Leadtek WinFast Guard Pro User Manual

WinFast Guard Pro

User's Manual

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WinFast Guard Pro User's Manual Version A January 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview ................................................................... 1

Features ...................................................................... 2

Applications

Launching the Guard Console

Monitoring a Site in Map Mode ................................... 11

Configuring the Guard Console ................................... 13

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Monitoring Video Cameras in Live Mode .................... 5

Guard Console ......................................................... 4

Split Screens ................................................................ 6

Split Screen buttons ..................................................... 6

Map button ................................................................... 7

Channel Selection Panel .............................................. 7

Status Panel ................................................................. 8

Camera Operation Panel ............................................. 9

Other button controls .................................................... 11

Creating a site map ...................................................... 11

Viewing the site map .................................................... 13

General settings (General tab) ..................................... 14

Changing split screen position ...................................... 6

Maximizing split screen size .......................................... 6

Camera Panel ............................................................... 7

Input/Output Device Panel ............................................ 7

Video Recording ............................................................ 8

Video Signal .................................................................. 8

Event Signal .................................................................. 8

Motion Detection Panel ................................................. 9

Camera Adjustment Panel ............................................ 10

PTZ Camera Control Panel ........................................... 10

Allocating disk storage .................................................. 15

Managing disk storage the smart way ........................... 17

Configuring the video display ........................................ 18

Setting the date and time .............................................. 19

Scheduling reports ........................................................ 19

Video camera settings (Camera tab) ........................... 20

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Split screen settings (View tab) .................................... 32

Input/Output device settings (Device tab) .................... 33

Timed surveillance settings (Schedule tab) .................. 37

User accounts (User tab) ............................................. 40

Main database .............................................................. 44

Backed-up databases .................................................. 44

Selecting the date of recording .................................... 45

Viewing records by time segments .............................. 45

Viewing records by events ........................................... 47

Navigation Panel .......................................................... 50

Programming PTZ Camera Movements ........................ 21

Configuring caption display settings .............................. 22

Specifying the methods for detecting events ................. 23

Responding to events .................................................... 24

Digital recording ............................................................ 29

Fine tuning motion detection settingsSplit Screens

Configuring input devices (Input tab) ............................. 33

Configuring output devices (Output tab) ........................ 35

By Day ........................................................................... 37

By Week ........................................................................ 38

By Month ....................................................................... 39

Loading a backed-up database ..................................... 44

Selecting video cameras ............................................... 46

Memory buttons ............................................................. 47

Viewing video recorded events ..................................... 48

Setting display preferences ........................................... 49

Viewing logs and disk usage information .................... 41

Viewing recorded video ............................................... 45

Record Viewer ..........................................................43

Launching Record Viewer ........................................... 43

Program Interface: An Overview ................................. 43

Types of databases ..................................................... 44

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Zooming the video during playback ............................. 51

Detecting motion in the recorded video ........................ 51

The settings of DVR Guard Console for Direct

Modem Connection ...................................................... 59

Split screens ................................................................. 72

Video Control Panel ..................................................... 72

PTZ Camera Control Panel and Recording Buttons .... 73

Playback Web page ..................................................... 74

Snapshot Web page ..................................................... 75

Saving video ............................................................... 52

Capturing image snapshots ........................................ 52

Using Remote Viewer through Internet connection ..... 57

Using Remote Viewer through direct modem

Connection .................................................................. 58

The Operations of Remote Viewer .............................. 71

Viewing recorded videos ............................................. 74

Backup Scheduler ................................................... 53

Remote Viewer ......................................................... 57

Launching Backup Scheduler ..................................... 53

Program Interface: An Overview ................................. 53

Performing manual backups ....................................... 54

Setting up automatic backups ..................................... 56

For Windows XP ............................................................ 59

For Windows 2000 ........................................................ 66

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Overview

The WinFast Guard Pro Surveillance System is the perfect solution for home, office, school, factory, and general security use. By installing this software suite into a computer server unit that is connected with surveillance cameras, motion sensors, and alarm devices, you can monitor both in- and outdoor premises, and record intruder break-ins or any suspicious activities on digital video.

The WinFast Guard Pro Surveillance System includes four programs:

allows live monitoring of up to 16 video cameras (such as CCTV and PTZ video cameras) and 16 sensor units, and provides event detection/notification capabilities. Events can either be motion detected by video cameras or by sensors. This program can be configured to automatically record detected events, trigger alarms, and/or send notifications (such as sending e-mail, dialing out to a phone, etc.). You can have the same configuration options for all camera/sensor devices or specify different settings for each device.

allows you to play back previous recorded events. This program keeps a database of digitally recorded videos, and allows you to search for recorded events by specifying the date/time of occurrence or the type of event. Record Viewer can display up to 16 videos simultaneously on the program screen.

allows you to make backups of the recorded videos. You can initiate the backup process manually, or configure this program to perform automatic backup onto the specified storage locations.

allows live video surveillance and recording in a remote computer via a web browser. Remote users that are granted sufficient rights will be able to monitor video cameras, control PTZ cameras, record events on digital video, and playback recorded events.

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Record Viewer

Backup Scheduler

Remote Viewer

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Features

Advanced Motion Detection

Smart Search Feature

Networking

Superior video compression technologies

Complete Digital Video Recording Features

Detect motion in a specified area. Supports signal tolerance, sensitivity adjustment, and eliminates prompt motion to avoid false alarm.

Search by time or by type of event. There are 3 types of events: motion events, sensor events, or manually triggered events. Identify the target by motion detection.

Supports multiple levels of access control. Allows users to view remote cameras, remotely recorded video, and control remote PTZ cameras through the Internet.

Includes industry standard Motion-JPEG compression. Supports automatic adjustment of compression ratios from the scene complexity, and achieves optimal quality and high compression ratio.

Supports 640 x 480, 640 x 240, and 320 x 240 video window sizes. Supports 1/4/6/7/9/10/13/16 split-screen layout. Provides an electronic map that lays out the locations of video cameras and sensors. Supports the integration of traditional security sensors and devices. Controls PTZ cameras. Event notification includes phone, pager, e-mail, fax, alarm, and flashing message. Perform task scheduling for recording, motion detection, and event notification. Types of video recording includes non-stop recording, non-stop smart recording, event recording, and time-lapse recording. Allows you to play back up to 16 recorded events simultaneously. Supports manual and auto backup for recorded events. Recycles storage to keep fixed days of video recordings.

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Applications

Monitoring the babies room, a sick family member or the elderly.

Home and community security: Notify security personnel in time by telephone or pager when there is an intrusion. Remote monitoring is also supported.

Store or supermarket surveillance: Monitor whether or not there are unauthorized people trespassing your warehouse through 24-hour or month-long recording.

Office surveillance: Monitor entrance and exit to keep track of who goes in and out of your office.

Automated bank machine and teller counter surveillance.

Department store surveillance: Monitor showcase counters, display counters, and visiting customers.

Remote monitoring of each floor in a building. Centralize the monitored records in a secure place through LAN.

Monitoring server rooms and factory machines for easier tracking of abnormal situations.

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Guard Console

Guard Console is a video surveillance and recording program. It allows up to 16 video cameras and 16 sensors to be monitored simultaneously on the program screen. For each camera, the motion detection feature can be activated for tracking and recording motion events. For the utmost security, round-the-clock, non-stop video recording can also be enabled. As the administrator of your WinFast Guard Pro Surveillance System, you can also create accounts for other users and give them access rights to Guard Console and the other program of your WinFast Guard Pro system.

Launching the Guard Console

When launched for the first time, Guard Console will allow any user to have access to the program. To restrict the program's access rights only to privileged users, click to open the dialog box, then click the User tab and select the "Enable access control" option.

When access control is enabled, will prompt for the User ID and Password every time the program is launched. Type " " in the " " field and leave the " " field empty. These are the defaults that are assigned to the administrator account.

Preferences

Guard Console

Administrator

User ID Password

It is strongly recommended that a password be defined for the administrator account. Select the " " account in the

and then click the button to set the password. Refer to the section, "Use Accounts (User tab)", on page 44 for more details on managing user accounts.

Administrator Preferences dialog box:

User tab Modify

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Monitoring Video Cameras in Live Mode

When you have entered the Guard Console program, the program goes into Live mode. In this mode, you will be able to see live video from up to 16 cameras and monitor input/output devices (such as sensors and alarms).

This Multi-screen Display can have up to 16 split screens to show live video from different video cameras.

Click this arrow button to minimize the Guard Console program window onto the Windows Taskbar.

Status indicators:

: video recording : video source : event detection

This is the Camera Operation Panel.

This displays the current date and time.

These are Channel Selection buttons.

These buttons allow you to change how split screens are displayed.

This is the Power button. Click this button to close the Guard Console program.

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Split Screens

Split screens show live video from the video cameras that are installed in the monitored site. On the split screens, the video camera number, current date and time, etc. can be displayed. If video recording is currently in progress, a "REC" indicator will also appear at the bottom right corner of the corresponding screen.

Note: Per split screen, the "REC" indicator will be displayed if and only if the

caption display is enabled in the Preferences dialog box: Camera tab and when the respective cameras are in video recording mode. (See page 26 for more information on displaying captions.)

Changing split screen position

Drag a split screen and drop it to another split screen to exchange their positions.

Maximizing split screen size

If there are 4, 9, or 16 split screens displayed, double-click a split screen to enlarge its size and temporarily cover its three neighboring screens. To restore the split screen back to its normal size, double-click on it again.

How split screens are maximized depends on the total number of split screens that are currently displayed on the Guard Console program window.

Split Screen buttons

These buttons change how split screens are displayed on the program screen.

Choose what information to display on split screens in the Captions dialog box. (See page 26 for details.)

In the

, several video cameras can be assigned to be displayed in a single split screen. Each camera is displayed for a specified time duration before switching to the next camera. (See page 36 for details.)

Preferences dialog

box: View tab

Splits the Multi-screen Display into 4 split screens.

Splits the Multi-screen Display into 9 split screens.

Splits the Multi-screen Display into 16 split screens.

Toggles between Full-screen and Normal display modes.

Displays a split screen in single view.

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Map button

Click the button to switch Guard Console to Map mode. This mode shows a graphical layout of the site being monitored, with clear indications on where the video cameras, sensors, and/or alarms are installed. (See "Monitoring a Site in Map Mode" on page 15 for details.)

Map

Channel Selection Panel

By default, Video Camera buttons are displayed at the bottom of the

program window. These buttons allow you to display a split screen in

single view.

If there are input/output devices such as sensors and alarms also connected, you can easily switch between viewing video cameras and monitoring the input/output devices.

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Camera Panel

This panel provides camera buttons that are numbered in sequence and a Switcher button.

Input/Output Device Panel

Input/Output Device Panel displays light indicators that show whether the input/output devices are connected to the Site Server.

To monitor a video camera, click its camera number. The screen then changes into single view, displaying live video from the selected camera.

Click the Switcher button to change to the Input/Output Device Panel.

The bottom row of light indicators show the connection status of output devices such as alarms. A green light indicates that the device is connected. A red light indicates that Guard Console is transmitting signal to the device.

The top row of light indicators show the connection status of input devices such as sensors. A green light indicates that the device is connected. A red light indicates that the device is transmitting signal to Guard Console.

Click the Switcher button to change to the Camera Panel.

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Status Panel

The Status Panel displays three types of status information: Video Recording, Video Signal, and Event Signal.

Video Recording

Stands for video recording. When a light indicator appears green in color,

it means that the video recording function is enabled for the video camera.

Video Signal

Stands for video signal from cameras. When a light indicator appears green in color, it means that the video camera is connected and turned on. When a light indicator appears red in color, it means that connection to the video camera is lost.

Event Signal

Stands for event signal, which could have been activated by motion detection or by an input device such as the sensor. The light indicator appears green in color when an event has been detected.

Note: Video recording features, video camera connections and input device

connections can all be enabled or disabled in Preferences dialog box. (Refer to the section "Configuring the " on page 17 for details.)Guard Console

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Event Signal

Video Recording

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Camera Operation Panel

The Camera Operation Panel allows you to switch between three different control panels: Motion Detection Panel, Camera Adjustment Panel, and PTZ Camera Control Panel. You will be able to access these panels only when you have switched the screen to single view mode.

Motion Detection Panel

The Motion Detection Panel allows you to manually start or stop motion detection. The Start and Stop buttons are available only when the current camera motion detection function has not been configured to be performed on a scheduled basis.

Click here to switch to the Camera Adjustment Panel.

Click here to switch to the PTZ Camera Control Panel.

Click here to manually start motion detection for the current camera.

Click here to manually stop motion detection for the current camera.

Click here to specify what areas to monitor for presence of motion.

Click here to return to the Camera Operation Panel.

Click here to switch to the Motion Detection Panel.

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Camera Adjustment Panel

The Camera Adjustment Panel provides controls for enhancing the current camera video display on-screen.

PTZ Camera Control Panel

If the current video camera is a PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) camera, you can switch to the PTZ Camera Control Panel to adjust the angle of the camera and zoom in or out of the area being monitored.

Drag the slider tab up to increase the brightness level, or down to decrease brightness.

Click here to set brightness back to the default setting.

Drag the slider tab up to increase the contrast level, or down to decrease contrast.

Click here to return to the Camera Operation Panel.

Click here to set contrast back to the default setting.

This is the Pan and Tilt control. Click one of the four arrow buttons to adjust the camera angle up, down, left, or right. Click the "cross" button to stop movement.

The number buttons are Preset buttons that let you store camera angle positions. Click a preset button and hold for 2 seconds to record the current PTZ camera angle position.

This is the Zoom control. Drag the slider tab up to zoom in, or down to zoom out. If the PTZ camera does not provide zoom scaling feature, click the upper part of the slider continuously to keep zooming in. Click the lower part of the slider continuously to keep zooming out. When you release the mouse button, the slider tab moves back to the middle position automatically.

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Other Button Controls

Monitoring a Site in Map Mode

To create a graphical layout of the site being monitored, switch to Map mode. Map mode allows you to load a picture of the entire site being monitored and insert device icons on the picture to indicate the locations where video cameras, sensors, and/or alarm devices are installed in the site. This can help you to instantly identify the location where detected events occurred and take immediate actions when necessary.

To switch to Map mode, click . Then, click to switch to Map Edit mode and start creating a map layout of the monitored site.

Creating a site map

To create a map layout in Map Edit mode, place the camera, sensor, and output device icons on the site map according to their actual installed locations. See the figure next page for step-by-step instructions on how to load a picture of the site map and position icons on the map.

While positioning an icon, you can remove an icon from the map by dragging that icon out of the map.

If you want to start all over and add icons to the map, click . This clears all icons from the map.

Opens the About dialog box where you can view copyright information about WinFast Guard Pro and access

operation logs.

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Launches Record Viewer where you can play back previously recorded events.

Opens the Preferences dialog box where you can set up surveillance, motion detection, and many other functions.

Allows you to log off from Guard Console.

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While you are adding camera icons onto the map, you may notice that their colors vary. Camera icons may appear in one of these three colors:

In gray color, indicates that there is no video camera connected.

In light blue color, indicates that there is a video camera connected but the corresponding camera icon has not yet been plotted on the site map.

In dark blue color, indicates that there is a video camera connected and the corresponding camera icon has already been plotted on the site map.

When you are done positioning icons, click this button to return to Map mode.

Click this button to switch to sensor icons.

These are sensor icons. Drag them onto the map, and drop each of them to the installed location of each sensor.

Type in a name for the map.

Click this button to load the map's image file (in BMP format).

These are camera icons. Drag them onto the map, and drop each of them to the installed location of each camera.

Click this button to switch to output device icons.

Drag the output device icons onto the map, and drop each of them to the installed location of each device.

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Viewing the site map

Once the site map is complete, you will be able to easily pinpoint locations where detected events occurred by watching out for flashing icons on the site map. Whether it is a video camera, sensor or output device that has been triggered by an event, its corresponding icon on the map flashes. If a camera has been triggered by an event, you can click on the flashing camera icon to switch to single view and see what is happening live at the site.

Configuring the Guard Console

Click on the Guard Console program to open the Preferences dialog box and choose which video cameras and sensors to monitor, enable/disable output devices (such as alarms), and set up Guard Console to perform motion detection, digital video recording, scheduled surveillance, and other tasks.

The succeeding sections explain how to configure settings in the Preferences dialog box.

Click this button to switch to Map Edit mode.

Click a flashing camera icon to display the corresponding video camera in single view.

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General settings (General tab)

Click the in the Preferences dialog box to configure the following settings:

General tab

1. Site name

2. Allow remote access

3. Storage for

surveillance video recordings

4. Smart disk

management features

5. Display options

Type in a name for identifying the monitored site (for instance, the location name).

Select this option if you want to enable other users to remotely monitor the site from a Internet, Intranet or direct modem connection.

Allocate disk drives and folders for saving digitally recorded videos. (See page 19 for more details.)

Select these checkboxes to automatically allocate disk space, and enable auto-deletion of old video records to free up disk space. (See page 21 for more details on these options.)

These options determine how video will be displayed on the monitor screen. (See page 22 for more details on these options.)

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6. Enable Web Server

7. Auto-restart machine

after ___ days

8. Reports

9. Date & Time

Select this option to configure as a Web server. When acting as a Web server, will allow remote access to its live video cameras. Remote users can launch Microsoft Internet Explorer and type in the IP address of site server to download four split screens web page to watch camera video.

When the "Web Server" option is enabled, also specify the TCP "Port" to be used.

Select this option to restart the computer after a specified number of days.

Generate and e-mail reports about detected events periodically - in a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. (See page 23 for more details.)

Specify the current date and time.

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Allocating disk storage

To digitally record live video, disk storage needs to be allocated for saving the recordings. Add multiple hard disks to use as storage, and assign each hard disk to save recordings from selected cameras. Click the button in the

tab to assign disk storages.

Add

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1. Location

2. Maximum usage

space

3. Cameras

Specify the folder location to use for saving recordings. To choose a folder, click .

Specify the amount of disk space to allocate to the selected folder.

Select the checkboxes of the cameras whose recordings you want to save to the selected folder. Click the button to select all checkboxes. Click the button to deselect all checkboxes first before selecting the desired checkboxes.

Browse

Select all

Clear all

Details of the allocated disk space, remaining disk space, and the specific cameras assigned to each folder are displayed in the "

" list in the tab. To change the assignments of a folder, click on its item number, then click and make your changes.

Storage for

surveillance video recordings General

Modify

1. Location

2. Maximum usage

space

3. Camera

The folder location cannot be changed. (The only way to change the folder is to delete it and add a new folder.)

The allocated disk space can be increased/decreased.

Camera assignments can be changed by selecting/deselecting checkboxes.

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Managing disk storage the smart way

There are two options in the General tab that enables efficient management of disk storage.

Smart file allocation

To avoid disk fragmentation, select the " " option. This enables Guard Console to manage disk storage space intuitively when storing and purging recorded data.

Smart file allocation

Auto-recycle

Allocate as much disk space as necessary for saving digital recordings, but take note that video files are large in size and may eat up disk space fast. When the " " option is selected, Guard Console deletes old recordings and frees up disk space for reuse. Click the button to open the

and specify

how to recycle used disk space.

Auto-recycle

Settings

Recycle Settings dialog box

1. Keep last ___ days

2. Use maximum

storage capacity

Specify how many days of recordings to retain before deleting old video records. It can be from 1 to 365 days.

Select this option to automatically recycle disk storage when there is no more free space in the assigned storages for saving new recordings.the desired checkboxes.

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Configuring the video display

The following two options in the tab determine how live and recorded videos are displayed on the monitor screen.

General

Always display original video resolution

Quick display

In some split screen layouts, videos may not appear in their original video dimensions and may be scaled to fit into the split screens. Scaling is handled generally by the VGA display card's hardware acceleration feature. If the VGA card does not support scaling, Windows resizes the video size through software scaling.

However, software scaling uses more CPU power and is slower as compared to hardware scaling. To speed up the display of video images using VGA cards that don't have scaling capabilities, disable scaling by selecting the " " option. This is how Guard Console displays video when this option is selected:

When displaying a single split screen in full-screen view, video screen resolution will be changed to 640x480.

When displaying 4 split screens in full-screen view, the whole screen resolution will be changed to 640x480 and each of the four split screens will be displayed in 320x240 resolution.

When displaying 9 split screens in full-screen view, keep the video screen resolution in 1024x768 and display each camera window in 320x240. This keeps the 9 split screens close to each other and displays black borders between them. The 9 split screens occupy a 960x720 space at the center of the display screen.

Select this option to render YUV data to the VGA display card. Clear this option to convert first YUV data to RGB, and then render to the VGA display card.

Always display original video resolution

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Setting the date and time

If the system's date and time are not configured correctly, click the

button to make proper adjustments. This is crucial for Guard Console to

accurately record the date and time of detected events.

Date &

Time

Scheduling reports

Guard Console can send by e-mail periodic reports that show information about detected events. Click the button to specify what types of events to include in the reports and to whom the reports will be sent.

Report

1. Daily/Weekly/Monthly

report

2. Events detected by

3. SMTP server

4. E-mail from

5. E-mail to

Choose whether to send reports on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Select which events to include in the reports (that is, events which have been detected by Motion detection, Sensor detection, Manual trigger, or all of the above).

Specify the name of the SMTP server that will handle e-mail deliverance.

Specify the sender's e-mail address.

Specify the recipient's e-mail address. If there are multiple recipients, separate each of their e-mail addresses with a semicolon.

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