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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    ParkIT User’s Manual For versions from 3.1.2 Document version: 2015.11.24 Table of Contents About this Manual ............................3 Key Features ............................3 Accessing the Camera..........................3 Login ................................4 Basic Setup ..............................4 Live View ..............................4 Brightness Control ..........................5 Image Setup ............................

  • Page 3: About This Manual

    Guides. For communication with the camera, camera commands have to be used. The easiest way of handling these commands is through the web interface of the camera. For more information on other communication ParkIT Programmer’s Manuals. methods see Access from Browsers Steps of accessing the web interface of the camera from a browser: 1.

  • Page 4: Login

    Login Basic Setup Live View The live image of the camera can be viewed on this page. Under the camera image, a status bar is located providing the following information:  IP address of the camera,  The currently used FPS of the camera, ...

  • Page 5: Brightness Control

    Brightness Control 1:1: serves for the enlargement of the image. By clicking this button, the live image will be opened in a new window. Snapshot: it is possible to save a camera image (in JPEG format) in order to examine the size of it or to check the height of the characters on the license plate in pixels, etc.
  • Page 6 Shutter: controls the length of exposure time. Too high shutter values may result in blurred images. Exposure time: displays the current shutter speed (fraction of seconds – in 1/sec). Low light mode: provides not only digital gain, but smoothen the over-burnt parts of the images. This enhancement can be used in case of low light conditions, where the sensor will be set according to these conditions and a digital gain will be applied for burnout reduction.

  • Page 7: Image Setup

    Image Setup Selected source: two different sources can be assigned to the camera. Gamma: gamma correction used on the camera image. Brightness: brightness of the camera image can be adjusted manually. Contrast: adjust this control to change the contrast of the camera image. JPEG Quality: the quality of the captured images can be set.

  • Page 8: Optics Control

    Optics Control Focus: manual focus adjustment. Set focus to make the camera image sharp. Follow the below instructions to calibrate the focus properly:  point the camera to a static background (preferably a license plate) at the desired target distance, ...
  • Page 9 Zoom-Focus co-movement: it can be set by the scroll-down menu.  Off  Auto  Manual Automatically: When zooming manually, the camera calibrates the focus automatically to provide sharp image. Process of enabling the Zoom-focus co-movement: 1. turn off the auto brightness controller, 2.

  • Page 10: Flash Control

    Flash Control In the Flash Control section, the following parameters of the camera illumination can be set. The flashing time and the flash power are indicated at the bottom of the setting panel near the [Save] button. Flash Intensity: By this parameter, the light output of the camera illuminator can be adjusted in percent (the flashlight and the flash power is adjusted).
  • Page 11 In case of cameras equipped with CMOS sensor, the camera illumination can be only enabled or disabled. Page 11/43 Page 11/43...

  • Page 12: Users

    Users Settings related to users can be managed on this page. The camera handles users on five different access levels (detailed below). Users can be deleted and edited with the corresponding buttons. NOTE:  Edited user settings will be applied only after restarting the camera. ...
  • Page 13 Access levels of the camera Access level Privileges Guest No privileges, only login page Viewer Login Live View Help Normal user Login Basic Setup > Live View Advanced Setup > Motion Detector Private Zones Event Manager Maintenance > System Information Camera Log Help Power user...

  • Page 14: Date And Time

    Date and Time Manage date and time settings of the camera easily on this page according to the followings: Setting camera time Manually Type the Date and Time values into the corresponding fields, select the Time zone then click Set these values button.
  • Page 15 The camera has an internal battery feeding its Real Time Clock (RTC) while the camera is powered off. If this battery is low or down then the camera clock is reseted every time it is disconnected from power. In case of such a problem, contact ARH Support Team. Page 15/43...

  • Page 16: Network Setup

    Network Setup Hostname: the host name of the camera has to be entered into this field. The camera can operate in DHCP mode in which the camera queries the IP address, Netmask, Gateway, Primary DNS IP and Secondary DNS IP from the server.

  • Page 17: Advanced Setup

    Advanced Setup Image Settings Image source settings The camera is capable of the so-called Multi Mode Imaging, which means capturing images by one sensor alternately with different settings and collecting them into multiple streams. This feature may be useful in case if the user wants to have a good quality image sequence for ANPR purposes and an image sequence with lower quality for displaying purposes.
  • Page 18 Frame limiter settings The Input box shows the number of frames the sensor captures in one second. The actual number of frames processed by the camera can be further reduced with the help of the frame limiters. If dual stream is enabled (enable H264 encoder): Image geometry configuration The system is capable of rotating and mirroring images.

  • Page 19: Encoder Settings

    Encoder Settings JPEG encoder settings NOTE: Contrary to the H264 stream, it can be disabled. EXIF description of JPEG file: any string can be entered here, which will be written into each JPEG image. It can be retrieved later by an image viewer program. JPEG quality: quality setting of the image according to the JPEG standards.
  • Page 20 H264 encoder settings In case of enabling the multi mode the H264 stream can be activated for both the Source #1 and Source #2 as well, so in this way two MJPEG and two H264 streams can be used simultaneously as well. The H264 encoder can be enabled or disabled by the Enable H264 encoder checkbox.
  • Page 21 Ignore H264 skip frames if event occurred: if it is checked, images are captured continuously even when the frame limiter is set to a lower frame transmission. Setup the I-frame handler if event occurred, select from the followings:  Use the size of the group contains I and P frames ...

  • Page 22: Stream Settings

    Stream Settings It is possible to connect to the MJPEG and H264 streams via eight stream servers. Each server can be configured individually (port, FPS, etc.). A green rectangle below shows that the current server is turned on. If this rectangle is red, the server is turned off.
  • Page 23 Image channel: the desired channel can be selected here (Motion Detection, JPEG, H.264). Streaming type: different streaming types can be defined at each channel. Image channel Streaming type Motion detection H264 Elementary Stream MKV (Matroska) container JPEG Multipart JPEG RAW JPEG MKV (Matroska) container H264 H264 Elementary Stream...

  • Page 24: Motion Detector

    Motion Detector The motion detection can be assigned to one of the sources. It is turned off by default. Speed: by setting the speed of the motion detector, it can be specified that how fast pixel changes should be considered as motions. If this value is set too low then slow ambient brightness changes (e.g. cloudy/sunny weather) may be considered as motion.

  • Page 25: Private Zone

    Actual view: If the Edit motion detection mask is selected, the following additional settings will appear: With the help of image masking, certain parts of the camera view can be ignored by the motion detector. This feature is designed for situations when not the entire camera image is interesting for triggering (e.g. if the camera covers two lanes but only one of them is observed by the user).

  • Page 26: Event Manager

    Event Manager The camera can be set up to execute tasks on various occasions (e.g. to upload images when it detects motion). These occasions are called triggers (in the above example: the detection of motion) while executed tasks are called trigger tasks (in the example: uploading images). Currently, one trigger task (uploading images) is provided with the camera, but adding further tasks is possible.
  • Page 27 By default, there are five trigger sources:  Motion Detection Trigger (by default with 3 outputs)  Software Trigger (by default with 1 output)  UART Trigger (by default with 1 output)  GPIO Trigger (by default with 1 output) ...
  • Page 28 Example B: be set where: A is the Hardware Motion Detector, B is the GPIO trigger. This setup may correspond to a scenario where an inductive loop is used to send triggers (through GPIO) when it detects motion and the camera Hardware Motion Detector is also used to support the loop (in case of pedestrians or vehicles that can be barely detected by the loop (e.g.

  • Page 29: Software Trigger

    Software Trigger By using the software trigger source, triggers can be sent to the camera either from user applications or using the Send Trigger button on the web interface. The time of trigger start and trigger end can be brought forward or delayed by Start offset [ms] and End offset [ms]. Settings are applied after clicking Submit.
  • Page 30 Logic active level: Defines which voltage value (low or high) represents the logic value of '1', that is when is the trigger input considered to be ’Active’ by the camera. E.g. if it is set to 'low', then the input is in a 'high' state by default, and if voltage drops to 'low', a trigger event is generated.
  • Page 31 3. Falling Edge Mode In case of Falling Edge Mode, trigger task is executed once, at the moment when the trigger signal ceases: Trigger End Trigger Start 4. Rising / Falling Edge Mode In case of Rising / Falling Edge Mode, trigger task is executed twice, at the moment when the trigger signal arrives and then when it ceases: Trigger End Trigger...

  • Page 32: Scheduler

    Scheduler With the help of the scheduler, timed trigger events can be launched by users (events must be set on the ‘Event Manager’ page). For timing these events, as many outputs (timers) are available as set in the Output field (maximum 2). NOTE: each trigger outputs can be registered separately on the...

  • Page 33: Miscellaneous

    Miscellaneous Title of this site: any title can be given to the site. ONVIF: if it is enabled, the camera will be ONVIF-compliant. In this case, smaller area is available for image buffering. Plain Config Loaded Modules The loaded modules can be seen on this page grouped and accompanied with version number and a short description.

  • Page 34: Maintenance

    Maintenance System Information It provides important data about the camera:  Temperature: inside temperature of the camera [°C],  Memory usage,  Hardware version,  Camera serial number,  Camera MAC address,  Panel type,  Sensor type. Camera Log Camera events are logged into the central log file for administrative and error management purposes.

  • Page 35: Backup/Update

    Backup/Update Current settings backup The current settings of the current camera can be saved in a tar.gz file so thus all the settings can be uploaded to other cameras. This backup does not save the users, the corresponding passwords, the network settings and the time.

  • Page 36: Recovery Mode

    Recovery Mode The camera has a Recovery Mode primarily designed to maintain the communication with the camera when it is unreachable for various reasons e.g. due to misconfiguration. The following section is intended to provide you a complete understanding on the Recovery mode v3.x. The 3.x version can be used in case of cameras with previous firmware versions as well (from 1.12.0.26 firmware version)! In case of previous versions, please update the camera at least to version 1.12.0.26.
  • Page 37 Web interface of the recovery mode Information screen The MAC and the IP address is the same for all cameras at the Recovery mode. However, the IP address of the camera can be altered at the Normal mode part by clicking the [Change] button or at the Network settings part of the Settings menu item.
  • Page 38 Settings screen Setting-related backups and restoring can be performed on this screen. Only certain parts of the system can be managed here, operations concerning the whole system can be performed at the Firmware menu item of the Recovery mode. Network settings At the ‘Network settings’...
  • Page 39 Firmware screen Full system backup-related processes can be implemented on this screen. While at the settings menu only certain parts of the system can be managed, here operations concerning the whole system (settings, programs, complete operating system etc.) can be performed. Firmware update At the ‘Firmware update’...

  • Page 40: Restart

    Restart Under certain circumstances, the camera must be restarted. The restart takes several seconds after which the camera is ready for operation with saved or default settings. Help Opens the camera manual for more information on camera setups and management. Recovering a Lost IP Address If the IP address of a camera is unknown (forgotten) it can be reached through the camera MAC address located on the back of the device.
  • Page 41 IMPORTANT: In case of using the above process, the camera gets a temporary IP address. After entering the camera web interface, please set the Network accordingly. Linux 1. Open a console. 2. Add the MAC address of the camera to the ARP cache table: arp -s {desired IPv4 address} { camera MAC address separated by colons e.g.

  • Page 42: Appendices

    Appendices Normal High Contrast Brightness Saturation Gamma White balance Normal High Green Blue Page 42/43 Page 42/43...

  • Page 43: Contact Information

    Web: www.arh.hu ARH Technical Support System (ATSS) is designed to provide you the fastest and most proficient assistance, so you can quickly get back to business. Information regarding hardware, software, manuals and FAQ are easily accessible for customers who previously registered to enter the dedicated ATSS site.

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