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30M Infrared Internet Camera
ICA-310
User's Manual
Version: 2.00
Date: May. 22
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  • Page 1 30M Infrared Internet Camera ICA-310 User’s Manual Version: 2.00 Date: May. 22 1/59...
  • Page 2 Copyright Copyright © 2008 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
  • Page 3 Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET 30M Infrared Internet Camera Model: ICA-310 (for F/W v3.0 or above) Rev: 2.0 (May, 2008) Part No. EM-ICA310v2...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    2.7 UPnP Function........................ 16 2.7.1 Windows XP ......................16 2.7.2 Windows Vista..................... 20 2.8 Setup ActiveX to use the ICA-310 .................. 22 2.8.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP..............22 2.8.2 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP..............23 2.8.3 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista..............24 Web-based Management......................

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Clear and high-image quality pictures in the daytime and at night 3GGP for 3G mobile remote application Compliant with IEEE 802.3af (PoE) Multi-profile encoder supports MPEG-4 and M-JPEG video compression simultaneously IR LED used on ICA-310 are 4 times brighter than ordinary IR LED...

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    NOTE : 1. If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. 2. Using the power supply that is not the one included in ICA-310 packet will cause damage and void the warranty for this product.

  • Page 7: Basic Setup

    2. Basic Setup This chapter provides details of installing and configuring the ICA-310 2.1 System Requirements Network Interface 10/100MBase-TX Ethernet Monitoring System Recommended for Internet Explorer 6.0 or later Basic System Hardware · CPU: Pentium 4, 3.0GHz or above · Memory Size : 512 MB (512 MB or above Recommended ) ·...

  • Page 8: Physical Details

    Video Output Connector (BNC port): The ICA-310 also provides composite video output. User can use BNC video cable to connect the ICA-310 with a TV monitor or DVR. RJ-45 LAN Connector: For connect a LAN cable to your Hub/Switch or PoE device.

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    6. Done. 2.4 Initial Utility Installation This chapter shows how to quick set up your ICA-310. The ICA-310 is with the default settings. However to help you find the networked camera quickly the windows utility-IP Wizard can search the cameras in the network that shall help you to configure some basic setting before you started advanced management and monitoring.
  • Page 10 3. The “Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for IP Wizard” will display on the screen and click “Next” to continue. 4. Please click “Next” to install with original settings, or you may click “Change…” button to modify the install folder then press “Next” to continue.
  • Page 11 5. Please click “Install” to start the installation. 6. Please click “Finish” to complete the installation 7. Please double-click the utility icon on the desktop then you will see the ICA-310 utility.

  • Page 12: Ip Wizard

    ICA-310’s IP address and set up related parameters in the ICA-310. Search Button: When click Search button, a searching window will pop up. IP Wizard is starting to search ICA-310 on the LAN. The message “No Network Devices Is Found” will appear on this window if IP Wizard cannot find any camera on the LAN.
  • Page 13 Wizard Button: When IP Wizard finds your camera, Wizard button will become available. Please select the device you would like to configure in the Information Box. The device will turn into yellow which means this device is selected; please press “Wizard” button. Or you could double click the mouse left key on the selected camera.

  • Page 14: Configure With Ip Wizard

    2.6 Configure With IP Wizard After pressing Installation Wizard, please key in Username and Password of the device when login dialog box appears on the screen. You can login the setup page if authorized name and password is correct. Default username/password for machine login: admin/<no password> Wizard Page 1: Username and Password This page is about the change of the authorized user name and password of the selected device.
  • Page 15 The term refers to two things: the conventions for naming hosts and the way the names are control across the Internet. DNS2 The same function as DNS1. It is optional, not necessary Note: If no IP address is assigned after 30 seconds, the ICA-310 will work with its default IP...
  • Page 16 ICA-310’s web configuration page. Wizard Page 3: Confirmation This page shows the new configurations. If it is correct, please press “Submit” icon and the setting information will be save to your ICA-310. Click on “Exit” to close this window.

  • Page 17: Upnp Function

    2.7 UPnP Function NOTE: Windows 2000 does not support UPnP feature. 2.7.1 Windows XP  UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device.
  • Page 18 The “Add or Remove Programs” will display on the screen and click Add/Remove Widows Components to continue. The following screen will appear, select Networking Services and click Details to continue...
  • Page 19 The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select Universal Plug and Play and click OK to continue. Please click Next to continue...
  • Page 20 The program will start installing the UPnP automatically. You will see the below pop-up screen, please wait while Setup configures the components. Please click Finish to complete the UPnP installation...

  • Page 21: Windows Vista

    Double-click My Network Places on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with ICA-310 to view your device in an internet browser. 2.7.2 Windows Vista  UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals.
  • Page 22 Double-click My Network Places on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with ICA-310 to view your device in an internet browser.

  • Page 23: Setup Activex To Use The Ica-310

    The ICA-310 web pages communicate with the ICA-310 using an ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the ICA-310 and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly. To use the ICA-310, user must setup his IE browser as follows: 2.8.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP ...

  • Page 24: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Xp

    ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. Set the first 3 items • Allow previously unused ActiveX control to run… • Allows Script lets • Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for ICA-310.

  • Page 25: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Vista

    ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Trusted Sites” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. • Enable “Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls” • Prompt “Initialize and script active controls not marked….” By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for ICA-310.

  • Page 26: Web-Based Management

    Use the following procedure to establish a connection from your PC to the ICA-310. Once connected, you can add the ICA-310 to your Browser’s Favorites or Bookmarks. Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of the ICA-310. The Default IP: “...
  • Page 27 After the ActiveX control was installed and run, the first image will be displayed. NOTE: If you log in the ICA-310 as an ordinary user, setting function will be not available. If you log in the ICA-310 as the administrator, you can perform all the settings...

  • Page 28: Live View

    Monitor Image Section De-Interlace Video Information Monitor Image Section The image shot by the ICA-310 is shown here. The date and time are displayed at the top of the window. Video Profile The ICA-310 support multi-profile for both MEPG-4 and M-JPEG simultaneously.
  • Page 29 Setting Menu This function is detail setting for ICA-310 that only available for user logged into ICA-310 as administrator. Item Action Configure Network settings such as DHCP, Network DDNS, 3GPP, PPPoE and UPnP Camera Adjust camera parameters Configure system information, date & time, System maintenance, and view system log file.

  • Page 30: Camera Direction

    PTZ Control Click to display the following control panel: Hide PTZ Control Camera Direction Camera Speed Preset Go Tour Tour Auto Pan Hide PTZ Control Click the icon will hide the PTZ control function. Camera Direction Control camera up/down/left/right and home position. Camera Speed Choose the speed of Pan and Tilt.

  • Page 31: Activex Control

    3.4 ActiveX Control The plug-in ActiveX control supports a lot of functions by clicking the left mouse button. Note that this feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control icon, click the LeftMouseButton, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides features that are unique to the ActiveX control.

  • Page 32: Digital Zoom

    3.4.1 Digital Zoom Click Digital Zoom to active this function as above. User can drag or scale the box over the video to adjust zoom ratio and position. 3.4.2 Record Click Record to activate this function. Press Record button to start recording. The video file is saved as ASF format into your local PC.

  • Page 33: Snapshot

    3.4.3 Snapshot Click Snapshot to activate this function. Press Snapshot button to take a picture. The image file is saved as JPEG format into your local PC. Select Browser, the pop-up window to select the save path and file name prefix, select OK to continue. If you like to retrieve the saved image, select the file to display the saved image by using any one of graph editing tools.

  • Page 34: About

    3.4.5 About Click About to show the ActiveX information...

  • Page 35: Network

    3.5 Network Use this menu to configure the network to connect the device and the clients. 3.5.1 Network This section provides the menu of connecting the device through Ethernet cable. MAC Address Display the Ethernet MAC address of the device. Note that user cannot change it.

  • Page 36: Ddns Server

    11111111 00000000 will usually be shown in the corresponding, more readable form as 255.255.255.0. Gateway A gateway is a piece of software or hardware that passes information between networks. You'll see this term most often when you either log in to an Internet site or when you're transient email between different servers.

  • Page 37: Pppoe

    PPPoE: Stands for Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet A standard builds on Ethernet and Point-to-Point network protocol. It allows ICA-310 connect to Internet with xDSL or cable connection; it can dial up your ISP and get a dynamic IP address. For more PPPoE and Internet configuration, please consult your ISP.

  • Page 38: Streaming

    • Connect to a LAN by DHCP or Fixed IP • Access the device, enter Setting Network PPPoE as below PPPoE To enable or disable the PPPoE service here. User Name Type the user name for the PPPoE service which is provided by ISP. Password Type the password for the PPPoE service which is provided by ISP.

  • Page 39: Upnp

    RTSP Port Choose the RTSP port. The RTSP protocol allows a connecting client to start a video stream. Enter the RTSP port number to use. The default value is 554. RTP Port Specify the range of transmission port number of video stream. The default range is 50000 to 50999.

  • Page 40: Ip Filter

    traversal when your device is located on an intranet (LAN) and you wish to make it available from the other (WAN) side of a NAT router. With NAT traversal properly configured, all HTTP traffic to an external HTTP port in the NAT router will be forwarded to the device. UPnP To enable or disable the UPnP service here.

  • Page 41: Ip Notification

    IP Filter To enable or disable the IP filter function here. IP Filter Policy Choose the filter policy where is denying or allowing. 3.5.7 IP Notification In case the IP address is changed, system is able to send out an email to alert someone if the function is enabled.
  • Page 42 SMTP Notification (e-mail) If enable this function, then the “Send to“ and “Subject” field need to be filled. Send To Type the receiver’s e-mail address. This address is used for reply mail. Subject Type the subject/title of the E-mail. TCP Notification If enable this function, then the “TCP Server“, “TCP Port”, and “Message”...
  • Page 43 Proxy Port Set port number of Proxy. Proxy Login Name Type the user name for the HTTP Proxy. Proxy Login Password Type the password for the HTTP Proxy. Custom Parameter User can set specific parameters to HTTP server. Message The message will be sent to HTTP server.

  • Page 44: Camera

    3.6 Camera Use this menu to set the function of the camera of ICA-310 3.6.1 Picture Brightness Large value will brighten camera. Sharpness Large value will sharpen camera. Contrast Large value will contrast camera heavily. Local Video Output Check this item if a TV or video monitor has been connected to video output of the Network Camera.

  • Page 45: Ptz Setting

    3.6.2 PTZ Setting PTZ Protocol Type The Network Camera is connected to built-in ICA-310 and controls this device thru RS485 bus. Baud Rate This is the communication speed between network module and ICA-310. Note that please DO NOT changes the default value except on special purpose.

  • Page 46: Preset Setting

    3.6.3 Preset Setting This page provides the edit tool to modify or delete the “Preset Setting” item by item. 3.6.4 Tour Setting Up to 64 positions can be preset, and the camera can be programming to move to the preset position sequentially.
  • Page 47 Running Enable or disable this camera tour. Preset Set the sequence of the tour. Maximum 16 points can be assigned. The selected preset position is added in the Sequence list from 1 to 16. Wait Time Type a period of time during which the camera is to stay at each preset point, between 0 to 36000 seconds.

  • Page 48: System

    3.7 System Use this menu to perform the principal settings of ICA-310. 3.7.1 System Device Title You can enter the name of this unit here. It’s very useful to identify the specific device from multiple units. Software Version This information shows the software version in the device.

  • Page 49: Date & Time

    3.7.2 Date & Time You can setup the time setting of ICA-310, make it synchronized with PC or remote NTP server. Also, you may select the correct time zone of your country. Server Date Displays the date and time of the device &...

  • Page 50: Maintenance

    Daylight Saving Sets up the date and time of daylight saving stop time. Stop Time Daylight Saving Sets up the date of daylight saving offset. Offset 3.7.3 Maintenance Hard Factory Default Recall the device hard factory default settings. Note that click this (Include network button will reset all device’s parameters to the factory settings...
  • Page 51 3. Disable Motion Detection function. 4. Select “Firmware name” 5. Select the Firmware binary file. (Note that it must make sure that the Firmware only applies to this device, once update, it will be burned into FLASH ROM of system.) 6.

  • Page 52: Video

    3.8 Video This device provides more video profiles as below to support different request to each client simultaneously. Each user can choose his preferred video profile as his request independently. 3.8.1 Common Text Overlay Setting There are some important information can be embedded into image, including date, time, and/or text.

  • Page 53: Mpeg4/Vga

    3.8.2 MPEG4/VGA Video Type It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile Resolution It’s VGA mode (640x480) in this profile Bit rate Control Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 384kbps and 4096kbps.

  • Page 54: Mpeg4/Qvga

    3.8.3 MPEG4/QVGA Video Type It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile. Resolution It’s QVGA mode (320x240) in this profile. Bit rate Control Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 128kbps and 1024kbps.

  • Page 55: Mpeg4/Qqvga

    3.8.4 MPEG4/QQVGA Video Type It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile. Resolution It’s QQVGA mode (160x120) in this profile. Bit rate Control Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 24kbps and 320kbps.

  • Page 56: Video/Jpeg

    3.8.5 VIDEO/JPEG Video Type It’s JPEG mode in this profile. Resolution User can select VGA, QVGA, or QQVGA mode as the resolution of this JPEG profile. Rate Control The quality level is between 1 and 100. The higher value is the better quality. Max Frame Rate Defines the targeted frame rate of this profile.

  • Page 57: User

    3.9 User Use this menu to set the user names and password of the Administrator and up to 10 users, and access right of each user. Viewer Login Anonymous Choose this to enable anonymous user login. Only users Choose this to disable anonymous user login. in database User Name Enter the user’s new account here which you want.

  • Page 58: E-Mail

    3.10 E-Mail You may setup SMTP mail parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message out, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering. SMTP Server Type the SMTP server name or the IP address of the SMTP server.

  • Page 59: Object Detection

    3.11 Object Detection Use this menu to specify motion detection window 1 to window 4 and set the conditions for detection while observing a captured image. Add and Del To add or delete the motion windows. User can specify up to 4 Included and/or Excluded windows to monitor the video captured by this device.

  • Page 60: Event Server

    easier to trigger event. Sensitivity Defines the sensitivity value of motion detection. The higher value will be more sensitivity. 3.12 Event Server Setup FTP/TCP/HTTP server configuration 3.12.1 FTP Server You may setup FTP parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message to an FTP server, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering as SMTP.

  • Page 61: Tcp Server

    3.12.2 TCP Server In addition to send video file to FTP server, the device also can send event message to specified TCP server. Name User can specify multiple TCP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each TCP server setting. TCP Server Type the server name or the IP address of the TCP server.

  • Page 62: Http Server

    3.12.3 HTTP Server The device also can send event message to specified HTTP server. Name User can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP server. Test Check the HTTP server whether it is available or not.

  • Page 63: Event Schedule

    Trigger by Select the triggered sources with event trigger. Action Define the actions once event triggered. If you want to upload image from ICA-310 to FTP server periodically. You will Example. need to configure some parameters as below: NOTE: ICA-310 will send a 15sec recording file to FTP server every min.

  • Page 64: Appendix A: Reset Factory Default Settings

    1. Loosen these two screws. 2. open the top cover 3. Press and hold the button down continuously. 4. Wait at least 10 seconds and release the button. Then the ICA-310 has been restored to factory default settings and reboot again.

  • Page 65: Appendix B: Ping Ip Address

    The PING (stands for Packet Internet Groper) command is used to detect whether a specific IP address is accessible by sending a packet to the specific address and waiting for a reply. It’s also a very useful tool to confirm ICA-310 installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 66: Appendix C: Bandwidth And Video Size Estimation

    Appendix C: Bandwidth and Video Size Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the ICA-310 depends on connection bandwidth between client and server, video resolution, codec type, and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements for your ICA-310.
  • Page 67 MPEG4 Resolution Stream setting fps setting Current stream Current fps 640*480 VGA 384Kbps 5 fps 373Kbps - 388Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 1024Kbps 5 fps 1024Kbps - 1036Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 2048Kbps 5 fps around 1800Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 384Kbps 20 fps around 550Kbps...

  • Page 68: Appendix D: Ddns Application

    Appendix D: DDNS Application 1. Preface If you have a Cable modem or xDSL, this is a great way to host your own Networked Device or other TCP/IP Service. Get your own domain like www.yourname.com, www.yourname.com.tw etc. (Note: This domain must be registered with Internic via registration authorities such as Network Solutions, DirectNIC, Register.com etc).
  • Page 69 3. Application Steps – DDNS & Domain Name (1). Visit the following web site: http://www.dyndns.org/ (2). Click “Account” (3). After the columns show up at the left side, click “Create Account”.
  • Page 70 (4). Fill the application agreement and necessary information. a. Username b. E-mail address and confirmation c. Password and confirmation d. Submit all the input information and finish creating an account Click these two options...
  • Page 71 (5). Check your e-mail mailbox. There will be an e-mail with a title “Your DynDNS Account Information“. Click the hyperlink address to confirm the DDNS service that you just applied. Then DDNS you applied activated. Click to confirm (6). Enter the web page http://www.dyndns.org/ again.
  • Page 72 (7). If the correct username and password are input, you can see the following picture at the top-right of the login page. (8). Click the “Services”. (9). Click the “ Dynamic DNS ”. (10). Click the “Create Hosts”.
  • Page 73 (11). We could create a domain name without any charge at this step. First, we input the host name. (No.1) Then we pick a domain that is easy to remember. Finally (No.2), click the “Add Host” to submit the domain name information. (No.3) 4.

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