR System 3 4 User Manual 5 4 5 Controlling video analysis iCAT display i The iCAT menu cat offers various options for displaying iCAT related video analysis information Please refer to 14 4 Working with iCAT on page 118 for further information 5 5 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings NVR System 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 5 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 Youcan move the zoomed area in a view port by dragging it with the mouse 3 Use the mouse wheel again to zoom out 5 5 2 Zooming by drawing a zoom rectangle 1 With the mouse dra

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