Customer Data And Customer-Device Events; Adding A Customer Device That Sends Data To A Unit - Honeywell rapid eye System Administrator Manual

Customer Data and Customer-Device Events

Purpose
View can display messages from many non-Multi hardware devices and systems such as: cash
registers, door access sensors, a guest registration system, and so on. A Multi-Media unit can
record these messages.
Fig. 8–9.
Video from a
A message from a third-party device is treated as a
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logged, triggering an alarm or both. This powerful asset to surveillance technology is synchronized
to recorded video.
Preparation
Before defining customer-device events and using them as alarms, a View operator needs:
Serial communications settings of the customer-device. These are obtained from the device's
manufacturer and are required to correctly receive data from the device.
Specific rights added to a typical View user account: (a) the Modify configuration right and (b)
access to the site that is connected to the
Maintenance, p. 186.
To know which serial port on a Multi-Media unit is used by the device, and knowing if it is
already being used by another devices, such as a PTZ camera control, and so on.
To know how rules. How "strings" of text are formatted and produced by customer-devices.
In the next procedure, let us suppose that the owner of a retail store wants video of an employee
at a point of sale (POS), when goods are purchased. Assume that a cash register is connected to
a Multi-Media unit and you know the cash register communication settings.

Adding a Customer Device That Sends Data to a Unit

1. Start a Maintenance Session
appears.
2. Click the Serial Devices tab.
3. Expand New Devices (as needed) to see a Data Input icon. See figure 8–10.
4. Drag the Data Input icon to the Port 1 icon.
5. To name the interface between Multi and the cash register, click the Device Name box for the
Serial device (above the Baud Rate label), and type a name, for ex. "Cash1".
Document 800-02325 Rev A
07/08
Customer Devices can Include POS Units, such as Cash Registers.
Customer-device event
Defined, p. 193. You have the option of having up to 100 messages per device either
for the Rapid Eye site. Wait until a "System Operational" message
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Customer-device event
Customer-device event. See
by a Multi-Media unit;
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