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  • Page 1 Internet Camera ICA-500 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Declaration Of Conformity

    (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Disclaimer PLANET Technology does not warrant that the hardware will work properly in all environments and applications, and makes no warranty and representation, either implied or expressed, with respect to the quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION... 1 Overview ... 1 Physical Details ... 3 Package Contents ... 4 CHAPTER 2 BASIC SETUP ... 5 System Requirements... 5 Installation ... 6 Setup ... 7 CHAPTER 3 ADVANCED VIEWING SETUP ... 9 Introduction ... 9 Adjusting the Video Image ...
  • Page 4 APPENDIX D SPECIFICATIONS... 71 Appendix D: Specifications... 71...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction This Chapter provides details of the ICA-500's features, components and capabilities. Overview As broadband communication gets more and more popular, it becomes easier to transfer video and audio through network. Traditional surveillance system is gradually evolving to be deployed in packet switching TCP/IP network. PLANET ICA- 500 provides an advanced digital solution of Internet Camera with pan and tilt capability to meet more application demands.

  • Page 6: Internet Features

    • Ease of use Plug-N-Watch capability to simplify system integration in an existing network environment • Meeting SOHO, business, or public facilities surveillance needs ICA-500 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 manufacturing facilities.

  • Page 7: Physical Details

    Physical Details Rear Panel LAN port Use a standard LAN cable to connect your ICA-500 to a 10/100BaseT hub or switch. Alarm I/O ICA-500 provides a terminal block with 8 pins of connectors Connector located on the center of the back panel. There are 3 pins for two alarm inputs and 5 pins are for alarm output.

  • 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-500 Pan / Tilt Camera x 1 • Power adapter x 1 • Power cord x 1 •...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Basic Setup

    Chapter 2 Basic Setup This Chapter provides details of installing and configuring the ICA-500. System Requirements • To use the LAN interface, a standard 10/100BaseT hub or switch and network cable is required. • System Requirement for Viewer & Recorder: System Hardware Note: The listed information is minimum system requirements only.

  • Page 10: Installation

    Installation 1. Mount the Camera on the supplied Base and Stand. Use 4 screws to fix the ICA-500 onto the ceiling as below. You can also put the Network Camera on the table directly. 2. Connect the LAN Cable Connect the ICA-500 to a 10/100BaseT hub or switch. 3.

  • Page 11: Setup

    Setup Initial setup can be performed either from the web browser or using the supplied Windows-based camera utilities. This program can locate the ICA-500 even if its IP address is invalid for your network. You can then configure the ICA-500 with appropriate TCP/IP settings for your LAN.
  • Page 12 • Choose the destination camera for IP address and device name modifications • After modifications, you may now connect the camera via web browser.

  • Page 13: Chapter 3 Advanced Viewing Setup

    Chapter 3 Advanced Viewing Setup This Chapter provides information about the optional settings and features for viewing video via the ICA-500. This Chapter is for Administrators only. Introduction After finishing the network setup, the ICA-500 can immediately be used by all users on your LAN.
  • Page 14 3. Make the required adjustments, as explained below, and save your changes. Camera Settings Image Size Select the desired video resolution. The default resolution is set to 320*240. Available resolution: ‧176x144‧320x240‧352x288 ‧ 640x480 Image Quality Select the desired image quality. The default Image Quality is set to Standard.
  • Page 15 Note Please check the appendix B for more information on the image adjustment.

  • Page 16: Controlling User Access To The Video Stream

    Controlling User Access to the Video Stream By default, only system administrators can connect to the ICA-500 and view live Video. If desired, you may apply the access privileges to known users, by requiring each user to login to the ICA-500 with their individual username and password. To Enable this feature: 1.

  • Page 17: Making Video Available From The Internet

    Making Video available from the Internet If your LAN is connected to the Internet, typically by a Broadband Gateway/Router and Broadband modem, you can make the ICA-500 available via the Internet. ICA-500 Setup The ICA-500 configuration does NOT have be changed, unless: •...
  • Page 18 DDNS (Dynamic DNS) Many Internet connections use a "Dynamic IP address", where the Internet IP address is allocated whenever the Internet connection is established. This means that other Internet users don't know the IP address, so can't establish a connection. DDNS is designed to solve this problem, by allowing users to connect to your LAN using a domain name, rather than an IP address.
  • Page 19 The "Port" for the Port Forwarding / Virtual Server entry above is Hint the "Second Port" number specified on the Network screen of the ICA-500. Viewing via the Internet Clients (viewers) will need a broadband connection; dial-up connections are NOT recommended.
  • Page 20 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 21: Chapter 4 Web-Based Management

    Chapter 4 Web-based Management This Chapter provides Setup details of the ICA-500’s Web-based Interface. This Chapter is for Administrators only. Introduction The ICA-500 can be configured using your Web Browser. The ICA-500 must have an IP address, which is compatible with your PC. Connecting to ICA-500 •...

  • Page 22: Welcome Screen

    Welcome Screen When you connect, the camera Home screen will be displayed. The Home screen can be divided into three areas: • Viewing Area - Images from the ICA-500 • Control Panel Area – ICA-500 Camera Manipulation and image quality control •...

  • Page 23: Viewing Area

    Viewing Area This screen is displayed when you log in machine • The ICA-500 web page requires ActiveX control to display the video content. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the camera and installed on your PC. • The security settings on the Internet Explorer must allow the ActiveX plug in to be functional.

  • Page 24: Control Panel Screen

    Control Panel Screen When you connect, the camera control panel screen will be displayed. The function on the control panel can be shown below: Button Camera Control camera up/down/left/right and home position Direction Camera Increase/decrease the camera Pan/Tilt speed Speed Recall/Preset Preset: set up camera fixed locations before operation mode...

  • Page 25: Advanced Configuration Area

    Adjustment Adjust image quality. Clarity: Video is better but frame rate may be slower Image Fluency: Video is not as good as Clarity but frame rate may quality be higher Standard: System default value Frame rate Adjust video frame rate via giving a number directly. adjustment 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 directly...

  • Page 26: System Screen

    Camera Network User IP Filter System Screen After entering machine Home screen, click on the System menu, you will see a screen like the example below. Data - System Screen System Settings Product serial number Serial Number Camera Name This displays the name for the ICA-500; camera name is useful while multiple unit installation.

  • Page 27: Camera Screen

    Camera Screen This screen is displayed when the Camera menu option is clicked. Note: please adjust carefully to have proper machine configurations. Data - Camera Screen Camera Settings Image Size Display resolution selection, supported resolution in ICA-500: ‧176x144 ‧ 352x288 ‧...

  • Page 28: Camera Tour

    Saturation, Key in respective value for image adjustment. It is not required Sharpness, to adjust this value when the image is vivid. Contrast, Hue Camera Tour To use the camera tour function, user must preset some camera positions first. Select the “SET Tour” button to enter the Camera Tour setting page.

  • Page 29: Network Screen

    Network Screen This screen is displayed configure Network setting such as IP address, DHCP, DDNS and PPPoE. Data - Network Screen Network Settings DHCP Enable or disable DHCP client in ICA-500 IP address, This parameter allows users to setup the IP address assigned by Subnet mask, ISP.

  • Page 30: Pppoe Setting

    DDNS Settings Enable DDNS Enable or disable DDNS function. Username, Enter the Username/Password for your DDNS account. Password Domain Name Enter the host name, which DDNS service provider assigned. HTTP Proxy, Enter the parameter, which DDNS service provider assigned. Proxy Username, Proxy Password...
  • Page 31 PPPoE screen Please consult your ISP personnel to obtain proper PPPoE/IP Hint address related information, and input carefully. If Internet connection cannot be established, please check the physical connection or contact the ISP service staff for support information.

  • Page 32: User Screen

    User Screen This User setting can set up to 10 different usernames and passwords. Every one set of username and password can be acted as an Administrator or just a general user. User Screen IP Filter Screen The IP filter can set 10 different user’s IP address, which are allowing enter or disregarding by the Network Camera.

  • Page 33: Application Setting

    Application Setting Parameters in the Basic configuration menu provide machine adjustment; the available configurations are listed below: Icon Menu Link FTP Client SMTP Image Memory Alarm 1 Alarm 2 Schedule Motion Detection Time Setting Popup Firmware Upgrade Factory Default Definition Setup IVS-100 as a FTP client and configure Server site in order to upload images to server Setup Mail transferring service configuration...

  • Page 34: Ftp Client Screen

    FTP Client Screen FTP Client 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 path to the destination. Image file Please input the basic file name you want to assign to the images when sending to the FTP server.

  • Page 35: 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. Network Settings SMTP server Enter the address of SMTP server used to send the mail.

  • Page 36: Image Memory

    Image Memory Setup CF memory card setting or view the pictures stored in CF memory card. User can store the pictures into CF memory card by enabling this function. It is useful to keep image as evidence even though without remote surveillance and remote recording.
  • Page 37 We strongly suggest using SanDisk CF memory card to avoid Note compatible issue with this device. Because this device does not support plug and play function yet. Therefore, while you want to plug a CF memory card into slot, please make sure power off the device first, then plug this CF memory card carefully.

  • Page 38: Alarm 1 & Alarm 2 Screen

    Alarm 1 & Alarm 2 Screen This screen is displayed when the Alarm 1/Alarm 2 menu option is clicked. You can select Manual or Event for the Alarm mode. Alarm1 Screen Schedule Screen The Schedule can enable motion detection in an arranged period in order to avoid unnecessary images transmitting and catch the desired images.

  • Page 39: Motion Detection Screen

    Motion Detection Screen This screen is displayed when the Motion Detection menu option is clicked. You can Enable/Disable function and adjust the sensitivity level Motion Detection Settings Enable Motion Enable or disable Motion Detection function in ICA-500 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 40: Time Setting Screen

    Time Setting Screen This screen is displayed when the Time Setting menu option is clicked. Time Settings Provides settings of adjusting the camera’s time IP Cam Time PC Time This is default time value for PC. Set Time Three options of Synchronize with PC's time / User Input / NTP are available for your selection to link with the Time Server.

  • Page 41: Popup Screen

    Popup Screen This screen is displayed setting event message while motion or sensors has been activated When any one of alarms enabled, and one of them detected, then a message window will be displayed on the screen. Pop up Settings Pop-up text Input the warming text.

  • Page 42: Firmware Upgrade Screen

    Firmware upgrade Screen This screen is displayed when you click the Firmware Upgrade menu on the Status This screen allows you upgrade the Firmware (software) in your ICA-500. Before using this screen, your must download the upgrade file to your PC. Then follow this procedure: 1.

  • Page 43: Factory Default Screen

    6. The upgrade progress status information will be displayed on the screen. Once the upgrading process completed, the Network Camera will reboot the system automatically. Do not interrupt the upgrading procedure during proceeding; or Hint the inner component might be permanently damaged. Factory Default Screen This screen is displayed when you click the Factory Default menu on the Status screen.

  • Page 44: Activex Control

    Trigger Settings Upload a captured image to server Mail captured image to specific mail address Mail Save images in attached CF memory card Image Memory Enable Alarm output 1 Alarm 1 Enable Alarm output 2 Alarm 2 Clear alarm1 output status Clear Alarm 1 Clear alarm2 output status Clear Alarm 2...
  • Page 45 View This screen is displayed when you click the “View” menu on the ActiveX control. 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.

  • Page 46: Image Recording

    Split This screen is displayed when you click the “Split” menu on the ActiveX control. 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.
  • Page 47 Recoding Screen Save as JPEG: Select this option and click “Save as JPEG” for detailed configurations. The pre- defined schedule can be set by JPEG. During the JPGEG file recording, a red icon displays on lower right position of the image to indicate the AVI saving process.

  • Page 48: Save Current Picture As

    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 50: Chapter 5 Client Utility

    Chapter 5 Client UTILITY INSTALLATION The CamView utility 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 51 • Decide which directory to install the software. By default, just hit the Next button to continue...
  • Page 52 • Decide the program group name. By default, just hit the Next button to continue. • Decide whether to create a desktop icon of the program. Then press Next.
  • Page 53 • Ready to install. By default, just hit the Install button to start installation. • Installing, wait for a moment.

  • Page 54: How To Use

    • Installation complete. CamView software can be launched after pressing Finish. HOW TO USE After successfully installing the utility, this icon will be added to the desktop. Double click it to launch the program. User need login authentication while starting to use CamView. Two pairs of default login ID and password: admin/admin and guest/guest.
  • Page 55 5.2. CamView User Interface 5.2.1. Date and Time The current date and time of the computer are displayed here. 5.2.2. Alert Message A message box will appear while alert event occurs. Ex: free space is almost exhausted. 5.2.3. Recording and Playback Here are the buttons for playback, record / stop record and snapshot.
  • Page 56 5.2.4. Rotate, Full screen and Lock Press the Rotate button to rotate the up-side-down images. Press the Full Screen button to enlarge the viewer screen to full computer screen. Press Esc button on the keyboard to return to main CamView screen. Press the Lock button to forbid intruders to operate the CamView unless they input the correct password.

  • Page 57: Application Configuration

    5.2.11. Camera Selector Here are the camera number buttons to select cameras. Blue color: the normal camera icon. Pink color: the current selected camera. 5.2.12. Minimize, Audio and Close application button The right top button is for minimizing the CanView software; all the proceeding tasks will not be terminated.
  • Page 58 Note: Free Space Alert Percent (%) and Free Space Alert Size [MB] is OR condition combination, any one above is TRUE, then an alert message will appear automatically. Max Number of Events: Set the number of lines which you want to show in the alert message window.
  • Page 59 The following lists describe for each setting: • IP: IP address of the camera. • Port: Connection port of the camera. The default is 80. • Login ID: Please input the login ID if you enable authentication function of the specific camera.
  • Page 60 When the Modify button is pressed, the new schedule recording will be updated to the specified item. If the Remove button is pressed, the specified task will be removed from the list. Note: The Apply button is unused for this tab; always confirm the settings by pressing the OK button to let configurations take effect.
  • Page 61 Guest / Guest: Guest only can view the images only. Note: The Apply button is unused for this tab; always confirm the settings by pressing the OK button to let configurations take effect. Figure 5.3.4 The User Tab 5.3.5. External Settings Designate the DVR application path in External tab.

  • Page 62: Camera Configuration

    Figure 5.3.5. The External Tab 5.4. Camera Configuration Users can hit the button shown in Figure 5.4 to configure the associated camera Please refer to Chapter 4 Web-Based Management. Figure 5.4 5.5. Recording Figure 5.5-1. Figure 5.5-2. Figure 5.5-3. Select a camera by pressing the button with camera number as shown in Figure 5.5-2, selected camera icon will be like Figure 5.5-3 and then press the toggle button as shown in Figure 5.5-1.
  • Page 63 The second way to record automatically, the method has described in section 5.3.2 Camera Setting Auto Recording. The last method to record is done by scheduling. Schedule recording tasks are described in section 5.3.3 Scheduling. The CamView will start to record on time. 5.6.
  • Page 64 5.6.2. Snapshot List The Snapshot List tab lists snapshots, and displays the information about the specified snapshot file. When you hit the Show button, Internet Explorer will be invoked to display the snapshot. 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.

  • Page 65: Image Rotation

    Figure 5.6.3-1 The Calendar Form Note: The pink color indicates the motion recording event. Figure 5.6.3-2 The Video Search Tab 5.7. Image Rotation After the button is pressed, the displayed image rotates 180 degree. It is used for the camera being installed upside-down direction. Note: Recorded video / image files will not be rotated.

  • Page 66: Full Screen

    5.8. Full Screen After this button is pressed, it will show full screen mode and press the keyboard "Esc" key or the center of screen to return normal mode. Figure 5.8 5.9. Lock Application Press this button will avoid strangers to access CamView unless they have correct password.
  • Page 67 As shown in Figure 5.10-1 and Figure 5.10-2, with the map image in layout, you can drag the camera icons into proper positions to deploy your cameras. The following describes layout entries: • Name: Define a name for this layout. •...
  • Page 68 Figure 5.10-2 Layout example 2 • 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 5.10-3.

  • Page 69: Appendix A Alarm I/O Connector

    Appendix A Alarm I/O Connector Appendix A Alarm I/O Connector The terminal block is used in applications for e.g. motion detection, event triggering, time lapse recording, alarm notification via email, image storage to FTP locations, etc. ICA-500 provides a general I/O terminal block with two digital inputs and two outputs for device control.

  • Page 70: Appendix B Troubleshooting

    Appendix B Troubleshooting Appendix B Troubleshooting Q: The video and audio codec is adopted in the Network Camera? A: The Network Camera utilizes JPEG compression to providing high quality images. JPEG is a standard for image compression and can be applied to various web browsers without the need to install extra software.
  • Page 71 Q: Forgot the IP address of the Network Camera. A: Check IP address of Network Camera by using the IP Finder (ipeditv3) program. Q: IP Finder program (ipeditv3) cannot find ICA-500 A:• Re power the ICA-500 if cannot find the unit within 1 minute. •...
  • Page 72 • If the problem is not solved, the ICA-500 might be faulty. Contact your dealer for further help. Q: Image or video does not appear in the main page A: ‧ The first time the PC connects to ICA-500, a pop-up Security Warning window will appear to download ActiveX Controls.
  • Page 73 • Blurred images may have been registered when registering or modifying the preset button or home position button. Adjust the focus in manual focusing again • The image may be out of focus, if the object is too near, or depending on the zoom position.

  • Page 74: Appendix C Bandwidth Calculation

    Appendix C Bandwidth Calculation Appendix C: Bandwidth Calculation The frame rate of video transmitted from the ICA-500 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-500. Image bandwidth is approximately equal to the average frame rate in frames per second multiplied by the average frame data size in kilobits.

  • Page 75: Specifications

    Appendix D Specifications Appendix D: Specifications Model Hardware Sensor Iris control Gain control White balance Focus Minimum Illumination PAN (Horizontal Rotation) Tilt (Vertical Rotation) Network Generic I/O port Video interface Audio interface Image (Video setting) Image compression Video Resolution and Frame Rate Image Rotate Environment...

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