User`s manual

Milestone XProtect Smart Client; User’s Manual
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Introduction
About the Smart Client
The Smart Client provides remote users with extremely feature-rich access to the surveillance
system. With the Smart Client it is possible to access multiple servers at a time, allowing remote
user access across systems.
Example of the Smart Client, displaying images from 16 cameras
The Smart Client must be installed locally on the remote user’s computer.
DirectX 9.0 and .Net Framework 1.1 are required on computers running the Smart Client; both are
available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/.
What are Remote Users Able to do with the Smart Client?
With the Smart Client, remote users are able to:
 View live images from cameras on the surveillance system.
 Browse recordings from cameras on the surveillance system.
 Create and switch between an unlimited number of views, each able to display images from
up to 16 cameras from multiple servers at a time*. Views can placed in private groups
(only accessible by the user who created them) or shared groups (accessible by all Smart
Client users connected to the surveillance system server).
* Depending on the Milestone XProtect surveillance system used
 Use HTML pages and static images in views.
 Create special views for widescreen monitors.
 Control PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) and IPIX (360° view) cameras.
 Activate manually triggered events.
 Activate external outputs.
 Get quick overviews of sequences with detected motion.
 Get quick overviews of detected events.
 Quickly search selected areas of camera images for motion, also known as Smart Search.