Bosch MegaPixel IP Camera NWC-0800 User Manual

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Page 1 MegaPixel IP Camera Type numbers NWC-0700, NWC-0800, NWC-0900 Manual_en...
Page 3: Table Of Contents
MegaPixel IP Cameras | en Table of Contents Safety Important safety instructions Safety precautions Important notices Introduction Product information System requirements Network switch or router Camera reference Introduction Connectors Housing and mounting Network cabling Optics 3.5.1 Using manual iris lenses 3.5.2 Auto-iris lenses 3.5.3...
Page 4 2 en | 4.2.1 Toolbar 4.2.2 Selecting full/reduced resolution and zoom 4.2.2 Selecting Cameras 4.2.2 Full/Half camera resolution 4.2.2 Full size/Reduced size display 4.2.2 Zooming 4.2.3 Settings 4.2.4 Exposure 4.2.5 Image Quality 4.2.6 Archive 4.2.7 Motion Detection 4.2.8 Save to 4.2.9 Advanced 4.2.10...
Page 5: Safety
MegaPixel IP CamerasSafety | en Safety Important safety instructions Read, follow, and retain for future reference all of the following safety instructions. Heed all warnings on the unit and in the operating instructions before operating the unit. Cleaning - Unplug the unit from the outlet before cleaning. Follow any instructions provided with the unit.
Page 6 4 en | Safety 10. Power sources - Operate the unit only from the type of power source indicated on the label. Before proceeding, be sure to disconnect the power from the cable to be installed into the unit. – For external power supplied units, use only the recom- mended or approved power supplies.
Page 7: Safety Precautions
MegaPixel IP CamerasSafety | en or, in the case of an authorization agreement, authority to operate the equipment. Safety precautions DANGER! High risk: This symbol indicates an imminently hazardous situation such as "Dangerous Voltage" inside the product. If not avoided, this will result in an electrical shock, serious bodily injury, or death.
Page 8 6 en | Safety Disposal - Your Bosch product was developed and manufac- tured with high-quality material and components that can be recycled and reused. This symbol means that electronic and electrical appliances, which have reached the end of their work- ing life, must be collected and disposed of separately from household waste material.
Page 9 MegaPixel IP CamerasSafety | en NOTICE! This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules and ICES-003 of Industry Canada. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
Page 10 8 en | Safety NOTICE! This user guide has been compiled with great care and the information it contains has been thoroughly verified. The text was complete and correct at the time of printing. The ongoing development of the products may mean that the content of the user guide can change without notice.
Page 11: Introduction
MegaPixel IP CamerasIntroduction | en Introduction Bosch MegaPixel® video cameras are state-of-the-art IP units designed to deliver full-motion, high definition digital video across local area networks. The DiBos software system accom- modates multiple cameras connected to a single video server and provides a variety of display and digital archiving modes.
Page 12: Network Switch Or Router
10 en | Introduction – CPU: 3.0 GHz – RAM: 512 MB – Video Card: 1600x1200, 64 MB RAM – Network card: 100 base-T High performance, with best frame rate live viewing: – CPU: Dual CPU or DualCore 3.2 GHz –...
Page 13 MegaPixel IP CamerasIntroduction | en www.dlink.com 10/100Base-TX 8 PoE ports and 8 non-PoE ports True IEEE 802.3af – "TRENDnet #TPE-S88 (POE Switch/Hub) www.trendnet.com 10/100Base-TX 8 PoE ports and 8 non-PoE ports True IEEE 802.3af – "PowerDsine #PD-6001/AC (PoE Single port hub) www.powerdsine.com 10/100Base-TX Single Midspan POE port...
Page 14: Camera Reference
12 en | Camera reference Camera reference Introduction NWC-0700, NWC-0800 and NWC-0900 are megapixel resolution IP cameras capable of delivering crisp, low-noise images at a video frame rate. NWC-0700 is a 2-megapixel resolution camera having maximum resolution of 1600 by 1200 and achieving a maximum frame rate of 24.
Page 15: Connectors
MegaPixel IP CamerasCamera reference | en – Adjustable brightness, saturation, gamma, and sharpness – Simultaneous delivery of full-field view and zoomed images at video frame rate – Electronic image rotation by 180 degrees – On board motion detection – Auto iris on NWC-0700 and NWC-0800 Connectors NWC-0700, NWC-0800, and NWC-0900 have the following con- nectors located on the rear side of the camera housing:...
Page 16: Network Cabling
14 en | Camera reference Network cabling Category 5 cabling or better is recommended. All network cabling must be installed according to applicable codes and regulations. Optics The MegaPixel cameras should be used with a 1/2" or larger optical format lens. The NWC-0900 requires two manual-iris lenses and has a limitation on lens diameter (<38mm).
Page 17: Accessing Cameras
MegaPixel IP CamerasCamera reference | en – When the iris is closed, the image should become visibly sharper. As the iris is gradually closed, the image bright- ness may fluctuate slightly. Note: You can monitor the state of the iris in the Bosch Video System "Settings"...
Page 18: Software
16 en | Software Software DiBos 8 provides viewing and recording functions for standard analog as well as Network-connected cameras. DiBos8 supports full-resolution recording of the Bosch Megapixel cameras. At playback, the full resolution can be utilized by zooming in on the area of interest.
Page 19: Configure Firewall
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en – Video System: live viewing for setting up the camera parameters and motion detection function of the installed cameras; – Camera Upgrade: for loading firmware upgrades into the Megapixel cameras. Note: The software is installed in C:\Program Files\Bosch 4.1.1 Configure firewall As you start the application, your PC may prompt you to permit...
Page 20: Camera Installer
18 en | Software 4.1.3 Camera installer Camera Installer allows you to find all cameras that are present on the local area network, assign IP addresses to the detected cameras, and to verify that the cameras are accessible and operational. Camera Installer saves information about installed cameras into a dedicated file used by Video System.
Page 21 MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en either automatically (as in Basic mode) or manually, if spe- cific values of IP addresses are required. Fig. 4.4 Bosch Camera Installer - Advanced mode The "Advanced" mode provides the following set-up functions: the Advanced mode the Automatic installation only acts on those devices that were highlighted by the user from among the cameras displayed in the Present Cameras window.
Page 22: Installation Tips
20 en | Software desired IP number in the boxes at the top of the installer and click the Set IP button. the Advanced window. other than the MAC and IP addresses listed. 4.1.4 Installation tips Assigning IP addresses By using devices other than Bosch MegaPixel cameras on the same network segment, the installer program will not find those devices and, consequently, Automatic mode of the installer could assign duplicate IP addresses.
Page 23: Operating Bosch Video System
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en Now the image numbers, MAC, and IP addresses are displayed in the pop up window. Operating Bosch Video System Note: The Bosch Video System is provided as a tool for setting up the megapixel cameras. The program is license free with archiving and playback functions disabled.
Page 24 22 en | Software Turns on/off a drop-down list of the installed cameras. Individual cameras are disabled/enabled by left double- clicking on the camera number. When disabled, a live video image from the disabled camera is replaced with a blue rectangle, and the camera number in the drop- down list is marked with a red cross.
Page 25: Selecting Full/Reduced Resolution And Zoom
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en "browse." Alternatively, snapshots can be taken by right-clicking on the live video image, and then selecting "photo", "save". The directory path to the snapshot folder is specified in the Settings menu (see Section 4.2.3 Settings). 4.2.2 Selecting full/reduced resolution and zoom Selecting Cameras...
Page 26: Settings
24 en | Software by dragging the green outline across the underlying camera image with the mouse (by left-clicking within the outline and holding down the mouse button), or alternatively with the key- board arrow keys. A maximum of four independent live zoom windows can be opened for each camera.
Page 27: Exposure
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en Note: Selecting "Reset all" restores default settings only in the currently displayed lower level drop-down menu, but does not affect other groups of settings listed in the Settings menu. If no lower level menu is displayed, the "Reset all" item is disabled. ber to which the settings apply.
Page 28: Image Quality
26 en | Software "Moon Light™ is to enable very long exposures of up to 500 ms. – – 4.2.5 Image Quality Image Quality is a lower-level menu to adjust image quality set- tings. F.01U.064.422 | V 1.0 | 2007.03 ‘Auto exposure On/Off’...
Page 29 MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en Bosch Security Systems ‘Quality’ (compression) adjusts the level of JPEG compression applied to the images in different display modes: "Full View" when displaying full reso- lution video; "Multi View" when displaying multi- ple cameras at a reduced size; "Zoom View"...
Page 30: Archive
28 en | Software "Rotate 180" is an option for flipping the image vertically and horizontally such that it is rotated 180 degrees. 4.2.6 Archive Archive is a lower-level menu that is not functional in this soft- ware version. 4.2.7 Motion Detection Motion detection is achieved by analyzing inter-frame bright- ness changes on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
Page 31 MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en mitting the images to the computer. Thus, the in-camera motion detection significantly reduces both the CPU load and the network load when motion detection is enabled. – Motion detection is enabled via the Archive settings when one of the two following options is selected: "Save all and mark motion"...
Page 32 30 en | Software Fig. 4.7 Motion Settings menu showing motion detection settings Motion detection settings apply only to the camera number dis- played in the Camera field on the left of the Motion Settings menu: use the drop-down list to change the camera number. The settings are: –...
Page 33: Save To
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en – 4.2.8 Save to A lower level Save to menu allows one to specify the directory path for video archives and snapshot images. Note that the other selections in this menu are for archiving, which is not available in this software version.
Page 34: Advanced
32 en | Software 4.2.9 Advanced "Warning on disconnect" is an option to display a red screen warning in place of live video that has been disconnected or temporarily lost. When disabled, the Video System displays the last captured frame. "Static ARP"...
Page 35: Permission
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en helps to avoid conflicts when multiple users are viewing the same camera (each will be able to set a different image size). Alternatively, disabling this option allows for increase of the camera frame rate due to a smaller image size. 4.2.10 Permission Permission (access control) is used to set up password-pro-...
Page 36: Day/Night
34 en | Software 4.2.12 Day/Night mode. Toggle Guard set to 0% corresponds to "Switch At" set to 100%. Toggle Guard should be adjusted to prevent mode toggling during the transitional lighting. 4.2.13 Auto-Iris The Auto-Iris menu allows monitoring the state of the automatic DC iris.
Page 37: Right-Click Menu
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en close the iris because the scene illumination is too low; "Closing" - the iris is closing down by the number of F-stops appropriate for the illumination level; "Closed" - the iris is closed to the correct F-stop; "Opening"...
Page 38 36 en | Software ‘Photo’ enables saving and printing individual snapshots, as well as browsing: – – – ‘Settings’ enables access to changing the main groups of set- tings as described in Settings (see Section 4.2.3 Settings). – – – –...
Page 39: User Authentication
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en ‘Hide’ minimizes the Bosch Video System application and hides it in the system tray of the Windows task bar. ‘Log off’ logs off current user and hides the Video System appli- cation. ‘Exit’ exits the Video System application. ‘About’...
Page 40: Http Access
38 en | Software 4.2.19 HTTP access Bosch MegaPixel cameras can be accessed from Internet Explorer, via the in-camera web page. The web page allows viewing live images and changing some of the camera settings. The web pages can be addressed by typing in your browser’s Address bar: http://ip_address (or) http://ip_address/index.html Individual images can be requested from Bosch MegaPixel cam-...
Page 41: Setting Up Dibos8 For Megapixel Cameras
MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en In the settings menu of the Bosch Video System software, first select ‘Archive’ and verify that the Filter is selected to "Save all and mark motion". Next, select ‘Motion Detection’ and verify that "Detected by Camera" is selected and the motion detection parameters are set.
Page 42: Http Command String Parameters
40 en | Software All remaining DiBos8 recording settings are standard. 4.3.3 HTTP command string parameters The generic HTTP command string has the following format: http://<ip_address>/ image?res=<resolution_value>&x0=<x0_value>&y0= <y0_value>&x1=<x1_value>&y1=<y1_value>&qualty= <quality_value>&doublescan=<doublescan_value> [&mdn= <port_no>] Table 3.1 describes the parameters. The requested image can have a smaller size (electronic zoom function) than the camera sensor size.
Page 43 MegaPixel IP CamerasSoftware | en NOTE! DiBos8 automatically scales an image to a 4 (H) x 3 (V) aspect ratio for display. Always maintain the selected image area to be displayed at a 4x3 aspect ratio. PARAMETER <ip_address> /image? <resolution_value> <x0_value>...
Page 44 42 en | Software Example of zoomed image: The drawing below shows the size of the 3.1 megapixel sensor in pixels. The sensor has 2048 px (pixels) in the horizontal direction and 1536 px vertically. An image request at full image size would have the following parameters: x0=0&y0=0&x1=2048&y1=1536.
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