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2020/03/26

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  • Page 1 VMGB-351 User’s Manual 2020/03/26...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Table of Contents Recommended PC Specifications Preparation Connect the Equipment ................9 Configure the IP Addresses ............... 9 Using DHCP Server to Assign IP Addresses ........... 9 Use the Default IP Address of a Camera ..........11 Manually Adjust the IP Address of the PC ..........
  • Page 3 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Behavior Analysis Flow Chart of Behavior Analysis ............. 25 Set VCA Parameters ................. 25 Calibration ....................26 Calibrate Automatically................26 Calibrate Manually ................27 Verify the Calibration Result ..............28 Set Rules ....................28 Advanced Configuration ................30 Detection Parameters ................
  • Page 4 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set Flashing Alarm Light Output ............41 Live View Live View Parameters ................42 Window Division ..................42 Live View Stream Type ................. 42 Enable and Disable Live View ............... 42 Start Digital Zoom ................. 42 View Previous/Next Page ..............42 Full Screen ....................
  • Page 5 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Audio Settings ..................49 Audio Encoding ..................49 Audio Input ....................49 Environmental Noise Filter ............... 49 Two-way Audio ..................49 Set ROI ....................50 Display Settings ..................51 Image Adjustment ................. 51 Image Adjustment (Thermal Channel) ..........51 Background Correction ................
  • Page 6 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set Memory Card .................. 58 Set NAS ....................58 Set FTP ....................59 Set Cloud Storage ................. 59 Video Recording ..................60 Record Automatically ................60 Record Manually ................... 61 Playback and Download Video ............. 61 Capture Configuration ................62 Capture Automatically ................
  • Page 7 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Upgrade ..................... 71 View Open Source Software License ............72 Time and Date ................... 72 Synchronize Time Manually ..............72 Set NTP Server ..................72 Set DST ....................72 Set RS-485 ....................73 Security ..................... 73 Authentication ..................73 Set IP Address Filter ................
  • Page 8 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Recommended PC Specifications In order to configure or test the cameras, a PC with following basic specifications is needed: Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz or above Memory 1 GB or higher  Windows XP SP1 and above ...

  • Page 9: Preparation

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Preparation Connect the Equipment To be able to connect to the camera firmware from your PC, both the camera and the PC have to be connected to each other via Ethernet cable. At the same time, the camera has to have its own power supply.
  • Page 10 Firmware upgrade can also be done through the IP Utility (see IP utility documentation for more details). Search and downloand IP Utility for free from http://www.acti.com/DownloadCenter. With just one click, you can launch the IP Utility and there will be an instant report as follows: You can quickly notice the camera model in the list.

  • Page 11: Use The Default Ip Address Of A Camera

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Use the Default IP Address of a Camera If there is no DHCP server in the given network, the user may have to assign the IP addresses to both PC and camera manually to make sure they are in the same network segment.

  • Page 12: Manually Adjust The Ip Addresses Of Multiple Cameras

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Manually Adjust the IP Addresses of Multiple Cameras If there are more than 1 camera to be used in the same local area network and there is no DHCP server to assign unique IP addresses to each of them, all of the cameras would then have the initial IP address of 192.168.0.100, which is not a proper situation for network devices –...

  • Page 13: Access The Camera

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Access the Camera Now that the camera and the PC are both having their unique IP addresses and are under the same network segment, it is possible to use the Web browser of the PC to access the camera.

  • Page 14: Using Ipv6 To Access The Camera

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Using IPv6 to Access the Camera The camera is IPv6-ready. You need to configure this address in the Configuration page after accessing the camera. The IPv6 address can be found under the Configuration > Basic Settings > TCP/IP menu (see ** for more information).

  • Page 15: Temperature Measurement

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Temperature Measurement When you enable this function, the device measures the actual temperature of the scene. It alarms when temperature exceeds the temperature threshold value. Notice This part introduces the notices of configuring temperature measurement function. ...

  • Page 16: Thermography Configuration Flow Chart

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Thermography Configuration Flow Chart This part introduces the process of configuring temperature measurement. Note Please refer to the Quick Start Guide for detail information of Installation part in the flow chart. www.acti.com...

  • Page 17: Automatic Thermography

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Automatic Thermography Configure the temperature measurement parameters and temperature measurement rules. The device can measure the actual temperature and output alarms when temperature exceeds the alarm threshold value. Set Thermography Parameters Configure the parameters of temperature measurement.

  • Page 18: Set Normal Mode

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Unit Display temperature with Degree Celsius (°C)/Degree Fahrenheit (°F)/Degree Kelvin (K). Temperature Range Select the temperature measurement range. Version View the version of current algorithm. 4. Click Save. Set Normal Mode This function is used to measure the temperature of the whole scene and alarm.

  • Page 19: Set Expert Mode

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set Expert Mode Select the temperature measurement rules from Point, Line, or Area and configure parameters, the device alarms if the alarm rules are met. 1. Go to Configuration → Temperature Measurement → Basic Settings, check Enable Temperature Measurement.

  • Page 20: Point Thermography

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Reflective Temperature If there is any object with high emissivity in the scene, check and set the reflective temperature to correct the temperature. The reflective temperature should be set the same as the temperature of the high emissivity object.

  • Page 21: Line Thermography

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Line Thermography Configure the temperature measurement rule and monitor the maximum temperature of the line. 1. Click and drag the mouse to draw a line in the live view interface. 2. Click and move the line to adjust the position.

  • Page 22: Manual Thermography

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Manual Thermography After enable the manual thermography function of the device, you can click any position on the live view to show the real temperature. 1. Go to Configuration → Local and select Display Temperature Info. as Yes.

  • Page 23: Fire Source Detection

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Fire Source Detection The device will trigger and upload alarm when detect the fire source or smoking. Fire source detection includes fire source detection and smoking detection. It is applied to fire-prevention purposes in scenic region, forest, tunnel and so on.
  • Page 24 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Fire Source Detection Mode Smoking Mode Detect smoking behavior in the scene. Dynamic Fire Detect the fire source in the scene. Sensitivity The sensitivity of fire detection. The bigger the value is, more easily the fire source can be detected, and the false rate is higher.

  • Page 25: Behavior Analysis

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Behavior Analysis The behavior analysis function is used to detect whether there is any target break the VCA rules. The optical camera will track the target or the device will alarm when the VCA rule is triggered.

  • Page 26: Calibration

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Snapshot Settings Select to upload the picture to the surveillance center when the VCA alarm occurs. You can also set the quality and resolution of the picture separately. 2. Click Save. Go to Configuration → Local, check Enable rules to display rules information on the live view.

  • Page 27: Calibrate Manually

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Result After calibration, the height and angle of camera will be shown in live view. Calibrate Manually 1. Go to Configuration → VCA → Camera Calibration. 2. Check Manual Calibration. 3. Click Fig 1. Click and drag the vertical line until it fits the target.

  • Page 28: Verify The Calibration Result

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Verify the Calibration Result The function can verify whether the calibrated value is consistent with the actual value. 1. Click 2. Click , and drag a vertical line in the view. 3. Move the line to the target, then click to caculate the length.
  • Page 29 VMGB-351 User’s Manual recognized as human directly. So the selection of this item will not trigger false alarm or missing alarm. Background Interference Suppression Eliminate the environment interference to reduce the false alarm. For example, the wind blow grass. 5. Draw the rules.

  • Page 30: Advanced Configuration

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Advanced Configuration Go to Configuration → VCA → Advanced Configuration and configure the parameters. Detection Parameters Detection Sensitivity The higher the sensitivity is, the easier the target will be detected. Background Update Rate If a detected target remains in the monitoring scene for a certain time, the system will count the target as the background automatically.

  • Page 31: Set Global Size Filter

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set Global Size Filter Targets larger or smaller than the set size range are filtered out. The settings is valid for all behavior analysis rules. 1. Go to Configuration → Behavior Analysis → Advanced Configuration to enable the function.

  • Page 32: Event And Alarm

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Event and Alarm This part introduces the configuration of events. The device takes certain response to triggered alarm. Set Motion Detection It helps to detect the moving objects in the detection region and trigger the linkage actions.

  • Page 33: Normal Mode

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Normal Mode You can set motion detection parameters according to the device default parameters. 1. Select normal mode in Configuration. 2. Set the sensitivity of normal mode. The higher the value of sensitivity is, the more sensitive the motion detection is. If the sensitivity is set to 0, motion detection and dynamic analysis do not take effect.

  • Page 34: Set Video Tampering Alarm

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Sensitivity The higher the value of sensitivity is, the more sensitive the motion detection is. If the sensitivity is set to 0, motion detection and dynamic analysis do not take effect. 3. Select an Area and click Draw Area. Click and drag the mouse on the live video, then release the mouse to finish drawing one area.

  • Page 35: Set Alarm Input

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual 6. Refer to Set Arming Schedule for setting scheduled time. Refer to Linkage Method Settings for setting linkage method. 7. Click Save. Set Alarm Input Alarm signal from the external device triggers the corresponding actions of the current device.

  • Page 36: Set Exception Alarm

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set Exception Alarm Exception such as network disconnection can trigger the device to take corresponding action. 1. Go to Configuration → Event → Basic Event → Exception. 2. Select Exception Type. HDD Full The HDD storage is full.
  • Page 37 VMGB-351 User’s Manual 3. Refer to Set Arming Schedule for setting scheduled time. Refer to Linkage Method Settings for setting linkage methods. 4. Click Save. Note The function varies according to different models. www.acti.com...

  • Page 38: Arming Schedule And Alarm Linkage

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Arming Schedule and Alarm Linkage Arming schedule is a customized time period in which the device performs certain tasks. Alarm linkage is the response to the detected certain incident or target during the scheduled time. Set Arming Schedule Set the valid time of the device tasks.

  • Page 39: Manual Alarm

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Manual Alarm You can trigger an alarm output manually. 1. Set the manual alarm parameters. Alarm Output No. Select the alarm output No. according to the alarm interface connected to the external alarm device. Alarm Name Custom a name for the alarm output.

  • Page 40: Send Email

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Send Email Check Send Email, and the device sends an email to the designated addresses with alarm information when an alarm event is detected. For email settings, refer to Set Email. Set Email When the email is configured and Send Email is enabled as a linkage method, the device sends an email notification to all designated receivers if an alarm event is detected.

  • Page 41: Trigger Recording

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Trigger Recording Check Trigger Recording, and the device records the video about the detected alarm event. For device with more than one camera channels, you can set one or more channels to take recordings if needed. For recording settings, refer to Video Recording and Picture Capture...

  • Page 42: Live View

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Live View This section introduces the live view parameters, function icons and transmission parameters settings. Live View Parameters Note For multichannel devices, select the desired channel first before live view settings. Window Division  refers to 1 × 1 window division.

  • Page 43: Light

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Light Click to turn on or turn off the illuminator. Wiper For the device that has a wiper, you can control the wiper via web browser. Click on live view page. The wiper wipes the window one time.

  • Page 44: Ptz Speed

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual PTZ Speed Slide to adjust the speed of the pan/tilt movement. Iris  When the image is too dark, click to enlarge the iris.  When the image is too bright, click to stop down the iris.
  • Page 45 VMGB-351 User’s Manual Custom You can set the frame rate manually. In poor network environment, you can reduce the frame rate to get a fluent live view. But the rule information may cannot display. Auto Start Live View  Yes means the live view is started automatically. It requires a high performance monitoring device and a stable network environment.

  • Page 46: Video And Audio

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Video and Audio This section introduces the configuration of video and audio related parameters. Video Settings This part introduces the settings of video parameters, such as, stream type, video encoding, and resolution. Go to setting page: Configuration → Video/Audio → Video.

  • Page 47: Bitrate Type And Max. Bitrate

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Bitrate Type and Max. Bitrate Constant Bitrate It means that the stream is compressed and transmitted at a comparatively fixed bitrate. The compression speed is fast, but mosaic may occur on the image. Variable Bitrate It means that the device automatically adjust the bitrate under the set Max. Bitrate. The compression speed is slower than that of the constant bitrate.

  • Page 48: Profile

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Profile This function means that under the same bitrate, the more complex the profile is, the higher the quality of the image is, and the requirement for network bandwidth is also higher. I-Frame Interval I-frame interval defines the number of frames between 2 I-frames.

  • Page 49: Audio Settings

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Audio Settings It is a function to set audio parameters such as audio encoding, environment noise filtering. Go to the audio settings page: Configuration → Video/Audio → Audio. Audio Encoding Select the audio encoding compression of the audio.

  • Page 50: Set Roi

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set ROI ROI (Region of Interest) encoding helps to assigns more encoding resource to the region of interest, thus to increase the quality of the ROI whereas the background information is less focused. Please check the video coding type. ROI is supported when the video coding type is H.264 or H.265.

  • Page 51: Display Settings

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Display Settings It offers the parameter settings to adjust image features. Go to Configuration → Image → Display Settings. For device that supports multiple channels, display settings of each channel is required. Click Default to restore settings.

  • Page 52: Exposure Settings

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Exposure Settings Exposure is controlled by the combination of iris, shutter, and photo sensibility. You can adjust image effect by setting exposure parameters. In manual mode, you need to set Exposure Time, Gain and Slow Shutter. Day/Night Switch Day/Night Switch function can provide color images in the day mode and black/white images in the night mode.

  • Page 53: Blc

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual If you focus on an object against strong backlight, the object will be too dark to be seen clearly. BLC (backlight compensation) compensates light to the object in the front to make it clear. If BLC mode is set as Custom, you can draw a red rectangle on the live view image as the BLC area.

  • Page 54: Set Target Color

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set Target Color You can set the color of the targets in different temperature ranges to identify the target quickly. 1. Go to Configuration → Image → Display Settings. 2. Select the thermal channel. 3. Click Image Enhancement, select Palette as White Hot or Black Hot.

  • Page 55: Dde

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Digital Detail Enhancement is used to adjust the details of the image. OFF and Normal modes are selectable. Disable this function. Normal Set the DDE level to control the details of the image. The higher the level is, the more details shows, but the higher the noise is.

  • Page 56: Digital Zoom

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Digital Zoom You can zoom in the image The larger the zoom size is, the more blurred the image is. Scene Mode There are several sets of image parameters predefined for different installation environments. Select a scene according to the actual installation environment to speed up the display settings.

  • Page 57: Overlay Picture

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Overlay Picture Overlay a customized picture on live view. The picture to overlay has to be in BMP format with 24-bit, and the maximum picture size is 128 × 128 pixel. 1. Go to picture overlay setting page: Configuration → Image → Picture Overlay.

  • Page 58: Video Recording And Picture Capture

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Video Recording and Picture Capture This part introduces the operations of capturing video clips and snapshots, playback, and downloading captured files. Storage Settings This part introduces the configuration of several common storage paths. Set Memory Card If you choose to store the files to memory card, make sure you insert and format the memory card in advance.

  • Page 59: Set Ftp

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set FTP You can configure the FTP server to save images which are captured by events or a timed snapshot task. Get the FTP server address first. 1. Go to Configuration → Network → Advanced Settings → FTP.

  • Page 60: Video Recording

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Picture Storage Pool The ID of the picture storage region in the cloud storage server. Make sure storage pool ID and the storage region ID are the same. 4. Click Test to test the configured settings. 5. Click Save.

  • Page 61: Record Manually

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual 6. Click Advanced to set the advanced settings. Overwrite Enable Overwrite to overwrite the video records when the storage space is full. Otherwise the camera cannot record new videos. Pre-record The time period you set to record before the scheduled time.

  • Page 62: Capture Configuration

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Note Go to Configuration → Local, click Save downloaded files to to change the saving path of downloaded video files. Capture Configuration The device can capture the pictures manually or automatically and save them in configured saving path. You can view and download the snapshots.

  • Page 63: View And Download Picture

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual View and Download Picture You can search, view and download the pictures stored in the local storage or network storage. 1. Click Picture. 2. Select channel No. 3. Set search condition and click Search. The matched pictures showed in the file list.

  • Page 64: Network Settings

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Network Settings TCP/IP TCP/IP settings must be properly configured before you operate the device over network. IPv4 and IPv6 are both supported. Both versions can be configured simultaneously without conflicting to each other. Go to Configuration → Basic Configuration → Network → TCP/IP for parameter settings.

  • Page 65: Multicast Discovery

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual It stands for maximum transmission unit. It is the size of the largest protocol data unit that can be communicated in a single network layer transaction. The valid value range of MTU is 1280 to 1500. It stands for domain name server. It is required if you need to visit the device with domain name.

  • Page 66: Port Mapping

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Port Mapping By setting port mapping, you can access devices through the specified port. When the ports in the device are the same as those of other devices in the network, refer to Port to modify the device ports.

  • Page 67: Multicast

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Multicast Multicast is group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination devices simultaneously. After setting multicast, you can send the source data efficiently to multiple receivers. Go to Configuration → Network → Basic Settings → Multicast for the multicast settings.

  • Page 68: Access To Device Via Pppoe Dial Up Connection

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual DynDNS Dynamic DNS server is used for domain name resolution. NO-IP NO-IP server is used for domain name resolution. 4. Input the domain name information, and click Save. 5. Check the device ports and complete port mapping. Refer to Port to check the device port , and refer to Port Mapping for port mapping settings.

  • Page 69: Set Onvif

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Note The obtained IP address is dynamically assigned via PPPoE, so the IP address always changes after rebooting the camera. To solve the inconvenience of the dynamic IP, you need to get a domain name from the DDNS provider (e.g. DynDns.com). Refer to Access to Device via Domain Name for detail information.

  • Page 70: System And Security

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual System and Security It introduces system maintenance, system settings and security management, and explains how to configure relevant parameters. View Device Information You can view device information, such as Device No., Model, Serial No. and Firmware Version.

  • Page 71: Export Diagnose Information

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Export Diagnose Information Diagnose information includes running log, system information, hardware information. Go to Configuration → System → Maintenance → Upgrade & Maintenance, and click Diagnose Information to export diagnose information of the device. Reboot You can reboot the device via browser.

  • Page 72: View Open Source Software License

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual View Open Source Software License Go to Configuration → System → System Settings → About Device, and click View Licenses. Time and Date You can configure time and date of the device by configuring time zone, time synchronization and Daylight Saving Time (DST).

  • Page 73: Set Rs-485

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set RS-485 RS-485 is used to connect the device to external device. You can use RS-485 to transmit the data between the device and the computer or terminal when the communication distance is too long. Connect the device and computer or termial with RS-485 cable.

  • Page 74: Set Ip Address Filter

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set IP Address Filter IP address filter is a tool for access control. You can enable the IP address filter to allow or forbid the visits from the certain IP addresses. IP address refers to IPv4. 1. Go to Configuration → System → Security → IP Address Filter.

  • Page 75: Create And Install Self-Signed Certificate

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Create and Install Self-signed Certificate 1. Check Create Self-signed Certificate. 2. Click Create. 3. Follow the prompt to enter Country, Hostname/IP, Validity and other parameters. 4. Click OK. The device will install the self-signed certificate by default.

  • Page 76: Set Ieee 802.1X

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Set IEEE 802.1X You can authenticate user permission of the connected device by setting IEEE 802.1X. Go to Configuration → Network → Advanced Settings → 802.1X, and enable the function. Select protocol and version according to router information. User name and password of server are required.

  • Page 77: Appendix

    VMGB-351 User’s Manual Appendix Common Material Emissivity Reference Material Emissivity Human Skin 0.98 Printed Curcuit Board 0.91 Concrete 0.95 Ceramic 0.92 Rubber 0.95 Paint 0.93 Wood 0.85 Pitch 0.96 Brick 0.95 Sand 0.90 Soil 0.92 Cloth 0.98 Hard Paperboard 0.90 White Paper 0.90...
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