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  • Page 1 IR Internet Camera ICA-300 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Declaration Of Conformity

    PLANET has made every effort to ensure that this User’s Manual is accurate; PLANET disclaims liability for any inaccuracies or omissions that may have occurred.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Controlling User Access to the Video Stream ............... 13 Making Video available from the Internet..............14 CHAPTER 4 WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT ..............18 Introduction ........................18 Connecting to ICA-300....................18 Welcome Screen....................... 19 Viewing Area ........................20 Control Panel Screen....................... 21 Advanced Functions Area....................

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction

    • Greater image quality in day and night with longer life span ICA-300 can be deployed in many different situations, such as library, train station or factory production line to provide efficient, human-resource reducing, and offers flexibility, affordability, and reliability for the proper surveillance of...
  • Page 6 Internet Features • User-definable administration port number This allows Internet Gateways to use “port mapping” so the ICA-300 a and a Web Server can share the same Internet IP address. • DDNS Support In order to view video over Internet, user must know the Internet IP address of the gateway used by ICA-300.

  • Page 7: Physical Details

    Physical Details ICA-300 Rear Panel Rear Panel This Ethernet port can detect or negotiate the transmission Network Cable speed of the network automatically. Please use Category 5 RJ-45 “straight through” cable to connect the Network Camera to a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet network switch or hub.

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    Package Contents The following items should be included: If any of these items are damaged or missing, please contact your dealer immediately. • PLANET ICA-300 Camera x 1 • Wall mount x 1 • Installation software and manual CD x 1 •...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Basic Setup

    Chapter 2 Basic Setup This Chapter provides details of installing and configuring the ICA-300. System Requirements • To use the LAN interface, a standard 10/100BaseT hub or switch is required. • System Requirement for viewer: • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later...

  • Page 10: Setup

    Initial setup can be performed either from the web browser or using the supplied IPEditV3 utility. This utility can locate the ICA-300 even if its IP address is invalid for your network. You can then configure the ICA-300 with appropriate TCP/IP settings for your LAN.
  • Page 11 4. After the ActiveX control was installed and ran, the main screen will be displayed. 5. Now, you login to the Network Camera as a full-authorized administrator. You can enter “Setting” to change the password and setup “Administrator” or “User” authority. Please refer to “Setting”...
  • Page 12 Setup ActiveX to use the ICA-300 The ICA-300 web page communicates machine via ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from ICA-300 and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly. To use the...
  • Page 13 By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for Network Camera.

  • Page 14: Chapter 3 Advanced Viewing Setup

    Web browser. This Chapter is for Administrators only. Introduction After finishing the network setup, the ICA-300 can immediately be used by all users on your LAN. This chapter describes some additional settings and options for viewing live video: •...
  • Page 15 • Default: System default value. Note: Higher image quality requires more bandwidth. These function buttons are reserved for PTZ model. It’s not Image, Mirror, functional in ICA-300. Focus Mode, White Balance Mode, Exposure Mode Saturation, Image quality adjustment, the parameter ranges from 0 to 255...
  • Page 16 Options These functions are not available for this model. Audio, Camera tour If this option is enabled, all the settings in this page will be Reset to default reset to factory default values. Please check the appendix A for more information on the image Note adjustment.

  • Page 17: Controlling User Access To The Video Stream

    Controlling User Access to the Video Stream By default, only system administrators can connect to the ICA-300 and view live video. If desired, you may apply the access privileges to known users, by requiring each user to login to the ICA-300 with their individual username and password.

  • Page 18: Making Video Available From The Internet

    300. This port is called the "HTTP Port2". (The first port is port 80.) The HTTP port2 is disabled in default settings. If you prefer to use a different port number than port 80, you can specify the port number on the ICA-300's Network screen, as shown below.
  • Page 19 DDNS service provider. • Limitation: if the ICA-300 is installed with private IP address behind the NAT router, please find and enable the DDNS feature on the router. This can prevent the remote users from not be able to connect to the camera.
  • Page 20 Where the Router/Gateway's Domain name is ica300.dyndns.org and the " HTTP Port2" number on the ICA-300 is 1024. Using the Windows Viewing/Recording Utility If using the CamView Utility, the details of the ICA-300 must be entered on the Internet tab of the Add Camera screen.
  • Page 21 CamView - Add Camera Screen You can then select the camera in the Cameras list on the main screen, and click OK to establish a connection and view live video. Please check respective chapter for further details of viewing Video using either the Windows Viewing/Recording utility or Web Browser.

  • Page 22: Chapter 4 Web-Based Management

    This Chapter provides Setup details of the ICA-300’s Web-based Interface. This Chapter is for Administrators only. Introduction The ICA-300 can be configured using your Web Browser. This must have an IP address, which is compatible with your PC. Connecting to ICA-300 •...

  • Page 23: Welcome Screen

    Welcome Screen When you connect, the camera Home screen will be displayed. Camera Home Screen The Home screen can be divided into three areas: • Viewing Area - Images from the Network Camera • Control Panel Area - Network Camera Manipulation and image quality control •...

  • Page 24: Viewing Area

    This screen is displayed when you log in machine Viewing Area Screen • The ICA-300 web page requires ActiveX control to display the video content. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the camera and installed on your PC. •...

  • Page 25: Control Panel Screen

    Adjust video frame rate via scrolling the listed numbers: 1, 5, adjustment 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 Audio On/Off Turn on/off audio output function. Note: This function is not available in ICA-300. Video quality Adjust video quality. adjustment Clarity: Video is better but frame rate may be slower...

  • Page 26: Advanced Functions Area

    Capture Camera setting Menu Clicking on Setting on the menu provides privileges to all the settings for the ICA-300. The Setting menu is divided into 2 categories: Basic and Application settings: The Basic menu provides essential configurations of the ICA-300, and the Application menu is provided for various applications.

  • Page 27: System Screen

    This displays the name for the ICA-300; camera name is useful while multiple units are used. Default frame The default frame rate in ICA-300 is 30fps, the video frame rate rate can be adjusted in this menu or on the Control panel menu...
  • Page 28 Log Screen...

  • Page 29: Camera Screen

    Camera Screen Click on the Camera menu, you will see a screen like the example below Note: please adjust carefully to have proper machine configurations. Camera Screen Data - Camera Screen Camera Setting Image Size Select the desired video resolution. The default resolution is set to 320*240.

  • Page 30: Network Screen

    LAN, it will issue the DHCP packets to request an IP address that is dynamically assigned by the DHCP server. If it can not get a DHCP address on a limited tries, the ICA-300 will assigned a default IP address as the default IP address.

  • Page 31: Ddns Setting

    DDNS Setting The DDNS is designed to solve dynamic IP problem, by allowing users to connect to your ICA-300 using a friendly domain name, rather than an numeric IP address. Please refer to the chapter 3 Advanced Viewing Setup Making Video available from the Internet.
  • Page 32 The ICA-300 can directly connect to the ADSL, however, PPPoE setting should be setup first in LAN environment, and then connect to the ADSL modem. Power on again, then the ICA-300 will dial up to the ISP connect to the WAN through the ADSL modem.
  • Page 33 • The “Subject” field can be modified. • Select “Save” to save the setting. • If the ADSL Modem and ICA-300 were connected with a hub, after all the information were inputted, then you can press “Dial” to do the PPPoE dial.

  • Page 34: User Screen

    IP Filter Screen The IP filter can set 10 different user’s IP address, which are allowing enter or disregarding by the ICA-300. Please configure “User” before “IP Filter”. Each “User” username and password matches with one “IP Filter” user. IP Filter Screen...
  • Page 35 Function Notification The page of user setting is very closely related to the IP filter settings. While the administrators are setting these two pages, they should notice that login authorities are not only based on the login names but also the range of IP addresses. Administrators could reject login users according to both login names and IP addresses.

  • Page 36: Ftp Client Screen

    Restore to the factory default setting Default FTP Client Screen Setup the ICA-300 as a FTP client and configure FTP server related information to upload images to server When there is a motion been detected, user can send the captured images to the pre...
  • Page 37 FTP Client Screen Network Settings FTP server IP address or domain name of the destination FTP server name Username, Please input the Username/Password for the FTP server Password Remote path Please input the uploading file path to the destination FTP server.

  • Page 38: Smtp Screen

    SMTP Screen This screen is displayed when the SMTP menu option is clicked. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. The mail server address must be filled in this field. SMTP Screen Network Settings SMTP server Enter the address of SMTP server used to send the mail.

  • Page 39: Schedule Setting Screen

    Schedule Setting Screen The Schedule can enable motion detection in an arranged period in order to avoid unnecessary images transmitting and catch the desired images. Schedule Setting Screen Motion Detection Screen The motion detection is implemented by a patented software algorithm, it runs on the Network Camera, due to a larger processing power of motion detection, the overall performance of Network Camera will be degraded;...
  • Page 40 Network Settings Enable Motion Enable or disable Motion Detection function in ICA-300 Detection Sensitivity Select the desired option to suit your environment. If covering a large area, you usually need higher sensitivity, since a moving object will take only a small portion of the image.

  • Page 41: Time Setting Screen

    Time Setting Screen This screen is displayed when the Time Setting menu option is clicked. You can setup the ICA-300 time or make it synchronized with PC or remote server. Also, you may select your time zone in order to synchronize time locally.

  • Page 42: Popup Screen

    Popup Screen This screen is for setting event message while a motion has been detected. A message window will be displayed on the screen immediately when any motion is detected. Pop up Screen Network Settings Pop-up text Input the warming text. Only administrator can see the message or any user can see it.

  • Page 43: Firmware Upgrade Screen

    Firmware Upgrade Screen 8. Select the Firmware binary file. (It must be make sure that the Firmware only apply to ICA-300, once update, it will be burned into FLASH ROM of system.) 9. Once the firmware file was selected, select “Upload”.
  • Page 44 ICA-300. Once the upgrading process completed, the ICA-300 will reboot the system automatically. Note: please wait for 20 seconds, and then you can connect to machine again.

  • Page 45: Factory Default Screen

    Factory Default Screen This screen is displayed when you click the Factory Default option in the application menu. Please Click “OK” button to load default settings to camera. The “Factory Default” button will restore to the factory default configuration, all information changed and saved on the flash will be lost, and restored to the factory default setting.

  • Page 46: Activex Control

    Note: This function is available for logging-in as an administrator only. ActiveX Control In the viewing area, the plug-in ActiveX control support a lot of functions by clicking the right mouse button. This feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer.
  • Page 47 View Settings Make the image is resizable, but “Actual size disable”, the Resizable “Splits” is supported on this mode. Make the image show as the actual size, the “Splits” function Actual size does not work on this mode. A status bar display on the button of the image. Status Bar After the “Resizable”...
  • Page 48 • Resolution 704x576, 640x480, 320x240, 352x288, 176x144, 160x120 (PAL) 640x480, 320x240, 352x288, 176x144, 160x120 (NTSC) • Quality Highest, High, Medium, Low, Lowest • Split 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 • Rotate - Normal: “Rotate 0”, the default state. - Rotate: “Rotate 180”, rotate the image by 180 degree; used on the camera was up side down mounted.
  • Page 49 The Network Camera provides four setting for Window split, it can display different time frame images of the selected Network Camera. The time string with green characters is the current displayed image. Available selection: 1 x 1 (Default) ‧ 2 x 2‧ 3 x 3‧ 4 x 4 Note: The images on the split window are the same camera, but with different time.
  • Page 50 After the “Rotate 180” was selected, the image will be overturned from 0 to the angle 180.
  • Page 51 Resolution: Available resolution: ‧176x144‧320x240‧352x288 ‧640x480 If users control the ICA-300 of NTSC through internet, they could have 5 choices of resolution: 640x480, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144, 160x120. If users control the ICA-300 of PAL through internet, they could have 6 choices of resolution: 704x576, 640x480, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144, 160x120.

  • Page 52: Image Recording

    • Highest (The same as “Clarity” on control panel ) • High • Medium (The same as “Default” on control panel ) • • Lowest (The same as “Fluency” on control panel ) The control method is the same as control panel’s “Image Hint Quality”.
  • Page 53 During the JPEG file recording, a yellow icon displays on lower right position of the image to indicate the JPEG saving process. If users want to stop the recording, please press the “Stop Image Recording” to stop the image recording process. After “Stop Image Recording”, list the files, these files are named as file_name_prefixed_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss_ms.jpg...
  • Page 54 Save as AVI: Select this option and click “Save as AVI” for detailed configurations. The pre-defined schedule can be set by AVI. During the AVI file recording, a red icon displays on lower right position of the image to indicate the AVI saving process. If want stop the recording, please press the “Stop Image Recording”...

  • Page 55: Save Current Picture As

    Save Current Picture As This screen is displayed when you click the “Save Current Picture As” menu on the ActiveX control. • Please select the “Save Current Picture As” to save the current display image into the local PC. • Please input the ”file name”, and click “Save”...

  • Page 56: Chapter 5 Client Utility

    This chapter provides how to manage multiple network cameras by powerful CamView utility. INSTALLATION The CamView utility for ICA-300 is a powerful utility for video recording, viewing, and camera administrations. Please insert the user’s manual CD and start the CamView installation from the default page or manually browse the Utility folder in the CD to install the software: 5.1.
  • Page 57 • Decide which directory to install the software. By default, just hit the Next button to continue...
  • Page 58 • Decide the program group name. By default, just hit the Next button to continue. • Decide whether to create a desktop icon of the program. By default, just hit the Next button to continue.
  • Page 59 • Ready to install. By default, just hit the Install button to start installation.
  • Page 60 • Installing, wait for a moment. • Installation complete. Press Finish to launch the program. Otherwise, uncheck the check box to run the program later.

  • Page 61: How To Use

    HOW TO USE After successfully installing the utility, this icon, , will be added to the desktop. Double click on it to launch the program.
  • Page 62 5.2. CamView User Interface 5.2. 5.2. 5.2. 5.2. 5.2. 5.2. 5.2. 5.2. CamView main screen. 5.2. 5.2.1. Date and Time The current date and time of the computer are displayed here. 5.2.2. Viewer Screen CamView is able to monitor up to 16 Internet cameras. Users may choose different layout to monitor different sites.
  • Page 63 5.2.6. Camera Zoom Here are two buttons to zoom in or zoom out on the image. Note: camera zoom feature is reserved for future PTZ model. 5.2.7. Camera Pan/Tilt Control Here are five buttons to move the camera to the up, down, left, right and home, respectively 5.2.8.

  • Page 64: Camera Settings

    Figure 5.3.1. The Application Tab 5.3.2. Camera Settings As shown in Figure 5.3.2, users can set parameters of each camera. If the Restore button is pressed, the current setting modifications of the specified camera will be cleared and restore to the original. If the Apply button is pressed, the current setting modifications will be applied to the specified camera.
  • Page 65 Figure 5.3.2. The Camera Tab 5.3.3. Scheduling As shown in Figure 5.3.3, users can schedule recording tasks. When you press the Add button, the editing task will be added to the schedule item list. When the Modify button is pressed, the specified task will be updated. If the Remove button is pressed, the specified task will be removed from the list.

  • Page 66: Application Settings

    Figure 5.3.3. The Scheduling Tab 5.3.4. Application Settings Figure 5.3.4 shows settings for the global scope of the application including initialization and environment. After all settings are complete, press the OK button to save the configuration, and exit the form. The Apply button is unused for this tab.

  • Page 67: Camera Configuration

    Figure 5.3.4. The Application Tab 5.4. Camera Configuration Users can hit the button shown in Figure 5.4 to configure the specified camera. The configuration guide is not included in the document. Please read the documentation of the camera. Figure 5.4. 5.5.
  • Page 68 Figure 5.5- Figure 5.5- Figure 5.5- Figure 5.5- 5.6. Playback When you press the Playback button on the panel as shown in Figure 5.6, a form will appear to show the list of video records and snapshots. Figure 5.6. 5.6.1. Video List The video list tab lists video records, and displays the information about the specified record.

  • Page 69: Video Search

    Figure 5.6.2. The Snapshot List Tab 5.6.3. Video Search The video search tab lists video file information about the specified search. When you enter the search qualification, then hit the Search button, you will get the matched video files. Select an item, hit the Play button, Windows Media Player will be opened to play the video.
  • Page 70 5.7. Image Rotation After the button is pressed, the display image rotates 180 degree. It is used for the camera being installed upside-down direction. Note video/images in recorded video will not be rotated. Figure 5.7. 5.8. eMap When you press the eMap button on the panel as shown in Figure 5.8, a form will appear to show the eMap function.
  • Page 71 Figure 5.8.1. Layout example 1 Figure 5.8.2. Layout example 2...
  • Page 72 • When your mouse moves over the camera icon, you can click the right button to display a menu which has options to set the configuration, show the record list, record, show video and remove the camera icon. Figure 5.8.3.

  • Page 73: Appendix A Troubleshooting

    Q: IP Finder program (ipeditv3) cannot find ICA-300 A:• Re power the ICA-300 if cannot find the unit within 1 minute. • Do not connect ICA-300 over a router. IP Finder program cannot detect ICA- 300. • If IP address is not assigned to the PC which running IP Finder program, and then IP Finder program cannot find ICA-300.
  • Page 74 ICA-300 via a crossover cable. • Make sure the Internet connection and setting is ok. • Make sure enter the IP address of Internet Explorer is correct. If ICA-300 has a dynamic address, it may have changed since you last checked it.
  • Page 75 A: This might be caused from the firewall protection. Check the Internet firewall with your system or network administrator. The firewall may need to have some settings changed in order for the ICA-300 to be accessible outside your LAN.• Make sure that the ICA-300 isn’t conflicting with any other web server running on your LAN.•...

  • Page 76: Appendix B Bandwidth Calculation

    Bandwidth Calculation Appendix B: Bandwidth Calculation The frame rate of video transmitted from the ICA-300 depends on connection bandwidth between client and server and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements form your ICA-300.

  • Page 77: Appendix C Specifications

    Appendix C Specifications Appendix C: Specifications ICA-300 Model Hardware 1/3” CCD sensor Sensor NTSC : 1 / 60 – 100,000 sec / PAL : 1 / 50 – 100,000 sec Electronic shutter Auto Gain Control (AGC) Gain control Auto 2000°K ~ 10000°K...
  • Page 78 Connection type Static IP, PPPoE, DHCP Management Web, CamView utility Protection Class IP-66 classification...

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