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1. Event Action Action property Motion detected Color E Opactty 255 Interval Connection to camera restored Color I Opacity 255 Interval Connection to camera lost Color B 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 98 3 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual e Show live in Observer Client exposes a large live view of the respective camera in the Observer client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happening e Show archive calendar in Observer Client exposes the archive calendar view of the respective camera in the Observer client that runs on the same machine If no client is running on the same machine then noting is happening e Show live stream in LNT opens a window showing a live stream of respective camera in LNT If this action is bound to Mouse over then the window will be automatically closed when the mouse is moved away from the camera icon If this action is bound to Single click or Double click then the window stays until it is closed manually To close all such windows you can select Close all live streams in the View menu e Start Stop continuous recording starts or stops continuous recording of the camera in Observer It actually sets or deletes the Enable interval checkbox in the ca
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3. 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 8 a 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 atthe 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 103 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual When you switch to navigation mode the new settings become effective 13 6 7 Project settings The layout navigation tool LNT allows you to set several project settings that define the workings of the tool In the Project menu choose Project settings to open the Project settings dialog Here you can set the following values Setting Show home layout on load Highlight zone under mouse cursor Automatically jump to layout on event Visiting
4. The possible Actions are basically the same as for the camera control see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 98 with one addition e Show zone live in Observer Client exposes the corresponding view of the zone in the Observer client that runs on the same machine If there is an Observer view that has the same name as the LNT zone and that also contains all the cameras of the zone then this view is exposed in the Observer client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone Events You can also modify the behavior of zones of this type for certain events like Connection to camera lost or Motion detected The event View selected in Observer Client works this way If there is an LNT zone with the same name as the view in Observer then the corresponding action is triggered NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 3 Click OK to save changes 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 In the 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 see 13 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior on page 99 Click OK to create the new zone control 13 5 5 Modifying I O contact control appearance and behavior 1 Switch to editing mod
5. o Custom aspect ratio here you can freely define an N M aspect ratio The setting Stretch image to fit into view port selected by default defines whether a camera image can be stretched to fit into the view port This may cause distorted images for aspect ratios that do not fit the current view port aspect ratios The setting Crop image to fit into view port defines whether a camera image can be cropped to fit into the view port This may cause that some parts of the image are not visible in the view port In the section 6 4 Modifying view port settings on page 42 you can define what part of the cropped camera image is to be shown in the view port 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 Observer creates a new view that might look as follows your view may have a different number of view ports depending on what you selected 39 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual View control Next previous view View Round tour menu selector selector Event list View port control menu N View port Status bar CPU 6 IDS 1 84KB s di icensing netavis net 20 44 57 CET The view ports fill the central part of the window and each view port has its own view port controls
6. At the right side of the window is the Event list which is explained in 9 Handling events on page 69 4 Choose Save all view settings from the menu in order to save all settings for your current user The next time you log on to Observer all views will then be available again If you neglect to save all changes are lost when you exit the application Please note All view settings will be stored also quality and fps settings of view ports New views will be stored automatically without the need to save manually 6 2 Selecting cameras 1 Inthe view port push the Add camera button Please note that you first have to set up a camera before you can select it in one of the view ports see 4 Setting up cameras on page 25 This opens the camera tree 2 Select a camera from the newly opened camera tree a Cameras IE You can either 40 3 4 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual o select a camera and push the Select button or o double click on a camera to add it to the view port where you pushed Add camera or o drag and drop a camera to the view port of your choice Proceed in the same way with additional view ports in your view You can assign multiple cameras to each view port However since you can only view one camera image in each view port Observer lets you manually switch between cameras by clicking on the camera selection menu at the upper left corner of the view port AXIS 2130 AXIS 2100 Panason
7. NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 9 4 1 Receiving Email notification with alarm image on camera events Here you learn how to set up Email notification with alarm image on camera motion detection or video analytics events 1 2 In the User admin dialog select the user for which you want to define the Email notification and enter the correct Email address see 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 34 Continue to the Camera access rights by pushing the Next button and then select the camera or group for which you want to define the notification settings and enable the right Events Sending email about in picture events e g motion detection video analysis If the user should also be informed about camera failures you can also enable Events Sending email about camera malfunction events See 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 and 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 36 Define and enable a motion detection or iCAT definition see 14 3 Setting up a camera for video analytics with iCAT on page 108 Check that the iCAT video analytics or motion detection definition has an active recording enabled either continuous or event based Please refer to 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 120 Make sure that for the motion detection or iCAT definition the event generation is enabled the checkbox Save event in event list is marked in the Scheduling dialog and that it is not suppressed in the iCAT event d
8. Now a new camera named as the existing camera with copy appended has been created 4 Set the basic properties like name and IP address 5 Optionally modify other parameters as needed see 4 2 1 Adding a camera from scratch on page 25 for details 6 Push the Save button at the bottom of the dialog 4 3 Setting up the camera recording archive The configuration of camera recordings is covered in section 7 1 Programming archive recordings on page 49 4 4 Optional Configuring video analytics iCAT The configuration of video analytics with iCAT is covered in chapter 14 Video analytics with iCAT on page 105 4 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 e Analog cameras Observer allows you to define video parameters via the System Admin menu Please see below for details 31 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 4 5 1 Defining video parameters for analog cameras 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Select the camera in the camera tree for which you want t
9. 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 8 2 Motion detection in archive recordings Observer supports server based motion detection not only in live streams but also in archived recordings Please refer to 7 4 Motion detection in archive recordings on page 60 8 3 In camera motion detection Several IP cameras and video servers support in camera motion detection and upload push of event triggered images via FTP or HTTP to a video management system like Observer Observer implements a general mechanism to handle this feature This section describes how Observer supports in camera motion detection and also how to configure it in Observer Please note Since the camera carries out the detection the actual configuration and programming must be done directly in the camera via the setup interface e g parameters like detection settings image quality speed etc This can usually be done by connecting with a web browser to the camera by entering its IP address Please refer to the most actual document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources and the camera s user manual for further details 8 3 1 How Observer supports in camera motion detection In the camera you define the various settings for the motion detection algorithm and for the transmission of event images to the Observer server which is done via FTP or HTTP push u
10. 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 96 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Please note A zone can trigger certain actions e g when you click with the mouse on it a zone can show all cameras belonging to the zone in the Observer client This for example will either create a new view in the Observer client or map it to an existing view depending on the names of the views and zones Therefore the name of a zone can be of importance Here is how the mapping works for the LNT action Show zone live in Observer Client If there is an Observer view that has the same name as the LNT zone and that also contains all the cameras of the LNT zone then this view is exposed in the Observer client Otherwise a new view is created with the name of the zone Details for zone actions can be found under 13 5 3 Modifying zone control appearance and behavior on page 99 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
11. 03 3 03 4 04 0 04 1 04 3 04 4 05 0 05 1 05 3 05 4 06 0 06 1 06 3 06 4 07 0 B oo iol o Ba w o on 9 4 Receiving notification on events Observer can be configured flexibly to notify users on various event types and by various channels The event types for defining notifications are e System malfunction events e g storage failures e System information events e g example user login and logout e Camera related events o Camera malfunction events e g camera is not accessible o Camera in picture events e g motion detection video analytics object triggers The notification channels are e Event list of the client e Email e SMS For each of the above event types the notification channels can be enabled disabled in the user privileges and camera access rights see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 for details on how to define privileges and rights Please note that the notification channels can be defined on a user or on a group level Likewise the camera related notifications can be defined on a camera or a camera group level Please note In order to receive Emails the Email address must be correctly defined in the user properties Also the server must be correctly configured and must also have access to en Email router for sending Emails For receiving SMS an SMS sending device must be configured at the server See NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for details 74
12. and Linux Unix also client on server PTZ Joysticks Mac OS X CoS additionally no MPEG streaming MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Desktop web browser MS Windows 7 XP Vista etc No layout navigation and Joysticks for PTZ control Linux Unix No audio layout navigation and PTZ Joysticks Mac OS X additionally no MPEG streaming MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Apple iPad client iOS 4 x and newer Live viewing and archive access Other functions are not supported yet Smartphone browser client many smartphone platforms and Live viewing only OSes 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 Observer client on a desktop PC If you want to run Observer on a mobile device please refer to 2 5 Mobile Observer clients on page 20 The minimum screen resolution for running the Observer client is 1024x768 pixels Licensing issues The available functionality of your Observer installation is defined by the license string The document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration describes how licensing works and how to obtain a license string If you have a temporary demo license a License dialog appears at every login 11 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual indicating that there is no permanent license At this dialog just push the Continue button to operate Observer in the demo mode See 11 1 Serve
13. camera on remote host netavis hu 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 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 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 6 2 Selecting cameras on page 40 91 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 12 4 Working with events of remote servers Observer servers can forward their events to other servers Such forwarded events are stored in the event database of the generating server itself and also in the event database of the server s that receive the events Event entries in the event database of remote servers look the same as local events they just start with the remote server s name and not with the name of the local server The same kind of search and listing is available as with local events In order to receive events from another Observer server following prerequisites must be fulfilled e The servers must know of each other 172 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 89 e The server that exports events must have the option Send local events to remote server set 12
14. draw_bounding_box action cameraid ID of camera that is involved in the action action modez further descriptor for the action possible values pop_if_exists show_as_ large show_in_view show_all_cams action fromtime from time stamp YYYY MM DDTHH MM SS or millisecs since Unix epoch of archive playback Should be given only when action is play_archive action totime to time stamp of playback YYYY MM DDTHH MM SS or millisecs since Unix epoch Should be given only when action is play_archive action idlist comma separated list of camera ids which we want the archive playback or want to place them in the current Online monitor view Should be given only when action is show_live_stream or play_archive action panelname name of Online monitor view that should be exposed Should be given only when mode is show_in_view or show_all_cams Following conditions exist o If panelname does not exist it will be created and all cameras listed in the idlist parameter will be placed into it o If panelname exists with the cameras listed on the idlist parameter it will be popped up o If panelname exists but the idlist parameter contains more cameras as there already are in the view then 1 if we have enough view ports to show the rest of the cameras it will be shown there or 2 if the view can not handle any more view ports a new view will be created where all listed cameras are then placed box x0 upper left x coordinate of box va
15. examples are security personell view only users administrators For each users group define the system wide privileges See 5 Managing users on page 34 2 Inthe users groups create the users you need Please note that by default the users will inherit the privileges from the group they belong to 3 Set the camera access rights per user 3 3 Guidelines for setting up views Observer allows you create several views for showing cameras in various configurations and sizes Therefore it makes sense to create various views for different surveillance purposes Since the views are defined by user we suggest that the administrator creates the standard set of views and then copies the views to the various users Take these steps for setting up views 1 Create the various views needed by most users See 6 1 Creating a new view on page 39 2 Copy the views to the various users See 6 8 Copying views between users on page 46 Later on you can create further views and copy them again 24 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 4 Setting up cameras Observer allows any authorized user to set up cameras in the system Ask your Observer system administrator whether you have such authorization 4 1 Preparations Before you begin to set up a new camera in Observer be sure to have the following information available e Your camera type e Is your camera type supported by Observer Please consult the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video
16. netavis User logged in 7859 09 09 2004 10 24 30 netavis User logged out M Fertig Internet 9 2 2 Exporting event related recordings You can export event related video recordings from the Event search dialog For each event that has recording associated a separate video file is created The file name is composed of the event ID date time and event type The export can be done in 2 formats AVI DivX and SAFE see also 7 3 Exporting recordings images and video sequences on page 58 Here is how you can do that 1 Inthe Event search dialog push the Video export button which opens an export dialog 2 Select the directory where the exported video files are to be stored and choose whether you want to export only the events displayed in current search list or all events matching the filter criteria You can also supply the pre and post event time to be exported 72 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Select the video format 3 Push Export Now a separate video file is created for each event that has a recording At the end a summary dialog shows how many files have been create and what is their total size 9 3 Generating an event statistics report Observer allows you to create an event statistics report in MS Excel XLS format To create a statistics report file follow these steps 1 Choose Event statistics export from the Events menu This brings up the Event statistics export dialog Time int
17. 2 EET Europe lstanbul GMT 2 EAT Africa Addis Ababa GMT 3 MET Asia Tehran GMT 3 5 NET Asia erevan GMT 4 PLT Asia Karachi GMT 5 IST Asia Calcutta GMT 5 5 BST Asia Dacca GMT 6 VST Asia Saigan GMT 7 CTT Asia Shanghai GMT 3 JST Asia Tokyo GMT 9 ACT Australia Darwin GMT 9 5 AET Australia Sydney GMT 10 SST Pacific Guadalcanal GMT 11 NST Pacific Auckland GMT 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 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 85 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 86 Field label Server network address for camera access List of IP addresses from which URL control is enabled Transcoding bandwidth limit for live view video streams kbit s 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 ban
18. 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 89 12 5 Monitoring remote servers You can monitor the status of remote servers in the System information dialog see 11 1 Server system information and restarting on page 82 Before you can do that you have to tell your server to monitor the remote server by checking the option Monitor remote server status see 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 89 12 6 Distributed upgrades When there are several Observer servers in a network upgrading servers to a newer release of Observer one by one can be a very cumbersome and time consuming task In order to ease this task Observer offers an automatic distributed upgrade of all interconnected servers in a network Please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for further details 92 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 13 Working with Layout Navigation Observer 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 Observer you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 11 1 Server system information and restarting on page 82 for details about what license you have 13 1 Basic concepts and how it works The Observer layout navigation tool LNT allows you to
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20. 82 information about running servers 82 interconnected 88 load display 82 network 88 camera server NCS 88 synchronization groups 88 user server NUS 88 setting parameters 84 Setup of anew system 23 Smart guard function 45 Smart Tripwire iCAT 110 Smartphones mobile devices 20 SMS receiving on events and alarms 74 Snapplet embedding live video streams in web pages 131 Statistics events 73 iCAT Visual Statistics 124 Storage management in archive 51 Streaming formats 7 changing in view port 42 iCAT video analytics 107 Synchronization groups of servers 88 Synchronous playback of mutiple cameras in archive 56 T Time zone of server 85 Time zoomimg in archive 56 142 Transcoding for low bandwidth connections 21 setting up 86 Tripwire for object counting ICAT 110 U Upgrading remote servers 92 URL control allowed IP addresses 86 control from external applications 131 User server NUS 88 Users Active Directory LDAP 37 adding 34 camera access rights 36 copying view between 46 groups 36 info about logged in 36 managing 34 privileges 35 V VGA 9 Video analytics 105 See iCAT video annotations 131 Video compression 7 MPEG vs MJPEG 7 Transcoding for low bandwidth connections 21 Video walls 127 configuring the control application 129 controlling with Observer 129 operating with the control application 130 setup 127 View ports creating 39 define crop view 43 dy
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22. Aspect a fe 4 j usti Cameras rato 43 x s 412 Active frame ll 792 color F94242 i ALLNET ALL2297 Passive ee a frame color S739AFF h Video wall i Camer Properties i tree monitors 1038 k e Left side Camera tree separate for each server link e Middle Video wall monitors here you can control the contents of the video wall monitors e Right side Properties of the current selection here you can see and modify the properties 15 2 2 Configuring the video wall control application VWCA Before you can control the video wall with the video wall control application you have to configure it We assume that you have already set up your video wall physically and you have already configured 129 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual the video wall client workstations PCs that connect to the various monitors of your video wall see 15 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer on page 127 Configuring the basic setup 1 Select video wall matrix by clicking on the default tab or the background area between monitors You will see the Matrix settings in the Properties pane 2 Define the number of rows and columns of your video wall this must obviously match your physical setup 3 Select the appropriate aspect ratio of the monitors 4 The zoom factor defines how many monitor columns of your video wall you want to see in your VWCA without scrolling Additionally you can also define some colors Linking the VWCA to server
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25. MPEG 7 8 settings 27 versus MJPEG streaming 8 working with cams 46 MPEG 4 7 See also MPEG Multi streaming parallel video streams 7 enabling 27 optimizing iCAT operation 107 Multicast streaming for MPEG cameras 27 Multi screen operation 18 positioning windows 20 Multi window operation 18 MxPEG 7 See also MPEG NCS camera server 88 NEA external archive accessing archives at another server 63 Displaying status 62 recording on removable storage devices 61 starting and stopping double recording 62 NETAVIS_ DIRECTORY environment variable for installed client components 17 New system setup 23 NNS synchronization groups of servers 88 Notification on events and alarms 74 NTSC 9 NUS user server 88 0 Object bounding boxes iCAT 123 Object counting iCAT 110 Object markers iCAT 123 Object tracking region 106 Online monitor 39 creating views 39 defining views for new user 36 dynamic control with iCAT and motion detection 47 dynamic control with the Matrix function VIP control 133 manual recording control 44 navigating inthe 41 quick camera finder 41 view port quality settings 42 view settings 42 working with iCAT 122 zooming in a view port 43 55 Overlay painting 18 P PAL 9 pan tilt zoom 76 Password changing 37 PDAs mobile devices 20 People counting iCAT 110 Playback of archive recordings 52 Port mapping of analog cameras on video server 33 Preferences of the client 19 Priority of
26. MPEG video formats you can additionally select Save audio When you choose any of the MPEG video formats then the video settings that are defined in the camera s Default settings will be taken for recording 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 25 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual If you choose JPEG stream you can additionally set the Image quality the Frame rate and the Image size for the archive recording Set the values according to your needs See 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 9 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 NETAVIS Observer 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 Observer will Keep recordings Recordings that are older than Requested recording period the will be automatically deleted by Observer see also 7 1 3 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 51 You can also select Priority over other cameras if storage space is short to give this camera priority over other cameras if the available storage space is too short for all requested recordings
27. Observer 4 4 User Manual preference 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 view Control 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 6 4 4 Controlling video analysis iCAT display The iCAT menu offers various options for displaying iCAT related video analysis information Please refer to 14 4 Working with iCAT on page 122 for further information 6 4 5 Defining a crop area For views where you have the Crop image to fit view port setting selected you can define what part of the cropped camera image you want to see by choosing Define crop area from the menu 6 5 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings Observer allows you to zoom view ports in the Online monitor and in the Archive player Basically you have two ways to zoom a view port or a recording in the Archive player 6 5 1 Zooming with the mouse wheel 1 Just move the mouse pointer over a view port and turn the mouse wheel The view port will zoom accordingly 2 You
28. Please read 2 6 Observer Transcoding for low bandwiath client server connections ABS on page 21 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive export streams ABS Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive export Please read 2 6 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS on page 21 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 Observer user server is transcoded Local client connections to this server will not be transcoded It also works this way if the server has only 1 NIC for all traffic to cameras local clients and a NUS Total bandwidth limit for all outgoing connections of the Field label kbit s RTSP streaming port Image database AES encryption O no encryption 1 or 2 encryption NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Description specified network interface NIC Port number generally used for RTSP communication e g for some MPEG cameras Please note that modifying the value here does not change the RTSP port setting in the cameras The cameras need to be configured separat
29. 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 iCAT on page 106 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 MJ PEG format e Different frame rates for pre and post event recording Observer obtains a QVGA stream for iCAT analyzing and also uses this stream for pre event recording In case of an iCAT based event or alarm Observer switches to the frame rate and quality defined by the main recording settings post event Please note Depending on the camera there can be a small delay caused by the camera needed to switch from the pre event streaming format to the post event streaming format e The same frame rate for pre and post event recording Observer obtains 1 stream of the main post event recording quality It also does iCAT analyzing based on this
30. 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 1 120 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog In the camera tree select the camera that you want to schedule Go to the Scheduling dialog by clicking on Next at the bottom In the menu select Modify selected camera or group Press the Add button below the Time intervals list and choose Video analysis iCAT from the type button labeled Change Now define the days and times when iCAT should be enabled for this camera You can activate individual days or with the All button the whole week at once Select hours and minutes from the time popup Please make sure that the Enable inter
31. 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 Observer servers as well you have to make other servers known to your server please refer to 12 Working with interconnected Observer servers on page 88 To show the details of a server double click an entry or select a server in the table and then choose Details from the System menu Now you see detailed information for the selected server with hard disk partitions and their state 83 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 3 Partition ctrl shows the number of the hard disk controller dev shows the hard disk number on the controller On the screen dump we have 5 disks on 3 controllers Type indicates the type of the partition DB is a database holding configuration and event data and lis an image partition that holds the actual video image data Status indicates whether there is a failure on the partition Such a failure needs to be reported to your Observer Administrator Capacity indicates the size of the partition in MB Used shows how much space of the partition is used Click on the Back button to leave the server details dialog and go back to the list of servers 11 1 3 Restarting Observer and rebooting the server f 2 Choose System information from the System administration menu This opens the System information dialog Select a server in the table In the System menu you have the fo
32. and possibly motion detection create a camera that serves as a blueprint for other cameras and can be duplicated later Define also the recording settings for this camera For motion detection MD take useful default values that can be tuned later on please note that first you have to create the MD definition and then you set up the scheduling recording for the MD setting Since most video analytics settings are different between cameras it does not make a lot of sense to create default values for video analytics at this point in time One exception could be that you may want to set up the same object tracking regions for several cameras For further details please refer to 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 25 and 8 Working with simple motion detection on page 64 3 Now duplicate clone the cameras and if necessary move them to different camera groups After that you can fine tune the camera setup and define special settings like video analytics for various purposes see 14 Video analytics with iCAT on page 105 3 2 Guidelines for setting up users Usually a bigger system will allows several users to login with different privileges and rights Therefore it can be useful to group several users with similar tasks and rights in so called user groups in Observer 23 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Take these steps for setting up users and groups 1 Create user groups for the various roles and privileges
33. and only appear in the Event list if the flag Save event in Event list is switched on Otherwise only the recording will start but no event will be generated You can override this setting for individual iCAT events selectively in the corresponding iCAT definition e g 14 3 2 Defining an event trigger for people and object counting Smart Tripwire on page 110 9 For all other recording settings please refer to 7 7 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 49 10 Push Save Please note iCAT triggered event generation and recording is only active if there is an enabled iCAT interval and there is at least one enabled iCAT definition assigned Outside of this time interval there is no recording or event generation Furthermore recording is started only if either of the fields for Pre post event recording sec is bigger than zero Further considerations for pre and post event recording Observer allows you to define the frame rate and quality of event based recordings If you want to save video streams for events generated by the video analytics toolkit iCAT please keep in mind that Observer needs to analyze the video stream that it later stores Some cameras have limitations when providing multiple video streams at different qualities and frame rates Therefore Observer 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
34. as well as a statistics module with integration to the event management system EMS iCAT can also interface to 3 party video analysis toolkits and algorithms contact NETAVIS Software GmbH Please note Since iCAT and some functions are licensed separately of Observer you need a valid license in order to work with these features See also 11 1 Server system information and restarting on page 82 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 Observer server iCAT is easy to configure and setup and it works in difficult situations also with extreme camera perspectives It offers flexible scheduling of iCAT definitions depending on date and time Thus you can have different setups for weekdays and weekend as well as day and night The Smart Tripwire function for people and object counting prevents wrong and double counting and works even with the most difficult entrance situations lRectangle Polygon 7 Tapv re Togge 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 annota
35. cameras in the camera tree can be moved to another location by following these steps 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 With a mouse click choose the camera or group you want to move 3 Inthe menu select Move camera or group 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 4 7 Changing the port mapping of analog cameras This section is only valid for analog cameras For analog cameras a port must be defined where the camera is connected to at the video capture card or the video server Sometimes the port mapping of analog cameras needs to be changed but it is difficult to do that physically by changing the cabling To help the situation Observer can change the port mapping in the software There are two ways for doing that e Either go to the Camera Administration and manually switch the port there For this however you need to know exactly which camera is connected to which port e 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 port
36. can move the zoomed area in a view port by dragging it with the mouse 3 Use the mouse wheel again to zoom out 6 5 2 Zooming by drawing a zoom rectangle 1 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 PO NS 43 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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
37. 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 The exported file is an executable for MS Windows 7 Vista XP Here is a screen dump of a running SAFE file 2008 07 29 09 33 16 CET 2008 07 29 09 38 59 CET Zooming in exported SAFE video sequences You can zoom into parts of the camera view by drawing a rectangle and then clicking in the rectangle You can drag a zoomed view with the mouse Alternatively you can show the zoomed view in a separate window by selecting View gt Separate zoom window You can also use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out See also 7 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 55 59 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 7 4 Motion detection in archive recordings Observer supports server based motion detection not only for live camera streams but also in the archived recordings Here you find information about how to execute motion detection on recordings Please note In this version Observer supports archive motion detection only for MJPEG recordings and not for recordings of other streaming formats like MPEG 4 or H 264 1 Goto the main window and choose the Archive player if the Archive player is not available then perhaps it is disabled in the client preferences see 2 4 Cl
38. decompression and e the storage requirements for recording For low bandwidth client server connections Observer offers the unique Transcoding feature see 2 6 Observer Transcoding for low bandwiath client server connections ABS on page 21 1 4 1 Multi streaming multiple parallel video streams from the camera Some cameras are capable of providing multiple parallel video streams to Observer This can be helpful for example when online viewing and recording is to be done in different formats e g different sizes and frame rates or for optimizing iCAT video analytics performance see 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 106 Usually MJPEG cameras can deliver several MJPEG streams while MPEG cameras MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG usually can deliver only 1 or 2 MPEG streams and some camera types can deliver several MJPEG streams in addition to the MPEG stream s However there are a few important restrictions with multi streaming e Some cameras have performance limitations in providing multiple streams depending on the streaming format resolution and frame rate We found out that some cameras just stop streaming when the streaming processors of the camera get overloaded by certain resolution and frame rates settings Please refer to the camera data sheet and documentation e Inthe current version Observer supports 1 format setting for MPEG streams MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG and multiple format settings fo
39. events 69 sorting event list 69 Privacy mask iCAT 117 Privileges of users 35 Protect archive recordings against deletion 57 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual PTZ pan tilt zoom 76 automatic routes 80 control with motion detection 66 controlling camera 77 joystick control 80 routes 76 user priority 35 Q QCIF 9 Quality settings changing in view port 42 Quitting the client 22 R Recording 49 AES encryption of video recordings 87 Audio playback 56 calendar 52 continuous timed 49 DivX export 58 event based recording 120 exporting 58 exporting event related recordings 72 holiday calendar 134 iCAT based recording 120 manual recording control in the Online monitor 44 motion detection in 60 on removable storage devices see NEA 61 Playback 52 programming 49 protection against deletion 57 SAFE format export 59 save space with frame rate reduction for older parts of the archive 51 storage management 51 synchronous playback of mutiple cameras 56 time zoomimg 56 Release notes 6 Remote servers 88 events 92 monitoring 92 upgrading 92 Restarting and rebooting 84 Round tours 45 RTSP streaming port 87 141 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual S Sabotage detection ICAT 114 SAFE format archive export 59 Saturation 31 Scheduling iCAT activities 120 Screen resolution minimum for running the client 11 Secondary password for login 34 Security 6 Sensitivity setting ICAT 109 Server administrating
40. for digital cameras or video servers that Field label enabled NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Your input 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 settings for your camera To modify values choose Modify selected camera or group menu Fields for Basic video and audio settings Field label Multi stream allowed Allow JPEG streaming Allow MPEG 4 streaming 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 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 7 for a general discussion about multi streaming Usually MJPEG cameras can deliver several MJPEG streams while MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG cameras deliver only 1 MPEG stream some camera types can deliver several MJPEG streams in addition to the MPEG stream If this option is not selected then only 1 video stream will be pulled from the camera regardless of how many different formats would be needed If itis selected then multiple streams will be pulled Also consider the following checkb
41. functions like the setup of swap management for storage devices are accessible only in this interface 7 5 2 Managing and accessing NEA storages A user with the appropriate privileges can do the following with external NEA archives e Initializing of storage devices and starting of NEA recordings as well as stopping of NEA recordings and ejecting devices All of these functions are available in the NEA storage management dialog is accessible via the System administration menu of the main window The user privilege Recordings Manage external archive devices NEA is needed for accessing the dialog See 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 on how to modify user privileges e Replay NEA external archives in the Archive player The user privilege Recordings View external archive recordings NEA is needed For an explanation and setup of automatic swap management of NEA device please refer to the document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Displaying the status of NEA storage devices When a NEA storage device connected to the server you can view its status in the NEA storage management dialog accessible from the System administration menu of the main window The dialog shows all connected NEA storage devices their sizes and their Status e Recording recording is currently running on the device e Archive a finished archive of the device can be accessed in the Archive player e Empty the storage device is
42. happened on the 4 120 cam 3 02 2011 06 54 05 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 3 02 2011 06 45 54 100 i ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 3 02 2011 06 39 10 100 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 car 3 02 2011 05 39 16 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 2 02 2011 23 35 22 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can 2 02 2011 22 07 34 lt ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 2 02 2011 20 44 13 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 can 2 02 2011 20 31 53 ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 2 02 2011 20 02 09 I ems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam 2 02 2011 19 58 39 lems2 Motion event has happened on the 4 120 cam Each client can have multiple event lists for example one that is sorted chronologically and another one that is sorted according to event priorities In the client preferences accessible via Client preferences in the Observer menu you can define for each event list what columns are to be displayed and whether acknowledged events should stay in the list or should disappear automatically which is the default behavior 69 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual The position of the event lists inside client windows and further layout options can be defined as described in 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 18 You can sort the event list a
43. most recent events are always displayed and stay there until they are removed by the user Please note When all view ports of the view are filled no new cameras will be shown until a view port is freed e 5 similar to mode 1 it shows the camera in a large view The optional lt additional camera IDs gt are paired one by one with the lt user names gt This causes that these additional cameras are shown in large view at the clients where the supplied users are logged in e 6 similar to mode 1 it shows the camera in a large view The optional lt additional camera IDs gt are paired one by one with the in the lt IP addresses gt This causes that these additional cameras are shown in large view at the supplied clients workstations lt additional camera IDs gt is an optional comma separated list of camera IDs which should be shown in addition to the camera that triggered the event lt user namess gt is an optional comma separated list of user names to notify If not defined then all users are going to be notified lt IP addresses gt is an optional comma separated list of client workstation IP addresses to which the notification is sent If not defined then all connected workstations are going to be notified Examples of directives to be used in any iCAT comment field pop 1 shows a live view of the camera which triggered the event in all connected client sessions pop 2 my view 3 4 shows live view of camera which triggered
44. netavis NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Document version V2 Release 4 4 0 Published in August 2012 The software described in this manual is licensed under the terms of the NETAVIS end user license agreement and may only be used in accordance with these terms Copyright Copyright 2003 2012 NETAVIS Software GmbH All rights reserved NETAVIS and Observer are trademarks of NETAVIS Software GmbH All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective holders NETAVIS Software GmbH Blindengasse 3 A 1080 Vienna Austria Tel 43 1 503 1722 Fax 43 1 503 1722 360 info netavis net www netavis net NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Contents Timntod ctioh srneci E Soak sas sade dace Sad ect race ead cack ae sade rece ceaencecten eet cnet encceseeesecney 6 1 1 The Observer documentation Set ecccccecceesceceeeeeceaeeeeaaeeeeneeceeeeeeaaeeeeaaesseneeseaeeseaaesseneessaes 6 1 2 What is new with this release ec cee ceeeseeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesaneeseeaaeeeeesaeeeeeseeaeeeeneeaeesennaaes 6 T S Observer data SECUTA veces eeeteetitvetead tells ra a aeted cote a bag hee aeaa naaa a sieaa aa debian 6 1 4 Video streaming methods and COMPTeSSION cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaaeeeeeenaeeeeeeaaes 7 2 Observer clients on Multiple platfOriMS cccseecceseeeeeeesesneeeneeeeeeneeeseaeseseeeeneeeeseeeseseae
45. 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 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 Push OK to create the layout Now you see that the layout with the selected background image has been created 95 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Mapping cameras 1 From the list of controls at the right side drag a camera control icon with the mouse onto the layout and drop it there A camera selection dialog opens automatically Choose the I O device and contact and push OK Now you have mapped the camera to your camera icon Repeat the above step for other cameras You can delete a camera by selecting it with the mouse by choosing Delete from the right mouse button pop up menu Mapping 1 0 contacts LNT allows you to work with I O devices i e you can display the state of input contacts and you can switch output contacts of I O devices for configuring I O devices please refer to 16 7 Configuring I O devices on page 136 You can place such I O controls onto layouts like camera controls Here are some icons representing the various states of input and output contacts z input contacts Output contacts 1 From the list of controls at the right side drag an I O control icon with t
46. of all cameras for further details see 7 1 3 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 51 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 fps and 20 days for reduced archive with 3 fps will maintain an archive containing recent 10 days with 25 fps and the remaining 20 days will be automatically reduced to 3 fps 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 soon as the scheduled time is reached recording is started with these settings 7 1 2 Scheduli
47. of the views in the round tour Smart Guard function The name of the round tour now appears in green to show that it is active You can stop the tour by choosing a view from the View selector the Round tour selector will change its color to normal to show that no tour currently is active 6 8 Copying views between users If there are several users in a system it can be a lot of work to create views for each user individually In order to help Observer 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 view Control 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
48. opens the Add new control icon dialog which is essentially the same as the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 98 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 atthe right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click on a zone icon with the right mouse button and choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify Zone dialog 99 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 100 Highlight color Actions Single click Double click Mouse over Mouse over delay Context menu actions Show zone live in Observer Client Stop motion detection Start continuous recording Stop analog video decode Start motion detection Decode video to analog Stop continuous recording Event Motion detected Connection to camera restored _ No action Ne View selected in Observer Client Color Opacity 100 Connection to camera lost No action z 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
49. other dialogs as well 17 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Working with sessions of pre 4 0 servers The Starter also allows you to also manage sessions with Observer servers running releases older than 4 0 Just select the checkbox Show settings for pre 4 0 releases to show the additional settings Description of elements Element 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 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 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 CP
50. rate in favor of quality in the case the bandwidth would exceed the supplied limit Fields for In camera motion detection please refer to 8 3 In camera motion detection on page 67 for further details Field label Your input Receive event images via If this checkbox is marked you enable the In camera motion FTP detection and tell Observer to receive event images via FTP Please be aware that if you select this checkbox the server based motion detection must be disabled Receive event images via The same as above just that the images are received via HTTP HTTP protocol Some cameras support only HTTP Post recording length sec When Observer receives an in camera event then it can start a parallel server side recording in addition to the event images it receives from the camera The event images received from the camera via 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 Observer does not start its own server side recording of images and just stores the event images it receives from the camera via FTP HTTP Recording frequency This field defines the recording frequency of the above mentioned parallel server side post event recording Push the Next button at the bottom of the dialog This invokes the Scheduling dialog Please refer to 7 1 Programming archive recordings on page 49 on how to set up the camera archive and scheduling Op
51. screen see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 18 for details However you can of course run both tools on the same screen as well Please note Currently LNT can only display MJPEG camera streams MPEG camera streams are not yet supported 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 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 The Layout Navigation is installed automatically when you install the locally installed Observer client Please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 15 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 start the layout navigation tool the same way as you can start the installed Observer client Please refer to 2 3 2 Starting the installed Observer client on page 15 93 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual The layout navigation tool LNT main window looks like this hestian 60 81 130 20 ue hed Layout hierarchy Event list Event description gung im Bikdsegmert BevatorComes der Kamera netavis Axis2120 0 Acknowledge Event count unacknowledged and not yet visited 4 3 Status line 13 4 Setting up a project and definin
52. the Observer servers in the network that then in turn controls the Observer video wall clients that directly connect to the monitors of the video wall 15 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer 15 1 1 General setup considerations The video wall control application connects to an Observer server normally a user server NUS in order to control the display of the video wall clients It is possible to choose any server in the network for that purpose However all cameras that you want to display on the video wall must be accessible by this server i e must be configured at this server or must be mounted from other servers 127 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual It is also possible to use more than 1 server for providing the streams for the video wall this depends on how you setup your server network topology In such a case the VWCA and also the video wall clients that directly connect to the monitors must connect to these servers For simplicity and easier setup and management of the video wall we suggest using one Observer server for driving the video wall Each video wall client workstation PC can drive several monitors of the video wall how many depends on your hardware setup i e graphics card Each such video wall monitor has to map to one window in the Observer client User management for the video wall You will need a few users to manage video wall functions appropriately Generally these users must have access ri
53. the Start button Eal 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 Si Caution Since the motion detection actually runs on the Observer server and can potentially use up a lot of CPU resources please be careful selecting the detection fields and also the time period Especially if you have selected a long time period in the Calendar the motion detection can take a lot of time As mentioned above you can always stop a running archive motion detection 7 While the motion detection is running the detected motions are displayed in the hit list sorted by the time in which the motion occurred In our example we have 2 hits PreiPost alarm sec 1 g 37 27 02 2007 15 25 24 62 27 02 2007 15 26 25 8 Youcan replay the events by just selecting the event with the mouse The playback time before and after the event can be defined by the Pre Post event sec fields You can change the values according to your needs Please note that there must be archived pre and post event recordings available in order to be replayed 9 You can step through the events by pushing the Previous 4 and Next buttons 7 5 External archive management NEA 7 5 1 Introduction to external archives NEA Starting with release 4 4 Observer offers external archives NEA for portable archive recordings Simply connect an external storage devic
54. the event and the cameras with IDs 3 and 4 in the view named my view in all connected client sessions pop 3 my_fifo 3 4 mike 192 168 7 12 shows a live view of camera which triggered the event and the cameras with IDs 3 and 4 in the view named my_fifo where the IP address of the client workstation is 192 168 7 12 and user mike is logged in pop 4 my_dynamic 3 4 shows live view of camera which triggered the event and the cameras with IDs 3 and 4 in the view named my_dynamic in all connected client sessions Push the Save button NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 7 Working with archive recordings This section shows you how to work with the Observer recording archive particularly in the following areas e Programming archive recordings timed or triggered by iCAT video analytics events e Selection and playback of archive recordings Please note In order to work with archive recordings you need to have the appropriate user privileges and camera access rights for further details see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 and 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 36 7 1 Programming archive recordings Two types of programming are available in Observer e timed recording e recording on iCAT video analysis events like motion detection or people counting To be able to program recordings you need corresponding authorization 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings 1 Choose Camera admin from the
55. to receive an SMS in the event of an alarm or failure provide his cell phone number Please insert a full international number starting with a Example 43 123 456 7890 Please note that an SMS sending device has to be connected to the Observer server for this feature to work Refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for information about supported devices and how to connect and setup them If the user is to receive an e mail in the event of an alarm or failure provide his e mail address Specify the preferred language for this user Defines whether this user should be logged in automatically when nobody else logs at the login panel in for 1 minute This option can be enabled for only one user at a time Defines the relative PTZ priority between users A user with higher priority can take away PTZ control from a user with lower priority Please note The automated PTZ actions started by the event manager and scheduled routes have priority 4 Therefore users with priority 1 to 3 will be overridden by automatic PTZ actions whereby users with priority 5 to 10 can override automatic PTZ actions but will not be interrupted by them Maximum allocation time after which a PTZ camera is automatically released Zero means no limit When a user has taken PTZ control and is inactive for a certain amount of time the PTZ camera is freed automatically after this timeout Zero means no timeout Push N
56. tool bar In editing mode the LNT window now has added a new control icon list 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 cameras I O contacts and zones After you planned your layout hierarchy you have to select appropriate images for the various layouts The layout navigation tool supports popular image graphics file formats like GIF JPEG PNG etc Depending on your needs and the available screen resolution for the layout navigation 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 Creating a new layout To create a new layout follow these steps 1 2 In the layout navigation 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 In the Layout menu choose New which opens the Layout dialog Biaos Layout name Ground floor Preview background image Parent Alarm Layout background file mx10 2 36 49_2008 01 24_ 164430 jpg floor_plan4 jpg floor_plan3 jpg floor_plan1 jpg Enter a name for the layout Select a background image from the list of available uploaded images or push Upload to upload a
57. updated by the master automatically As long as there is no master in the sync group which may happen during set up of the sync group no modification is possible at all Click on the Next button Now you see the Server Parameters dialog Following settings are available Field label Description Event storage period days Defines how many days events are stored Any events that are older than these days will be deleted from the event database Max number of events storedon Defines how many events can be stored in the event Field label server Server timezone abbreviation 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 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Description 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 GMT Greenwich Mean Time CET Central European Time GMT 1 MIT Pacific Apia GTM 11 HST Hawaiian Standard Time GMT 10 AST America Anchorage GMT 9 PST Pacific GMT 8 MST Mountain GMT CST Central GMT 6 EST Eastern GMT 5 PRT America Puerto_Rico GMT 4 CNT America St_Johns GMT 3 5 AGT America Buenos_Aires GMT 3 ART Africa Cairo GMT
58. with archive recordings on page 49 Here you find the steps how to configure the parameters for simple motion detection 8 1 1 Preparation Before you begin to configure a motion detection definition be sure that you have the necessary authorization to make settings If you are not sure please ask your Observer administrator Please note Motion detection for PTZ cameras is problematic since normal movement of the camera will trigger a motion detection event 8 1 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection If you are not already running the Observer client application open your Internet Explorer and log in to your Observer server and your Observer system 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 64 PY QP Or SB GO co amp 11 12 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual axis2110 10 Identifier C Rectangle 7 Polygon Enabled Ipe Sipe noton cscs sere Identifier MD Sample frequency fps 1 pic sec Comment Time between events sec 3 0 Icon Default Pixel change threshold 20 0 Sound Default Pixel change 0 0 36 94 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
59. 1 H 2 D 3 T 133 4 To choose what iCAT information to display you have these options In the Online monitor in the view port of a camera that has iCAT processing enabled the view port control menu offers an iCAT info display menu for setting the display for all view ports in a view the same menu is also available via the View control menu Set parameters of all view ports Also in the Archive player you also have an iCAT button with the same menu The iCAT info display menu allows you to select from various display options For each of these options you can select Show always Show on mouse over and Do not show For some you also can select Show on event The display options are Tracking boundaries Event trigger lines boxes Object markers Event count fields Object defines whether the object tracking region boundaries should be shown 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 sec defines whether the event count fields are to be displayed in the lower left corner of the view port When enabled the count information will be displ
60. 6 6 Manual recording control in the Online Monitor In addition to programmed recordings you can also manually start and stop continuous recordings directly in the Online monitor When manual recording control is set up a recording button is shown in camera view ports in the Online monitor 6 6 1 Setting up manual recording control To enable recording control you must do 2 things e Enable the manual recording camera access right for the user e Setup a continuous 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 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 36 for a general description on how to set camera access rights 1 Login as administrator user or another user with the right to modify user data 2 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog 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 r
61. In this case the full functionality may not be available See also 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for further details about licensing Using a different directory for the installed client application components Per default the downloaded client application components will be installed in the directory SUSERPROFILE netavisLibs e g C Documents and Settings user netavisLibs You can redefine this directory by setting the environment variable NETAVIS_DIRECTORY The directory must exists prior to starting the Observer client If the variable does not exist the client components will be installed in the standard directory Here is how you can set an environment variable in Windows 7 1 Right click on the Computer icon in your Explorer or on your Desktop and choose Properties 2 Inthe System window click on Advanced system settings in the left pane 3 Inthe System Properties window select Advanced tab and click on the button Environment Variables at the bottom of the dialog 4 Inthe Environment Variables window you will notice two tables User variables for the current user and System variables for all users 5 To add anew User variable click on New button In the New User Variable dialog box enter the variable name NETAVIS_DIRECTORY and the location of the directory and then click OK The default location would be SUSERPROFILE netavisLibs 6 Click OK in the Environment Variables dialog window and close the
62. Installation bzw das Anzeigen des Inhalts sollte nur erfolgen wenn Sie Xperts Software Ltd vertrauen Zugelassene Signatur Volle Zugriffsrechte C Inhalt von Xperts Software Ltd immer vertrauen 13 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 L Your client needs further program components Install program components from Server over network Cancel Normally you want choose to install the program components from Server over network However if you have a very slow network connection between the client and the server you might want to choose installation from Local media When you choose this option you will be asked to locate the directory ClientInstaller of the Observer installation CD Once you choose the correct location and push OK the components will be installed 5 Next you either come to the login panel or to the license dialog If the license dialog appears you yet have to obtain a license for using Observer Please consult the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for information on how to do that At the login panel enter your Login name and Password and click OK Passw
63. JPEG 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 M JPEG MPEG 4 Bandwidth Frame rate 1 4 5 J PEG 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 Observ
64. Manual Field label Your input slave such a case your current local server is the upgrade master and the remote host the upgrade slave For details about distributed upgrades please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Accept software upgrades Check this option if you want to accept automatic distributed from remote server software upgrades of the current server slave initiated by the upgrade master remote server master In such a case your current local server is the upgrade slave and the remote host the upgrade master For details about distributed upgrades please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Request license from Check this option if your current Observer server should check out remote server license licenses from the remote server license master For details about master floating network licenses please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Use secure connection Select this checkbox if you want to use an encrypted connection HTTPS between the two servers SSL HTTPS Please be aware that an encrypted connection needs more CPU resources on both servers See also 1 3 Observer data security on page 6 Click on Save to save your settings Now you are ready to import cameras or camera groups from a remote Observer server 12 3 Working with cameras of another server In order to work with came
65. O deviceio DeviceMappings xml 16 7 3 Upload and activate the XML config files You can upload and activate the function by following these steps 136 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that In the Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file In the opened file dialog choose the file server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml and upload it to the server Please restart Observer to activate settings of the automatic event export 137 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 17 Index 4CIF 9 A ABS transcoding for low bandwidth connections 21 configuring ABS 86 Acknowledging events 70 Active Directory 37 AES encryption of video recordings 87 Alarms see Events 74 Annotating videos with data from external sources 131 Anonymize voice 27 Apple iPad 20 Apple iPhone 20 Archive See Recording Aspect ratio of JPEG images 9 26 of Online monitor views 39 PAL NTSC VGA HDTV 39 Audio playback in archive 56 settings 27 working with cams 46 AVI exporting from archive 58 Bandwidth limiting overall outgoing bandwidth of server 86 support for low bandwidth via Transcoding 21 Brightness 31 C Calendar in archive 52 138 Camera access rights for users 36 default settings 27 duplicate existing camera with similar settings 31 groups 32 moving
66. Please refer to 5 4 Working with user groups on page 36 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 Your input Login name This is a short name that the user will use to log in Full user name This is the complete name of the user Password Enter a password for the user The user can change this later on see 5 7 Changing the password on page 37 Re enter password Enter the password again for verification Secondary password Enable the checkbox and enter a secondary password if a secondary password is needed for logging in the user This is important for enforcing the four eyes principle for certain video operations Re enter sec password tis Enter the secondary password again for verification Forgot question Formulate a question that only the user can answer if he has forgotten his password 34 7 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 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Your input Provide the answer to the above password question If the user is
67. 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 to filter out repetitive events Minimum time sec 3 means that after one motion detection event has been triggered at least 3 seconds must pass before another Motion Detection event can be generated 65 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 13 15 16 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 Optionally you can define a specific event icon and sound for this defi
68. RL key while using the mouse Crosshair When this mode is enabled a crosshair is shown in the view port prosterese eeeperesenecese s Medium movement up 23 pase Small movement right Large zoom in 79 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Controlling PTZ cameras with a joystick The locally installed version of Observer is able to handle USB joysticks as input device from Java VM 1 4 and newer for information on how to install the application version locally please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 15 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 J ump 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 10 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions on page 76 2 To automatically follow a predefined PTZ route choose it from PTZ gt Select PTZ route in the view port control menu of the PTZ came
69. RY_a241s 45 fps objekt stoppt vor theke Q 0H 0D 1T 14 counter 1 Q 0H 0D 17T 1 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 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose a camera and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Privacy mask which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview choose the Rectangle or Polygon check box Now you can draw the privacy field with the mouse in the preview pane For a polygon you just click with the mouse to define the corners of the polygon You close the polygon by crossing an existing edge or by double clicking with the mouse In the Identifier text field enter a name for this privacy mask 7 Push Save to save your definition aR wo NM D 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 120 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 relate
70. 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 Observer If you setup an IP camera then the camera itself also can be configured This is normally done via a web based interface of the camera Please consult the manual of your IP camera for further details 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties Start the Observer client application see 2 Observer clients on multiple platforms on page 11 You can either e add anew camera from scratch or e duplicate an existing camera and just modify some parameters see 4 2 2 Duplicating an existing camera on page 31 Duplicating an existing camera creates an exact duplicate with all settings copied This is useful when you have more than one camera of the same type or with equal similar settings like recording or video analytics settings 4 2 1 Adding a camera from scratch 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 With a mouse click select the camera group to which you want to add the new camera later on you can move the camera in the camera tree to a different group 3 Choose Add new camera from the menu The Properties dialog opens in which you can configure the camera Enter your camera data in the corresponding fields Use the following table as a guide Fields labeled in bold are mandator
71. System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera for which you want to program archive recording When you select the camera highlighted in light blue its data are displayed in the Properties dialog at the right side of the screen 3 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group 4 Atthe bottom of the screen click on the Next button twice This takes you to the Scheduling dialog If you are setting up a new camera this dialog will be quite empty Note some fields and buttons are deactivated 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 e AXIS 2130 14 00 00 24 00 E Change a bd i Ada Delete Change The new entry will be selected 49 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 6 Click the Change button now enabled and choose Continuous recording 50 Now the Scheduling dialog shows the settings for configuring continuous recording e 207mw 4 9 12 Scheduling Recording format JPEG stream Image quality Medium q Frame rate oe Image size 320x240 QVGA 4 I D roa eite Continuous recording V Enable
72. TZ route This will show the PTZ scheduling settings see above 7 Set the time settings according to your needs Dapy 80 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 8 Select the route from the Route Name pop up menu in the example above we selected Route 1 9 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 81 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 11 Administrating Observer servers This chapter describes how to e get status information about runningObserver servers e set server parameters e start stop servers e administrate external NEA storages Further information about administrating servers you find in the document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration 11 1 Server system information and restarting Observer offers 2 sets of status information of the running servers in a network e The server load display in the main client window e The System information dialog in the Admin area 11 1 1 Server load display The server load display is located in the status bar of the main client window and shows the following information CPU xx 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 r
73. 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 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 49 and 7 1 3 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 51 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 Observer server Since the steps for doing that are very camera specific you must consult the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources To program the camera s detection algorithm please 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 68 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 9 Handling events Observer can record and display events of various types They can be camera related events like video analytics events archive access by a user or camera failures but also system related events like user logon and logoff Events are displayed in Event lists of the client and are stored in the central event database of the server were they can also be queried They have several properties that de
74. U In multi screen operation overlay painting of MPEG video streams may result in pink colored view ports if the client is not running on the primary screen of Windows Then you should turn off this feature 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation Observer supports multi window and multi screen operation With clients that have multiple screens connected you can position windows at different screens Here is an example of a client setup with 3 screens 18 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual _ _ _ Monitor 1 Monitor 2 Monitor 3 Live overview Live alarm view Recording archive incl event list and incl prioritized event list and incl event markers iCAT triggers iCAT statistics diagram The window contents and positions are automatically stored per user and between sessions This means when a user has multiple windows positioned on 3 screens and he exits and then logs in again all the windows on the 3 screens will automatically be restored Please note There can only be one Archive player and this is located in the main window 2 4 1 Creating a new window In the main application window select New window from the Windows menu The window title and the contents of the window can be adapted by choosing Client preferences in the Observer menu see below 2 4 2 Defining what components to display in a window For each window you can define which of these components should be displayed in the window e Onl
75. _large amp action cameraid 12 Create action which draws a red box for two seconds onto the frame of camera ID 12 in the Online Monitor of the admin user http 192 168 7 2 arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd clientcontrol amp selector user admi n amp selector user admin selector tool online_monitor amp action action draw_bounding_box amp box x0 100 amp box y0 100 amp box x1 500 amp box y1 500 amp box linewidth 2 amp box color red amp box text MD amp box timeout 3 amp action cameraid 12 Each server offers a simple test page for URL control at the following address http lt your server gt URLtest jsp 16 4 Matrix view function of the Online monitor VIP control With the matrix view function also called VIP control you can control which cameras defined in a bigger matrix are displayed in a view in the Online monitor For example assume you have a big area covered with 50 cameras Each of these 50 cameras cover a part of the overall area The Matrix view function now allows you to position all the cameras in a huge virtual matrix covering the whole area Cam11 am16 Cam17 Cam18 Cam21 Cam22 Cam23 Cam24 Cam25 jCam26 Cam28 Cam29 Cam31 Cam32 Cam33 Cam34 Cam35 Cam36 Cam38 Cam39 Now assume that in the Observer Online monitor you want to show adjacent cameras of this virtual matrix in a 3x3 view Whenever you double click any of the 50 cameras in any of the views in Observer this camera is then
76. age 106 objects will only be detected after a few frames Therefore an object can move a bit before it is actually detected as object by iCAT Therefore it makes sense to have the green area big 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 speed and iCAT video processing frame rate Do not place the tripwire too close to areas where objects exit the scene e g image borders doors because they might disappear before crossing the tripwire It is a good practice to draw the tripwire about half the average object size away from such areas You can also define when an object is counted by either selecting Object center point Any point of object or Whole object The most appropriate choice in most cases Object center point because of its robustness When you push the Next button you can define additional constraints for the event creation You can limit the counting only to certain object sizes certain aspect ratios and a certain speed Currently those measures are definable in pixels please keep in mind that the resolution iCAT works on is either CIF or QVGA depending on the aspect ratio of the camera Future releases of iCAT will allow for real world measures Zero values in these fields mean that there is no constraint Hint fo
77. ames while iCAT offers intelligent object detection and tracking For more details on iCAT refer to 14 Video analytics with iCAT on page 105 Observer offers two mechanisms for simple motion detection e Observer s own server based motion detection The images are analyzed by the Observer server The advantage of this method is that it works with any camera even old cameras The disadvantage might be that if there are many cameras that transfer their images to the server for analysis the bandwidth of the network could be burdened and also the server could be overloaded e in camera motion detection The images are analyzed in the camera and only when detection occurs an event and image data are sent to the Observer server that then stores the event and the images in its archive The advantage of this method is that the network and the server are not burdened The disadvantage is that it works only with special cameras that offer this feature and that the motion detection settings have to be programmed in the camera directly 8 1 Observer s own server based motion detection The simple motion detection feature of Observer can recognize motion by detecting pixel changes between video frames Such a detection can then trigger the following predefined actions e Entry of events in an Event list optionally accompanied by an acoustic signal e Changes in recording behavior e g higher recording rate if that has been programmed see 7 Working
78. an Observer server You can use any workstation PC in the network also your standard Observer client workstation to run the VWCA client Parallel working of multiple VWCAs It is possible that multiple operators work on the same video wall In this case Observer always executes the last command no matter who initiated it Therefore we assume a cooperative multitasking style which means that the operators have coordinate with each other Supported browsers e Mozilla Firefox 10 0 or higher e Google Chrome 17 0 or higher e Other browsers with HTML5 compatibility 15 2 1 Starting the video wall control application You can start the video wall control application VWCA in a web browser with the following URL lt your server address gt videowall Please note VWCA stores its configuration information like monitor settings linked servers etc on the server where it was started from If you want to control more than 1 Observer servers with your VWCA you have to start it always from the same server VWCA has the following components aa video wall admin 192 168 7 221 e Camera tree o m lt e che son i le le i Ps A P weo wall layout properties default Matrix j oust1 Cameras 412 792 Name default aP ALLNET ALL2297 Rows 4 fe wR j a Sony ch120 Columns 4 x Sony ch140 3 eneo _ E r 7 Zoom 2 8 i
79. analog cameras connected directly via a video capture card NDS If you are adding an analog camera via a video capture card NDS or via a video server specify the port of the capture card or video server to which the camera is connected This setting is only enabled for certain IP cameras that are shipped with different aspect ratios like PAL or NTSC For cameras that are delivered in one standard only the correct value is set automatically and cannot be changed Please select the correct value for your camera If you select a value that does not fit your camera then the image might be distorted Please refer also to 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 9 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 If the camera supports encrypted streaming using HTTPS this setting will be enabled It defines whether streaming from the camera is encrypted using HTTPS Please note that encryption needs significantly more CPU resources on the server than unencrypted communication see also 1 3 Observer data security on page 6 This option is only relevant
80. and does not cause additional bandwidth If the size of the stream is bigger than CIF iCAT downscales it to CIF or QVGA or nearest resolution Any pixel measures that are available in iCAT are relative to this resolution Future releases will also allow you to select higher resolutions for the iCAT algorithms CPU load of iCAT performance issues 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 106 e The size area of all the active tracking regions of all cameras of a server This means that optimizing the tracking regions will save CPU power The number and shape of event triggers is negligible e The video processing speed in fps of iCAT e The streaming format see above An Observer server running with iCAT on standard not high end desktop server hardware can easily handle approximately 10 iCAT enabled cameras with standard settings Additional CPU power like quad core enhanced RAM speed and bigger L2 caches help to boost the iCAT performance Multi streaming operation with iCAT As indicated above iCAT normally needs much more CPU power for processing MPEG streams MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG than for processing MJPEG streams Therefore Observer can pull two parallel streams from the camera if the camera supports that one MPEG stream for live viewing and recording and 1 additional MJPEG stream f
81. at the above steps for all monitors of the video wall 15 2 3 Operating the video wall with the video wall control application VWCA You have several possibilities for controlling the contents video wall monitors When you select a monitor by clicking on the monitor title bar inside VWCA you can Select a view from the View list Please note that each window in Observer can have several views Drag drop a camera from the camera tree to a view port in a monitor Please note that you drag a camera only to the view port of a monitor that also has the appropriate server link Impossible camera drops are prohibited and are shown with a red cross Push the Back and Next buttons at the monitor title bars to move in history You can also specifically select a point in the history by selecting it from the History tab in the Properties pane Please note that the status bar shows the camera name when you move the mouse pointer over monitor view ports 130 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 16 Special functions This chapter describes some special functions of Observer 16 1 Video annotations Video streams for live viewing and recording can be annotated with text that then displayed in the video stream The annotations can come from external data sources and can be stored in the event database for later retrieval and search Annotations can be created via the SNAP XML interface or with a simple shell command with command line options Examp
82. ate is displayed below the percent value in Megabytes sec or Kilobytes sec The IDB display does not appear if the server does not record Note that the IDB load also increases when the server removes video data when the storage is full 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 11 1 2 System information dialog 1 Choose System information from the System administration menu This opens the System information dialog The table shows the connected servers and their state 82 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Name shows the name of the server and the Observer version running State shows whether the server is running and if there is a failure the server in the screenshot above is running Ok License shows the license of the Observer server e OBS represents the basic functionality e Installation types e STD Standard Server e AS Appl
83. ayed 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 my y i objekt stoppt vor theke Q 1H 10 2 7 2 counter 1 Q 3H 3D 4T 4 There are two event triggers a field for counting stopped objects and a people counting tripwire counter 1 defines whether object bounding boxes should be displayed 123 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual bounding Here is an example of an object bounding box displayed boxes 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 108 This is an example of visual object count statistics ENTRY_a241s 5 fps i objekt stoppt aufteppich Q B HD D 0 T 4172 counter 1 Q 0 H 0 D 0 T 128 To choose what Visual statistics to display you have these options In the Online monitor in the view port of a camera that has iCAT processing enabled the view port control menu offers a Visual statistics menu for setti
84. bigger the frame rate the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the more space for recording will be needed For single stream JPEG cameras this value defines the maximum possible frame rate In the Online monitor and for recording lower frame rates can be selected For MPEG streams defines the how many frames are sent and stored in a GOP group of pictures One GOP is an integral data packet that is transmitted and recorded Our default value is 10 which means that there is 1 reference frame I frame and 9 difference frames P frames A bigger GOP size means a higher compression rate but also a somewhat lower quality and a bigger delay between a real scene and its viewed images which is relevant e g for live viewing in the Online Monitor We think that a GOP size of 10 is optimal for most case which dependent on camera model covers a time between 0 5 1 sec 29 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 30 Field label Your input Bandwidth limit Kbps 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
85. ble recordings The holiday calendar is defined in an XML file that can be accessed via the standard server web page 16 5 1 Download the XML config file You can access the XML file in a web browser from the server s web page 1 At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 134 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 3 Inthe list of files find and save HolidayCalendar SAMPLE xml to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu 16 5 2 Edit the XML config file Edit the file according to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file When you are done with editing save the file The SAMPLE file has to be renamed to HolidayCalendar xml Please note The holiday calendar has to be configured on camera servers NCS Controlling recording over user servers NUS is not supported 16 5 3 Upload and activate the XML config file You can upload and activate the function by following these steps 1 At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file In the opened file dialog choose the file HolidayCale
86. can also choose a specific Icon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar 2 Youcan also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 69 3 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 120 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 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Choose a camera and in the menu select Add new definition 3 Inthe Type pop up menu choose Sabotage detection which will expose the configuration settings 4 Select any of the three sabotage detection types 5 Inthe Identifier text field enter a name for
87. 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 When there are several new events then LNT offers you to see visit them one by one The exact behavior of the visiting and how the event state can be set to seen visited can be defined in the Project settings see 13 6 7 Project settings on page 104 You can for example mark a new event as seen and jump to the next event by moving the mouse over the blinking control
88. can now define its shape by clicking at further corners To finish the link field definition close the polygon shape Alternatively you can create a rectangular link field by pressing the CTRL key while moving the mouse After you finished defining the shape of the link field a dialog is opened offering the available layouts for this link field Choose a layout by double clicking or by pushing the Select button This defines which layout is to be opened when the link field double clicked in Navigation mode 2 Choose Save from the Project menu to save your changes Now you can repeat the steps above to create your overall layout hierarchy You can switch back to Navigation mode by clicking the navigation mode icon at the right side of the tool bar Defining a default project To define a default project to be loaded when LNT is started follow these steps 1 Inthe Project menu choose Set default project which opens a dialog listing all available projects Choose a project and push Select To not load a default project choose lt No default project gt from the list Now this project will be loaded automatically at startup Defining a home layout A home layout can be defined which is automatically shown when the project is loaded You can set the home layout by following these steps 1 Inthe layout hierarchy select the layout that you want to set as home layout 2 Inthe Layout menu choose Set as home Now this layout will be ope
89. ccording to column values by just clicking on the column title Little arrows after the title indicate the sorting order ascending or descending Clicking a column title again will change the sorting order For example you can sort the list according to event priority by clicking on the Priority column heading In an event list columns can be rearranged by clicking on a column title and dragging it with the mouse to the new location Unseen events have a light red background color As soon as an event has been opened in the Event details dialog its background color changes to light grey When an event is acknowledged it usually disappears from the event list However in the client preferences you can define whether acknowledged events should be displayed in the event list If so they appear with a white background color 9 1 1 Event details Double clicking on an event in the event list opens the Event details dialog Object stopped in field Object sits on chair of camera Axis 206 netavisDELL Name Camera ID Camera name Name of event Acknowledge and Next Acknowledge The first line contains the event text Further details of the event are listed at the left side of the dialog The exact contents of the event details depends on the event type but you will at least find the exact time when the event occurred and if it is camera related then also the camera ID an
90. cial cameras that have to record the requested storage period in any circumstances Observer offers the Priority over other cameras if storage space is short flag If this flag is set for a camera Observer always tries to store the requested period for this camera and truncates other cameras that do not have this flag set a little more If there is more than 1 camera that has the flag set the storage management process tries to store all of those cameras Algorithm of the dynamic storage management process Fill time percentage FTP 100 Actual recording time Requested recording time Observer tries to keep the FTP of all cameras of each of the two priority classes the same high priority cameras and lower priority cameras First the algorithm tries to fully record the high priority cameras and then use what is left for the lower priority ones whereby all of those will reach the same FTP However the low priority cameras can never go below an FTP of 10 If the low priority cameras reach a level of 10 then the storage management process starts truncating the archives of the high priority cameras as well Anyway this should never happen in a normal case and is only possible if the storage space is totally insufficient for holding the programmed recordings Since the storage management process considers recording time and not recording space for distributing the available space it happens that the relatively small recording space of a came
91. cking region defined that allows for object counting 3 Choose Add new definition from the menu 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 _ Rectangle Polygon v Tripwire This tripwire triggers a counting event whenever an object moves from the green area across the red tripwire The tripwire is smart as it only counts objects that have first been detected in the green area and move across It would not count the object if it would first be detected in the non green area then moved across the line into the green and then move across the tripwire from the green to the non green area It also would not double count an object that would have moved across the line twice Hints To count incoming and outgoing people or objects you would create two different tripwires with opposite green areas which would both trigger events You can also use the tripwire to detect objects moving in the wrong direction 111 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 10 112 Please note As indicated 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on p
92. current user by choosing Copy all views to other users If the users already have views with the same name as the 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 6 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Note In the current version of Observer MPEG and bidirectional audio is only supported by clients running on MS Windows For further details please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 Observer also supports MPEG cameras MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG with audio streaming see also 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 25 If the camera allows MPEG streaming you can select the MPEG streaming format from view port control menu Once the MPEG streaming is activated additional MPEG controls appear on the view port s 46 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual These controls allow you to see and modify Audio aspects Audio from the camera indicates that audio from the camera is on indicates that audio from the camera is off A click on the icon turns it on or off Audio to the camera 21 indicates that audio from your microphone to the camera is on B 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 Camera Admin set to Audio from and to share
93. d name are shown When you move the mouse over the camera preview area you will also see the video analytics object markers and annotations related to the event trigger as seen in the screen shot above Here is what you can do in the dialog by pushing various buttons e Start live stream starts live monitoring of the camera that triggered the event e Short event replay starts a playback of the event recording that triggered the event a replay is only available if the camera has been configured to record on the event e Goto Archive player opens the Archive player and starts a playback of the event recording 70 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Previous loads the previous event Next loads the next event Acknowledge and next acknowledges the event and loads the next event Acknowledge acknowledges the event and close the dialog Cancel closes the dialog 9 2 Searching in the event database PO Nor When you choose Event search from the Events menu the Event search dialog appears Select the Time filter according to your needs Push Search to display the results You can further constrain the search by setting values for Event type Name of camera Name of user or Event ID from to For some values an appropriate dialog will open e g the Event selection dialog Allevents System events L User logged out System malfunction messages Connection to host is lost Connection to ho
94. d 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 Youcan also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 69 117 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 3 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 120 14 3 8 Defining removed abandoned object detection iCAT offers to detect removed and abandoned objects in a defined 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 1 118 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera and in the 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
95. 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 94 provides details on how to plan the hierarchy Layouts that belong together and other related settings can be grouped together in so called projects Depending on the user rights several users can access and share the same projects and by thus layouts and settings On each layout you can place camera control icons that correspond to cameras on an Observer server The camera icons on layouts are interactive i e trigger certain actions when you move the mouse over them or click on them Such actions can be to show camera live image streams or its recording archive in the corresponding Observer client running on the same client workstation On layouts you can also define polygon shaped zones that group certain cameras together and that allow for smart ways of highlighting on events and for good synchronization with the Observer client Additionally you can also display and acknowledge Observer events in the tool All information used by the LNT e g project and layout definitions background images and camera mappings are stored on the Observer server Users can use the same LNT information as long as they load the same LNT project regardless on which client they work In a typical installation you would run the Observer client on one screen and the layout navigation tool on another
96. details Thus you can store and run different sessions easily The Session editor is opened when you push Add new or Modify and allows you can define the session details Element Session name Application Previous Sessions Hostname or IP Address Use secure connection Username Password Remember password Alternative Session Show message if alternative session started 16 Meaning Name under which the session is stored You can either choose Observer Client or Layout Navigation Tool for further details on the Layout Navigation Tool please refer to 13 Working with Layout Navigation on page 93 The selected application will start when you press OK Offers you the list of previously active sessions Enter the name or IP address of the server you want to connect to Select this checkbox if you want to use an encrypted connection between the client and the server SSL HTTPS Please be aware that an encrypted connection needs more CPU resources on the server and on the client See also 1 3 Observer data security on page 6 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 Here you can select another session out of the already defined session that should be started automatically when the server of this session is not accessible Select this checkbox if a message should be shown when the alterna
97. download the StatisticExportConfig sample xml 16 6 2 Edit the XML config file Edit the file according to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file When you are done with editing save the file If you want to access the generated statistics files via FTP we suggest that you create the output file in home admin If you want to put the file on a mounted network drive then use the mount location The SAMPLE file has to be renamed to StatisticExportConfig ACTIVE xml 135 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 16 6 3 Upload and activate the XML config file You can upload and activate the function by following these steps 1 At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file 3 Inthe opened file dialog choose the file StatisticExportConfig ACTIVE xml and upload it to the server 4 Please restart Observer to activate settings of the automatic event export 16 7 Configuring 1 0 devices Observer allows you to work with I O contacts of cameras and special I O devices The I O device configuration is done by XML files sitting on the server You must download edit and then upload the files in order to configure and activate the function 16 7 1 Download the XML config files You can access the XML fil
98. dwidth limit Description server disappear from the camera tree only the root element of the mounted camera tree remains visible painted in red This setting is only important for IP cameras that must actively access the server e g for FTP upload with in camera motion detection and only when the server is not accessible by the cameras at its set IP address but at a different address e g due to address mapping Per default this address always reflects the IP address of the server You can enter an IP address or a network name URL control is one way to enable third party applications to start actions via URL encoded strings send http GET request to an Observer server The server upon receiving these special URL requests executes the actions as if they would have been generated internally URL control is only enabled for computers whose IP addresses are entered in this fields comma separated list All other requests are blocked Please refer to the Release Notes for further details on URL control Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing live view streams ABS Zero means no transcoding and no limit for live view video streams Please read 2 6 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS on page 21 for choosing the best limit values Bandwidth limit per session for transcoded outgoing archive playback streams ABS Zero means no transcoding and no limit for archive playback streams
99. e Apple iPad client follow these steps 1 Goto the iTunes Store and search for NETAVIS 2 Install the Observer application on your iPad 2 5 3 Running the Observer client on a mobile device Apple iPad 1 Start the Observer iPad client 2 Connect to an Observer server and login 3 When you get the camera tree tap on a camera to 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 Smartphone browser client 1 Start a web browser on your smartphone 2 Enter the address of your Observer server and login Please note On a mobile device the Smartphone client should be activated automatically When that is not the case you can access the Smartphone client at lt my server gt browserclient 3 When you get the camera tree tap click on a camera to show the live stream 2 6 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS The unique Observer Transcoding technology also called ABS for adaptive balanced streaming reduces the necessary bandwidth for video streams to a fraction of the usual values Especially high resolution cameras can thus be streamed from server to clients over low bandwidth wide 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
100. e Event list or the Camera tree and drag it to a different location For example when the Online monitor and the Event list are enabled then you can drag the Event list from the default position at the right border of the window to the bottom of the window Events oO 4 ID Time gt gt a F 383671 31 03 2011 15 09 44 Z 994 1 03 2011 15 10 12 e Whether they are floating open when needed or there are new entries and collapsed or hidden otherwise or pinned always shown You can change the state of the Event list or the Camera tree by pinning or unpinning it in the title bar Whether the Event list or the Camera tree should fill the whole window You can maximize the component by pushing the maximize button E When a component is maximized it will occupy the whole space of the window and will automatically resize when you resize the window Thus you can create a window that contains only an Event list After you are done with the modifications deselect Windows gt Enable layout customization The default location for the Event list is the right window border and for the Camera tree that usually only pops up when needed it is the left window border Please note that only the Event list and the Camera tree can be dragged The other components in the window will then change their size accordingly 2 4 4 Deleting a window In the main application window select Delete window from the Windows menu A Delete windo
101. e by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the editing button atthe right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click on an I O control icon with the right mouse button and choose Modify from the pop up menu This opens the Modify control dialog Modify I O Contact Control e Name 1 0 output Activated state image 0_output_activated png Dectivated state image io_output_deactivated png In this dialog you can define the name of the control and the two images for activated and deactivated states The control type Input or Output cannot be modified 3 Click OK to save changes 13 5 6 Adding a new I O contact control 1 Switch to customizing mode by choosing Project gt Switch to editing mode or by pushing the customize button at the right side of the tool bar In the control icon list click the right mouse button and choose Add I O contact from the pop up menu This opens the Modify I O Contact Control dialog for an screen shot see 13 5 5 Modifying I O contact control appearance and behavior on page 101 In this dialog you can define the name of the control and the two images for activated and deactivated states Also set the Control type An Input contact displays the state of the input contact of an I O device An Output contact allows you to switch an output contact of an I O device For example for an input contact that shows the state of a gate barrier you can use
102. e 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 120 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 Observer event is generated by 110 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual iCAT Such events can trigger automatic recording and are stored in the normal Observer event database that can be queried and exported Currently iCAT supports the following event triggers 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 Please note Before you can define an object trigger you must first define an object tracking region see 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region on page 108 Here are the steps for creating a counting tripwire 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Select a camera make sure that you have a suitable tra
103. e in a web browser from the server s web page 1 At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 3 Inthe list of files you find several XML files that are responsible for the device configuration XML file name Trigger action server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml Actual I O device configuration server externallO deviceio DeviceTypeDescriptor Device descriptor files not intended for lt device_type gt xml modification by you Save server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml and the to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu Please note If there is no such file then download the server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings sample xml 16 7 2 Edit the XML config files Edit the file server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file For each supported I O device types there is a device descriptor file server externallO deviceio DeviceTypeDescriptor lt device_type gt xml For configuring a device you must refer to one of the supported devices in server externallO deviceio DeviceMappings xml When you are done with editing save the file Please note The sample file has to be renamed to server externall
104. e installed to handle the workload 12 1 1 Camera servers NCS and user servers NUS In a network of multiple servers the individual servers usually work in different roles Camera servers NCS Network Camera Server A camera servers NCS mainly manages cameras it stores recordings and optionally runs video analytics on the video streams of the connected cameras It also stores the events related to the connected cameras A NCS usually does not serve any user clients directly but it offers its cameras to user servers for mounting User server NUS Network User Server A user server handles user clients It usually mounts cameras from multiple camera servers and also receives events from them Thus a user connecting to a NUS can have access to the cameras of all camera servers A user server usually does not manage any cameras directly and does not do any recording or any video analytics However it usually does store the events of all the mounted NCS in its central event database 12 1 2 Keeping multiple users servers in sync Synchronization groups In a larger system that requires multiple user servers NUS it can be cumbersome to manually keep all user configuration data synchronized between all user servers Thus Observer offers the concept of so called synchronization groups In a synchronization group a master user server automatically propagates its configuration data complete user configuration data and camera configuration da
105. e to these dialogs Push Save Once you have enabled a group for AD LDAP import you must setup the connection to an AD LDAP server dis 5 Choose Active directory configuration from the menu This opens the Active directory configuration dialog this dialog actually is part of the Host admin dialog In this dialog you can e define the connection to an AD LDAP server e define an AD LDAP filter to match a certain AD group set of users for importing to Observer e define the Tag mapping between AD LDAP and Observer Choose Modify host from the menu Under Connection parameters define the filters for matching a certain AD group set of users for importing to Observer Under Observer group name you must enter the name of a user group in Observer for which you enabled the Users of this group are imported from Active Directory Please note that AD servers usually can be accessed at Port 389 With Test connection you can check whether the server can be accessed with these values Under Directory parameters define the AD LDAP filters to match a certain AD group set of users for importing to Observer The filter fields Search base AD group name Directory address are available for further constraining the matched user group in AD and need to contain the fully qualified strings in AD e g OU Video users DC netavis DC net In Observer group name please add the name of the Observer group where the users are to be imported Select
106. e via eSATA to the server then Observer can save video streams on the external storage in addition to the main archive storage Thus it executes a second mirrored or double recording recording on the external NEA device in addition to standard recording The external archive can then be carried and connected to another Observer server for replay and analysis NEA also offers a swap function that allows the easy exchange of external storage devices during active recording without additional user interaction therefore no particular operator expertise is needed for the exchange 61 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual This chapter describes how you can manage removable storage devices NEA devices for external video recording Please note The NEA recording on the external device is exactly the same as the standard recording on the main storage at least as long as there is enough space on the device The same recording algorithm is used for NEA as the main storage This means when the NEA device is running out of space the oldest recordings will be overwritten For a detailed description of how Observer manages recordings please refer to 7 1 3 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management on page 51 Apart from the NEA management functions in the client NEA storage devices can also be configured and managed via the admin command line interface of Observer see NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Some more advanced
107. ected 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 Dapy 14 4 3 Working with iCAT events Working with iCAT events is the same as working with other events of the Observer event management system EMS as described in 9 Handling events on page 69 Currently iCAT generates events of the following types as shown in the event type hierarchy dialog of the Event search see 9 1 Event list and event details on page 69 Camera specific messages State change events Video analysis CAT 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 125 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual You can differentiate events for the various iCAT event triggers by their names You can also create event statistics reports in Excel XLS format see 9 3 Generating an event statistics report on page 73 126 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 15 Video walls with Observer The Observer video wall soluti
108. ections 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 119 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 the 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 the scenery is clear the interesting object is visible then the
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110. efinition itself When you have setup all these things the user should receive an Email with an attached alarm image on every event 75 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 10 Working with PTZ cameras Observer features the control of PTZ cameras pan tilt zoom Note To configure and work with PTZ cameras you need the corresponding user privileges and camera access rights see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 and 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 36 If you find that you do not have the authorizations you need please contact your Observer administrator 10 1 Setting up a PTZ camera Setting up a PTZ camera is the same procedure as setting up a camera without PTZ functionality 4 Setting up cameras on page 25 The user must possess the user specific camera authorizations see 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 36 to permit PTZ access 10 2 Defining fixed PTZ positions Choose PTZ from the System administration menu This opens the PTZ dialog From the camera tree select the PTZ camera whose PTZ positions you want to program In the menu select Add new definition In the Name field enter a designation for the position and then use the PTZ control elements to move to the desired position detailed explanation of control elements in Section 10 4 Controlling PTZ cameras on page 77 5 Click on Save to save your configuration Then you can repeat steps 3 to 5 to define additional PTZ positions 6 Fro
111. ely for the RTSP port This defines whether the image data are encrypted with AES Value 0 switches off encryption default Entering the value 1 or 2 will switch on AES encryption of the video recording Value 1 means the system will store the encryption key on a local server disk Value 2 will store the key on a USB device formatted with FAT32 which has to be plugged into the server If the device is not accessible then archive access is not possible Prior to inserting the USB device a writable directory nek must be created on the device this can be done under Windows for example Observer will search for this directory and store the key file in it After the USB device is detected and the key has been written to it the first time an event with following text is generated IDB encryption started USB device can be removed now for creating backup copy At this time the USB device can be removed from the server and a backup copy of the directory nek can be created Note that the stick must be inserted again before any archive query is started Warning Loss of the encryption key stored on the USB device will make archive access impossible Also encryption needs much more CPU power than no encryption see also 1 3 Observer data security on page 6 5 To modify any of these values select Modify host in the menu set the values and then press Save 87 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 12 Working with interco
112. empty but initialized e Unformatted the device must be initialized formatted first e Write error the device can be accessed in the Archive player Initializing a device and starting NEA recording When a new storage device is connected to the server via an eSATA connector then the device is shown in the NEA storage management dialog accessible from the System administration menu of the main window You can start NEA recording on the device by pushing the Initialize and start recording button A new device will automatically be initialized formatted for NEA before the recording starts This initialization is only executed once per device and it may take a while before it is finished When initialization is done recording will start automatically Next time recording will start immediately when you push the button Please note All data on a storage device will be deleted when it is initialized for NEA 62 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Stopping NEA recording and or ejecting a device In the NEA storage management dialog accessible from the System administration menu of the main window you can stop a NEA recording on the device by pushing the Stop eject button When you push the button all NEA recordings on the device will be stopped and the device will be unmounted ejected A dialog will open and ask you to unplug the device before pushing OK If you leave the device connected when you push OK the archive of the device w
113. en 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 D 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 58 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 7 3 3 Exporting a recording in SAFE format 1 aPron 10 In the Archive select a camera for the export In the Calendar select the time period for exporting In the Player view or in the Calendar view click the Export button Sto open the Export dialog Choose SAFE All images from Export format Enter the file for the video sequence to be exported Mark the first checkbox if you want to overwrite a file of the same name that might exist 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 Enter an Export file label which should describe the exported scenes 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 When you
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115. er for each VW client PC In the example diagram above it would be 2 users with names like VWPC1 and VWPC2 4 Start the Observer application on the first video wall client PC and login with the user of that client PC e g VWWPC1 5 For each video wall monitor you have to define a separate window in the Observer application there is a 1 to 1 mapping between video wall monitors and Observer application windows For each of these windows you can define multiple views with different layouts you can also add and modify views later on These views can later on be controlled by the video wall control application 6 Inthe Observer application position each of the created windows to the corresponding video wall monitors and put it in full screen mode You can do that by dragging the window with the mouse and then maximize the window 7 When you are done setting up all the video wall client PCs and windows monitors you can continue to configure and use the video wall control application see 15 2 Controlling the video wall with the control application on page 129 128 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 15 2 Controlling the video wall with the control application The video wall control application VWCA is a client server web application which you can activate from an Observer server from release 4 4 on The client part runs within a web browser and needs only minimal computer resources and the server part of the application runs on
116. er priority has already assumed PTZ control over the camera you will be denied control and notified in a window Then you need to wait until this user surrenders control or reaches his timeout A user with a higher PTZ priority can take away PTZ control from a user with lower PTZ priority Direct PTZ control inside a view port You have several options for directly controlling PTZ cams The various modes can be selected via PTZ gt PTZ control mode in the view port control menu The default setting is Continuous mode and Center on click As an alternate mode also an operation via a Crosshair is available Continuous mode available for joystick and mouse operation Click the mouse in the view port and drag it in the direction where you want the PTZ cam to move A red line indicates how fast the movement is When you release the mouse the movement will stop NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Center on Click A single mouse click somewhere in the view port commands the camera to center on the mouse click location Zooming Zooming is available via the mouse wheel zoom in forward scroll and zoom out backward scroll The amount of the zoom will be indicated by 3 red dots after the mouse is released Please note When PTZ control is enabled any mouse actions are taken for PTZ control In order to control the client based view port zooming see 7 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings on page 55 hold down the CT
117. er 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 l 160x120 QQVGA Medium 5 KB High 8 KB NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual JPEG Image size Image quality Storage per image approximately 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 l 640x480 VGA Medium 34 KB High 52 KB For mega pixel cameras the image size will be much bigger than shown in the table 10 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 2 Observer clients on multiple platforms 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients Once you have successfully installed Observer on your server authorized users can access the server via an Observer client Normally the Observer client runs on a PC separate from the server however in a client on server installation the client runs directly on the server see the document NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration for further information on how to create and run a client on server installation Clients for various platforms You can choose among these Observer clients operating systems and platforms Observer client OS and platform Supported functionality Locally installed desktop client MS Windows 7 XP Vista etc All i No audio layout navigation
118. era which is the same action as a double click in the view port The behavior of the action can be customized see document NETAVIS Observer Server Customizing 41 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 6 3 1 Optimizing big views of cameras views opened after a double click When you double click on a camera then the Observer does the following 1 Observer tries to open up an already existing big view that contains the camera or 2 incase this view is not present create a new view with these defaults MJPEG streaming VGA or PAL resolution and aspect ratio medium quality 10fps So if you want to adapt the appearance of big camera views create a view with this camera and adapt the settings The a double click will open this view You can group those big camera views into view groups by supplying view group names lake Big cam1 Big cam2 and so on 6 4 Modifying view port settings Observer allows you to set various options including video quality of either single view ports or all view ports in the current view at once The settings of a single view port can be modified via the view port s control menu that appears in the upper right corner of a view port when you move the mouse pointer over the view port The view port control menu offers the following options 6 4 1 Adding and removing cameras Cameras can be added and removed with the Add camera and Remove camera menu entries Please refer to section 6 2 Selecting ca
119. eration you can cancel the loading process by pushing the Cancel button 54 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Calendar Player i 2 AH se Playback acceleration 500 00 00 07 Previous timeline selections 16 02 2007 09 26 00 10 32 59 4 gt g Original size 16 02 2007 10 51 31 182 CET 16 02 2007 10 27 00 Z y B 16 02 2007 11 32 59 16022007 10 27 00 W E A EE i ci0212007 11 32 59 id al a gt ainil In the Playback view you have several possibilities e Automatic or manual fast forward and rewind of recordings e Selection and playback of a time frame time zooming e Synchronous playback of recordings of up to 4 cameras e Export of individual images as well as the selected video sequence 7 2 2 Moving forward and back in the recording Automatic playback By clicking the Playback buttons La or l 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 Mito end playback Manual playback By clicking and moving the green Playback marker F you can control the playback of images manually You can select the size of the playback by clicking the Original size button at the lower left of the Player dialog Here you have the possibility to choose from various sizes 7 2 3 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings Observer allows
120. ered 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 The solution is to disable the text overlay at the camera s own web page 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 los
121. erval settings Resolution Day Start time 2007 02 Time period 4 Month Event filter Event type Summary for all Name of camera Summary for all Name of user Summary for all lt Event parameter name Event parameter value any string _ any character OK Cancel Default 2 Select for which Start time Time period and time Resolution you want to create the report Also you can filter according to Even type Camera and User multiple selection by holding down the CTRL key while clicking is supported for all filters If you do not select any values for Event filter then a summary statistic report will be created 3 Push OK to start creating the report file You will be prompted for a file name where the report should be stored 4 Open the created file in MS Excel With the data you can also create graphics like the following one motion detection statistics for one day 73 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual B Motion detection Video content analysis events Analog 1 Analog 1 eingang eingang Motion detection Analog 1 eingang Number of events oO oO Oo SO CO Ow 2 Oe OS oS SO SESE FES EES ES EEE EE EES S Ky LP GS NS IO A ae Ao A SC UENCE So ey Se FF FG SA NY SG AAT AS BS gh N HOM OHoOAononononono no nono no gada 00 1 00 3 00 4 01 0 01 1 01 3 01 4 02 0 02 1 02 3 02 4 03 0 03 1
122. erver host server Field label Hostname Network name or IP address Comment Observer Host ID Your input This is the name you give to the remote Observer server It does not necessarily have to match the actual name of the remote server This is the network name or IP address of the remote Observer server A descriptive text This is an internal ID that uniquely identifies the remote server The ID of an Observer server can be obtained by reading its own entry under the Host Admin tab Now you can define what you want to do with the remote Observer server Set options according to your requirements Field label 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 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 server Check this option if you want to export cameras of your server to the remote server If this option is not enabled the remote server cannot access your cameras Check this option if you want to monitor the status of the remote server in System information dialog Check this option if you want to allow automatic distributed software upgrades of the remote server initiated by your current server In 89 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User
123. etection 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 CIDs gt is the ID of a PTZ camera the ID is shown in Camera admin gt Properties dialog next to the camera name If lt CID gt is 0 then the MD field s camera is controlled MD and PTZ camera are the same lt PresetName gt is the name of a preset position as entered in the PTZ definitions lt WaitTime gt is the pause time in seconds starting from the time when the camera receives the positioning event There can be any number of lt PresetName gt lt WaitTime gt pairs added Further MD triggered PTZ actions are blocked as long as a sequence is running However control of PTZ camera can be taken manually then the automatic MD triggered PTZ control is suspended until the manual PTZ control is released For information on how to setup PTZ preset positions refer to 10 Working with PTZ cameras on page 76 Example of an motion detection Identifier Door ptz 4 Door 10 HomePos 3 66 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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
124. ettings 67 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual in camera motion detection Receive event images via FTP Receive event images via HTTP ay Post recording length sec 0 Recording frequency Max fps In the menu choose Modify selected camera or group Mark either Receive event images via FTP or via HTTP depending on what your camera supports This tells Observer to receive in camera events and images from the camera If you already have a defined an active server motion detection schedule for the camera you will get a dialog that tells you that having both server and in camera motion detection at the same time is not possible To continue you have to first disable the server based motion detection schedules in the Scheduling dialog and then you can continue here Optionally you can set the Post recording length sec that defines whether and for how long the Observer server should record camera images in addition to receiving and storing the event pictures pushed by the camera As mentioned above you could want to do that to record the post event images with a high frame rate In such a case set the Frame rate according to your needs Now you also have to tell Observer for how long it should keep the recorded event images both the ones pushed by the camera and the ones additionally recorded by the server Push Previous button at the bottom of the dialog until you reach the Scheduling dialog Below the
125. export of statistics data 135 details 70 Event list 69 create a separate Event list window 20 maximizing 20 modifying layouts 20 positioning in the window 20 priorities 69 sorting 69 event based recording 120 exporting event related recordings 72 HTML export 72 in layout navigation 103 notification via client GUI email SMS 74 priorities 69 remote servers 92 searching in the event database 71 short replay 70 statistics 73 statistics data automatic export 135 user privileges for accessing and handling 69 video analysis ICAT 125 Exiting the client 22 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Export of event statistics data 135 Exporting archive recordings 58 event related 72 External applications control via HTTP commands 131 external archive see NEA 61 F Floating window components 20 Four eyes principle 34 Frame rate changing in view port 42 maximizing 42 G Getting started 23 Google Chrome optimizing settings for browser client Web Start JNLP files 14 H H 264 7 See also MPEG HDTV 16 9 aspect ratio in Online monitor 39 Holiday calendar 134 HTML code for embedding streams in web pages 131 HTTP commands for starting actions 131 HTTPS encryption between servers 90 for camera connection 26 for client connection 12 15 general description 6 I O contacts configuring I O devices 136 placing them on LNT layouts 96 settings 30 I O devices configuring 136 iCAT 105 considerations for
126. ext to go the Privileges dialog Here set the privileges for the new user see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 for details Push Next to go the Camera Access Rights dialog Here set the camera access rights for the new user see 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 36 for details Push Save to create the new user account with the settings you entered 5 2 Setting general user privileges For each user and group certain privileges can be defined These privileges define to which tools and data a user has access and what he can do ie 2 3 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog Select the user or group you want to modify 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 35 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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
127. g 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 Observer system covers a building then you could have an overview layout image for the building and then separate subordinate layout images for each floor For an even bigger setup If your Observer system covers a whole area with several office or plant buildings then you could have an overview layout image for the whole area and subordinate layout images for each of the buildings and additional images for 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 94 NETAVIS Observer 4 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 atthe right side of the
128. ghts to all cameras that are to be displayed on the video wall e 1 video wall management user with which you login in to the VWCA e For each video wall client workstation PC you need 1 user You can create a user group that has privileges and access rights to all relevant cameras and then create the above users belonging to this group automatically inheriting the privileges and rights Please note these special issues e tis impossible to display a camera on a video wall monitor which is not available on the server where the video wall client connects to Depending on your setup it is therefore possible that you cannot display every camera on any video wall monitor e The video wall control application itself does not display live video streams of the cameras but snapshot images for better orientation instead The real video streams appear in the video wall monitors 15 1 2 Setting up the video wall Please follow these steps for setting up the video wall 1 Configure your Observer server network with all the cameras and other settings 2 Setup the video wall monitors and the video wall client PCs how many monitors you can connect to 1 client PC depends on your hardware setup The video wall clients must run the Observer desktop application 3 We suggest using 1 specific user per video wall client PC As indicated above you can create a user group that has privileges and access rights to all relevant cameras and then create 1 us
129. h the mouse Here is an example of a tracking region a PF won _ Rectangle v Polygon 108 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Please note As indicated in 14 2 Basic iCAT concepts on page 106 and 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 106 objects will only be detected and tracked inside a tracking region Event triggers will only work inside the boundaries of tracking regions On the other hand making the object tracking region as small as possible helps you to save CPU power of your Observer server Also be aware that the tracking region should approximately at least be twice the size of the biggest objects you want to track Now you have to set the configuration parameters of the tracking region Field label Indoor camera Overhead downward looking Sensitivity Max object lifetime sec Max stopped object lifetime sec 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 This setting only takes effect if Indoor camera is enabled Enable the setting if the camera is overhead mounted and downward looking This will improve object separation and the accuracy of object counting In our example above the camera is an indoor camera and mounted
130. he Matrix function and the corresponding XML file names are Trigger action XML file name double click in a camera view port server utils CameraMatrixMapping DOUBLE CLICK xml single click in a camera view port server utils CameraMatrixMapping SINGLE CLICK xml LNT single click double click mouse over or server utils CameraMatrixMapping LNT xml context menu on a camera icon In addition to the above you can also control on which Observer clients the Matrix view function should be triggered You can do that by downloading and editing the file server utils TargetActionMapping sample xml 16 4 3 Upload and activate the XML config files You can upload and activate the Matrix function by following these steps 1 At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer under the heading Upload configuration files click on the button Choose file 3 Inthe opened file dialog choose the file that you want to upload and push Open Repeat this step for all files you want to upload 4 Uploading a properly filled CameraMatrixMapping file to the server will activate the mapping function No server restart is necessary changes become active within 10 seconds after upload 16 5 Holiday calendar A holiday calendar allows you to define a list of special days holidays and to modify the standard recording schedules of cameras for these days enable or disa
131. he active tracking regions of all active cameras of a server optimizing the tracking regions will save CPU power Region definitions can also be used to mask out problematic areas in the scene as well e g swaying trees 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 Observer scheduling mechanisms are also used for scheduling activating various iCAT setups For example it is possible to have different iCAT settings for weekdays and weekends 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT Camera selection and placement Though iCAT is able to analyze video captured by any type of supported camera using a device with higher image quality will result in better detection and tracking Generally the iCAT algorithms work with in and outdoor cameras as well as for different perspectives The configuration of the algorithms in Observer is pretty simple as you will see below For people and object counting the best results are possible if
132. he mouse onto the layout and drop it there An I O contact selection dialog opens automatically In the list you only see I O devices that are configured with Observer Choose the device and the I O contact and push OK depending on whether the I O control represents an input or an output contact you get only input or output contacts the contacts list of the selected device Now you have mapped the I O device to your camera icon Repeat the above step for other I O contacts You can delete an I O contact control by selecting it with the mouse by choosing Delete from the right mouse button pop up menu Defining zones LNT allows you to group several cameras on a layout into so 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 o 3 Per default the zones will be named Zone 1
133. hed in Observer no user passwords are stored in Observer Each 2 minutes the list of users is reloaded from the Active Directory LDAP server Each time when a user that is defined in Active Directory LDAP logs in to Observer the password is checked authenticated with the Active Directory LDAP server This means that at login time an active connection to the Active Directory LDAP server must be present Also note that no Observer specific information is stored in Active Directory LDAP 5 8 2 Setting up an Active Directory LDAP connection First you need to define a user group to which you want to import the AD LDAP users 37 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 6 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog In the user tree select a group that should serve as the container for the users imported from AD LDAP The group must be empty it must not contain any local users If you do not have an appropriate group you can create a new user group by selecting the parent group under which you want to create the new user group Then choose Add new group from the menu supply a name and push Save Choose Modify selected user or group from the menu Select the check box Users of this group are imported from Active Directory Now you can define the privileges and camera access rights of the imported users by going to the Privileges dialog and the Camera access rights dialog push the Next button to mov
134. hen change to the Player view 56 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 2 Click the Synchronous Playback button BBL which opens the Camera tree where you can select the second camera for synchronous playback 3 Repeat camera selection until you have up to 4 cameras for synchronous playback The following illustration shows synchronous playback of two cameras Calendar Player l i Be Archive playback Playback acceleration 500x 00 00 PREN Previous timeline selections Analog 1 Digital 2 16 02 2007 09 26 00 10 32 59 2 Original size 1602 2007 10 27 00 al v 66 16 02 2007 11 32 59 16 02 2007 10 27 00 W A BB ieox2007 11 22 59 u 4 mw gt gt 7 2 7 Displaying video analysis iCAT information for recordings The iCAT submenu in the Control menu offers various options for displaying iCAT related video analysis information also for recordings Please refer to 14 4 Working with iCAT on page 122 for further information 7 2 8 Protection of recordings against automatic deletion Normally Observer automatically deletes recordings that are older than the Requested recording period in order to free space for new recordings For cases where you want to keep certain scenes longer than the requested recording period you can protect arbitrary periods against automatic deletion Here is how you can do that 1 Inthe Archive go to the Calendar
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136. ic NP472 analog Shuffle is In the camera selection menu of a view port you can also select the option Shuffle Then Observer cyclically switches through all the cameras assigned to the view port Please select Save all view settings from the view Control menu in order to save all settings The next time you log in to Observer all views and view ports will be available again 6 3 Navigating in the Online monitor You have several options for navigating in the Online monitor Select a view from the View selector pop up Select a Round tour from the Round tour selector pop up Use the next previous view buttons to navigate to the previously displayed views 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 Please see also below for a few hints on how to manage big views of cameras 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 Camera Finder Press ESC to exit You can double click a camera or select it with the keyboard and press ENTER which will expose a big view of the cam
137. ication Server e Server network licensing e UNW unlimited number of connected servers e LNW max 3 connected servers e Licensed features e EIDB Encrypted image database e AD Active Directory _DAP support e ABS ABS Adaptive Balanced Streaming transcoding for low bandwidth connections e CAM shows the number of total 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 USR shows the number of total user licenses If the number contains an R then it is a floating license from a remote licensing server e SNAP SNAP XML integration interface e LNT Layout navigation tool e iCAT iCAT video analytics e SAB Camera sabotage detection e IPAD Client for iPad e URL URL Command API e VW Video wall control e SNLT Snapplet e SMPH Client for Smartphone You can display the current license key string by entering the following URL in a web browser http IP address of your server arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd showlicensekey For further information about licensing please refer to the manual NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration Archive shows the sum of fps and Kbytes per second of archiving on that host Monitor shows the sum of fps and Kbytes per second of
138. ide of the view port to remove it Removing a rectangle will also remove the zoomed view from the other view port en GN 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 7 2 4 Playback of a time frame time zooming 150 images loaded every 45 4 of the total 6772 in archive 2 21 Time intervall between frames 09 72s 2004 27 09 16 21 00 y bb 2004 27 09 16 21 00 44 A A u m gt gt pt oK 2004 27 09 16 44 59 2004 27 09 16 44 59 t4 1 The red and blue markers 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 zlto load and replay the time interval between the blue and red markers 7 2 5 Playback with audio If the recording also includes audio i e the recording has been done with MPEG 4 or H 264 and with Audio recording enabled then you can decide whether you also want to replay audio By default Audio is switched on when you replay To toggle audio on or off push the Z button in the Playback view 7 2 6 Synchronous playback of up to four recordings 1 Select the playback time frame for the first camera as described above T
139. ideo processing speed of iCAT than if they move slowly across your camera view As a rule of thumb the optimal frame rate for object detection and tracking is 8 10 fps 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 14 3 Setting up a camera for video analytics with iCAT 14 3 1 Defining an object tracking region 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select a camera in the camera tree and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose 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 wit
140. ient multi window and multi screen operation on page 18 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 4 Inthe Upper left corner of the Player view select Archive motion detection from the Control menu Calendar Player j e HH Archive playback Archive playback Playbac Archive motion detection AM 100x 00 00 02 Now the motion detection pane is opened on the left side in the Player view j e HH Archive motion detection Detection fields eingang Manage detections fields Pre Post alarm sec a i s C Th W a Original size 60 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 button to jump to the Detection fields view in Administration Please refer to 8 1 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection on page 64 for details on how to setup detection fields Continuing here we assume you have a correctly set up detection field definition 6 To start the server based motion detection Push
141. ight Manual recording control from Online monitor by choosing Enabled from the pop up menu 8 Push Save to save your changes NOOO PR w amp Set up a continuous recording schedule In order to use manual recording control for a camera you have to define a continuous recording schedule please refer to 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 49 for a general description of setting up schedules for continuous recordings 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera for which you want to set up the recording schedule 3 Atthe bottom of the screen click on the Next button twice This takes you to the Scheduling dialog If you are setting up a new camera this dialog will be quite empty 4 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group 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 on 44 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Note When a user pushes the manual
142. ill be shown again in the camera tree of Archive player of users who have the appropriate privileges see above In such a case you have to execute the command Stop eject again before unplugging the device 7 5 3 Accessing NEA archives at another Observer server Any user with the appropriate privileges can play back NEA archives easily at any Observer by just connecting the NEA storage device to the server The user privilege for accessing the NEA archives in the archive player is Recordings View external archive recordings NEA In the Archive player of the client the NEA archive appears automatically in the camera tree under the camera group External Archive ID netavis Cameras aP Axis 206 a Axis 207 MW we Axis 211A we Axis 2415 5 External Archive CKL encr 1 on netavisDELL 2012 07 24 18 10 2012 07 24 18 18 5 netavis Cameras Axis 206 Axis 207 MW Axis 211 A 1Q 755 Panasonic WV N240 BRR amp amp Please note There are some limitations on external NEA archives like Archive motion detection is not possible 63 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 8 Working with simple motion detection Please note Since release R1 12 Observer offers powerful video analysis functions with iCAT This chapter describes the simple motion detection features that were present before R1 12 and that are now a part of the iCAT toolbox Simple motion detection is based on a detection of changed pixels between video fr
143. images that reflect the open and closed state of the barrier Click OK to create the new camera control icon 101 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 13 6 Layout navigation and operation Navigation mode Switch to Navigation mode by clicking the navigation mode icon l atthe right side of the tool bar or by choosing Project gt Switch to navigation mode Please note An Observer 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 98 13 6 2 Showing a camera in the Observer client When you single click a camera icon in LNT then the corresponding camera will be shown in full size in the Observer client This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 7 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 98 Please note that the Observer client has to be running on the same machine being connected to the same server in order for the feature to work the client wi
144. in camera tree 33 multicast streaming for MPEG 27 port mapping on video server 33 privacy mask 117 sabotage detection 114 setup 25 status display LNT 103 video analytics iCAT 105 Camera finder in the Online monitor 41 Camera server NCS 88 Camera tree drag and drop cameras 40 how to work with it 40 positioning in the window 20 CIF 9 Client installation directory for client components 17 introduction 11 languages 13 locally installed 15 multi window multi screen operation 18 overview of components 19 preferences 19 starting 15 support for low bandwidth connections 21 web browser 12 Clone camera 31 Contrast 31 CPU load and streaming formats 8 display of server CPU load 82 for video analytics iCAT 107 Cropped view ports define which part to display 43 D Data integration with external applications 131 Data security 6 Default settings forcameras 27 Deleting windows 20 Demo mode license 11 Distributed upgrades of servers 92 DivX exporting from recordings 58 Documentation set 6 Drag and drop camera from the camera tree to view ports 40 Duplicate existing camera 31 Dynamic views view ports 47 Email receiving on events and alarms 74 Encryption AES encryption of video recordings 87 general description 6 HTTPS for camera connections 26 HTTPS for client connections 12 15 HTTPS for server server connections 90 Event triggers iCAT 106 110 Events 69 acknowledging 70 automatic
145. ine Monitor e Archive player e Event list e Camera tree You can define any combination of components and you can also define that a window should contain only one component Note Depending on the authorization that your Observer administrator has assigned to you some of the client components could be disabled menu shown in grey color If you need more authorization please contact your local Observer administrator Here is how you can define what components are to be shown in a window 1 Inthe Observer menu choose Client preferences which will open the dialog 2 For each window you can define what should be displayed For example select the Online monitor node and turn on select the Display Online monitor check box For each window individually you can turn on or off the Event list Camera tree and Archive player only for the main window Please note Normally it does not make sense to always show the camera tree since it will be opened when needed on demand 19 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 2 4 3 Modifying window layouts You can also modify the layout of a window by rearranging its components Once you have defined in the Client preferences dialog what components are to be shown in a window you can customize the layout Select the menu Windows gt Enable layout customization For the Event list and the Camera tree you can now define e Where they are located inside the window Just click on the title bar of th
146. ine a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 69 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 120 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 telephone is removed from the table you can define a relatively small region around the phone to avoid false det
147. ined positions via the Position popup menu In the Time at position field enter the duration in seconds that the camera is to spend at the position Note that this time includes the positioning time of the camera Repeat Steps 8 and 9 for each entry in the position list You can change the sequence within the position list by selecting a position and then clicking the Up or Down button You can remove an entry from the Positions list by selecting it and then pressing the Delete button Click the Save button to save your route or Cancel to discard changes You can select the saved route in the Online Monitor via the PTZ menu of the view port control menu of the PTZ camera Proceed similarly to modify a route 10 4 Controlling PTZ cameras 10 4 1 Controlling PTZ cameras in the Online monitor Control PTZ cameras as follows 1 2 Select the Online monitor Switch to a view that contains a PTZ camera how to create views and assign cameras is covered in section 6 Using the Online monitor on page 39 In the view port of the PTZ camera push the PTZ start button Bor choose PTZ gt Activate PTZ from the view port control menu The icon F of the view port indicates that you have PTZ control over the camera 77 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 78 Active PTZ control Note For each user a PTZ priority and allocation timeouts can be defined see 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 34 If another user with equal or high
148. interval Requested recording period days hours ho i o o0 00 24 o0 _ Priority over other cameras if storage space is short v Monday v Friday Recording period is measured form now v Tuesday v Saturday Reduced frame rate settings JPEG only v Wednesday v Sunday ihi Actual recording period days hours 0 0 lanl Storage used by this camera MB 0 a Total storage space MB 218051 Free storage space MB 218051 Previous Next Cancel save 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 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 7 e JPEG stream is also known as MJPEG where the server stores sequences of JPEG images e MPEG 4 video for MPEG 4 video streams e H 264 video for H 264 video streams e MxPEG video for MxPEG video streams For the
149. ither 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 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 113 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual The section 14 4 1 Displaying iCAT information in the Online monitor and when playing recordings on page 122 shows you how to view object markers 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 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 120 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
150. kbox must be set It defines whether the default camera settings are set via Observer or in the camera directly via its own setting utilities When it is switched on the settings in the camera are overwritten by the values of this dialog When it is switched off the values from the camera are taken and the settings in Observer are ignored In very special situations only e g when setting the values by Observer causes some unwanted side effects in the camera you may want to set the values in the camera directly and switch off this check box Defines the image quality of the stream The possible values are High Medium and Low quality The higher the quality the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the bigger the space requirements for recording will be see also 7 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 7 For multi stream JPEG cameras this value cannot be set here since separate image qualities can be set for recording and in each view port in the Online Monitor Defines the image size of the stream Possible values depend on the camera model The bigger the image size the more bandwidth will be used for transmission and the more space for recording will be needed For multi stream JPEG cameras this value is of no importance since separate image sizes can be set for recording and in each view port in the Online Monitor Defines the frame rate of the stream Possible values depend on the camera model The
151. lable 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 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual words MJPEG provides low latency due to its simplicity image compression and complete individual images and for this reason it s also well suited for when image processing is to be performed for example video motion detection or object tracking MJPEG gives a guaranteed image quality regardless of movement or complexity of the image scenes It still offers the flexibility to select either high image quality low compression or lower image quality high compression with the benefit of lower image file sizes thus lower bit rate and bandwidth usage At the same time the frame rate can be easily controlled providing a means to limit bandwidth usage by reducing the frame rate but still with a guaranteed image quality Since MJPEG does not make use of a video compression technique it generates a relatively large amount of image data that is sent across the network For this reason at a given image compression level defining the image quality of the I frame and JPEG image respectively the network bandwidth is less for MPEG compared to M
152. ld enter the name of the round tour Now you can select a view from the Views list and push the button to include it in the tour By pushing the ati button you can remove a view from the tour You reorder views in the tour by pushing the Up 4 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 Observer automatically changes to the next view in the tour By pushing Set for all you can set the same duration for all view in the round tour 6 Push Save to save your changes and OK to leave the dialog 45 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Later on you can modify an existing round tour by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose an existing round tour from the Round tours list and push Modify round tour A tour can be deleted by opening the Round tours dialog and then choose an existing round tour from the Round tours list and push Delete round tour Then you have to enter your password to confirm the delete 6 7 2 Activating round tours After you have defined a round tour a new Round tour selector appears in the Online monitor To activate the round tour just choose its name from the Round tour selector This activates the automatic walkthrough all
153. le applications are POS cash register data ATM data logistics data or access control data 16 1 1 Working with video annotations You can access the video annotation tools from the server s web page 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 After login click on Download configuration files Download the file annotate zip and unpack the zip to a local directory on your client 4 The zip contains the Windows command line program annotate exe Just run the program from a command line to see all options You can also refer to annotate readme txt The Java source code of the program is also part of the zip file 5 If you select to generate an event with the video annotation an event will be stored in the event database for later retrieval and search By selecting VideoStreamAnnotation in the event type filter of the Event search dialog the annotation text can be searched for by SQL type wildcards w 16 2 Embedding Observer video streams in web pages Snapplet Observer allows you to embed live video streams in standard web pages Currently only MJPEG stream are supported The embedding HTML code can be generated by Observer 16 2 1 Generating the embedding HTML code and testing it You can generate the embedding HTML code from the server s web page 1 At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin pas
154. lid between 0 and 1000 The values are in 1 10th percentages of the displayed image Box parameters should be supplied only when the action is draw_bounding_box box y0 upper left y coordinate of box valid between 0 and 1000 box x1 lower right x coordinate of box valid between 0 and 1000 box y1 lower right y coordinate of box valid between 0 and 1000 box linewidth line width used when drawing the box box color color of the box possible values black blue cyan darkgray gray green lightgray magenta orange pink red white yellow box text text which is written into the box box timeout seconds after the box disappears automatically 0 mean click to disappear Please note URL control is only enabled for allowed computers whose IP addresses are known to the server see 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 84 for details All other requests are blocked Please refer to the Release Notes for further details or updates on URL control 132 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 16 3 1 URL control examples Create an action that brings up images of camera ID 12 in a large view on a client machine where the admin user is logged in we assume that the address of the server to which we are sending the URL control is 192 168 7 2 http 192 168 7 2 arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd clientcontrol amp selector user admi n amp selector tool online_monitor action action show_live_stream amp action mode show_as
155. ll be disabled In the Identifier text field enter a name for this definition 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 120 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 2 116 You can also choose a specific Ilcon and Sound for the event when it is shown in the event task bar You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 69 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 120 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 ENT
156. ll not be started automatically by LNT 13 6 3 Positioning to the camera recording archive in the Observer client When you double click a camera icon in LNT then recording archive of the corresponding camera will be shown in the Observer client running on the same machine This behavior can be changed with the Modify control icon dialog see 13 5 1 Modifying camera control appearance and behavior on page 98 Please note that the Observer client has to be running on the same machine being connected to the same server in order for the feature to work the client will not be started automatically by LNT 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 102 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 13 6 5 Working with events in the layout navigation tool The layout navigation tool LNT also allows you to view and acknowledge Observer events Please note Event handling will only work if the user has the rights to work with events When a new event occurs in Observer then it is displayed in the Event list at the right side of the LNT window the Event list can be switched on and off in editing mode by choosing View gt Event list The Project settings define what happens when a new event is coming in see 13 6 7 Project settings on page 104 The layout that contains the primary control for related to the event
157. llowing actions available Stop Observer system This stops all video system processes but does not shut down the server Switch off server This shuts the server down Reboot server This reboots the server 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters Observer allows you to set several server parameters To access them follow these steps 1 2 84 Choose Host admin from the System administration menu This opens the Host admin dialog Select your own server indicated by bold face default is netavis Here you see the Hostname Network name or IP address and Observer Host ID of your server are read only The Observer Host ID is needed for working with distributed Observer server see next section If this server is cooperating with other servers then the settings for synchronization group may be relevant see also 12 Working with interconnected Observer servers on page 88 If this server should be part of a synchronization group then enter the name of the synchronization group in the field Name of synchronization group If this server should be the master of the synchronization group then select the check box Master of the sync group Please refer to 12 1 2 Keeping multiple users servers in sync synchronization groups on page 88 for a general explanation of synchronization groups Please note Modification of configuration data is only possible at the master of the synchronization group and not at the slaves as they will be
158. low these steps 1 Atthe Observer Start page click on the link Install the Observer client on your PC using Web Start 2 Save and run the Web Start installer 3 Follow the steps of the setup program Alternatively you can also download and run the client installer executable on Windows platforms 1 Atthe Observer Start page click on the link Alternative installation Download Observer client installer executable Windows only 2 Save the client installer executable at an arbitrary location 3 Execute the just downloaded client installer Observer_setup exe 4 Follow the steps of the setup program standard Windows installation 2 3 2 Starting the installed Observer client Once the setup finished you can start the client locally from your Windows Start menu or also from a desktop icon if you selected so at installation The Starter window appears 15 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Saved Sessions 4 0 HU admin admin nct xperts hu a io a 4 0 HU ckl cki nct xperts hu 4 0 HU cki fast ckI 84 21 30 209 8380 default admin showroom netavis net ind31 selfip biz netavis ind31 selfip biz ind31 selfip biz admin admin ind31 selfip biz licensing admin admin licensing netavis net Working with sessions The Starter allows you to manage sessions In a session you can define the server address which Observer application to start and the user password
159. m the Online Monitor you can select these predefined positions see below 7 Double clicking on one of the predefined positions lets you position the camera Proceed similarly in order to change positions PN 10 3 Defining PTZ routes In addition to individual PTZ positions you can also define position routes that can be followed on command A position route consists of a list of PTZ positions that are automatically sequentially followed and a duration per position Define a PTZ route as follows 1 Choose PTZ from the System administration menu This opens the PTZ dialog 2 From the camera tree select the PTZ camera whose PTZ route you want to program 3 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 4 Click on the Next button at the bottom right This takes you to the Routes dialog whose layout resembles the Positions dialog above 5 Inthe menu select Add new definition 6 Inthe Name field enter a designation for the route Optionally you can enter a description 7 Click on Next to move to the Route details dialog 76 10 11 12 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 9 Route details AXIS 2130 Route1 Next Previous Stop test Cancel Save Click the New button to create a new eniry in the Position list of the route and select a position from the list of predef
160. m the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Select 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 108 In the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Event trigger which will expose the configuration settings Under the camera preview 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 Now select on what object behavior you want to trigger an event When an Object is crossing field when an Object starts moving in field or when an Object stops in field You can also define when an event is triggered by either selecting Object center point Any point of object or Whole object In the 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 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 e
161. mera admin s Scheduling dialog Please be aware that there must be at least one continuous recording interval for the camera for this to work refer to 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 49 for details e Start Stop motion detection enables or disables motion detection of the camera in Observer It actually marks or unmarks the Enabled checkbox in the camera admin s Motion detection dialog Please be aware that there must be at least one detection field definition for the camera for this to work refer to 8 7 2 Basic configuration of server based motion detection on page 64 for details e Start Stop analog video decode allows the control of special devices that decode IP based network video signals to analog video signals This is useful for example for security center video walls that are driven by analog video signals The configuration of these special devices must be done in configuration files please refer to the Release Notes or to the customization documentation Events You can also modify the behavior of control icons for certain events like Connection to camera lost or Motion detected Click OK to save changes 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
162. meras on page 40 for more details 6 4 2 Controlling PTZ cameras The PTZ menu allows PTZ control and is enabled for PTZ cameras see 10 4 1 Controlling PTZ cameras in the Online monitor on page 77 6 4 3 Setting video parameters The Video parameters menu offers the following options Set streaming defines how the camera images should be streamed The available options depend format on your camera and your setup of the cameras inside Observer see 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 25 Please refer also to 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression on page 7 for further details on streaming formats Set image sets the quality of the streamed images by modifying the compression rate The quality options are High Medium and Low Refer to 1 4 5 JPEG image sizes and storage requirements on page 9 for details on these values Set image size sets the image size of the streamed images The available size options are camera 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 Set frame rate sets the frame rate of the video stream The options are Max fps various fps and fpm values and Stop Set camera T ee name defines the position where the camera name is displayed in the view port appearance Rendering defines which scaling algorithm will be used when images need to be scaled to fit 42 NETAVIS
163. moving false detections usually caused by environmental changes which often remain still for a longer period If objects in the scene usually stop longer than this time limit then set it higher 109 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Field label Your input Video processing fps This defines at what frame rate the iCAT algorithms operate If the objects you want to track move very quickly across your camera view you want to improve the speed If they move slowly across the camera view you can decrease the speed See also 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 106 Tolerance radius for Defines when how much a stopped object may move away from its stopped object stopping position before iCAT detects it to move again There is a virtual circle centered at the object s center point In this field one can define its radius proportional to the size of the object If the object s center remains inside the circle it is detected as stopped When this value is set close to 100 slowly moving or loitering objects will be detected as stopped It also influences the statistics of stopped objects 8 Push Next to get to the Statistics settings for the tracking region Here you can define what statistics iCAT should collect Later on these object tracking statistics can be visualized see 14 4 2 Displaying Visual Statistics on page 124 Currently the following measurements are available Object counts speeds sizes al
164. namic event based control 47 quality settings 42 zooming camera views 43 55 Views copying between users 46 dynamic event based control 47 Online monitor 39 optimizing big views after double click 42 round tours 45 settings 42 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual VIP control matrix view function 133 modifying layouts 20 Visual Statistics iCAT 124 VWCA video wall control application 129 Z Zones in layout navigation LNT 96 w Zooming Web pages in an Online monitor view port 43 55 in SAFE exports 59 embedding live video streams 131 of PTZ cameras 79 Windows create a separate Event list window 20 deleting 20 143
165. ndar xml and upload it to the server 4 Please restart Observer to activate settings of the holiday calendar w 16 6 Automatic export of event statistics data Observer allows you to automatically export event statistics data in the format of a CSV comma separated text file that can be easily read by programs like MS Excel The details of the statistics like resolution duration and filters for event types and camera can be flexibly defined The exported file will be stored in the file system of the server This means you must have file system access to the server in order to obtain the file You can do that for example via FTP and the admin user and password Or you can mount a network drive via Samba or NFS and place the file there The statistics export function is defined by an XML file sitting on the server You must download edit and then upload the file in order to configure and activate the function 16 6 1 Download the XML config file You can access the XML file in a web browser from the server s web page 1 At the server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 3 Inthe list of files find and save StatisticExportConfig ACTIVE xml to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu Please note If there is no such file then
166. ned 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 97 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual e What happens when you move the mouse over a control icon or when you Click on it e What happens on certain events originated by Observer related to cameras or zones Also you can create new control icons with your own icon images 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 Single click Show live stream in LNT X Double click Show archive calendar in Observer Client Mouse over No action Mouse over delay 400 Context menu actions Actions Show live stream in LNT Stop motion detection Start continuous recording Stop analog video decode Q Start motion detection Show archive calendar in Observer Client Show live in Observer Client Decode video to analog Stop continuous recording m
167. ng the display for all view ports in a view the same menu is also available via the View control menu Set parameters of all view ports Also in the Archive player you also have an iCAT button with the same menu The iCAT video statistics menu allows you to select the following statistics to display For the display of those Visual Statistics you can choose between Show always Show on mouse over and Do not show In the screen dump above you see an example of the overall object count statistics in an entrance situation Cold colors mean few object counts and hot colors mean high object counts When you 124 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual move the mouse over the camera view you can see the actual object count for each segment of the view Above the count in the middle of the screen would be 302 objects As a comparison here you see the Visual Statistics of the stopped object counts of the same camera ENTRY_a241s 5 tps objekt stoppt aufteppich Q 8 H O00 07 172 counter 1 Q 0 H 0 D 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 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose the camera and then the object tracking region In the menu select Modify sel
168. ng video analysis iCAT operation and recording For information on how to schedule video analysis I CAT operation and recording please refer to section 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 120 7 1 3 Operation of the Observer dynamic storage management In the Scheduling dialog you can specify the Requested recording period property that defines how long recordings are to be kept by Observer Any recordings that are older than the requested recording period are automatically deleted as long as you do not manually protect them from deletion see 7 2 8 Protection of recordings against automatic deletion on page 57 For cases like motion detection based recording it can be very difficult if not impossible to estimate the required storage space and therefore space for all requested recordings could be too short To help with this hopefully rare case Observer uses an intelligent storage management process This process always tries to store all requested periods for all recorded cameras However if there is not enough space available the allocation process is doing two things e t generates a system event once a day and sends an email SMS to the Observer administrator telling him that there is not enough space for all recordings 51 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual e t automatically truncates the recordings of cameras to allow a proportionally even distribution of the available space among all cameras For some spe
169. nition Click on the Icon button to assign a symbol This icon is displayed in the Event list to notify an operator when an event related to this definition occurs Click on the Sound button to assign a specific sound to the definition This sound is played when a user notification event related to the definition occurs After you have entered all parameters for your definition save it by clicking on the Save button If you have not yet scheduled a detection based recording for this camera you will be prompted for whether you want to edit the scheduling now Click on the Yes button if you want to configure the scheduling now Please refer to section 8 1 3 Scheduling motion detection on page 66 Click No if you want to do that later Please note If you add a new iCAT definition it will automatically be assigned to all iCAT schedules of the camera If you do not want that you have to remove the assignment manually If a definition is not assigned to an active schedule then it will not be activated no archive recordings will be made and no events will be generated although it has the Active option set 8 1 3 Scheduling motion detection The scheduling for simple motion detection is the same as for other iCAT definitions Please refer to 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 120 8 1 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events It is possible to assign a sequence of PTZ positioning actions to each motion d
170. nnected Observer servers Observer allows you to work with the resources of interconnected remote distributed Observer servers The concept is similar to accessing files on a remote file server You can import single cameras or whole groups of cameras from other Observer servers and you can also export your locally defined cameras to other Observer servers You can work with remote cameras as if they would be local e g you can also access their archive modify their parameters or even add new cameras to remote sites You can also define whether events are to be propagated between servers A special feature are so called synchronization groups of servers A synchronization group allows you to automatically synchronize server configuration data like user configuration data and camera configuration data between servers Before you can do any of these things you first have to make both servers known to each other You can do that by adding the other server as remote server on each of the machines The next section describes how to do that 12 1 Basic concepts of interconnected Observer servers In a single server system an Observer server does multiple things store camera recordings run video analytics on camera streams store events in the event database handle user clients In a bigger system with many cameras and users because of workload a single server is not capable of doing all those things at once Therefore multiple servers can b
171. nterface These documents are available online as PDFs directly on each Observer 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 Observer server and also under the following direct link http lt your server gt relnotes or on the public demo server showroom netavis net relnotes There you also find the release information of previous releases Additionally the new features of releases are also documented on www netavis net 1 3 Observer data security Observer has been designed to provide the highest level of robustness and data security The following aspects of the Observer system document that e All video and configuration data on an Observer server are stored in separate file system partitions protected by multiple levels of security e Optionally the video data can be stored using 128 bit AES encryption new since release 4 0 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual e Optionally HTTPS can be used for streaming video data between cameras and servers new since release 4 0 e Optionally HTTPS can be used for streaming video data between server and clients new since release 4 2 e In any case the authentication data user names and passwords transferred between clients and servers are encrypted by MD5 strong enc
172. nu 22 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 3 Guidelines for setting up a new system with Observer This section guides you how to best set up a new system with Observer Is shows which steps are needed in which order and gives you some hints on how to configure cameras and users For a simple system with 1 server take these steps 1 Setting up cameras 2 Setting up users 3 Setting up views For a bigger system with connected servers take these steps Setting up servers Setting up cameras Setting up users Setting up views OO Please note All of these steps should be taken by the administrator user usually login admin Here we describe the steps for one server for the setup of connected servers please see 12 Working with interconnected Observer servers on page 88 3 1 Guidelines for setting up cameras Usually a system consists of several cameras of the same type with similar settings Bigger systems may have many cameras of the same type and several different types Therefore Observer offers you the possibility to duplicate cameras in order to facilitate the setup Take these steps for setting up cameras 1 Define camera groups We found that a good grouping criteria is location of the camera Another grouping criteria could be access rights for various users groups See 4 6 Working with camera groups on page 32 for details 2 For each of the cameras that are of the same type and have a similar setting for recording
173. o selectively override the general setting for the camera schedule which is defined in 14 3 9 Scheduling iCAT operation and recording on page 120 14 3 5 Defining simple motion detection Prior to release R1 12 Observer offered simple motion detection based on a detection of changed pixels between video frames Since then this detector has been made more robust and it is now part of iCAT toolbox Simple motion detection does not require an object tracking region For more details on setting up and working with this simple motion detection please refer to 8 Working with simple motion detection on page 64 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 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog Choose a camera and in the menu select Add new definition In the Type pop up menu choose Lighting change detection which will expose the configuration settings Select the checkboxes for Light switched on and Light switched off to detect abrupt lighting changes like when somebody switches the light on or off You can also enter values in the Brightness high limit and Brightness high limit fields to detect slower lighting changes like during sunrise and sundown If you leave these values empty then slower lighting change detection wi
174. o 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 e Analog 2 Video parameters gi a oo MA AAA Y gt i n Pee Contrast E Ell a Saturation a mt ie ee Original values Previous 4 Inthe menu select Modify selected camera or group and then modify the brightness Contrast and Saturation values according to your needs Please be aware that light conditions may change during the day 5 To store the settings press Save 4 6 Working with camera groups Camera groups are a powerful means for managing and organizing cameras 4 6 1 Creating a new camera group 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the group in which you want to create the new camera group 3 Inthe menu select Add new camera group which will open new dialog that allows you to enter the name and description for the new camera group 32 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 4 Optionally select the Use group name as camera name qualifier checkbox If this checkbox is selected then the name of the camera group is displayed as prefix to the camera name e g group name camera name 5 Press Save to create the new camera group 4 6 2 Moving a camera or camera group in the camera tree A camera or a group of
175. om the menu 4 Inthe Comment field add the following text pop lt mode gt lt view name gt lt additional camera IDs gt lt user names gt lt IP addresses gt where lt modes gt is one of e 1 shows the camera in a large view 47 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 48 e 2 shows the camera and optional lt additional camera IDs gt in the view named lt view name gt must be supplied The cameras are placed in the oldest view ports view ports that stood there the longest without a camera change Thus you can create a view where always cameras with the newest events are displayed e 3 shows the camera and optional lt additional camera IDs gt in the view named lt view name gt must be supplied The cameras are placed row wise starting at the top left view port The cameras that were in these view port before are shifted to the right Cameras at the lower right corner of the view therefore are removed from the view Thus you can create a view where cameras with the most recent events are always displayed at the top left position e 4 shows the camera and optional lt additional camera IDs gt in the view named lt view name gt must be supplied The cameras are placed in empty view ports They have a close button associated with them When the user clicks the close button the cameras are removed from the view freeing the view port for another camera to be shown Thus you can create a view where cameras with the
176. on Please note e f 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 120 e f adefinition 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 NETAVIS Observer 4 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 You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 69 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 120 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 oo w amp Choose Video analysis iCAT fro
177. on allows you to configure and operate professional video walls using standard Observer servers and clients Such a video wall can then be controlled by the Video wall control application which allows you to e Handle video walls with up to 10x10 monitors e Connect multiple monitors to a single client PC e Flexibly control the views and layouts in any of the video wall monitors e Maximize individual camera streams on any of the monitors e Work with multiple control consoles in parallel The video wall control application has been specifically designed for control center personnel to operate video walls Any configuration of the servers video wall clients cameras recordings or other administration has to be done in the main Observer client and admin consoles Here is the basic architecture of a video wall with Observer Video wall Monitors are connected to Observer video wall clients Videowall control center The browser application connects to one or more Observer servers Video wall client 2 manages monitors 5 8 Video wall client 1 manages monitors 1 4 Use LAN tem me me ee ee User Server 1 I for user access user gt for user access user servers NUS J Sk y W servers NUS NCS2 NUS2 Camera LAN BB BPG GB GP ower The video wall control application itself runs in a web browser on a PC that serves as the video wall control center It connects to one of
178. operation The technology works for all cameras streaming resolutions and formats including MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Additional CPU resources are needed at the server and at the client for transcoding streams Transcoding can be set up in the server level by limiting bandwidth for live video and recording playback streams as well as for recording exports defined in 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 84 21 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Important Although transcoding works with all streaming formats the best results and least CPU overhead are possible with MJPEG streaming Also the transcoding bandwidth limit must be chosen carefully Therefore we suggest e MJPEG streaming format 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 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 84 2 7 Exiting the client The Observer client can be exited by choosing Exit from the Observer menu at the main application window You will be asked whether you really want to exit If the menu bar is hidden you can exit the client via the right mouse button me
179. or create the appropriate Attribute mapping schema The attribute mapping defines what AD attributes are mapped to which Observer attributes Usually these are the mappings For Active Directory Attribute Value Login name tag cn Name tag displayName SMS number tag telephoneNumber Email tag mail The Tag mapping defines further attribute mappings For Active directory the AD group identifier tag must be set to memberOf and Login name tag must be set to cn Push Save Now the users from AD LDAP should be imported to the specified user group in Observer 38 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 6 Using the Online monitor In the Online monitor you can view live streams from cameras that are set up at the Observer server The prerequisite is that you must have authorization to access the Online Monitor see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 Furthermore you can access only those cameras for which you have access rights see 5 3 Setting camera access rights on page 36 When a new user logs in the first time he will encounter an empty Online monitor waiting for new camera views to be defined Once you have defined your views they will reappear next time you log in You can also have several Online monitors in multiple windows see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 18 Important If you are using a low bandwidth connection between client and server e g via wide area networks it can happen easil
180. or iCAT operation In the Default settings dialog in Camera Admin the checkbox Multi stream allowed enables or disable this dual stream iCAT processing see also 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 25 If this checkbox is 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 Observer will try pull a second MJPEG stream in QVGA fine from the camera for iCAT processing please note that this stream will be pulled even if the checkbox Allow JPEG streaming is deselected The frame rate of this second stream depends on the iCAT function 107 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Please note Dual streaming iCAT processing will not be activated automatically after selecting the Multi stream checkboxes Please restart the server or stop and start disable enable all iCAT functions of the camera in order to activate dual streaming iCAT after changing the Multi stream selections Object detection Depending on the sensitivity and other settings iCAT currently detects objects of 8x8 pixels or bigger in size in a QVGA image Only moving objects are detected New objects are detected by iCAT after a few video frames How quickly objects are detected is also influenced by the sensitivity setting iCAT video processing speed If the objects you want to track move very quickly across your camera view you will require a higher v
181. ord Login name Forgot my password OK Cancel Guest login If you do not yet have a permanent license string for Observer a License dialog appears To continue without a permanent license just push Continue In this case the full functionality may not be available See also 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for further details about licensing Please note The authentication data transferred between client and server are encrypted with MD5 strong encryption The administration user admin has the default password admin For security reasons you should change this password please see 5 Managing users on page 34 A guest login is possible only if the guest has been defined on your server which is the factory setting For further details contact your Observer administrator If you have forgotten your password you can mark the Forgot my password checkbox answer the asked question and click OK For more information ask your Observer administrator 2 2 1 Optimizing the Web Start behavior of your browser When you click on a Java Web Start link JNLP like the Start Observer client from the browser using Web Start some browsers ask whether you want to download and save the file Web Start JNLP file instead of executing it This can be annoying because you have to first save the file and then execute it manually Here is how you can automate that for various web browsers 14 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Man
182. 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 104 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 If this checkbox is marked then only events of mapped cameras will be suggested for automatic visiting If it is unchecked then all events will be suggested Defines the default image size either Fit image or Full size Defines whether new events in the Event list are inserted from the Top or from the Bottom NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 14 Video analytics with iCAT iCAT is the video analytics toolkit of Observer It provides powerful and easy to configure object detection and tracking mechanisms
183. overhead downward looking Usually this setting should be left at Normal Only if you are not satisfied with the object detection quality or behavior you can try to modify this setting If 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 The setting is useful to lower the probability of falsely tracked objects which remain in the scene for too long If you experience that objects are no longer tracked though they are visible and moving this value might have to be increased 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 The setting is useful for re
184. oxes that define which formats can be pulled from the camera Please note Multi streaming has some important restrictions that depend heavily on the camera type Please refer to the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources for details on restrictions If your camera supports MJPEG video streaming you can allow using this mode by selecting this checkbox In one special case Observer will try to pull an MJPEG stream even if this checkbox is deselected This is the case when iCAT video analytics is working on MPEG streams e g for motion detection and Multi stream allowed is selected This special additional MJPEG stream in QVGA is used only for iCAT and helps to minimize server CPU load for iCAT processing please refer also to 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 106 If your camera supports MPEG 4 video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please note that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 27 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 28 Field label Allow H 264 streaming Allow MxPEG streaming Stream MPEG 4 via Multicast Allow Audio to camera Allow Audio from camera Audio from and to share single button Anonymize distort audio Your input If your camera supports H 264 video streaming you can allow using this mode in
185. pend on the type of the event Event priorities All events also have an event priority that defines the relative importance of events The default event priority is 100 Informational events have a lower priority of 50 system and camera malfunction events have a higher priority of 300 For events generated by video analytics triggers you can specify individual event priorities Event lists can also be sorted according to priority User privileges for accessing and handling events In the User admin under the System administration menu you can define for each user some basic event handling privileges For example whether user you can access events at all or what kinds of system events are displayed at the users event list see 5 2 Setting general user privileges on page 35 The number of events stored in the database can be defined in the server parameters see 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 84 9 1 Event list and event details The most actual events are displayed in the Event list y Event List big 3 02 2011 12 14 37 1100 ems2 User Video admin user has acknowledged ey 3 02 2011 12 14 36 1100 ems2 User Video admin user has acknowledged ey 3 02 2011 12 13 27 fs 300 _ ems2 Connection lost to camera 4 31 3 02 2011 11 26 24 100 ems2 User Video admin user has acknowledged ey 3 02 2011 10 50 50 50 ems2 User admin 10 0 0 2 logged in 3 02 2011 07 56 41 gt 100 ems2 Motion event has
186. pload by the camera Most cameras also support the transmission of pre and post event images The configuration of for these pre and post event images must also be done in the camera Observer is capable of doing these things in connection with in camera motion detection e Receive in camera motion detection events from the camera and store these events in the standard Observer Event database these events can also be displayed in the Event list e Receive pre and or post event images from the camera pushed by the camera and record these images in the standard Observer camera archive 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 based recording can have a much higher frame rate than the pictures pushed by the camera This allows a much better documentation of in camera events 8 3 2 Setting up in camera motion detection To configure Observer for in camera motion detection follow these steps 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog Assuming that you have already defined the basic properties of the camera in Observer select the camera in the camera tree 2 Onthe 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 s
187. positioned as the center of the 3x3 view and the adjacent cameras of the big matrix are automatically positioned around it In the example above you see how the 3x3 view would look like if you would double click Cam24 and Cam18 The Matrix view function is defined by XML files sitting on the server The name of the XML files follows the form server utils CameraMatrixMapping lt action gt xml You start by downloading and editing the file server utils CameraMatrixMapping sample xml When you are done with editing you upload the file under a specific name to the server 16 4 1 Download the XML config file You can access the XML file in a web browser from the server s web page 133 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 1 Atthe server s web page click on Customizer login to login to the Customizer area the admin password is needed for that 2 Inthe Customizer click on Download configuration files 3 Inthe list of files find and save server utils CameraMatrixMapping sample xml to your local hard disk You can do that by right clicking on the file and then choosing Save link as from the menu 16 4 2 Edit the XML config file Edit the file according to your needs A detailed description about the function can be found in the comment at the beginning of the file When you are done with editing save the file under a file name that reflects the trigger action for which you want to enable the Matrix view Possible trigger actions for t
188. r MJPEG streams NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Please note Please refer to camera data sheet and documentation for camera limitations Also the document NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources may provide further details on camera restrictions 1 4 2 Motion J PEG A network camera captures individual images and compresses them into a JPEG format The network camera can capture and compress for example 30 such individual images per second 30 fps and then make them available as a continuous flow of images over a network to an Observer server which then distributes it to Observer clients and or stores it in the camera archive At a frame rate of about 16 fps and above the viewer will perceive full motion video As each individual image is a complete JPEG compressed image they will all have the same guaranteed quality determined by the compression level as defined for the network camera or network video server Example of a sequence of three complete JPEG images ZX RA 1 4 3 MPEG MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG Some of the best known audio and video streaming techniques are defined by the so called MPEG consortium Moving Pictures Expert Group Under the MPEG umbrella several streaming methods are available like MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG strictly taken MxPEG is not part of the standards defined by the MPEG group but is a proprietary standard by the company Mobotix However because of reasons of simplicity we refer to MxPEG also a
189. r constraining the object size or speed The size is the area of the object in pixels and the speed is also measured in pixels per second To know what object sizes or speeds you want to 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 122 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 leon shown and Sound played for the event when it is shown in the Event list Or you can choose to have no icon or no sound associated with the event You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event see 9 Handling events on page 69 for further details on event priorities 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 120 Push Save to save your definiti
190. r on the server see also 14 2 1 Considerations for setting up a system with iCAT on page 106 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 recordings Here is an example of additional iCAT information displayed 122 ie a NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual a a objekt stoppt aufteppich G OH 0D 0T 473 SS counter 1 Q
191. r system information and restarting on page 82 for how to display the current license of your server 2 1 1 Advanced client technology The Observer uses advanced technologies to ease the operation of clients on MS Windows platforms e Lazy loading client technology Observer clients both browser based and locally installed only load the needed application components from the server on demand when they are needed This saves time at startup and also bandwidth It also eases the management and upgrading of clients Libraries for one version are downloaded only once and are 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 Observer server is upgraded to a new version the clients are automatically upgraded too This is happening transparently to the user The same client will still be able to work with older server versions see next point Starting with release 1 9 the client application has to be installed only once and every further Observer version will be seamlessly accessible without having to manually upgrade the client e Different versions between servers and clients Starting with release 1 9 Observer clients can connect to servers running different versions release 1 9 or newer without the need to install clients matching the servers versions As a summary Obse
192. ra 3 Inthe view port control menu of the PTZ camera click PTZ gt Select PTZ route gt Stop route to stop control of the PTZ camera Stop PTZ control You can stop PTZ control by pushing the P button or deselect PTZ gt Activate PTZ control in the view port control menu Note Please do not forget to stop PTZ control otherwise other users cannot assume control When you end the Observer client all PTZ control is automatically released For further details on user specific PTZ priorities and timeouts please refer to 5 7 Creating a new user account on page 34 10 4 2 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events It is possible to automatically control PTZ cameras with motion detection events Please refer to 8 7 4 Controlling PTZ cameras with motion detection events on page 66 10 4 3 Scheduling PTZ routes It is possible to schedule time intervals for PTZ camera to follow predefined routes Note Before you can schedule a route you first must define the route please refer to 10 3 Defining PTZ routes on page 76 To schedule a PTZ route follow these steps 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog Select a PTZ camera Press the Next button to go to the Scheduling dialog In the menu select Modify selected camera or group Click the Add button to add a programming slot to the Time Intervals field Click the Change button now enabled for a popup menu select P
193. ra with a low recording frame rate is truncated in the same proportion like the relatively big recording space of a camera with a high recording frame rate Caution Please be careful when you set the Priority over other cameras flag since if storage space is short Observer truncates the archives of all other cameras in favor of this camera If available storage space is much too short relative to the requested storage periods of all cameras this can lead to strongly truncated archives 7 2 Playback of archive recordings Observer features a multitude of powerful functions for working with archives 7 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period 1 Goto the main window and choose the Archive player if the Archive player is not available then perhaps it is disabled in the client preferences see 2 4 Client multi window and multi screen operation on page 18 Either the Camera tree appears immediately or you have to push the Select camera button Fl 2 Select the camera from the camera tree and push Select you can also double click a camera or drag it to the calendar view An overview for the selected camera on the current day is displayed 52 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Calendar Prayer Fel Analog 1 CET View Day View Total images REEL Ct ore J_J J J m TI Q 2007 February27 Jump to Today Playback interval 2007 02 aiz 418 44 Star
194. ras from another Observer server following prerequisites must be fulfilled The servers must know each other see 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 89 The server that exports cameras must have the option Export local cameras to remote server set see 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 89 The server that works with cameras of another server must have the option Import of cameras from remote server enabled set see 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server on page 89 After you mount remote cameras you can work with them as if they would be connected to this server You can access live streaming via the Online Monitor or you can access the archive If you have the appropriate administrator rights you can also modify camera settings like PTZ scheduling or motion detection 12 3 1 Mounting cameras of another server 1 2 3 90 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog In the menu select Mount remote camera or group Select from Known remote machines menu item this remote Observer host from where you want to import cameras Now the basic data of this remote Observer host are shown again hostname IP address NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 or group to be imported e g PTZ
195. reating a new user account on page 34 Additionally each user can change his own password by following these steps 1 Inthe Observer menu choose Change password 2 Inthe newly opened dialog enter the old current password and the new password twice 3 Push OK to change the password When you login the next time you will have to enter the new password Please note The optional secondary password can only be changed by an Observer administrator with the appropriate privileges 5 8 Working with users from Active Directory or LDAP You can configure your Observer server to import users from an Active Directory AD LDAP server In this case the users user names and passwords are maintained in AD LDAP and users are imported mapped to a user group in Observer The privileges of these users what they are allowed to do in Observer are defined at the Observer user group where they belong to 5 8 1 How Observer and Active Directory LDAP work together When an connection to an Active Directory LDAP server is set up correctly Observer imports users of a matched group in Active Directory LDAP These users are imported to a certain user group in Observer The privileges and camera access rights of the users imported from Active can be defined at the user group in Observer When the Observer server connects the Active Directory LDAP server the first time it loads all matched users into the user group in Observer These users are then cac
196. recording button in the Online monitor actually the Enable interval checkbox is toggled This causes the recording to either start ort stop 8 Setall the recording options as described in 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 49 9 Click on Save to save your settings 6 6 2 Manually controlling recordings in the Online monitor When everything is set up as described above then for the enabled user and camera a manual recording button is shown in any view port displaying the camera Brest ABS S ftps 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 6 7 Working with round tours the Smart guard function Observer allows you to make virtual round tours of views You can define round tours that contain certain views When a tour is started Observer walks you through all the views by automatically showing up the views in the Online monitor This is like a virtual patrol of a security guard Smart guard function 6 7 1 Defining a round tour Steps to add a new round tour 1 Inthe Online monitor choose Round tours from the view Control menu Now the Round tours dialog opens 2 Inthe Round tours dialog push the button Add new round tour In the Tour name fie
197. rver 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 Observer client from a desktop web browser This section describes how to start the client in a standard web browser If you want to install the client on your machine and run it independently of a web browser please refer to 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 15 Generally you can start the client with an unencrypted HTTP connection or with an encrypted HTTPS connection 1 To access the client via an unencrypted HTTP connection start a web browser and enter the address of your Observer server http IP address of your server To access the client via an encrypted HTTPS connection start a web browser and enter the address of your Observer server https IP address of your server 12 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Z about blank Microsoft Internet Explorer Datei Bearbeiten Ansicht Favoriten Extras i dresse http 80 81 128 30 Now a page that checks the availability of the Java on your computer appears This page should disappear in a few seconds If this page stays it means that you do not have the Java plug in installed on your browser You have to first install Java by visi
198. ryption Please note Encryption and decryption can mean higher CPU overhead at the server and or the client Also doing something with the contents of an encrypted stream means decryption and therefore higher CPU overhead For example doing video analytics with an encrypted video stream means that is has to be decrypted at the server before processing Likewise storing an unencrypted stream in an encrypted video database means that it has to be encrypted at the server before storing Likewise displaying an encrypted video stream at the client means more CPU overhead at the client because it has to be decrypted On the other hand simply storing an already encrypted video stream coming from the camera does not need more CPU at the server than storing an unencrypted video stream 1 4 Video streaming methods and compression Observer supports video streaming in several standards e Motion JPEG often also referred to as MJPEG e MPEG 4 streaming e H 264 streaming also known as MPEG 4 AVC e MxPEG streaming this is a streaming standard specially developed by www mobotix com for their IP cameras The big difference between the various streaming methods is the way how the image data are compressed and transferred The selected streaming method has great influence on e the bandwidth needed for transmission between cameras and server but also between servers and clients e the CPU load at the server and the client induced by compression and
199. s Before you can operate the video wall with VWCA you have to define the linking mapping between the physical monitors of the video all and the monitors inside VWCA The linking is actually done via the Observer server that serves the video wall client workstations that actually connect to the monitors and by choosing the appropriate Observer user login for which the windows for the monitors have been defined Here are the steps for linking VWCA to the video wall servers 1 Select one of the monitors by clicking on it You will see Server link in the Properties pane 2 Enter the server address Login name and Password of the Observer server that serves the video wall control workstations PCs for a general description on which servers and users to choose please see 15 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer on page 127 Please note that you have to select the correct user login for the monitor You have to take the user login of the video wall client workstation PC where the monitor is connected to 3 Push Validate If you entered the correct server and login combination you will be offered to choose from the available windows of the user 4 Choose the window that is associated with the monitor please remember that each monitor has an associated Observer window for a basic explanation please refer to 15 1 Setting up a video wall with Observer on page 127 You will notice that a view of the window has been selected by default 5 Repe
200. s 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 At the cost of higher complexity the result of applying MPEG video compression is that the amount of data transmitted across the network is less than that of Motion JPEG This is illustrated below where only information about the differences in the second and third frames is transmitted A H 264 and MxPEG all work very similar to MPEG 4 whereby H 264 for example needs only about 60 of the bandwidth of MPEG 4 for roughly the same video quality However this efficiency does not come for free Encoding and decoding H 264 needs more CPU power than MPEG 4 A general rule is that the higher the compression factor the heavier the CPU burden in the server and in the clients Therefore there is always a tradeoff between bandwidth utilization and CPU power needed 1 4 4 Advantages and disadvantages of Motion J PEG 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 avai
201. s visually In order to swap the ports of two analog cameras visually please follow these steps 1 Inthe Online Monitor go to the view that shows the first analog camera in a view port 2 CTRL click into the view port that shows the first analog camera 3 Now go to the view that shows the camera that you would like to swap with and CTRL click in the view port Now the ports of the two cameras have been swapped 33 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 5 Managing users Observer requires users to login in order to work with the system This chapter describes how to create and manage users in Observer Generally you can either e use Observer to administer users see 5 1 Creating a new user account on page 34 or e utilize Active directory or LDAP to manage users see 5 8 Working with users from Active Directory or LDAP on page 37 5 1 Creating a new user account An Observer 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 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog 2 Select a user group to which you want to add the user
202. setting up 106 139 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual CPU load 107 event triggers 106 110 event based recording 120 events 125 object bounding boxes 123 object counting 110 object markers 123 object tracking region 106 108 people counting 110 privacy mask 117 recording based on 120 removed abandoned objects 118 sabotage detection 114 scheduling activities 120 sensitivity setting 109 Smart Tripwire tm 110 starting and stopping objects 113 video processing speed 108 video streaming formats 107 Visual Statistics 124 working with in Online monitor 122 In camera motion detection 67 settings 30 IP address of camera 26 iPad 20 iPhone 20 J Joystick control for PTZ cameras 80 JPEG aspect ratio 9 26 exporting from archive 58 image sizes and quality 9 MJPEG vs MPEG 7 L Languages 13 Layout navigation 93 editing mode 94 I O contacts 96 installation 93 navigation and operation 102 zones 96 Layout of windows modifying 20 LDAP 37 License 140 displaying current license 83 license string 11 Login secondary password 34 the locally installed client 15 the web based client 14 Low bandwidth connections with Transcoding 21 M Manual recording control in the Online monitor 44 Matrix view function VIP control 133 MJPEG 8 versus MPEG streaming 8 Mobile devices PDAs 20 Motion detection 64 in archive 60 in camera 67 recording based on 120 server based 64 Motion JPEG 8
203. 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 6 10 Dynamic Online monitor view control Observer allows you to dynamically control which cameras to display in the Online monitor by several powerful means e control views by iCAT events motion detection object triggers sabotage detection etc e control views based on special logic like the Matrix view function see 16 4 Matrix view function of the Online monitor VIP control on page 133 The next sections describe how you can define these control mechanisms 6 10 1 Controlling Online monitor views by iCAT events motion detection object triggers etc You can add special view control commands to any of the iCAT triggers like motion detection MD object triggers sabotage detection etc Once the iCAT trigger is activated the associated control commands are executed Here is how you can do that assuming that you already have valid iCAT definitions 1 Choose Video analysis iCAT from the System administration menu This opens the Video analysis iCAT dialog 2 Select a camera and for the camera select an iCAT trigger definition simple motion detection event trigger sabotage detection lighting change detection removed abandoned object 3 Choose Modify selected definition fr
204. so for stopped objects 9 Push Save to create the tracking region Later on you can modify the tracking region settings 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 120 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 120 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 Youcan also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 69 3 Th
205. st is restored Differences against settings Lower image saving frequency Lower motion detection frequer Disk state change messages L Disk failure Camera specific messages State change events L Change of the input port Image content change L Motion detection Camera failures Events of the user interface L Camera control Event acknowledgement Serial line plugins 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 71 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 5 After setting different search criteria push the Search button again to display the results By clicking the Next button you can step forward in the result list and with Previous button you can step back 9 2 1 Saving results in an HTML file You can export the search results to an HTML file 1 Inthe Event search dialog push the HTML export button which opens an export dialog 2 Enter a file name and choose whether you want to export only the events displayed in current search list or all events matching the filter criteria 3 Push Export Now the file is created You can open the file in a normal web browser F NetAVIS Observer
206. 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 121 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Disadvantage CPU load is bigger since images need to be scaled down for iCAT analyzing Event based recording for iCAT in MPEG formats MPEG 4 H 264 and MxPEG The majority of MPEG cameras cannot deliver multiple MPEG streams with different formats Only 1 stream is delivered from the camera Therefore you need to set the default frame rate to at least the detection frame rate you need for iCAT see Default settings in 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 25 e There is no pre event recording recording time is 0 Observer obtains a QVGA MJPEG stream from the camera and runs iCAT analyzing on it In the case of an event the streaming format is switched to MPEG and recording is started Advantage minimal overhead on server CPU Disadvantage Depending on the camera there can be a small delay caused by the camera needed to switch 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 Observer obtains the MPEG 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 powe
207. sword is needed for that After login click on Generate embedding HTML code Now you can set several options for the embedded applet like size and streaming properties A click on Generate applet tag will open another window that contains the generated HTML code Push the Demo button to run and test the applet in your browser Ps OO 16 3 Controlling Observer with HTTP commands from external sources URL control URL control is one way to enable third party applications to start actions via URL encoded strings send http GET request to an Observer server The server upon receiving these special URL requests executes the actions as if they would have been generated internally 131 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual For testing purposes you can execute URL control by entering an HTTP command in a standard web browser http lt your server gt arms servlet BrowserServlet cmd clientcontrol Here is a list of available URL control parameters selector tool name of the target tool in the client application possible values online_monitor archive_tool selector machine optional IP address of the target client PC selector user optional name of the logged in target user if both machine and user are specified then only the client application is selected which fulfills both conditions Further action parameters are action action the action to be executed possible values show_live_stream show_calendar play_archive
208. t 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 Hint As the three sabotage types have many properties in common to get the best detection rate switch on all sabotage categories For example a camera cover event might be categorized as a focus lost because then image sharpness drops dramatically If this category is also switched on the sabotage will surely be detected 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 115 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual You can also define a special event priority for events generated by the trigger by setting the value Priority of generated event Please note that the event priority is a relative priority whereby 100 is the default priority see also 9 Handling events on page 69 The check boxes Save event in event list and Do not save event in event list allow you t
209. t the time for exporting the image 3 Inthe Player move to the picture you want to export and click the Export button Zito 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 8 Now you can use the exported file NO of 7 3 2 Exporting a recording in AVI DivX format 1 Inthe Archive player select a camera for the export 2 Inthe Calendar select the time period for exporting 3 Inthe Player view or in the Calendar view click the Export button Zito open the Export dialog 4 You have two AVI options for Export format e AVI all images This exports a video sequence with all the frames of the currently selected time frame regardless of the Playback acceleration setting e AVI Subsampled movie This exports the time lapse playback with the settings of the Playback acceleration slider E g if you have selected a Playback acceleration of 3 your exported file will be roughly a third of the size of an AVI all images export See also 7 2 1 Selecting the camera and the playback period on page 52 5 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 7 Wh
210. t time 2007 02 2 N 18 44 End time Playback acceleration Be 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 Day View Year View Here is an example of a month view for the camera 53 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 3 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 PEEPEPEEPEPEEEEPEEEEREEE 4 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 5 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 accel
211. ta customer specific resources like icons and layout navigation data to all the other user servers in the same group Thus the master user server is the single point of all user administration in fact changes at slave servers are no longer possible Any changes are automatically propagated to the other users servers in the same group Whenever a server is added as a slave to a synchronization group it will automatically be synchronized with the data from the master sync server The synchronization group settings can be modified in 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 84 see 11 2 Setting Observer server parameters on page 84 88 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Please note When a server is added as a slave to a synchronization group any configuration data that is not also existing on the master server will be deleted and overwritten by the data of the master server So please be careful when you work with synchronization groups Also When users connect to slave servers they cannot modify their user settings this can only be done when they are connected to the master user server Thus layout navigation tool LNT project creation and icon uploads should always be done at the master user server 12 2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server 1 Choose Host admin from the System administration menu This opens the Host admin dialog In the menu select Add host Fill in the basic information of the desired remote Obs
212. that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 If this checkbox is marked then there is only one button in the Online Monitor that switches MPEG and Audio on and off If this checkbox is not marked then you will find 3 buttons for the three functions See also 6 9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio on page 46 In some cases Laws do not allow the transmission or recording of people s voices The criterion often is whether one can recognize a person by listening to its voice Therefore Observer allows anonymizing the audio stream by distorting it If this checkbox is marked then the live and recorded audio will be anonymized distorted The Default settings for MPEG 4 H 264 MxPEG and Default settings for single stream JPEG cameras define the streaming format for the various streaming types These settings will NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual be used in the Online Monitor and also for recordings For multi stream JPEG cameras the Default settings for single stream JPEG cameras are of no importance because for each view port in the Online Monitor and also for recording separate formats can be specified Please note In the current version Observer only supports 1 streaming format for MPEG cameras for live viewing and recording Field label Use these settings Image quality Image size Frame rate GOP size Your input Usually this chec
213. the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please note that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 If your camera supports MxPEG video streaming you can allow using this mode in the Online Monitor and the archive by marking this checkbox Please not that platform restrictions may apply for this streaming mode please refer to 2 1 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 This option should only be switched on in very special situations When marked then the MPEG 4 stream from the camera is received via multicast when disabled via RTSP over HTTP Multicast is a one to many while RTSP is one to one type connection Mark this checkbox only if you want to have multicast MPEG 4 streaming of the camera In most cases you want to leave this checkbox not marked which means that the MPEG 4 stream is transmitted via RTSP over HTTP When marked Observer will allow Audio to the camera and will offer a button for that in the Online Monitor Of course this feature only works if you have a working microphone connected to the PC where you run your client on and your camera has a loudspeaker function When marked Observer will allow Audio from the camera to your client in the Online Monitor and for recordings Of course this feature only works if you have a working loudspeaker connected to the PC where you run your client on Please note
214. the camera is mounted overhead downward looking Please note Setting up iCAT definitions for PTZ cameras is problematic since most of the iCAT functions require a fixed camera position 106 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 4 2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties on page 25 Analog cameras that are connected either via video server or directly connected to an Observer 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
215. there is no constraint NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 122 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 120 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 You can also def
216. this sabotage detection 6 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 120 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 114 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Background information on sabotage detection algorithms Sabotage detection uses three detector algorithms to generate events for camera moved defocused and covered The camera movement detector tries to locate a couple of strong has high contrast points across the entire picture Then it searches for them on each of the following frames while continuously creating new points to keep adapting to a new scenery A camera moved event occurs when a given number of these points are lost for a while The focus change detector acts like the auto focus algorithms in digital cameras It estimates the average sharpness of the picture and produces an event if this sharpness changes abruptly A focus lost event is produced if the sharpness of the picture decreases below a threshold and a focus gained event if the sharpness is increased above a threshold Both thresholds are based on average sharpness values of previous frames The camera cov
217. ting 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 to use Click on your language of choice and push Start This takes you to the start page of Observer Click on Start Observer client from the browser using Web Start Depending on the browser you are using you might be asked whether you want to execute the Java JNLP link Click on OK to tell the browser to automatically start see 2 2 1 Optimizing the Web Start behavior of your browser on page 14 Now you will be advised that the program is being loaded How long loading takes depends on your network On completion of loading you will be notified that Observer is initializing Then user data is loaded Note By clicking on Install the Observer client on your PC you can also install the Observer client on your machine locally see 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client on page 15 Before starting the Observer client you will be asked if you allow to execute the downloaded trusted applet Sicherheitswarnung Installieren und Ausf hren von signiet zu einem unbekannten Datum Uhrzeit und herausgegeben von erts Software Ltd Authentizit t des Herausgebers bestatigt durch VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2001 CA Hinweis Xperts Software Ltd versichert dass dieser Inhalt sicher ist Die
218. tional Push the Next button again at the bottom of the dialog This invokes the I O Control dialog that lets you define the handling of optional I O contacts of your camera If you do not want to use I O contacts you can just jump to the next step Set your values Field label Your input Input handling enabled Select this check box if you want to process the state of the digital input contact port of the camera NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Field label Your input Input poll interval msec The poll interval defines how often the state of the input port is checked Minimum time is 500 milliseconds Output handling enabled Select this check box if you want to enable switching the digital output port of the camera from within view port menu 7 Push the Save button at the bottom of the dialog 4 2 2 Duplicating an existing camera Duplicating an existing camera creates an exact duplicate of the camera with all settings copied This is useful when you have more than one camera of the same type or with equal similar settings like recording or video analytics settings With duplicating camera you can dramatically reduce the set up time for systems with many cameras with similar settings Here is how you can do that 1 Choose Camera admin from the System administration menu This opens the Camera admin dialog 2 Inthe camera tree select the camera you would like to duplicate clone 3 Choose Duplicate camera from the menu
219. tions are available for live streams and in archived recordings 105 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual e Seamless integration with the Observer event management system EMS and other Observer 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 Observer 1 An object detection and tracking engine analyzes the video stream and tracks detected objects Please be aware that an object has to show consistent motion first in order to be detected and tracked 2 An event logic engine with configurable event triggers decides when a tracked object triggers an event 3 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 object tracking region defines the part of the camera view in which iCAT is detecting and tracking objects For each camera you can define one tracking region that is either the full camera view or a part of it in the form of a polygon or rectangle No object will be detected or tracked outside of this tracking region Since the CPU overhead caused by iCAT is directly proportional to the size area of all t
220. tive session is started NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Starting the Observer client Pushing Start in the Starter will open the client window and connect you to the Observer server When the client is started the Starter window will be hidden and in the task bar you will see it s icon You can access the Starter by clicking its icon There you can open the Starter dialog again and also force an exit of the client application Active sessions gt Quick Connectto gt Open Starter dialog Exit When you start the client the first time after a new installation some additional client application components need to be installed this is needed only once per client You will be asked Tnformation a Srom Your client needs further program components Install program components from 1 Local media Server over network Cancel Normally you want choose to install the program components from Server over network However if you have a very slow network connection between the client and the server you might want to choose installation from Local media When you choose this option you will be asked to locate the directory Clientinstaller of the Observer installation CD Once you choose the correct location and push OK the components will be installed If you do not yet have a permanent license string for Observer a License dialog appears To continue without a permanent license just push Continue
221. 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 name 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 5 5 Defining Online Monitor views for a new user If a new user needs to work in the Online Monitor then camera views need to be defined Generally there are 2 ways for doing that 36 Login as the new user and manually create new views as described under 6 1 Creating a new view on page 39 or NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual e copy existing views from another administration user as described under 6 8 Copying views between users on page 46 5 6 Information about logged in users Observer allows you to get information about logged in users 1 Choose Users from the System administration menu Now you see the list of logged in users with information about the host from which the user logged in login time total bytes transmitted since login and bandwidth 5 7 Changing the password This section describes how to change passwords for users defined in Observer For users defined in Active Directory LDAP the passwords need to be changed there Each Observer administrator with the appropriate privileges can change the passwords of other users see also 5 1 C
222. ual Optimizing Web Start for Google Chrome 1 Click on the link that you are trying to launch and Chrome will download it as before 2 By default Chrome will list the download on the bottom of the page To the right of the filename is a small drop down arrow click it 3 From the menu that pops up select Always open files of this type Now when you click on the Web Start link the next time the application will start automatically 2 2 2 What is next If your Observer server already has cameras configured then you can go to chapter 6 Using the Online monitor on page 39 If you have to setup cameras first then continue with chapter 4 Setting up cameras on page 25 Furthermore because Observer behaves in a context sensitive way you will find that certain menu items are also disabled at certain times Thus for example you cannot remove a camera if there is no camera to remove Thus in different contexts the same menu might look quite different at different times menu entries and buttons in grey are disabled and in black are enabled 2 3 Working with the installed Observer client Alternatively to starting the Observer client from a web browser you can also install the Java client application locally on your machine Some functions are only available in the installed client see 2 7 Introduction to Observer clients on page 11 for details 2 3 1 Installing the Observer client To install the client locally on your PC please fol
223. users in the system you can select and modify the root group but please be aware that at each group or user level privileges can be overridden Push Save to save your changes 5 3 Setting camera access rights 1 2 3 on Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog Select the user or group you want to modify Click the Next button twice to get to the Camera Access Rights dialog 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 5 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 5 4 1 Creating a user group le 2 3 Choose User admin from the System administration menu This opens the User admin dialog In the list of users and groups select a user group to which you want
224. val checkbox is marked because only then the settings are enabled Note You can create multiple iCAT intervals for different setups at different times For each interval proceed as described here Check the assigned iCAT definitions to this interval via the Assigned iCAT definitions popup menu 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 You can also define whether something should be recorded at an event triggered by one of the assigned iCAT definitions For that you have a full set of options to set which are described in 7 1 1 Programming continuous timed recordings on page 49 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 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 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 further considerations on pre and post event recording 8 iCAT events for this camera are only stored in the Event database
225. vent statistics data 0 0 eee eee eeeeeeeeeete ee ee eases ee eaeeeeeeaaeeeeeeaeeeeeeee 135 16 7 Configuring I O GeVICES cceeececeeeeecene cesses eeeneeceeeeeeaaeseenaeseaeeecaaeeseaaesdeaeeseaeestaeeeeaaessnees 136 WZ MINOX EE Se ws Donk Sade Seca ed bad Sec sae odcce sae Laces de lewd sa cudebaadee deus iaaddeidendecadadetewaiaeddeed 138 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 1 Introduction Thank you for choosing NETAVIS Observer 4 4 as the management software for your video monitoring system As you use it you will find that Observer not only enables you to view live images and record them but also provides a full scale platform for the intelligent utilization of your video data This User Manual guides you through the functionality of NETAVIS Observer 4 4 If you have questions that are not answered in the Observer documentation set please contact your NETAVIS distribution partner or our product management team directly by e mail or telephone 43 1 503 1722 We wish you an interesting and productive experience with NETAVIS Observer 4 4 Your NETAVIS Team 1 1 The Observer documentation set These documents are available e NETAVIS Observer User Manual e NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources e NETAVIS Observer Server Installation and Administration e NETAVIS Observer Server and Client Compatibility e NETAVIS Observer Server Customizing e NETAVIS Observer Distributed AS Administration e NETAVIS Observer SNAP XML I
226. 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 this period in the Calendar view and Press Unprotect selected images 57 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual Caution Please be careful when using this feature since the protected recording periods will never be deleted automatically by Observer This means that the space will be locked as long as you keep them protected 7 3 Exporting recordings images and video sequences Observer allows you to export individual images and video sequences in various formats e JPEG for single images e AVI DivX for video sequences e SAFE This is a proprietary format that stores the video together with the player in an executable format exe that can be run on MS Windows platforms The file can be password protected and you can export synchronous video sequences of up to 16 cameras simultaneously The following sections describe how you can export from the recording archive In 9 2 2 Exporting event related recordings on page 72 you learn how to export recorded video sequences based on events 7 3 1 Exporting a single J PEG image the current frame 1 Inthe Archive select a camera for the export 2 Inthe Calendar selec
227. w dialog will open offering you the list of available windows for deletion 2 4 5 Positioning a window on a certain screen Positioning a window on a certain screen is very easy With the mouse just drag the window to the screen and drop it there You can also maximize the window on the screen All the window states will be remembered between sessions This happens on a per user basis which means when the user is logging in on a different client workstation he will have the same window setup as on the first client workstation 2 5 Mobile Observer clients You can access an Observer server also from mobile devices like tablets and smartphones Mobile clients do not support the full functionality of desktop clients the live viewing of video streams from an Observer server This chapter describes how you can install and run Observer on such mobile devices 20 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 2 5 1 Supported devices Currently Observer allows you to install the mobile client on these systems e Apple iPad client with iOS 3 0 or newer e Smartphone browser client for most smartphone platforms including Android iOS Blackberry Windows mobile Please refer to the document NETAVIS Observer Server and Client Compatibility for further details on compatibility 2 5 2 Installing the Observer client on a mobile device The Smartphone browser client can be run directly in a smartphone web browser and does not need any installation For th
228. y that the video streams cannot pass through the connection fast enough which results in bad frame rates and slow responsiveness of the client In such a case you should use the Transcoding feature of Observer See 2 6 Observer Transcoding for low bandwidth client server connections ABS on page 21 for further details 6 1 Creating a new view Observer lets you create an unlimited number of named views Each of these views can contain up to 100 camera view ports 1 Choose Create new view either from the empty Online monitor or from the Control menu to open the Create new view dialog 2 Youcan 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 a colon between the names In the example below we created a view in the group called First floor with a name Entrance hall There might also be a view called Office 1 or Kitchen The Aspect ratio pop up defines the aspect ratio of the view ports in the view o Fixed aspect ratios PAL NTSC VGA double VGA or HDTV 16 9 o Fill available space This is the default setting and will adapt the view port size and hence the aspect ratio to fill the available space
229. y while all others are optional 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 25 NETAVIS Observer 4 4 User Manual 26 Field label Time zone Camera type Name of camera admin Pwd of camera admin Camera IP address Camera server port Aspect ratio Streaming mode Mobotix only Use HTTPS encryption Non interlaced mode Your input Select the time zone of your camera s location e g CET for a 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 Observer server then select NDS Observer Digitizer Server as your camera type If the camera needs authentication for administrating then enter the user name of the camera administrator here Enter the password of the administrator account of the camera only if used Specify the IP address or network name of your 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
230. 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 1 Just move the mouse pointer over a view port and turn the mouse wheel The view port will zoom accordingly 55 NETAVIS Observer 4 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 outs
231. 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 _ Rectangle v Polygon Please note The size of the region for removed abandoned objects should be at least 50 larger than the objects you want to detect Never draw the region too tight around the object of interest because the underlying algorithm analyses also the object s direct surroundings A region too close to the object can make detection impossible 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 Sometimes in difficult cases these time limits are exceeded by the detector with a few seconds but usually detection time is close to the values defined See Further considerations and limitations below In the field Minimum size removed abandoned objects area in pix you can constrain the object size for the event trigger 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

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