User Manual

Siveillance Video 2019 10 SI SSP SH LPS COS Video
systems or network drives. The archived data is
still online and available for clients.
Devices
•
Hardware wizard to add devices automatically
using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery,
via IP network range scanning, or using manual
devices detection. All methods support automatic
or manual model detection.
• Wizard for swift replacement of malfunctioning
devices with preserved configuration settings and
recordings.
• Enable and disable devices, which is very useful if
they are not used or are down for maintenance.
• Adjust settings such as brightness, color level,
compression, maximum bit rate, resolution and
rotation per camera or camera group.
• Select and configure video format, frames per
second (FPS), resolution and quality for the video
streams used per camera.
• Select and configure one, or more, video streams
per camera to be used for live viewing. Each
stream can be in different video format, FPS,
resolution and quality.
• Adjustable group of pictures (GOP) length for
MPEG4 and H.264 encoded video.
• Optional preview window for immediate
verification of video settings per camera or for a
group of cameras
• Assign camera shortcut number for easy
operation by clients.
• Define multiple PTZ preset positions on the
server.
• Import PTZ preset positions from cameras.
• PTZ scanning on supported devices.
• Define multiple PTZ patrolling schemes with
adjustable wait time between shifts and
customizable transitions with disabling of motion
detection to avoid false alarms.
• Run multiple patrolling schedules per camera per
day. For example, run different schedules for
day/night/weekend.
• Privacy mask consistently hides certain areas in
the camera view in live and playback video and in
exported material.
• Configure device events like motion detection
with pre- and post-buffers, or input signal
behavior options.
• Fine-tune motion detection sensitivity per camera
manually or automatically.
• Apply one or multiple exclusion zones where
motion detection is to be disabled to avoid
unwanted detection.
• Ability to allocate individual devices to different
storage containers.
• Move a device or a group of devices between two
storage containers.
• Storage overview gives instant indication of used
vs. available storage in total and for individual
cameras.
• Manage maximum recording time for manual
recording.
• Trigger events:
The Siveillance Video Advanced system and
connected devices support a wide set of events
that can be used to trigger actions using the rule
system. Events are grouped in the following
categories:
o Hardware: events that relate to physical
hardware devices connected to the system.
o Devices: events that relates to certain
functions and states of devices available to
the Siveillance Video system via the
connected hardware devices.
o External Events: events that relate to VMS
integrations.
• Recording server: events that relate to failover,
archiving and database functions.
Analytics: events from integrated applications and
systems.
• For further details on available trigger events,
please refer to the Siveillance Video
Administrator's Manual.
• Stop actions: The rule engine may also trigger
stop actions in the VMS system, connected