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- Page 1 ANPR SPEED CAMERA User Manual...
- Page 2 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Thank you for purchasing our product. If there are any questions or requests, please do not hesitate to contact either ourselves or your appointed dealer. This manual may contain several technical incorrect places or printing errors and the content is subject to change without notice.
- Page 3 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System A General Overview This Site Sentry Camera System purpose is to gather vehicular traffic information in both directions of travel and in all light levels and all weather conditions on any particular site where deployed.
- Page 4 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Safety Instruction These instructions are intended to ensure that the end user can use the product correctly to avoid danger to themselves or other road users. The precaution measure is divided into ‘Warnings’ and ‘Cautions’. Warnings: Serious injury or death may be caused if any of these warnings are neglected.
- Page 5 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Cautions Make sure the power supply voltage is correct before using the camera system. Do not drop the camera or subject it to physical shock. Do not touch sensor modules with fingers. If cleaning is necessary, use a clean cloth with a small amount of ethanol and wipe gently.
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Page 6: Table Of Contents
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Table of Contents Chapter 1 Choosing a location and mounting the camera..........8 Chapter 2 Network Access.....................12 2.1 Access over browsers for mobile devices............12 2.1.1 Live View.....................13 2.1.2 Parameters Configuration..............13 2.2 Access over ethernet and Wi-Fi ‘hot spot’ or ‘client’ via CHROME browser...14 2.2.1 Live View.....................14 2.2.2 Parameters Configuration..............14... - Page 7 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Table of Contents continued Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool........21 5.1 System requirements..................21 5.1.1 Installing the Software.................22 5.1.2 Creating a ‘short cut’ on your desk top..........23 5.2 Working with your Removable Hard Disc Drive..........25 5.2.1 Choosing how much DATA to bring into your ‘local’...
- Page 8 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Table of Contents continued Appendix 1 PTSC 926 Supplementary Speed and Registration Display..........37 Appendix 2 PTSC 927 Road Legal Mobile Trailer................53 teSentry...
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Page 9: Chapter 1 Choosing A Location And Mounting The Camera
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 1 Choosing a location and mounting the camera When choosing a location for the camera system, it is usually a good idea to look for a fairly straight section of road where there is most likely to be some form of speed violation and this may well be close to some form of hazzard like a pedestrian crossing or road junction. - Page 10 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 1 continued Choosing a location and mounting the camera Having decided on a suitable structure such as a lamp post, the Site Sentry Camera may now be physically mounted to the post via screw band fixings provided. Please note that the system has been provided to you in two main sections, the base control box and the actual camera head.
- Page 11 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 1 continued Choosing a location and mounting the camera Having fitted the control box and placed its gasket in place, offer the camera head for alignment and fix only with 4 bolts provided. Taking care to thread the umbilical power and data leads as you go.
- Page 12 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 1 continued Choosing a location and mounting the camera Having fitted the camera system to the post of your choosing and connected the 12v DC supply, you will now need to connect the 240 v AC supply to the mains side of the 5 amp switch mode power supply provided.
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Page 13: Chapter 2 Network Access
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 2 Network Access Access over browser for Mobile Devices Each Site Sentry Radar Speed Camera System will be issued with a ‘shipping card’ which will contain all of the network access information for both Wi-Fi and hard wired ethernet networks. -
Page 14: Live View
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 2 Network Access 2.1.1 Live View Now you are into the system you will have the opportunity to invoke ‘Live View’ which will allow you to aim the camera head to frame the road you wish to observe. In this pane you will see two thumbnail video images which will allow you to aim the two cameras in the direction of the number plates of passing vehicles. -
Page 15: Access Over Ethernet And Wi-Fi 'Hot Spot' Or 'Client' Via Chrome Browser
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 2 Network Access via ethernet with CHROME browser 2.2.1 Live View A similar representation of the software interface to that previously described in chapter 2.1 is available for use across hard wired and radio ethernet - there is an auxiliary CAT5 socket on the front panel of the Site Sentry control panel and this may be used for permanent hard wiring into an existing ethernet network or for temporary connection via a lap top PC or similar. -
Page 16: Chapter 3 Adjusting The Camera System To Suit Your Circumstances
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 3 Adjusting the Site Sentry Camera System to suit your circumstances 3.1 Framing the video capture area Again similar to the representation shown on your mobile device but using the advantage of a larger screen size, you can direct the camera view to contain sufficient content as to make subsequent viewing of video footage to be most informative. - Page 17 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 3 Adjusting the Site Sentry Camera System to suit your circumstances continued 3.2 Focus and Zoom via Internet Explorer This action will open up a ‘live view’ of the video stream from your ‘overview’ camera click on the joy stick button and a new menu will appear.
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Page 18: Chapter 4 Adjusting The Radar Sensor
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 4 Adjusting the Radar Sensor continued An overview and understanding of the COSINE effect Microwave radars are susceptible to a phenomenon known as the COSINE effect. This is a generation of a greater speed figure by a reflection from a target vehicle passing within close proximity to the radar at an obtuse angle, ie. -
Page 19: Cosine Mitigation Tools
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 4 Adjusting the Radar Sensor continued The Speed Error Percent Tool 4.3.1 The aim of this tool is to look at a steady stream of speed data being reflected from the target vehicle being tracked and deem this information to be bonafide - once a general speed characteristic has been established, the Site Sentry views the reported speed with a set of intelligent filters, in this case ‘The Speed Error Percent Tool’... -
Page 20: Speed Negative Error Percent
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 4 Adjusting the Radar Sensor continued The Speed Negative Error Percent Tool 4.3.2 The aim of this tool is to begin looking at a target vehicle speed and make a rapid comparison between the first speed readings and those after a variable number of milliseconds and thus ignore any early COSINE spikes which might occur when the target vehicle being tracked is in close proximity to the radar sensor - once a general speed... -
Page 21: Speed Distance Disable
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 4 Adjusting the Radar Sensor continued The Speed Distance Disable Tool 4.3.3 The aim of this tool is to begin looking at a target vehicle speed and gather many valid speed readings while the vehicle is outside the COSINE zone and since we are measuring the distance of the target vehicle from the Site Sentry Camera for the whole period of observation, this tool allows us to ‘switch off’... -
Page 22: Chapter 5 Installing And Working With The Pc Client Or 'Shell' Tool
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool System Requirements There are several modes of operation of the PC shell tool, the only difference being where you choose to retain your data base. In real terms this means that if you wish to ‘mirror’... -
Page 23: Installing The Software
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool continued Installing the Software into your PC 5.1.1 In your Site Sentry information pack you will be issued with a USB ‘pen drive’ which will contain both the latest version of Site Sentry camera system software and the latest PC ‘shell’... -
Page 24: Creating A 'Short Cut' On Your Desk Top
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool continued Creating a ‘shortcut’ on your PC desktop to your new program 5.1.2 Navigate to your local hard drive which is probably called drive ‘C’ and open this folder. - Page 25 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool continued Creating a ‘shortcut’ on your PC desktop to your new program 5.1.2 Browse to ANPR_SC_Start and click ‘OK’ Having chosen the file you wish to become the short cut click ‘next’. At the next screen click ‘finish’.
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Page 26: Working With Your Removable Hard Disc Drive
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool continued 5.2 Working with your removable Hard Disk Drive Click on your new desk top Icon entitled ANPR etc. and the ‘shell’ program will run. At this point you do not have any DATA in your local data base. -
Page 27: Complete Synchronisation
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool continued 5.2.2 Complete Synchronisation Insert the USB removable hard drive from your Site Sentry Camera System into a USB socket on your PC and click ‘import’ in your new software. Browse to your removable hard drive and browse to its contents and click on database.sqlite and import this data - this will take some time if there are many events but on subsequent occasions, your data base will only update new entries. -
Page 28: Partial Download
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 5 Installing and Working with the PC Client or ‘shell’ Tool continued 5.2.3 Partial Download Insert the USB removable hard drive from your Site Sentry Camera System into a USB socket on your PC and click ‘import’ in your new software. Browse to your removable hard drive and browse to its contents and click on database.sqlite and select date and time ranges which you wish to work with and import these to your local data base... -
Page 29: Chapter 6 Searching And Working With Gathered Data
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 6 Searching and working with the Site Sentry data base. Start the software from your desktop icon. 6.1 Searching by Criteria The beauty of the Site Sentry data base is that it allows you to search by several criteria and or combinations of these search criteria. -
Page 30: Searching By Date And Time
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 6 Searching and working with the Site Sentry data base. 6.1.1 Searching by Date and Time When you click on the date and time bar you will be immediately presented with a pair of calendars and clock readings which allow you to search any specific window in time past. -
Page 31: Searching By Plate
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 6 Searching and working with the Site Sentry data base continued 6.1.2 Searching by Plate Since we employ ‘fuzzy logic’ to enable plate search this means that you only need to know part of the registration in order to search for a particular plate teSentry... -
Page 32: Searching By Location
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 6 Searching and working with the Site Sentry data base continued 6.1.3 Searching by Location This tool allows the user to search by location which would apply if the user is re naming different locations in the user interface ‘settings’... -
Page 33: Searching By Direction
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 6 Searching and working with the Site Sentry data base continued 6.1.4 Searching by Direction This tool allows the user to search by direction of forward, reverse or both. teSentry... -
Page 34: Searching By Speed Over
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 6 Searching and working with the Site Sentry data base continued 6.1.5 Speed Over Search This very useful tool allows the user at a stroke to sift out speeders and study their misdemeanours. -
Page 35: Chapter 7 Exporting Events And Files
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 7 Exporting Events and Files 7.1 Choosing a le to export Having searched your data base you may now download an individual file or event, per chance you wish to email this to a colleague or a possible offender. Click on the download button and this file will instantly download to your computers ‘downloads’... -
Page 36: Exporting A Csv File
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 7 Exporting Events and Files 7.2 Exporting a CSV File to view in Microsoft Excel This tool enables you to search your data base in settings/import-export and select a given time period and obtain an instant Comma Separated Values file (CSV) for immediate use in Microsoft Excel or similar data base manipulating package - this CSV file will contain all of the data base information save the video and picture files attributed to events. -
Page 37: Exporting Individual Events From External Hard Drive To Your Local Data Base
User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Chapter 7 Exporting Events and Files 7.3 Exporting an individual event File to view in your own local database This tool enables you to search the external data base and capture individual events onto your own local data base for future discussion by using the import button shown here. - Page 38 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Appendix 1 PTSC 926 Supplementary Speed and Registration Display This optional additional piece of display hardware will allow you to display to oncoming drivers of vehicles, with their own speed and registration. This device must be used in conjunction with radar speed camera PTSC 926 as it requires its registration data feed from the radar speed camera.
- Page 39 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Appendix 1 continued PTSC 926 Supplementary Speed and Registration Display The speed display element of this device is in fact a ‘stand alone’ speed display with its own integral Doppler radar speed measuring instrument and as such will require its own sensitivity settings and speed violation threshold setting.
- Page 40 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Select the cd drive on your PC Select the USB folder Extract the CDM drivers teSentry...
- Page 41 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Install the USB driver by clicking ‘next’ After installation, click ‘finish’ Now when the speed sign is connected to your PC, the drivers for the USB connection will be present. teSentry...
- Page 42 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Now install the PC tools software Having installed the USB to RS 232 driver as described in the previous section. From the software CD provided, open folder ‘Houston Radar operating software’. Select ‘windows installer’ application from the list. The Houston Radar screen will load and click ‘NEXT’.
- Page 43 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Software Installation continued Click ‘NEXT’. Install the utilities by clicking ‘NEXT’. Select ‘setup’ application from the list. teSentry...
- Page 44 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Software Installation continued The software suite will now install. Installation is now complete and you are ready to communicate with the speed sign. teSentry...
- Page 45 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Configuring the speed sign The speed sign supports many different user options and configurations that make it a very versatile device. A user friendly MS Windows PC based graphical user interface (GUI) software is provided to make this configuration easy for the end user.
- Page 46 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Running the software From your desktop, click on the new ‘Houston Radar’ icon Now plug in the supplied USB cable into the speed sign, having unscrewed the waterproof USB cover, on the side of the sign and click FILE/CONNECT TO RADAR at which point the following dialogue box will appear.
- Page 47 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Running the software (continued) The software will automatically discover the radar speed sign Agree by clicking ‘NEXT’. teSentry Agree by clicking ‘OK’.
- Page 48 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System If you are going to collect trafc statistics later, please sync the radar clock to your PC at this stage by pressing the sync button. teSentry...
- Page 49 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Read the radar configuration ’. Click on the ‘Radar Setup’ tab. The software will read the radar configuration and you should see the screen (actual values will depend on your speed sign) This screen contains the most frequently used settings for your speed sign.
- Page 50 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System 5. Set up the display limits for the speed sign Please disregard the ‘rotary switch’ section of this software as this function is not enabled in your speed sign as we are employing the much more versatile PC tools channel to make on site adjustments to speed parameters.
- Page 51 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Setup Display Brightness Configuration: Step 6: The sign automatically controls the display brightness for optimal visibility under all ambient lighting conditions. The ambient light is sampled by a built in light sensor located on the front face of the PCB or by an optional external light sensor wired to the AUX connector.
- Page 52 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Write the Configuration to the Speed Sign: Step 8: Write the configuration to the speed sign by clicking the “write to radar” button. You must click this button and be presented with the “configuration saved” message before your changes are saved to the connected sign.
- Page 53 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Always ‘write to radar’ after making any alterations to your speed sign It’s a great ‘starting point’ to begin the sensitivity adjustment at 50% as indicated here and your unit will have been shipped from our final inspection/testing department with this parameter so set.
- Page 54 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Appendix 2 PTSC 927 Road legal trailer mounted battery pack and camera support Choosing a location and positioning the camera trailer Having decided on a suitable location such as a grass verge at the side of a road to be monitored, the Site Sentry Camera may now be physically moved into position.
- Page 55 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Appendix 2 continued Having chosen a safe position for the trailer, next, level the unit by means of the integral spirit level and three screw jacks. teSentry...
- Page 56 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Appendix 2 continued Having levelled the trailer and pointed it down the road to be monitored, now stand up the camera head and secure this mechanism with the two black screw knobs provided. teSentry...
- Page 57 User Manual of Site Sentry ANPR/Speed Camera System Appendix 2 continued Having levelled the trailer and raised the camera head, you will now need to switch on power to the camera system. 3.1 Make the system ‘live’ by switching on the main isolator switch in the battery access box.
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