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  • Page 1 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500 / ICA-W8500...
  • Page 2 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Copyright Copyright © 2014 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; they should be collected separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera Model: ICA-8500 / ICA-W8500 Rev: 1.00 (February.2014) Part No. EM-ICA-8500_W8500...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Table of Contents Chapter 1. Product Introduction ..................6 1.1 Package Contents ..................... 6 1.2 Overview ......................6 1.3 Features ......................9 1.4 Product Specifications..................10 Chapter 2. Hardware Interface..................12 2.1 Physical Descriptions..................
  • Page 5 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Appendix A: PING IP Address ................60 Appendix B: DDNS Application................61 Appendix C: Configuring Port Forwarding Manually ........62 Appendix D: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions ....... 69...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1. Product Introduction

    H.264, MPEG-4, and JPEG compression formats and delivers excellent picture quality in up to 1920 x 1920 pixels at 15 frames per second (fps). Incorporating the professional 5 MP-resolution sensor, the ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 provides high quality images and panorama function with quad view to enable images of monitoring and recording from four different angles to be displayed simultaneously.
  • Page 7 ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Full Surveillance with 360º Surround View Furthermore, the ICA-8500/W8500 is a fish-eye camera that allows you to monitor all angles of a location using just one camera and thus save lots of the traditional mechanical Pan/Tilt maintenance cost. The distorted hemispherical image of the fish-eye camera will be converted into the conventional rectilinear projection.
  • Page 8 Users can have total control in determining the object and sensitivity of these motion detection windows. The ICA-8500/W8500 is able to send email notifications, alerts and snapshots to any dedicated email account. This will alert the user any event in real time, no matter where the...

  • Page 9: Features

    In addition, the ICA-8500 includes 64-CH central management software for efficient monitoring. The ICA-8500 is indisputably the top choice for reliable and high performance surveillance.

  • Page 10: Product Specifications

    2-way audio support with enhanced audio quality Network and Configuration Compliant with IEEE 802.3af PoE interface for flexible deployment (For ICA-8500) IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN with WEP and WPA encryptions (For ICA-W8500) Auto MDI/MDI-X supported UPnP® support for network setup & configuration RTSP / UPnP / 3GPP / HTTPS protocols selectable Easy Installation &...
  • Page 11 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 M-JPEG streaming over HTTP (server push) Controllable frame rate and bandwidth Constant and variable bit rate (M-JPEG / H.264) Simultaneously multi-profile streaming CBR (Constant Bit Rate) Rate Control VBR (Variable Bit Rate) Source view (1O) 180°...

  • Page 12: Chapter 2. Hardware Interface

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Chapter 2. Hardware Interface 2.1 Physical Descriptions Dimensions Φ194 x 49 mm Weight 324g (gross weight) Front Panel Interface Description It is for detecting the IP camera environment that illuminates. When...
  • Page 13 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Bottom Panel Interface Description Power Jack The input power is 12V DC. Connection to PC or Hub/Switch. It is connected to 10Base-T Ethernet or 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet cabling. This Ethernet port built N-way protocol can...

  • Page 14: Hardware Installation

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 exceed 130mA. An external “Relay” can also be connected to the DO_NO2 terminals as an implementation. In this case, current (or/and voltage) limitation is specified by the external relay. DO_COM DO_NO1 2.2 Hardware Installation...

  • Page 15: Network Installation

    PoE device, you can ignore the next step. For ICA-8500, If there has an IEEE 802.3af PoE switch in your network, you can connect the IP camera’s LAN cable to this PoE switch to obtain power. The power adapter is unnecessary when the IP camera is powered by PoE switch.

  • Page 16: Initial Utility Installation

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500   2.3 Initial Utility Installation This chapter shows how to quickly set up your H.264 camera. The camera is with the default settings. However, to help you find the networked camera quickly, the windows utility PLANET IPInstaller can search the cameras in the network that will help you to configure some basic setting before you start advanced management and monitoring.
  • Page 17 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Step 4. Please click “Next” to install with original settings, or you may click “Change…” button to modify the install folder and then press “Next” to continue. Step 5. Please click “Next” to start the installation.

  • Page 18: Preparation

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Step 6. Please click “Close” to complete the installation and launch program immediately. 2.4 Preparation When you install the camera in a LAN environment, you may execute PLANET IPInstaller to discover camera’s IP address and set up related parameters in the camera.

  • Page 19: Opening The Web-Based Ui Of Select Camera

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Step 3. Double-click the item to open the Property Page or click the menu bar > Single Device Setting. Step 4. After filling out the desired settings in the properties, click on “Set” button to complete the configuration settings.

  • Page 20: Using Upnp Of Windows Xp Or 7

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 If the Internet camera is configured correctly, the default Web browser will open to the home page of the selected device. If you find your browser is opened and automatically connected to the camera Home Page, it means you’ve assigned an IP Address to the unit successfully.
  • Page 21 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 The “Control Panel” will display on the screen and double-click “Add or Remove Programs” to continue. The “Add or Remove Programs” will display on the screen and click Add/Remove Widows Components to continue.
  • Page 22 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 The following screen will appear, select “Networking Services” and click “Details” to continue. The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select “Universal Plug and Play” and click “OK” to continue.
  • Page 23 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Please click “Next” to continue. The program will start installing the UPnP automatically. You will see the below pop-up screen, please wait while Setup configures the components.

  • Page 24: Windows 7

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Please click “Finish” to complete the UPnP installation Double-click “My Network Places” on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with Internet camera to view your device in an internet browser.

  • Page 25: Setup Activex To Use The Internet Camera

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 2.6 Setup ActiveX to use the Internet Camera The Internet camera web pages communicate with the Internet camera using an ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the Internet camera and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly.

  • Page 26: Internet Explorer 6 For Windows Xp

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 2.6.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Custom Level…”, please set up your “Settings” as follows: Set the first 3 items • Download the signed ActiveX controls •...

  • Page 27: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Vista

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Set the first 3 items • Allow previously unused ActiveX control to run… • Allows Scriptlets • Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for Internet Camera.
  • Page 28 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 From your IE browser ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Trusted Sites” ”Custom Level…”, please set up your “Settings” as follows: • Enable “Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls” • Prompt “Initialize and script active controls not marked….”...

  • Page 29: Chapter 3. Web-Based Management

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Chapter 3. Web-based Management This chapter provides setup details of the Internet camera’s Web-based Interface. 3.1 Introduction The Internet camera can be configured with your Web Browser. Before configuring, please make sure your PC is under the same IP segment with Internet camera.
  • Page 30 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Click on the message, and click Run Add-on When you see this message, click Run’ to install required ActiveX control After the ActiveX control is installed and run, the first image will be displayed.

  • Page 31: Live View

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.3 Live View Start-up screen will be as follows no matter you are an ordinary user or an administrator. Button Description Ceiling Mode With its fisheye lens (360º panoramic view), the Camera can offer the following live view display modes: 360°...
  • Page 32 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Click on the message, and click Run Add-on When you see this message, click Run’ to install required ActiveX control After the ActiveX control is installed and run, the first image will be displayed.
  • Page 33 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Zoom Slider: Drag slider to zoom-in and zoom-out the selected scene. Zoom setting is saved with the selected pre-defined point of view area. Click Browse button to define Recording Path and Recording Filename for the video you are preparing to record.

  • Page 34: System Configuration

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.4 System Configuration Clicking the System button will display the following tabbed panes relative to system configurations. 3.4.1 Information Tab The information tabbed pane provides the existing system status of the camera which includes Model Name, System Time, Firmware Version, MAC Address, ActiveX Control Version, Wired Network, Wireless Network and DDNS Server Status.

  • Page 35: Time Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.4.2 Time Tab The Time tabbed pane is where you set up the clock of your Camera to synchronize with your local time. Where: The Network camera current date and time is applied and displayed...

  • Page 36: Security Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.4.3 Security Tab The Security tabbed pane allows you to add new camera User Name and change Password and the surveillance status or User Group. Click the ADD button to access the security setup dialog...

  • Page 37: Maintenance Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Enter the new user name to be added into the list (see Note 4 of User Name dialog for proper entry). Password Enter the new password (see Note 4 of dialog for proper entry).

  • Page 38: System Log

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 The Maintenance tabbed pane allows you to upgrade the firmware with the latest version and to restore the Network camera settings to factory default. Download the latest firmware file from the website by executing the...

  • Page 39: Network Setup Execution

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.5 Network Setup Execution Clicking the Network button will display the following tabbed panes on configuring camera connection with the network. 3.5.1 General Tab The General tabbed pane (shown above) allows you to redefine the network and port protocol settings of the Network camera.
  • Page 40 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 While PPPoE protocol is selected, you may have to enter some more information such as the above picture. While camera IP is changed dynamically because of PPPoE Network connection, its new IP Address will be sent to “Sender E-mail Address”...

  • Page 41: Wireless Tab (Ica-W8500 Only)

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.5.2 Wireless Tab (ICA-W8500 only) The Wireless tabbed pane provides search and display of available wireless networks from which you can select the most suitable one for your camera. Status Wireless Displays the list of wireless networks (access points) currently available;...

  • Page 42: Ddns Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.5.3 DDNS Tab The DDNS tabbed pane allows you to configure the Dynamic Domain Name System of your network device with a host name instead of the IP Address. DDNS Enable Enable the check box to support DDNS function.

  • Page 43: Multicast Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.5.4 Multicast Tab Multicast is a bandwidth conservation technology. This function allows several users to share the same packet sent from IP camera. To use Multicast, appoint IP Address and port here.

  • Page 44: Video & Audio Setup Execution

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.6 Video & Audio Setup Execution Clicking the Video & Audio button will display the following tabbed panes for defining camera streaming, video, and audio functions. 3.6.1 Stream Tab...
  • Page 45 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 The Stream tabbed pane (see the above figure) provides the adjustments for the video quality of the camera streaming function. The pane offers the following three modes of video quality setting: Connection Template Four option modes are available: “Fast,”...
  • Page 46 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 VBR: Standard, Good and Detailed CBR: 1M bps, 1.5M bps, 2M bps, 3M bps, 4M bps, 5M bps, 6M bps, 8M bps, 10M bps and 12M bps. Intra Frame Period Available choices are: 5, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 and 60 frames per period.

  • Page 47: Video Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.6.2 Video Tab The Video tabbed pane lets you perform live adjustments and improvement of the camera captured video effect relative to the target environment. If you experience difficulty in implementing the adjusted parameters, it is recommended that you use the default setting by pressing the Reset button (see figure below) at the back of the camera.

  • Page 48: Audio Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Brightness The luminance of the captured image apart from its hue or saturation. Saturation The degree of intensity and purity of a specific color. Contrast The brightness ratio of the lightest to the darkest part of the video image.
  • Page 49 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 The Audio tabbed pane provides the following audio adjustments to your camera microphone and peaker: Mute Enable or disable mute function of the camera microphone. Input of Listen Pattern Line In Plug an audio source device into the Audio-In port of camera.

  • Page 50: Privacy Mask Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.6.4 Privacy Mask Tab The Privacy Mask tabbed pane allows you to mask or block private areas from surveillance for privacy reason. ■ To block a private area from surveillance, follow the procedure below: Step 1.

  • Page 51: Event Setup Execution

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.7 Event Setup Execution Clicking the Event button will display the tabbed panes (see figure below) for defining event recording of the Camera. The ICA- 8500/ICA-W8500 is equipped with a card slot for Micro-SD/SDHC memory card.

  • Page 52: Video Tab

    Only the ICA-8500/W8500 enables Motion/PIR to trigger video recording and bind into CloudLync Cloud Service with Google account. The recorded video files in the SD Memory Card will be uploaded and backed-up to your Google Drive synchronously.
  • Page 53 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Period This method will trigger the camera video surveillance/recording operation for a defined duration (in seconds) whenever motion is detected. The video record may be sent to host by e-mail or stored in the SD card as selected.

  • Page 54: Snapshot Tab

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Motion This method will trigger the camera video surveillance/recording operation according to the set duration (in seconds) whenever motion is detected within the defined days of the week and at the time of the set days.
  • Page 55 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Always Under this method, the camera automatically continuous to capture 6 snapshots of the area under surveillance at every 1 or 2 seconds interval. 3 previous snapshot frames are collected from the Camera buffer and 3 snapshot frames are captured live.
  • Page 56 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 ■ Trigger by Motion Motion This method will trigger the camera snapshot operation according to the set time interval (in seconds) whenever motion is detected within the defined days of the week and at the time of the set days. Single or 6 snapshots may be captured as defined.
  • Page 57 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 GPIO On the defined days of the week and at certain time of the set days, the Camera will trigger its GPIO Input Signal according to the set time interval (in seconds) when its state changes. Single or 6 snapshots may be captured at a time as defined.

  • Page 58: Local Storage Setup Execution

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.8 Local Storage Setup Execution Clicking the Local Storage button will display the following tabbed panes to provide information on existing local storage, such as disk size info, type, and status. If recording is in progress when clicking the Local Storage button, a warning message will occur.

  • Page 59: Remote Storage

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 3.9 Remote storage The device also can send motion stream to specified SAMBA and NFS server. Most of the time, the SAMBA and NFS server will be another PC or NAS server.

  • Page 60: Appendix A: Ping Ip Address

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Appendix A: 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 the installation of Internet camera, or if the IP address conflicts with any other device over the network.

  • Page 61: Appendix B: Ddns Application

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Appendix B: DDNS Application Configure PLANET DDNS with the following steps: Step 1. Enable DDNS option through accessing web page of NAS Step 2. Select on DDNS server provided, and register an account if you have not used yet.

  • Page 62: Appendix C: Configuring Port Forwarding Manually

    5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Appendix C: Configuring Port Forwarding Manually The device can be used with a router. I f the device wants to be accessed from the WAN, its IP address needs to be set up as fixed IP address, also the port forwarding or Virtual Server function of router needs to be set up.
  • Page 63 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Your WAN IP Address will be listed here. Open/set Virtual Server Ports to enable remote image viewing The firewall security features built into the router and most routers prevent users from accessing the video from the device over the Internet.
  • Page 64 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Enter valid ports in the Virtual Server section of your router. Please make sure to check the box on this line to enable settings. Then the device can be accessed from WAN by the router’s WAN IP Address.
  • Page 65 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Appendix D: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions   Features The video and audio codec is The device utilizes H.264 and M-JPEG triple compression to provide adopted in the device. high quality images. Where H.264 is standard for video compression, M-JPEG is standard for image compression.
  • Page 66 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Forgot the IP address of the Check IP address of device by using the IPInstaller program or by device. UPnP discovery or set the device to default by Reset button. PLANET IPInstaller program Re-power the device if cannot find the unit within 1 minutes.
  • Page 67 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 Make sure the http port used by the Network camera, default=80, is forward to the Network camera’s private IP address. The port number assigned in your Internet camera might not be available via Internet.
  • Page 68 5 Mega-pixel PoE / Wireless Fish-Eye IP Camera ICA-8500/ICA-W8500 server running on your LAN. Check the configuration of the router settings to allow the device to be accessed outside your local LAN. Check the bandwidth of Internet connection. If the Internet bandwidth is lower than target bit rate, the video streaming will not work correctly.

  • Page 69: Appendix D: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

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