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WinFast Guard Pro

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WinFast Guard Pro User's Manual Version A January 2003

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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

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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.

Guard Console

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

Video Signal

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

General

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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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Video camera settings (Camera tab)

Click the tab in the Preferences dialog box to configure settings for up to 16 video cameras. Each camera is identified by a camera number (C1 to C16). Click each camera button to set up options for a video camera.

The following are the settings that can be configured for each camera:

Camera

1. Camera buttons

2. Camera name

3. Privilege level

4. Priority level

Each button corresponds to a video camera. Click a button to configure settings for a video camera.

Type in a name for identifying a video camera (for instance, the location where the camera is installed).

Assign each camera with a privilege level to restrict unauthorized users from viewing the camera. (Refer to the section "User Accounts (User tab)" on page 44 for details on the different privilege levels.)

The priority level determines which video camera will be given the highest priority and displayed in single view when multiple simultaneous events have been detected from several cameras. The range for priority level is from 1 to 16, level 1 being the highest priority.

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5. Video settings

6. Respond to events

7. Disable connection

8. Enable recording

9. Detect events by

10. Information

11. Apply All

Choose the desired video resolution (320 x 240, 640 x 240 or 640 x 480) and video standard (NTSC or PAL) to display live video. If the camera is a PTZ camera, specify how it will be controlled. Also determine whether or not to display captions on the camera window.

Set up how Guard Console will react to detected or manually triggered events. (See page 29 for details.)

Select this option to disable the connection to a camera and stop all tasks. Clear this option to re-establish camera connection.

Select this option to enable digital recording. (See page 33 for more details.)

Specify the methods to use for detecting events. There are three methods: sensor detection, motion detection, or manual trigger. (See page 27 for more details.)

When you are done configuring settings for cameras, click the Information button to check your settings first before saving them.

Click this button to use the same camera settings (except for the camera name) for all video cameras.

Programming PTZ Camera Movements

Guard Console can be programmed to move PTZ cameras from time to time and periodically monitor different areas. To enable Site Server to control a PTZ camera, select the " " option and click . Then in the

, adjust the settings accordingly.

PTZ Camera Setting

PTZ Control dialog box

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1. Com port

2. Device type

3. Loop

4. Pause duration

Select a Com port to communicate with the PTZ control device.

Select a PTZ control protocol.

Select this option to move the camera periodically to the specified preset positions. There can be up to eight preset positions which can be configured on the PTZ Control Panel. Preset positions in the edit box are represented as numbers and are separated by spaces.

When the "Loop" option is selected, users will not be able to manually control the PTZ camera from the PTZ Control Panel.

Specify the duration for the camera to stay in a preset position before moving to the next.

Configuring caption display settings

To display information (such as camera name, number, etc.) on the split screens, select the " " option and click . Then in the

, choose the information to be displayed.

Display captions Settings

Captions dialog box

1. Caption checkboxes

2. Font

Select the checkboxes of the information that needs to be displayed on split screens.

Click this button to select a font to use for displaying captions.

Note: The selected font will be displayed in the actual font size only when the video

dimension is set at 640x480. If, for instance, 16-point is the selected font size and the video dimension is set at 320x240, font will be scaled down to 8-point size.

When the " " option is enabled, a " " indicator will also be displayed on the split screens when the respective cameras are in the progress of recording video.

Display captions REC

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Specifying the methods for detecting events

Select the checkboxes of the methods to use for detecting events. There are three methods:

Motion detection

This allows video cameras to detect the presence of movement from a sequence of consecutive video frames. You can adjust the sensitivity level, noise tolerance, event interval, and ignored event duration. (See page 34 for more details.)

Sensor detection

This allows sensors in the site to monitor and detect suspicious activities. Click the button to choose which sensors in the site will be used for detection.

Setting

Note: The sensor names here cannot be modified.

Manual trigger

This allows you to manually monitor activities in the site. You can press " " to log and/or digitally record ongoing activities.

Enter

Note: Manual event duration is predefined in seconds.

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Responding to events

Guard Console can be configured to automatically respond to detected or manually triggered events. There are 2 options:

1. Notifications

2. External devices

Select this option to enable Guard Console to send out notifications when events have been auto-detected or manually triggered. Click the

button to select the types of notifications to send. (See the next section, "Types of notifications" for more details.)

Select this option to enable Guard Console to send out signals to external devices when events have been auto-detected or manually triggered. Click the button to choose which external devices to send signals to.

Settings

Note: The external device names here cannot be modified.

Types of notifications

In the Notification dialog box, choose from the different types of notifications by selecting some or all of the checkboxes. For each selected type of notification, click its corresponding button to configure settings.Options

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Sends out an e-mail message. Configure the following settings to enable notification e-mails to be sent:

1. SMTP server

2. Sender

3. Address

4. Add

5. Delete

6. Modify

Specify the name of an existing mail server that supports the SMTP protocol.

Specify the sender's e-mail address.

List the e-mail addresses that will receive the event notification. Click on an e-mail address to select it for deletion or modification.

Click this button to add an e-mail address.

Click this button to remove the selected e-mail address from the address list.

To modify an e-mail address, first select that email address in the address list, then make the changes in the edit box at the bottom. Click the button to update the e-mail address.

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Fax

Sends out a fax message. Configure the following settings to send fax:

1. Com port

2. Fax number

3. Add

4. Delete

5. Modify

Select one available Com port that connects to a modem device.

List the fax numbers that will receive the event notification. Click on a fax number to select it for deletion or modification.

Click this button to add a fax number.

Click this button to remove the selected fax number from the fax number list.

To modify a fax number, first select that number in the fax number list, then make the changes in the edit box at the bottom. Click the button to update the fax number.Modify

Phone

Notifies by phone and sends out a voice message. Configure the following settings to be able to dial out and send voice messages.

1. Com port

2. Hello message

3. Warning message

Select an available modem driver that has the voice support.

Select a wave file or click the button to record a hello message.

Select a wave file or click the button to record a warning message.

Record

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4. Add

5. Delete

6. Modify

Click this button to add a new telephone number.

Click this button to remove the selected telephone number from the telephone number list.

To modify a telephone number, first select that number in the telephone number list, then make the changes in the edit box at the bottom. Click the button to update the telephone number.

Modify

Pager

Notifies by calling a pager. Configure the following settings to dial out and send a notification to a pager:

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1. Com port

2. Content

3. Add

4. Delete

5. Modify

Select an available Com port that connects to a modem device.

Type the message to be sent.

Click this button to add a new pager number.

Click this button to remove the selected pager number from the pager number list.

To modify a pager number, first select that number in the pager number list, then make the changes in the edit box at the bottom. Click the button to update the pager number.

Modify

Flash message at local site

An "Event" indicator will be displayed if and only if the "

" checkbox is selected in the . A blinking "Event" indicator will be displayed on the bottom right corner of a split screen on Site Server when an event is detected.

Flash message at local

site Notification dialog box

Flash message at remote site

Displays an "Event" indicator on the Remote Viewer interface of users who are remotely viewing your video cameras from a Web browser. A blinking "Event" indicator will be displayed on the top, central portion of a split screen on the Remote Viewer when an event is detected.

Change to single view and delay for ___ seconds

Switches the Guard Console screen to single view to display live the camera from which an event has been detected. Specify the duration (in number of seconds) for retaining the display in single view before changing Site Server back to split-screen view.

Alarm

Plays an alarm sound. From the drop-down list, select from the available sounds, or select " " and then click to record your own alarm sound. To listen to a preview of your recorded sound, click . You can also select the " " option to sound the alarm until the event terminates.

Custom Record

Play

Loop

Note: Each camera can have its own customized alarm sound.

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Digital recording

Select the " " option to enable digital video recording. Choose the desired recording method from the drop-down list.

Enable recording

There are 4 recording methods:

Non-stop recording

Non-stop smart recording

Event recording

Time-lapse recording

Allows round-the-clock digital recording.

Records only live events. If no event has been detected, by default, the recording frame rate will be 1 frame per 5 seconds. If there is an event detected, the recording frame rate specified in the

will be applied.Setting dialog box

Records detected events.

Records video with specified frame rate below 1 fps.

Specifying recording settings

Click the button to define recording settings.Settings

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1. Frame rate

2. Compression format

This is the number of images recorded per second, that is, frames per second (fps). A low frame rate makes the video appear "choppy". For smoother video playback, choose at least 15 fps. Higher frame rate requires more storage space.

This determines the recorded video quality and the resulting video file size. There are 2 compression formats to choose from:

Fine tuning motion detection dettings

If you selected the " " option in the tab to enable motion detection, click the button that appears next to this option to display the and fine tune settings for detecting motion. Basically, Guard Console detects motion by comparing consecutive frames to see if there is any change between the frames.

If there are areas within a camera's view which do not need to be monitored and detected for the presence of motion, these insignificant areas can be masked out. The following options and controls in the

can be adjusted to mask out areas and exclude them

from motion detection.

Motion detection Camera

Setting

Motion Detection Settings dialog box

Motion Detection

Settings dialog box

1. +|-|All|Clear

2. Play and Pause buttons

3. Event interval

4. Shortest event duration

Use these buttons to select or remove selected areas.

By default, the " " button is pressed and live video is displayed at a frame rate of one frame per second on the preview window. You can click the " " button to freeze the video.

Specify the minimum interval between events.

Set the minimum time duration for each event. If the duration of a detected event is shorter than the defined shortest event duration, it will not be treated as an event.

Play

Pause

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Motion-JPEG

This is a proprietary format for compressing video data. It has three levels of video quality you can choose from.

This records video in MotionJPEG format. The video quality is adjustable, ranging from value 1 to 100. The higher the value, the better is the video quality.

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5. Sensitivity

6. Noise tolerance

7. Track moving target

8. Show mask

Set the level of sensitivity to motion.

Low sensitivity means that minimal motion will be ignored, and that only dramatic changes in movement will be detected. However, this may result in loss of event. High sensitivity means that even the smallest movement will be detected, but it could be a false event. Careful testing and fine tuning of the sensitivity setting is recommended.

Set the tolerance level to noise.

Select this option to easily identify objects in motion. A bounding box will appear on moving objects.

Select this option to visually mask out the major areas where motion will be ignored.

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Masking out an area

To mask out an area and ignore motion in that area:

1. On the preview window, you will see live video from the currently selected video camera. To select an area, click the "+" button, and then drag your mouse over the area that will be excluded from motion detection.

2. To add or remove areas, use these buttons:

All

Clear

Allows you to add an area. Click this button and then drag your mouse over the desired area.

Reduces parts from a marked area. Drag your mouse over the part you want to remove.

Selects the entire camera view as the area to be ignored.

Removes all selections.

Split screen settings (View tab)

Click the View tab in the Preferences dialog box to assign several video cameras per split screen. The assigned video cameras will take turns, and each camera will be displayed for a specified amount of time.

1. Split screen

2. Split screens list

3. Camera assignments

Choose a split screen layout on which to assign video cameras for display. Select any of Guard Console's preset layouts:

,,,or

This lists the split screens that are displayed on a given screen layout.

When you highlight a split screen number on the list at the left, the right side of the dialog box shows the video cameras that are currently assigned to that split screen. Assigned video cameras are indicated by the selected checkboxes.

Select/clear checkboxes to change the assignment of video cameras.

Single View 4 Split Screens 9 Split Screens 16 Split Screens

3. Adjust the other options in the dialog box to fine tune settings for the marked areas.

4. To visually mask out the marked areas where motion will be ignored, select the " " option.Show mask

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4. Time delay for switching cameras

Per split screen, specify the time duration for displaying each of the assigned video cameras. The duration can be set from 5 seconds up to 360 seconds.

Input/Output device settings (Device tab)

Click the tab in the Preferences dialog box to select an I/O card and set up the connections to security devices such as sensors and alarms. Under the tab, click the "Input" tab to configure sensor devices, and click the " " tab to enable devices to receive signals from Guard Console.

Device

Output

Configuring input devices (Input tab)

In the " " tab, at most 16 sensor devices can be enabled and customized. The following describes the settings that can be customized.

Input

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1. Card

2. Enable/Disable checkboxes

3. Scan interval

4. Name

5. Type

6. Gain

7. From/To

Select an I/O card from the drop-down list. Different I/O cards have different number of analog input ports.

Select the checkboxes of sensors whose analog input will be monitored. Or, clear the checkboxes to disable connections to the sensors.

Specify the interval (in seconds) for scanning input ports periodically.

Specify the sensor name (for instance, the location where the sensor is installed).

Select an input type: NC (Normal Close) or NO (Normal Open).

Specify the sensor's input voltage range.

Specify the time period for monitoring the

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8. Test Click this button to open the "Sensor test"

dialog box to view the actual analog input voltage value.

The allows you to check the connection status of input devices. The sensor input type and the current voltage value are displayed. You can try each input devices and inspect the voltage to check if the connections between input devices and Guard Console are well connected.

Sensor test dialog box

Configuring output devices (Output tab)

In the " " tab, at most 16 output devices can be enabled and customized. The following describes the settings that can be customized.

Output

1. Card

2. Enable/Disable checkboxes

Select an I/O card from the drop-down list. Different I/O cards have different number of analog output ports.

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3. Name

4. Type

5. Gain

6. Interval

7. From/To

8. Test

Specify the sensor name (for instance, the location where the sensor is installed).

Select an output type: NC (Normal Close) or NO (Normal Open).

Specify the output voltage.

Specify the interval for sending the specified output voltage to the device.

Specify the valid time period for activating the output device.

Click this button to output the specified voltage to NO-type devices and output 0 voltage to NC-type devices during the specified interval.

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Timed surveillance settings (Schedule tab)

Click the tab in the Preferences dialog box to set up a surveillance schedule for each video camera. Timed surveillance can be scheduled in a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Schedule

By Day

To set up a daily surveillance schedule for each video camera:

Enable scheduling

Type

By Day

Add

Schedule

Start Time

Delete

Modify

1. Choose a video camera by

clicking the number button that corresponds to that camera.

2. Select the " "

option.

3. From the " " drop-down list,

select " ".

4. To add a new schedule, click

"".

5. In the dialog box that opens, set a

time schedule for monitoring the camera and select the checkboxes of tasks to be performed within the scheduled time. (See next page for more details.)

6. Repeat steps 1 to 5 to add more

schedules.

7. All created time schedules will be

added to the schedule list in the

tab.

To select a schedule and view details, click its " " entry.

To delete a schedule, select it and click the button.

To modify a schedule, select it and then click the button.

8. Repeat steps 1 to 7 to create

daily schedules for other video cameras.

Schedule list

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Daily surveillance settings

1. Start/End time

2. Disable connection

3. Enable recording

4. Detect events by

5. Respond to events by

Specify what time to monitor and detect events.

Select this option to disable connection to the camera during the time period specified by the " " time settings.

Select this option to enable digital recording of detected events during the scheduled time period. Choose a recording method from the drop-down list. (See page 33 for more details on digital recording.)

Select the detection methods: motion detection, sensor detection, or Manual trigger. (See page 27 for details on detection methods.)

Choose the methods for responding to detected or manually triggered events. (See page 28 for more details.)

Start / End

By Week

To make a weekly surveillance schedule for each video camera:

Enable scheduling

Type

By Week

1. Choose a video camera by

clicking the number button that corresponds to that camera.

2. Select the " "

option.

3. From the " " drop-down list,

select " ".

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By Month

4. By default, the weekday list shows Saturday

and Sunday as the days off and the other days as workdays. You may change the type of day for the days listed. For instance, to change Sunday to be a special day, click " " and then select the " " option.

5. You can create different surveillance

schedules for weekdays, offdays, and special days. Click the " " button beside each of the three options to set the surveillance schedule for each.

The procedure for setting the weekly surveillance schedule is just the same as that for setting the daily surveillance. (See page 42 for details.)

6. Repeat steps 1 to 5 to create weekly schedules for other video cameras.

Sunday Special day

Settings

To make a monthly surveillance schedule for each video camera:

1. Choose a video camera by clicking the

number button that corresponds to that camera.

2. Select the " " option.

3. From the " " drop-down list, select "

4. The calendar shows the current month, with

the current day highlighted. Also, by default, Saturday and Sunday are defined as the days off and the other days as workdays.

You may change the type of day for any day of the month. Just click on a day in the month calendar, then click the type of day (" ", "

", or " ") at the right.

5. To change the type of day in other months, move to the other months by

clicking the arrow buttons on top of the calendar. Do the process mentioned in step 4 to change the type of day for any day of the month.

6. The procedure for setting the surveillance schedule for days of a given

month is just the same as that for setting the daily surveillance. (See page 42 for details.)

Enable scheduling

Type By

Month

Weekday Day

off Special day

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User accounts (User tab)

Click the User tab in the Preferences dialog box to create user accounts with varying privileges. Guard Console categorizes users into four levels of privileges as described below.

Highest level of privilege. A user who is assigned with an " " privilege will be able to view all cameras, customize preference options, and add/delete/modify user accounts.

Administrator

A user who is assigned with a " " privilege can only view cameras that were assigned with the same level of privilege remotely through a Web browser or remote viewer tool.

Remote user

A user who is assigned with a " " privilege can view cameras that were assigned with "Manager", "Operator" or "Remote user" privilege, but does not have rights to customize preference options.

Manager

A user who is assigned an operator privilege:

Can view cameras that were assigned with " " or " " privilege. Does not have access rights to the User tab in the Preferences dialog box. Does not have rights to modify preference settings of cameras that were assigned with " " or " " privilege.

Operator Remote user

Manager Administrator

Administrator

User Privilege

Manager

Operator

Remote user

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To create a new user account:

Add

User ID

Password

Privilege level

Description

1. In the User tab, click " ".

The Add User dialog box then appears.

2. Enter a " ", and enter the

" " twice in the provided text boxes.

3. Select a " " to assign to the

user account.

4. Enter a textual " " about the

user account.

To restrict the Guard Console program's access rights only to privileged users, select the " " option. When access control is enabled,

will always prompt for the User ID and Password when the

program is launched.

Enable access control

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Viewing logs and disk usage information

Use the following button controls to check recorded logs of events and inspect the hard disk storage space in the server computer that runs Site Server.

Event Log

This button shows the number of new events that have been detected. Click this button to open the New Events dialog box and view details of detected events.

The New Events dialog box shows which devices detected new events. (C1 C16 indicate video cameras, S1 - S16 indicate sensors.)

If an event has been digitally recorded, you can click the View button to invoke Event Viewer and play back the recorded event.

The "Note" column displays the type of event: "Motion Detection", "External Sensor", or "Manual". ("Manual" means a detection that's manually activated.

Click the Clear button to delete the event logs.

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Operation Logs

Guard Console records login/logout sessions, preferences modification date and time, as well as date and time logs of connections from remote sites. To view these operation logs, first click the button on the Guard Console program screen. Then, in the , click the button to open the

About

About dialog box Log

Log dialog box

Disk Information

This button displays the amount of remaining disk space. Click this button to open the dialog box and view details on disk usage.Record Storage Information

Click the button to delete all recorded logs. Only users with "" privileges have rights to delete operation logs.

Clear

administrator

Click the button to save operation logs as a text file.

Save

Select this option and specify how many days of operation logs to maintain. This enables Guard Console to purge old logs after the specified number of days and free up disk space.

The Log list shows the date and time, user account name, and the action performed.

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Record Viewer lets you retrieve and view videos that have been digitally recorded by Guard Console. It lists history records by time segments or by the actual occurrence of events. At most, recordings from 16 different video cameras or 16 recorded events can be simultaneously played on the program screen.

Record Viewer

To launch Remote Viewer, click on the Guard Console program screen. You can also run this program from the Windows " " menu by selecting

Start

Start - Programs - WinFast Guard Pro - Record Viewer

Launching Record Viewer

Basically, these are the controls that you will need to use when you retrieve history records and playback previously recorded videos:

Program Interface: An Overview

To access a specific day's history records, specify the date and retrieve its records by using these controls.

From the "

" drop-down list, choose whether to search for video recordings by time segments or by the type of events.

Record

type

This is the Navigation Panel.

The controls here will change when you switch to displaying history records by type of events.

Click the Locate button to open a backed-up database from which to retrieve history records.

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There are two types of databases that can be loaded into Record Viewer and from which history records can be retrieved:

Types of databases

Main database

This is the default database that is opened in Record Viewer, and it is the video database that the Guard Console program uses to save recorded surveillance video. The record storage allocated in Guard Console's

comprises the entire Main database.

(See page 19 for details on allocating record storage.)

Preferences dialog box: General tab

Backed-up databases

These databases contain daily/manual backup copies of recorded surveillance video. Each day's digital recordings can be backed up in a separate database using WinFast Guard Pro's program. (Refer to Chapter 4 for more information on Backup Scheduler.)

Backup Scheduler

Loading a backed-up databases

To load a backed-up database:

1. Click the button.

2. In the , the paths of previously backed-up databases will be listed in the drop-down list. Select one of these databases, or if the desired database is not listed, click to locate it.

Locate dialog box

Browse

3. After loading a backed-up database, you can select the " " in the Locate dialog box to return to the Main database.

Main database

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To search for recorded surveillance videos and view them, first choose the date of recording and retrieve the history records of the specified date. Then, use the to play back recorded videos.Navigation Panel

Viewing recorded video

Selecting the date of recording

There are two ways of selecting the recording date:

Enter the date of recording in the text box beneath the history record list, and click to retrieve the history records of the selected date.

Or,

Click . The opens, displaying the current month.

1. Click the left/right arrow button to display the previous/next month.

2. Click a date on the calendar to select it.

3. Click to close the .

4. The history records of the selected date are automatically retrieved.

Calendar dialog box

To select a date:

OK Calendar dialog box

History records of the selected date are then displayed in the . To find and play back video recordings from the history list much faster, you can refine the search by limiting the search to time segments or to specific type of events.

History list

Viewing records by time segments

To view records by time segments:

All Records Record type

History list

Preferences dialog box

1. Select " " from the " " drop-down list.

2. By default, the displays time segments in intervals of one hour.

To change the interval, click . In the

, specify the desired

interval for displaying time segments.

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3. Click a desired time segment in the .

4. In the , click the cameras whose video recordings you want to access for the selected time segment. As you select more cameras, the number of split screens increases. (See "Selecting video cameras" below for more details on and split screens.)

History list

Camera Selection Panel

Camera buttons

5. When you click (the Play button) on the

, video recordings from the selected cameras will simultaneously be played on-screen. (See page 54 for details on the Navigation Panel.)

Navigation Panel

Note: To have different combinations of camera

selections and store each set of combinations, use the Memory buttons. (See "Memory buttons" on page 51 for details.)

Selecting video cameras

By default, the Camera buttons on the Camera Selection Panel are toggle buttons and allow multiple selection of video cameras. To view recorded videos from selected cameras, choose the video cameras by clicking the corresponding number buttons. To deselect video cameras, click on their corresponding number buttons again.

The number of selected cameras determines the split screen layout of the Record Viewer program screen, as depicted in the table below.

To deselect all selected cameras and allow single camera selection only, click the button. The color of the camera image on the button then changes to green, indicating that the Camera Selection Panel is now in single camera selection mode.

Number of selected cameras Split screen layout

1 camera

2 to 4 cameras

5 to 9 cameras

10 to 16 cameras

4 split screens

9 split screens

16 split screens

Single view

Camera Selection Panel

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Memory buttons

When you need to select different video cameras per time segment, it could be tedious to keep on selecting and deselecting the on the

. To save you the trouble of reselecting and deselecting cameras, Record Viewer provides three that can be used to store three different combinations of camera selections.

1. Select the desired cameras (or deselect unwanted cameras) by clicking

the on the .

2. Click and hold your mouse over a Memory button for 2 seconds. The

flashes slowly as it stores your camera selections. Release your mouse button when you see the flashes more quickly.

3. Repeat the above steps to store other combinations of camera selections to the other .

Next time you click on the Memory buttons, Camera buttons will automatically be selected according to the stored combinations.

Camera buttons

Camera Selection Panel

Memory buttons

To store a combination of camera selections to a Memory button:

Camera buttons Camera Selection Panel

Memory button

Memory buttons

Viewing records by events

Event records

When selected, the program searches for all events that were recorded on a specified date and displays them in the .

The displays these 3 types of recorded events: motion events, sensor events, and manually triggered events. The list shows the actual time of recording, the camera device that recorded the event, and the type of event. The type of event is indicated as follows:

History list

To search for video recorded events, select any of these three options from the "Record type" drop-down list:

(Mo)

(S"n")

(Ma)

Sensor event, where "n" represents the sensor number

Manually triggered event

Motion event

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Motion events

When selected, the program searches for all motion detected events that were recorded on a specified date and displays them in the History list.

The History list shows the actual time of recording and the camera device that recorded the event.

Sensor events

When selected, the program searches for all sensor detected events that were recorded on a specified date and displays them in the History list.

The History list shows the actual time of video recording and the sensor device that detected the event.

Manual events

When selected, the program searches for all manually triggered recordings of a specified date and displays them in the History list.

The History list shows the actual time of video recording and the camera device from which surveillance video was recorded.

Viewing video recorded events

When you switch to displaying history records by event, Record Viewer provides the following button controls for setting the split screen layout and for navigating between records in the .History list

Split Screen Layout buttons

Record Navigation buttons

History list

Set the number of split screens to use for event playback by clicking one of these buttons. Up to 16 split screens can be selected.

When playing back events in single view, click these buttons to move up or down one record in the .

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Whereas when playing events in split screen view, the event that is currently selected in the will be played back in the first split screen, and the events that follow it in the will be played simultaneously in the other split screens. Clicking the buttons will allow you to move up or down the by multiples of 4, 9 or 16 records, depending on the number of split screens selected for event playback.

History list

Record Navigation

History list

Setting display preferences

To see details such as recording date and time while viewing recorded videos, you can choose to display information on the split screens. You can also enable quick display and loop playback features. Click the button to open the Preferences dialog box and customize these settings.

1. Timeline interval

2. Captions

This setting determines the interval of time segments that are displayed in the .

Select this option to show information on the split screens. Click the button to open the

and select which information to display on

the split screens.

When displaying records by time segments, select the information checkboxes in the upper group box in the

. Whereas when displaying records by event, select the information checkboxes in the lower group box. Click the button to choose a font size and style for the displayed information.

History list

Settings Captions

dialog box

Captions dialog box

Font

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3 4

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3. Quick display

4. Loop playback

This setting determines the interval of time segments that are displayed in the History list.

Select this option to continuously replay the recorded videos.

Navigational Panel

Use the Navigation Panel to control the playback of recorded video.

1. Start Time

2. Current Timecode

3. End Time

4. Navigation Bar

When playing records that were selected from the "All records" list, this shows the start time of the selected time segment.

When playing events, 00:00:00 will be shown as the "Start Time".

Shows the timecode of the current video scene.

When playing records that were selected from the "All records" list, this shows the end time of the selected time segment.

When playing events, the maximum time length between events will be shown as the "End Time".

Allows you to jump directly to any part of the recorded video. Drag the slider tab to the desired part of the recorded video.

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5. Play / Pause

6. Stop

7. Previous / Next Frame

8. Backward / Forward

9. Slow Motion

10. Normal Speed

11. Fast Motion

Plays/Pauses the playback at the current frame.

Terminates the playback and moves to the starting frame.

Moves to the previous/next video frame. (Only available in single view.)

Moves back/forward one or more video frames.

Slows down video playback. Click once to play the recorded video at half (1/2 x) the normal speed. Click again to play the video at a quarter (1/4 x) of the normal speed. The slowest speed is 1/8 x.

Plays the recorded event at its original speed.

Increases the playback speed of the video. Click once to double (2 x) the playback speed. Click again to quadruple (4 x) the playback speed. The maximum speed is 16 x.

Zooming the video during playback

When playing recorded surveillance video in single view, you can zoom in or out of the video with ease. Click the button repeatedly to cycle through different video frame sizes: " ", " ", and "

320 x 240 640 x 480 Fit into Split

Screen

Detecting motion in the recorded video

When playing back recorded video, motion detection can be applied to the video. This allows you to instantly spot movements on video. To detect motion on the recorded video more accurately, you can fine tune motion detection settings. Click the button to adjust settings and mask out parts of the video where motion can be ignored. (Refer to "Fine tuning motion detection settings" on page 34 for more details on motion detection.)

Note: Motion detection can be applied only when the recorded video is played in single view mode.

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The whole or part of a recorded surveillance video can be saved as a video file. Click to open the following dialog box and specify the desired part of the video to save.

Saving video

By default, the " " and " " values are set to the actual start and end times of recording. To choose a portion from the recorded video, change the " " and " " settings to the desired start and end timecodes.

To check whether you have selected the appropriate part of the video, click the button. When you are ready to save the selected portion as a video file, enter a " " and click . The video file will be saved in AVI, a compressed video file format that provides good video quality.

Start time End time

Preview

File name OK

If a video recording clearly shows suspicious activities or an intruder in the monitored site, you can notify police authorities and provide them with actual image snapshots. To take a snapshot, first play back the recorded video, and then click the button. The then opens, allowing you to enhance the captured image by adjusting brightness. You can also choose to add captions on the captured image as well as print and save the captured image. Click the Printer setup button to select a printer to use for printing.

Snapshot dialog box

Capturing image snapshots

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Use the program to make regular backups of the recorded surveillance videos. This program allows both manual and scheduled backups. Manual backup allows you to specify the date and time range of video recordings to back up. Whereas when scheduled backup is enabled, the program automatically performs daily backups of surveillance videos that were recorded during a specific time frame in a day.

Backup Scheduler

To launch Backup Scheduler, click

If access control is enabled in Guard Console's

, users who run the Backup Scheduler program will be prompted to provide login information. To be able to use the Backup Scheduler program, the login name and password entered must belong to an existing user account that has been assigned with either the " " or " " privilege level. Only users with either of these two privilege levels are allowed to configure backup settings.

Start - Programs - WinFast Guard Pro -

Backup Scheduler

Preferences dialog box -

Users tab

Administrator Operator

Launching Backup Scheduler

Upon entering the program, you will see a list of past backups displayed on the program screen. From the program screen, you can manage the backed up files and initiate manual backups or set up automatic backups.

Program Interface: An Overview

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1. Backup list

2. View

3. Remove

4. Backup

5. Scheduled backup

Keeps a record of past backups. Each backup entry in the list corresponds to an actual backup database file. Each backup entry shows the date and time range of the surveillance videos that were backed up, a textual description, and the folder location where the backup database was saved.

Plays back the surveillance videos that are stored in a backup database. To view the backed up surveillance videos, select the appropriate entry from the Backup list and then click View to play back the videos in the Record Viewer program.

Deletes one or more selected entries in the Backup list. Deleting entries will also physically delete their corresponding backup database files. To select multiple entries, hold down the Ctrl key and click each entry you want to delete. Then, click Remove to delete them.

Allows you to manually initiate a backup when there are recorded surveillance videos in Guard Console's Main database. (See "Performing manual backups" below for more details.).

Enables the Backup Scheduler program to perform automatic backups on a daily basis. (See "Setting up automatic backups" on page 60 for more details.)

Manual backup allows you to selectively back up surveillance videos that were recorded by Guard Console within a date and time range. To perform a manual backup, click the Backup button to open the following dialog box and configure backup settings:

Performing manual backups

1. Record database

information

2. Backup range

This displays information about the video recordings that are currently stored in 's Main database. The information here shows the first surveillance video's date/time of recording, the last video's date/time of recording, the total file size of recordings, and the cameras from which surveillance videos were recorded.

The options here determine which video recordings to backup and whether to remove them from the Main database after the backup process is complete.

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3. Backup destination Specify the folder location in which to save the

backup database, and enter a textual description that identifies the contents of the backup database.

First / Last record

Backup only

Backup and Remove

Remove only

Calculate

Specify the date and time range of video recordings you want to back up.

When selected, the program backs up the video recordings that fall within the specified date and time range, and retains them in the Main database after the backup process is complete.

When selected, the program deletes the video recordings that fall within the specified date and time range after backing them up.

When selected, the program deletes video recordings without performing a back up first.

Click this button to display the total file size of the video recordings to be backed up or removed.

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Backups can be automatically performed by Backup Scheduler according to your preset schedule. At most, you can set up the program to back up surveillance videos that were recorded by Guard Console for the last 24 hours. Configure these settings to set up a schedule for automatic backups:

Setting up automatic backups

1. Enable scheduling

2. Backup path

3. Backup time

4. Description

Select this option to activate automatic backups.

Specify the destination folder for saving the daily backups. Each day's surveillance videos recorded by

will be saved as an individual backup

database.

Specify the time period to back up the previous day's video recordings.

Enter a textual description that identifies the contents of the backup database files.

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Note: Backup processes are given lesser priority than digital video recording when both operations are performed simultaneously. When backup storage is not enough or an entire backup process cannot be completed within the specified period, a warning message will be displayed.

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Remote Viewer allows you or any user to view remote video cameras, control remote PTZ cameras, remotely record videos on the local drive, and play back video recordings on the local drive via a Web browser. Users who have user accounts in the Guard Console that are assigned with at least the "Remote User" privilege level can access cameras remotely over the Internet, Intranet, or through direct modem connection.

Remote Viewer

Remote Viewer supports single screen, four split screens and sixteen split screens for Internet connection. To invoke four split screens Remote Viewer, click on the appropriate command in the [Start - Programs - WinFast Guard Pro Remote Viewer - Four Split Screens] submenu. You will then see a Web browser open a four split screens web page as well as button controls. Click on the button to prompt you to enter login information. After entering a valid user ID and password, and the IP address of remote DVR Guard Console, you will see four split screens showing live video from the remote DVR Guard Console.

Using Remote Viewer through Internet connection

DVR Guard Console

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1. Enter a valid user ID and password.

2. If the remote DVR Guard Console does not enable the access control,

select "Guest login" check box.

3. Select "Internet connection" option for remote viewing through Internet.

4. Enter the IP address of remote DVR Guard Console (Accept domain name

also).

5. Select the Internet bandwidth type of local machine.

6. You can select a historical connection to fill out the connection information

automatically.

7. Click on "OK" button to start the connection.

Note: 1. Before using Remote Viewer through Internet connection, be sure that the

remote DVR Guard Console has the option "Allow remote access" selected on the General page of Preference dialog box, and the DVR machine has been assigned a unique IP address. Your client machine runs Remote Viewer should connect to Internet also.

2. Web browser needs Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 or later versions.

Using Remote Viewer through direct modem connection

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1. Enter a valid user ID and password.

2. If the remote DVR Guard Console does not enable the access control,

select "Guest login" check box.

3. Select "Internet connection" option for remote viewing through Internet.

4. Enter the IP address of remote DVR Guard Console (Accept domain name

also).

5. Select the Internet bandwidth type of local machine.

6. You can select a historical connection to fill out the connection information

automatically.

7. Click on "OK" button to start the connection.

The settings of DVR Guard Console for Direct Modem Connection

For Windows XP

1. Plug a modem device to a COM port of DVR Site Server machine.

2. Install the modem driver for the modem device.

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3. Click the "Start" button on your Windows taskbar, select "Control Panel"

menu item to invoke Control Panel window.

4. Click the "Network Connections" icon in the "Control Panel" window to

open "Network Connections" window.

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5. If the "Location Information" is invoked, please fill in the area code and the

telephone number for the telephone line connected to the modem.

6. Click the "Create a new connection" item to launch the "New Connection

Wizard" window. Click the "Next" button.

7. Select the "Set up an advanced connection" option and click the "Next"

button.

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8. Select the "Accept incoming connections" option and click the "Next" button.

9. In the "Connection devices" list, select the modem driver, and click the

"Next" button.

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10. Select "Allow virtual private connections"or "Do not allow virtual private

connections" option and click the "Next" button.

11. Click the "Add" button to open "New User" dialog box.

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12. Fill out "User name", "Password" and "Confirm password" field by string

"DVR". Click the "OK" button to close the dialog box. Click the "Next" button.

13. In the "Networking software" list, select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" item

and press "Properties" button to open "Incoming TCP/IP Properties" dialog box.

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14. Select "Allow calling computer to specify its own IP address" option. Click

the "OK" button to close the dialog box.

15. Click the "Next" button and then click the "Finish" button to complete the

settings.

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For Windows 2000

1. Plug a modem device to a COM port of DVR Guard Console machine.

2. Install the modem driver for the modem device.

3. Click the "Start/Settings/Network and Dial-up Connections/Make New

Connection" menu item to invoke "Network Connection Wizard" window. Click the "Next" button.

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4. If the "Location Information" is invoked, please fill in the area code and the

telephone number for the telephone line connected to the modem.

5. Select the "Accept incoming connections" option and click the "Next"

button.

6. In the "Connection devices" list, select the modem driver, and click the

"Next" button.

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7. Select "Allow virtual private connections"or "Do not allow virtual private

connections" option and click the "Next" button.

8. Click the "Add" button to open "New User" dialog box.

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9. Fill out "User name", "Password" and "Confirm password" field by string

"DVR". Click the "OK" button to close the dialog box. Click the "Next" button.

10. In the "Networking components" list, select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)"

item and press "Properties" button to open "Incoming TCP/IP Properties" dialog box.

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11. Select "Allow calling computer to specify its own IP address" option. Click

the "OK" button to close the dialog box.

12. Click the "Next" button and then click the "Finish" button to complete the

settings.

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The Operations of Remote Viewer

Remote Viewer displays 4 split screens at a time. They show live video from four of the video cameras on the remote site.

Use this Video Control Panel to access more video cameras, record video, etc. (See "Video Control Panel" below for more details.)

Use this PTZ Camera Control Panel to adjust the angle of PTZ cameras on the remote site. (See page 65 for more details.)

This displays the name (the location name, for instance) of the remote site.

Click this button to view recorded surveillance videos. (See "Viewing recorded videos" on page 66 for more details.)

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Split screens

Each split screen on the Remote Viewer interface shows the camera name and the current status of the video camera.

Video Control Panel

The Video Control Panel provides button controls for connecting to the remote site, viewing remote cameras, and for looping through all cameras.

1. Previous and Next

buttons

Use these buttons to move to the previous or next set of four cameras. Cameras are displayed on Remote Viewer as follows: camera numbers (1, 2, 3,

4), (5, 6, 7, 8), (9, 10, 11, 12) and (13, 14, 15, 16).

This shows the name of the remote video camera.

An "Motion" status message is displayed when the remote camera has detected an event.

A "REC" (record) status message is displayed when displayed when the remote camera is currently in video recording mode at the remote site.

This displays the frame rate and the average data size per second.

Each split screen shows live video from a remote video camera.

This displays the current date and time of the remote cameras.

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2. Camera buttons

3. Loop button

Click a camera button to select the corresponding remote camera. You need to select a remote camera first before you can initiate video recording or control the camera if it is a PTZ camera.

Click this button to display each four-set cameras on a continuous loop, and click it again to disable the loop display.

PTZ Camera Control Panel and Recording Buttons

If the selected remote camera is a PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) camera, you can use the PTZ Camera Control Panel to adjust the angle of the camera. Use the buttons beneath this panel to start/stop video recording.

1. Zoom control

2. Record button

3. Stop button

Click the up arrow to zoom in, or the down arrow to zoom out. Or, click the circle button to go back to the default zoom ratio. If the PTZ camera does not provide zoom scaling feature, click the up arrow continuously to keep zooming in, or click the down arrow continuously to keep zooming out.

Click this button to start recording video from the selected camera.

Click this button to stop recording.

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4. Preset buttons

5. Pan & Tilt control

Click a preset button to move the PTZ camera to a preset position.

Click the four directional buttons to adjust the camera angle up, down, left, or right. Click the "X" button to stop moving the camera.

Viewing recorded videos

When recording surveillance videos from remote cameras, Remote Viewer saves them on the local computer's hard drive. To retrieve and view the recorded videos, click the button. A Record list window then appears, displaying logs of remote video recordings.

Select a log entry that shows details about the recorded surveillance video you want to view. Then click the button to open the and play back the recorded video.

Play Playback Web page

Playback Web page

The Playback Web page allows you to control the playback of the selected recorded video and take an image snapshot.

1. Displayed

information

2. Date and Timecode

This shows the remote site name and camera name.

This shows the recording date and timecode of the current video frame.

Click this button to open the

and play back the selected recorded video.

Playback Web page

Click this button to remove the selected record log. The corresponding recorded video data will also be deleted.

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3. Navigation controls

4. Snapshot button

The buttons from left to right are: "Play", "Pause", "Stop', "Previous Frame" and "Next Frame".

Click this button to capture the current video frame, save it as a JPEG file, and then display it on the Snapshot Web page for printing.

Snapshot Web page

The Snapshot Web page displays the captured image. The site name, camera name, date and timecode are shown on the image. Press the button to send the image out to a printer.

Print button

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