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- Page 1 Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Guardian VIP User Manual Rapid Deployable Security System visualengineering.co.uk Page 1...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Introduction to the Guardian VIP System ........ - Page 3 Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 • Connecting External Video into the Base Station ..........29 • Connecting External DC and Triggers to the CCTV nodes .
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Page 4: Change History
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Change History Version Date Change Summary Author v1.0 1/12/2015 Initial Draft v1.1 7/12/2015 Added Dimension Drawings v1.2 1/3/2016 Production System Update v1.3 2/3/2016 Reformatted v1.4 12/10/2016 Camera Viewer Updates v2.0 4/5/2017 Updates for Gen 2 System v2.1... -
Page 5: About The User Manual
This user manual describes the operation of the Guardian VIP rapid deployable security system. Initially, the user manual introduces the reader to the operation of the Guardian VIP system. This includes a description of the various components, a guide to their use and how to interface them all together, in order to produce a working system. -
Page 6: Introduction To The Guardian Vip System
March 2019 Introduction to the Guardian VIP System Guardian VIP is a rapid deployable wireless video security system. It has been designed for protecting travelling VIPs staying in hotels and apartments. The wireless video camera nodes are designed to blend in with the surrounding environment, disguised as items commonly located in hotels and apartments. -
Page 7: The Guardian Vip Kit
Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 The Guardian VIP Kit Kit Contents The Guardian VIP system is completely configurable. This allows the customer to compile a system that meets their particular requirement. The kit configurations shown on the right are examples of Peli flight cases packed with differing system configurations. -
Page 8: Key Components
Pack Part Numbers and Labels All components of the Guardian VIP system have part numbers and QR code identification. These numbers should be quoted to Visual Engineering for fault reporting and re-ordering purposes. The system is available in a number of frequency bands. Users should know which band they have before deploying the system, the frequency band of the system is shown on the part number label. -
Page 9: Default Ip Addresses
March 2019 Default IP Addresses The Guardian VIP system uses Mesh radios to connect between the camera nodes and the Base Station. Additionally there is an IP encoder to accompany each Mesh radio. Each of these devices has a default IP address, as detailed in the following table which describes a system with a Base Station, one Relay Node and three CCTV nodes. -
Page 10: Operator's Base Station
March 2019 Operator’s Base Station The Guardian VIP system is a Mesh camera system. Video from the system is received at the Base Station and displayed on the Operator’s laptop. The first step in using the Guardian VIP system is to set up the Base Station and laptop. -
Page 11: Switching The Base Station On
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Connect Base Station’s Connect an Ethernet mains power supply for network cable between the Base Station here. one of the RJ45 sockets and Operator’s Laptop. Switching the Base Station on The Base Station will default off when DC power is connected to the rear. -
Page 12: Base Station Front Panel Leds
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Base Station Front Panel LEDs The Base Station has several LEDs that indicate the active state of the unit’s various functions. Mains power, Mesh radio status, battery charging state and VIP panic alarm are described in the following table. -
Page 13: Battery Charging
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Battery Charging The Base Station is used to charge the batteries. It has four charge locations arranged in a stack, as shown below. Batteries being charged UPS Battery Batteries are charged by sliding a battery into the charge location. The Base Station needs to have its DC power supply connected. -
Page 14: Batteries
6 Hours Battery Status A Guardian VIP battery pack is equipped with a charge status indicator. This meter can show at a glance the remaining battery charge. To observe the battery status simply press the Status Button. The remaining charge in the battery is then briefly displayed on the Status Indicator LEDs. If all five LEDs are lit the battery holds a full charge. -
Page 15: Dual Battery Pack
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Dual Battery Pack To extend the operating time of a battery powered node in a Guardian system it is possible to double the power available to a node by connecting it to the dual battery pack. -
Page 16: Laptop Configuration
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Laptop Configuration The supplied Operator’s laptop is either a MacBook or rugged PC, as shown. Power Supply Ethernet adaptor For the MacBook plug the Ethernet adaptor into one of the Thunderbolt sockets on the side. -
Page 17: Cctv Nodes
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 CCTV Nodes The Guardian VIP system contains CCTV style wireless camera dome concealment nodes, as shown here. Each node contains a digital wireless Mesh radio, a camera, antennas and a battery. Each node is capable of motion detection and light level triggers. -
Page 18: Installing A Battery Into The Cctv Node
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Command Strips should be applied to the plate in three strips as shown to the right. Once the mounting plate is firmly stuck, the camera can be hung from the plate by aligning the mounting lugs to the holes in the plate and applying a twist lock action, as shown in the images below. -
Page 19: Cctv Node Positioning
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 CCTV Node Positioning The Camera Dome Node contains a high definition camera that can be manually positioned onto a target. The camera has manual settings for pan and tilt control. Removing the CCTV Node Housing The camera is accessed by first removing the smoked glass dome. -
Page 20: Relay Node
Operator’s laptop. The flexibility the Relay Node offers together with its high gain antennas make it ideal for extending the peripheral working range of the Guardian VIP security system. Relay Node Antenna Assembly Users should install the two straight N-Type antennas onto the... -
Page 21: Installing A Battery Into The Relay Node
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Installing a Battery into the Relay Node With the antennas installed and the Fischer cable connected the Relay Node is now ready to receive a battery. Installing a charged battery will automatically activate the Relay node. There is no additional on/off switch. -
Page 22: Vip Panic Button
Guardian VIP March 2019 VIP Panic Button The Guardian VIP kit is supplied with VIP Key Fob panic buttons, as shown here. A VIP pressing a Key Fob panic button will cause an audible alarm and the respective alarm LED to flash on the Operator’s Base Station. -
Page 23: Network Video Recorder
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Network Video Recorder Certain customer system configurations may include the requirement for a Network Video Recorder, similar to the one pictured below. The NVR should be powered with the cable supplied in the kit. The NVR should also be connected with the supplied Ethernet cable to the Base Station using one of its spare RJ45 sockets. -
Page 24: The Ve Camera Viewer
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 The VE Camera Viewer The VE Camera Viewer is a software application used to display the video from all cameras in the system. It will auto detect any VE cameras that are on the network and populate a list on the left hand side of the player. -
Page 25: Settings
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Settings Under Settings the user can flip or mirror the video feed. The Motion Sensitivity can also be set to a value between 0 to 100. A value of 0 sets the motion trigger to off, a value of 100 sets the motion to maximum sensitivity. - Page 26 Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Select “Other” to choose a specific period Select the required month, months that of timed recording. don’t hold recordings are greyed out. Select the required date, days that don’t Select the required hour of day, hours hold recordings are greyed out.
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Page 27: Video Panel Coloured Border
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Video Panel Coloured Border The video panel is edged in a colour, the meaning of which is described in the following table. Video Panel Edge Colour Meaning A trigger alarm has occurred... -
Page 28: Pan, Tilt & Zoom Operation
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Pan, Tilt & Zoom Operation Only Relay Nodes with PTZ cameras attached support remote control Pan, Tilt and Zoom. The node the user wishes to control remotely should be selected by clicking on the node’s video panel. -
Page 29: Advanced Functions
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Advanced Functions Connecting External Video into the Base Station The Base Station has the facility to accept an external video in at the rear. The ‘Video In’ connector is a BNC female. -
Page 30: Web Interface & Configuration
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Web Interface & Configuration The following web browser control interface is not required for normal operation. Web browser control of the Mesh radios should only be undertaken by users wishing to achieve the following: •... -
Page 31: Login Prompt
• Click the Connect button Once logged in to the Guardian VIP system the user can begin configuring it to suit. The Main Window This is the main entry point for the RF configuration of the Guardian system. The following six parameters are explained in the table that follows. -
Page 32: Basic Settings
This explains how to configure a Mesh so that the user can start to explore what can be done with a Mesh network. These basic settings are set to appropriate default values in a Guardian VIP system. There are only seven things to configure to form a Mesh network. Choose the configuration tab and set up these seven options. -
Page 33: The Global Settings Tab
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Item Description 1 Enable Place a check in this box to switch the transmitter on. Type in the frequency required for use in the Mesh. This must be the same on all 2 Frequency units (see configuration defaults earlier). -
Page 34: The Status Tab
Check this box if you need the Guardian VIP to obtain its IP address remotely 1 DHCP Enable from a DHCP server. Complete this box to give the Guardian VIP a fixed IP address when DHCP is not 2 IP Address used, it is not used by default. -
Page 35: The Status - Overview Tab
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 The Status - Overview Tab 1. Signal Quality This gives a simple picture of the signal quality around the Mesh system. Ideally, it would have steady green boxes for all links. Naturally, mobile units will go out of range or interference will cause a unit to degrade for a while. -
Page 36: The Status - Spectra Tab
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 The Status - Spectra Tab 1. The Spectra Displays There are two displays labelled A and B which show the spectra being received on the two diversity antennas of the node that is being interrogated. -
Page 37: The Status - Maps Tab
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 The Status - Maps Tab 1. Radio Buttons The radio buttons enable you to choose between Network and one of four map displays for the Mesh. Note: When you are in Network mode the Upload, Set Coordinates and Reset Locations buttons are greyed out. -
Page 38: Changing Frequency Or Encryption Key In The System
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 4. Show Details Check box When the Show Details box is checked the node information is expanded to show things like TX IP Packets which are useful when diagnosing network problems. -
Page 39: Camera Node Configuration
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Camera Node Configuration Control of the camera nodes and the video encoder in the Base Station is achieved via a web browser interface. The web browser allows control of the camera recording functions and control over camera parameters such as encoder and network settings. -
Page 40: Camera Home Page
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Camera Home Page Once a connection is established with the camera node on the web interface the user should see the following camera home page: The camera’s IP address is typed in here. -
Page 41: Date Menu
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Date Menu The date menu page allows the user to synchronise the camera time to an SNTP server. In this instance it is necessary to have the PC connected to a network. -
Page 42: Video Menu
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Video Menu The Video Page is where all the camera’s IP encoder parameters are controlled. The encoder supports two encoding formats, H.264 and MJPEG. The choice of the format is initiated by the user when the stream is enabled. -
Page 43: View Menu
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Recommended Settings Bitrate Available Resolution Frame Rate 5-10MB/s 1920x1080 4-5Mb/s 1920x1080 3-4Mb/s 1280x720 2-3Mb/s 800x600 1-2Mb/s 800x600 512kb/s-1Mb/s 640x480 256-512kb/s 320x240 Video Flip can be useful when the camera is installed upside down or hanging from a ceiling. -
Page 44: Alert Control
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Alert Control External, motion and light level triggers can be configured such that an audible tone and a visual alarm alerts the viewer. These controls can also be set using the The VE Camera Viewer previously explained. -
Page 45: Ethernet Menu
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Ethernet Menu Network parameters can be set on the camera by selecting the Ethernet menu. The camera can operate with a fixed IP address, or can be allocated an IP address from the network, these modes are controlled using the DHCP button enable/disable. -
Page 46: Recording Menu
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Recording Menu The integral SD Card in each camera node has a capacity of 32GBytes, this offers 17 hours of continuous recording at a total IP bit stream of 4Mb/s or 34 hours at 2Mb/s, etc. If recording capacity is achieved there is a user option to either stop recording or overwrite. -
Page 47: Recovering Recordings
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Recovering Recordings Record Format Recordings are stored on the SD Card as individual 10 second duration .avi files. This is for a maximum frame rate of 50fps, lower frame rates will increase the length of the stored file proportionately. -
Page 48: Using Filezilla
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Using FileZilla With FileZilla downloaded, installed and running it will appear as shown below. Set the Host = IP Address of Camera, default IP Address of 192.168.1.195 is shown here Username = Camera Username, the default is root Password = Camera Password, the default is 1234 Then press ‘Quickconnect’... -
Page 49: Technical Specifications
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Technical Specifications System Specifications CCTV dome camera, Relay Frequency Bands L Band Concealment Types node, others on request S Band RF Power and Motion, light level and 100mW, 5MHz Node Alarms... -
Page 50: Dimension Drawings
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Dimension Drawings Base Station Dimensions visualengineering.co.uk Page 50... -
Page 51: Relay Node Dimensions
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 Relay Node Dimensions visualengineering.co.uk Page 51... -
Page 52: Cctv Node Dimensions
Visual Engineering Video solutions. Integrated Guardian VIP March 2019 CCTV Node Dimensions Visual Engineering Technologies LTD Kemps Farm Stanway Colchester Essex Tel: +44 (0)1206 211842 CO3 8NB Web: www.visualengineering.co.uk Email: sales@visualengineering.co.uk visualengineering.co.uk Page 52...
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