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  • Page 1 Smart Professional Surveillance System User’s Manual Version 1.11.0...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents OVERVIEW AND ENVIRONMENT ..............1 Overview ..........................1 Performance ........................1 Environments ........................1 INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE ..............2 Installation ........................... 2 Un-installation ........................5 SETTING ......................7 Login Interface ........................7 Main Interface ........................7 General ..........................8 3.3.1 Basic ..........................
  • Page 3 3.6.3.1 Schedule ........................ 48 3.6.3.2 Disk ........................52 3.6.4 Maintenance ........................53 3.6.4.1 Account ........................54 3.6.4.2 Maintenance ......................56 3.6.4.3 WEB ........................61 Alarm Setup ........................61 3.7.1 Set Alarm Scheme ......................61 3.7.2 Enable/Disable/Export Scheme ..................66 Video Wall Configuration ....................66 Tour &Task ........................
  • Page 4 Welcome Thank you for using our Smart Professional Surveillance System (SmartPSS)! This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for operation of your system. Here you can find detailed operation information about SmartPSS.

  • Page 5: Overview And Environment

    1 Overview and Environment 1.1 Overview SmartPSS is an abbreviation for Smart Professional Surveillance System. The software is to manage small quantity security surveillance devices. It releases with the device and does not support the products from other manufacturers. It has the following features: ...

  • Page 6: Installation And Upgrade

    2 Installation and Upgrade 2.1 Installation  Double click “General_Smart-PSS_Eng_IS_VX.XX.X.exe” to begin installation. See Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1  Select installation language from the dropdown list and then click OK button to go to Welcome interface. See Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2 ...
  • Page 7 Figure 2-3  Please check the Accept item and then click Next button to continue. System pops up module installation dialogue box. See Figure 2-4. Figure 2-4  Check SmartPSS item and then click Next button, you can see there is an interface asking you to specify installation path.
  • Page 8 Figure 2-5  After you select installation path click Next button, system begins installation. The interface is shown as in Figure 2-6. Figure 2-6  During the installation process, you can click Cancel button to exit. After installation, you can see an interface is shown as below.

  • Page 9: Un-Installation

    Figure 2-7  Click Finish button, you can complete the installation. 2.2 Un-installation From Start -> All programs->SmartPSS, select Uninstall SmartPSS item. System pops up the following dialogue box. See Figure 2-8. Figure 2-8 Click Next button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 2-9.
  • Page 10 Check the box here to remove SmartPSS. You can check the box to remove PC-NVR too. Click Uninstall button to remove. Figure 2-9...

  • Page 11: Setting

    3 Setting Double click SmartPSS icon , you can go to the login interface. 3.1 Login Interface Login interface is shown as in Figure 3-1.  User name: Input the user account  Password: Please input corresponding password to log in. ...

  • Page 13: Basic

    Click the button; you can go to the general interface. See Figure 3-3. 3.3.1 Basic It is to set capability, language, time and etc. Figure 3-3 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Function Saved Here you can set log save time. System automatically overwrites old Time files once it reaches the period you set here.

  • Page 14: File Path

    Item Function Auto Login Check the box here and then input user name and password, you Windows can go to the Windows OS after the computer restarts. Language Software language. Check the box here to enable time synchronization function and then input synchronization time.

  • Page 15: Version

    Figure 3-5 Tips You can click Default button to restore factory default setup. User config file storage path is used to import and export user config file. If current user config file storage path is modified to other path, then it means all users’ config info are exported. If user re-install, he can export previous all user’s config info to current client.

  • Page 16: Account

    Figure 3-6 3.4 Account Here you can add, modify or delete a user. 3.4.1 Add role Click in the Settings pane, and then click role button, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 3-7.
  • Page 17 Figure 3-7 Click Add button, the interface is shown as in Figure 3-8. Figure 3-8...

  • Page 18: Add User

    Please input a role name and check the corresponding role rights. You can input some reference information if necessary. Click Save button. Tips Select a role and then click Modify/Delete button to modify or delete a role. 3.4.2 Add user Click in the Settings pane, and then click user button, you can go to the following interface.

  • Page 19: Device Manager

    Figure 3-10 Select a role from the dropdown list, input user name, password and confirm password. Input some description information if necessary. Select rights for the new user. Click Save button to add a new user. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Function User name...
  • Page 20 Click icon. System displays device manager interface. Click Refresh, search device within the LAN. Check device, click Add as auto add device. Manually Add You can refer to the steps listed below to add, modify or delete a device manually or automatically.
  • Page 21 Figure 3-12 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Function Device name Please input a device name here. Register By IP/domain and SN. Mode IP/Domain Device IP address or domain name. name Device SN. Note: For P2P device only. Device IP port.
  • Page 22 Item Function Password The password you login the device. Config device input info, and click on Get Info. System auto gets device info as in Figure 3- Figure 3-13 Device SN Device SN. Read-only. Video input Device video input channel amount. Video output Device video output channel amount.
  • Page 23 Figure 3-14 Click Import to batch import local config in .xml format. Or you can import with Easy 4IP account. See Figure 3-15. Figure 3-15 Tips...

  • Page 24: Signals Manager

    Select a device in the list, and then:  click to modify, or click to delete it.  Click to login the device manually.  Click to logout the device manually.  Click button and then select save path to save current device list to .xml file. 3.6 Signals Manager After you added a new device, you can go to the signals manager interface to set parameters.
  • Page 25 Here you can set corresponding parameter when you are using TCP/IP connection. See Figure 3-17. Figure 3-17 3.6.1.1.2 Connect Here you can set max login account amount, TCP port, UDP port, HTTP port, RTSP port and etc. See Figure 3-18. Figure 3-18...
  • Page 26 3.6.1.1.3 PPPoE PPPoE interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-19. Input “PPPoE name” and “PPPoE password” you get from your ISP (Internet service provider). Click OK button, you need to restart to activate your configuration. After rebooting, device will connect to internet automatically. The IP in the PPPoE is the device dynamic value.
  • Page 27 Figure 3-20 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Server Type You can select DDNS protocol from the dropdown list and then enable DDNS function. Server IP DDNS server IP address. Server Port DDNS server port. Domain Name Your self-defined domain name.
  • Page 28 Figure 3-21 3.6.1.1.6 SMTP (Email) The SMTP interface is shown as in Figure 3-22. Here you can set email receiver, encryption mode, send out interval and etc. Figure 3-22...
  • Page 29 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please check the box here to enable email function. Enable Input server address and then enable this function. SMTP Server Port Default value is 25. You can modify it if necessary. Anonymity For the server supports the anonymity function.
  • Page 30 Figure 3-23 3.6.1.1.8 Alarm Server The alarm centre interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-24. This interface is reserved for you to develop. System can upload alarm signal to the alarm centre when local alarm occurs. Before you use alarm centre, please set server IP, port and etc. When an alarm occurs, system can send out data as the protocol defined, so the client-end can get the data.

  • Page 31: Remote

    Figure 3-24 3.6.1.2 Remote Here you can add remote device manually or automatically. See Figure 3-25. Figure 3-25...

  • Page 32: Encode

    Click Search device button, system can list all the devices on the same IP section. Select a device and then click Add button; you can add a remote device. Click Manual add button, System pops up the following dialogue box. See Figure 3-26. Please input the corresponding information and then click OK button to add a remote device.
  • Page 33 Figure 3-27 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Video enable Check the box here to enable extra stream video. This item is enabled by default. Stream type It includes main stream, motion stream and alarm stream. You can select different encode frame rates form different recorded events.
  • Page 34 This function allows you to verify the video is tampered or not. Watermark enable Here you can select watermark bit stream, watermark mode and watermark character. /watermark character Copy Click it to copy current setup to other channel(s). 3.6.1.3.2 Snapshot The snapshot interface is shown as below.
  • Page 35 Figure 3-29 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Name Set channel name. Area-overlay There are two types: Local liveview/network monitor. Local liveview: It is to shield the corresponding video under local liveview mode. Network monitor: It is to shield the corresponding video under network monitor mode.

  • Page 36: Image

    channel(s). 3.6.1.4 Image Here you can set camera property. See Figure 3-30. Figure 3-30 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Color mode It is to set color mode. It is to set color hue. It is to adjust color whole brightness. The large the value is, the bright the video is and vice versa.

  • Page 37: Event

    Figure 3-31 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Select the corresponding dome protocol such as PELCOD. Protocol Set corresponding dome address. Default value is 1. Please note Address your setup here shall comply with your dome address; otherwise you can not control the speed dome.
  • Page 38 Here we use motion detect interface as an example. See Figure 3-32. Figure 3-32 Figure 3-33...
  • Page 39 Figure 3-34 Figure 3-35...
  • Page 40 Figure 3-36 Figure 3-37 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable motion detection function.
  • Page 41 Parameter Function Arm/disarm Motion detection function becomes activated in the specified Period periods. See Figure 3-33. There are six periods in one day. You can click to set (Figure 3-34) or use mouse to draw the corresponding period on the time bar directly (Figure 3-35).

  • Page 42: Alarm

    Parameter Function enable video matrix function. 3.6.2.2 Alarm Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. The input mode includes local alarm and network alarm. The local alarm interface is shown as in Figure 3-38. Figure 3-38 Figure 3-39...
  • Page 43 Figure 3-40 Figure 3-41 Figure 3-42...
  • Page 44 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable You need to check the box to enable this function. Please select a channel from the dropdown list. Arm/disarm Period This function becomes activated in the specified periods. There are six periods in one day.

  • Page 45: Abnormality

    Parameter Function Such as go to preset X. See Figure 3-42. 3.6.2.3 Abnormality It includes six statuses: No device, no space, device error, net offline, IP conflict and MAC conflict. See Figure 3-43 through Figure 3-48. Figure 3-43...
  • Page 46 Figure 3-44 Figure 3-45...
  • Page 47 Figure 3-46 Figure 3-47...

  • Page 48: Smart Config

    Figure 3-48 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable Check the box here to enable selected function. Alarm Please select corresponding alarm output channel when an alarm Output occurs. You need to check the box to enable this function. Output The alarm output can delay for the specified time after an alarm stops.
  • Page 49 SmartPSS supports to add SmartIPC and config added intelligent device, including audio detection config and face recognition. After config is complete, you can go to live interface for preview. Please refer to Ch 4.1.1. See Figure 3-49. Figure 3-49 Parameter Note Abnormal If enable this parameter, then audio detection alarm is enabled.
  • Page 50 Parameter Note Arm/Disarm Set alarm arm/disarm period. Period Click set pop up Arm/Disarm Period box for setup. Anti-dither Means only record one motion detection event within the period. Value range 0s～ 100s. Record If select the parameter, then alarm record the channel. Channel Go to “Record >Record Control”...
  • Page 51 Figure 3-50 Parameter Note Enable If select this parameter, it will link alarm. Arm/Disarm Set alarm arm/disarm period. Period Click setup to pop up arm/disarm period box. Dynamic If select this parameter, then it enable dynamic trick. Track Record If select this parameter, then the channel has record of alarm. Channel Go to “Record >...

  • Page 52: Record/Storage

    Parameter Note Send EMAIL If select this parameter, then when alarm occurs, it send Email to user. Alarm Upload If select this parameter, then when alarms occurs, alarm will be sent to center. If select this parameter, then when alarm occurs, user will receive SMS. 3.6.3 Record/Storage 3.6.3.1 Schedule Record setup has record plan and record control.
  • Page 54 Figure 3-51 Click button after corresponding date, you can see an interface shown as below. See Figure 3-52.
  • Page 55 Figure 3-52 Set record period and check the box to select record type. Click OK button, now you can see an interface shown as in Figure 3-53. Figure 3-53 You can view the current time period setup from the color bar. ...

  • Page 56: Disk

    Figure 3-54 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Pre-record Please input pre-record time here. Main stream It is to set main stream record mode. It includes: Schedule/manual/stop. Sub stream It is to set sub stream record mode. It includes: Schedule/manual/stop.

  • Page 57: Maintenance

    Figure 3-55 3.6.3.2.2 Remote store It is for you to upload data to a PC via FTP. See Figure 3-56. Figure 3-56 3.6.4 Maintenance...

  • Page 58: Account

    3.6.4.1 Account Here you can add/modify/delete a group or add/modify/delete a user. System default user group is admin/user. System default user is admin/888888/666666. Click Account button in Signals interface and then click Role button. See Figure 3-57. Figure 3-57 Click Add button, you can see system pops up the following interface. See Figure 3-58. Please input a group name and then select corresponding rights, input some note information for your reference if necessary.
  • Page 59 Go to the User interface, here you can add/remove user and modify user name. See Figure 3-59. Figure 3-59 Click Add button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-60. Please input user name, password, and select a group from the dropdown list. Select corresponding rights and then click OK button.

  • Page 60: Maintenance

    Figure 3-60 3.6.4.2 Maintenance 3.6.4.2.1 Host Here you can set system time, date format, record period and etc. See Figure 3-61.
  • Page 61 Figure 3-61 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function It is to set device name. Device name Device No. When you are using one remote control to manage multiple devices, you can give a serial numbers to the device. Before the operation, please make sure you have clicked address button on the remote control and input a number for current device.
  • Page 62 Figure 3-62 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here you can select date format from the dropdown list. Date format There are two options: 24-H and 12-H. Time Format The time zone of the device. Time zone It is to set system time.
  • Page 63 Figure 3-63 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function You can select from the dropdown list. There are various devices for you to select. Function  Console is for you to use the COM or mini-end software to upgrade or debug the program.
  • Page 64 Figure 3-64 3.6.4.2.5 Version Version interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-65. Figure 3-65...

  • Page 65: Web

    3.6.4.3 WEB Click it to go to the WEB of the device. See Figure 3-66. The following figure is for reference only. Figure 3-66 3.7 Alarm Setup 3.7.1 Set Alarm Scheme You can follow the steps listed below to set an alarm scheme. Click the icon in the Settings pane, you can go to alarm configuration interface.
  • Page 66 Figure 3-67 Set alarm sources. a) Click button in Figure 3-67 , system goes to alarm sources setup interface. See Figure 3-68. Here you can input a scheme name and some reference information. select the alarm type from the dropdown list.
  • Page 67 a) Check the box to select a channel you want to set alarm scheme on the left pane; you can add it to the list on the right pane. Figure 3-68 b) Click Alarm Link on the left pane or click next button in Figure 3-68 , you can go to the following interface.
  • Page 68 Figure 3-69 Figure 3-70 c) Click Period button on the left pane or click next button in Figure 3-69, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 3-71.
  • Page 69 Figure 3-71 Click after a date to set alarm activation period. There are six periods in one day. See Figure 3-72. Click OK button to exit. Figure 3-72...

  • Page 70: Enable/Disable/Export Scheme

    d) Click OK button, you can view the scheme information on the alarm setup interface. See Figure 3-73. Figure 3-73 3.7.2 Enable/Disable/Export Scheme After you added a scheme, you can view the following contents for operation information. : Delete current scheme. ...
  • Page 71 Figure 3-74 2) Config video wall. a) Enter video wall name and description. Click below, select layout as 1*1, 2*2, 3*3, 4*4 or M*M. Click screen to draw video wall physical layout, see Figure 3-71.
  • Page 72 Figure 3-75 Note  Use Ctrl+left click mouse to select several screens, right click mouse to select splicing or click , you can combine several screens to a splicing screen. Right click mouse, select unbind splicing or click , you can cancel splicing. ...
  • Page 73 Figure 3-76 Note: When a screen binds M30, you need to splice physical layout , otherwise you cannot bind. Check the box to enable setup immediately and then click Finish button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 3-77.

  • Page 74: Tour &Task

    Figure 3-77 In Figure 3-77, double click a video wall, or select a video wall and then click Modify button , you can change its setup. You can also click Delete button or to remove. Click , you can change video wall on/off setup. 3.9 Tour &Task It is to realize monitor tour among each window.
  • Page 75 Figure 3-78  Click button to add task interface. See Figure 3-81.  Input task name, stay time.  Click at the bottom of the interface to select window amount.  Drag channel(s) on the right pane to the windows on the left pane. See Figure 3-79.
  • Page 76 Figure 3-79 Click button to save current setup. See Figure 3-80. Figure 3-80 Tips Click to save current task setup and add more tasks at the same time.  In Figure 3-80, you can check the enable button to open current scheme. Or you can go to the main interface and then click Liveview button ( ) to go to the following interface.

  • Page 77: Pc-Nvr

    Figure 3-81 3.10 PC-NVR Important Before you use this function, please make sure you have installed PC-NVR and the PC-NVR applications are running now! This function allows you to storage record file on the PC to effectively use wideband. You can add, modify or delete PC-NVR and set PC-NVR parameter.
  • Page 78 Figure 3-82 Remote device a) Click button, you can see an interface shown as in Figure 3-83. Here you can add channels.
  • Page 79 Figure 3-83 b) Please select a device and then check the record channels c) Click Save button. Disk manager SmartPSS support disk allocation management of PC-NVR. Note: Before allocation, make sure the disk has at least 7G in free space. a) In Figure 3-82, click disk manager button on the left pane, you can go to the setup interface.
  • Page 80 Figure 3-84 Add record plan a) In Figure 3-82, click Record Plan button on the left pane. And then select a channel from the dropdown list and then click button You can go to the following interface. See Figure 3-85.
  • Page 81 Figure 3-85 b) Please set period information and type. c) Please set the corresponding time. d) Click OK button. You can see an interface shown as in Figure 3-86. Figure 3-86...
  • Page 82 e) Click Save. Tips After you complete setup for one channel, you can click Dropdown in Figure 3-86 to copy current setup to other channel(s). View version.
  • Page 84 Item Function Please refer to the following contents for detailed information.  : Enable/disable local record.  : Snapshot. Bit stream information  : Enable/disable audio. shortcut  : Enable/disable bidirectional talk. operation  : Instant playback. menu  : Digital zoom ...
  • Page 85 Figure 4-2 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Function Close video Click it to close current window. Close all video Click it to close all windows. Start audio Click it to enable audio function. Start talk Click it to enable bidirectional talk function.

  • Page 86: Record

    Item Function Stream type Switch between main stream/sub stream Adjust Set video brightness, contrast, hue and saturation. Channel setup Click it to go to the channel setup interface (chapter 3.6). Full-screen Click it to switch to full screen mode. You can double click video window or right click mouse and then select exit full screen/press Esc to exit.

  • Page 87: Ptz

    On the Liveview window, right click mouse and then click Triple snapshot, you can snap three pictures at one time. You can see the corresponding dialogue box if the snapshot succeeds. The default picture save path is SmartPSS/capture. Here you can go to chapter 3.3 General and then select file setup icon to modify picture save path.

  • Page 88: Preset

    Item Function It is to set camera movement direction. There are total 8 Direction directions. buttons Top/bottom/left/right/top left/top right/bottom left/bottom right. Zoom It is to control speed dome to realize zoom function. Focus It is to adjust video definition. Iris It is to adjust brightness.

  • Page 89: Playback

    Figure 4-6 Input tour number/tour name. Select preset number from the dropdown list and input stay time. Click button to add one preset to the tour. Select another preset number from the dropdown list and then click Add button again to add more preset to the tour. Click OK button to complete the tour setup.

  • Page 91: Playback Device Record

    Item Function It is to control the playback process, audio and etc：  ： Window sync operation button. When this function is enabled, the operation of the playback bar is for all windows. When it is in status, it is for current selected window only.
  • Page 92 Figure 4-8 Click to play record. Click to intelligently search motion detection. System shows motion detection window. Left click to select motion detection area. Click to search motion detection. The purple time bar represents found motion detection in Figure 4-9. Figure 4-9 Click to play motion detection in video window.

  • Page 93: Playback Local Record

    4.2.2 Playback Local Record Please follow the steps listed below to search the record you want and then playback. In Figure 4-7, click Local button on the right pane. Check a channel (or some channels) on the device list on the top right pane. Select record start time and end time.

  • Page 94: Log

    Figure 4-11 If you have set alarm activation video function in your alarm scheme setup (chapter 3.7), you can see system instantly shows video window. See Figure 4-12. If you check the box at the bottom of the interface to pause refresh, the new alarm info will not be shown in alarm list instantly.
  • Page 95 Log interface is shown as in Figure 4-13. Select start time/end time, and select type from the dropdown list. Click Search button, you can see the log information. Figure 4-13...

  • Page 96: Extension

    5 Extension 5.1 Video Wall After you set video wall setup (chapter 3.8 ), you can output video to the video wall. You can follow the steps listed below to set. Click icon on the main interface, you can go to the following interface. See Figure 5-1.
  • Page 97 Item Function Connect NVD: Select video window, click to open 1*1, 2*2, 3*3, 4*4 layouts of windows. Video open window Connect to M30：Click to open 1*1, 2*2, 3*3, 4*4 or M*N layouts of windows. ：Clear all video channels or layouts on screen. Clear screen, ：Screen on/off setup，to open/close TV wall displsy.

  • Page 99: E-Map

    Figure 5-4 After you added an e-map, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-5. Figure 5-5 5.2.2 Edit E-map Click , you can go to the following interface. See Figure 5-6.Click Tools, you can edit e- map, delete e-map, delete device, add area, modify area, delete area and etc. Drag a channel on the right pane to the e-map;...
  • Page 100 Figure 5-6 Click button, you can see a function bar shown as below. See Figure 5-7. Figure 5-7 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Item Function Modify e-map It is for you to change e-map name, picture, description Delete current e-map.

  • Page 101: Liveview E-Map

    Item Function Modify area Change hot zone map name, picture and description. Delete area Delete corresponding hot zone. 5.2.3 Liveview E-map After you edited the e-map, you can click View button to liveview. Buttons at the left top of the interface can zoom in, zoom out or move e-map.
  • Page 102 Figure 5-9 Move the mouse to a window, click , you can switch between main stream/extra stream/auto. Click to cancel binding. Or you can right click mouse to cancel binding or change bit stream type. Note:  This manual is for reference only. Slight difference may be found in the user interface.

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