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2020/07/20

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  • Page 1 VMGB-370 User’s Manual 2020/07/20...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    VMGB-370 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 ..........10 Manually Adjust the IP Address of the PC ..........
  • Page 3 VMGB-370 User’s Manual Measured Body Temperature in Thermal Channel ........ 23 Measure Face Temperature in Optical Channel ........24 Set Face Capture ..................25 Overlay and Capture ................25 Set Shield Region ................. 25 Advanced Configuration ................ 25 Event and Alarm Set Motion Detection ................
  • Page 4 VMGB-370 User’s Manual Start Digital Zoom ................. 36 View Previous/Next Page ..............36 Full Screen .................... 36 Light ...................... 37 Wiper..................... 37 Lens Initialization .................. 37 Auxiliary Focus ..................37 Quick Set Live View ................37 Lens Parameters Adjustment ..............37 Zoom .......................
  • Page 5 VMGB-370 User’s Manual Manual Correction ..................45 Thermal AGC Mode ................. 45 Exposure Settings ................. 46 Day/Night Switch ................... 46 Set Supplement Light ................46 BLC ....................... 47 WDR ..................... 47 White Balance ..................47 DNR ...................... 47 Defog ....................47 Set Palette ....................
  • Page 6 VMGB-370 User’s Manual Capture Manually .................. 56 View and Download Picture ..............57 Network Settings TCP/IP ......................58 Multicast Discovery ................59 Port ......................59 Port Mapping ..................... 60 Set Auto Port Mapping ................60 Set Manual Port Mapping ..............60 Multicast ....................
  • Page 7 VMGB-370 User’s Manual Security ..................... 68 Authentication ..................68 Security Audit Log ................. 69 Search Security Audit Logs ..............69 Set IP Address Filter ................69 Set SSH ....................70 Set HTTPS .................... 70 Create and Install Self-signed Certificate ..........70 Install Authorized Certificate ..............
  • Page 8 VMGB-370 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-370 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: Use The Default Ip Address Of A Camera

    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: Manually Adjust The Ip Address Of The Pc

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Manually Adjust the IP Address of the PC In the following example, based on Windows 7, we will configure the IP address to 192.168.0.99 and set Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0 by using the steps below: Manually Adjust the IP Addresses of Multiple Cameras...
  • Page 12 VMGB-370 User’s Manual With the procedure shown above, all the cameras will have unique IP addresses, starting from 192.168.0.101. In case there are 20 cameras selected, the last one of the cameras would have the IP 192.168.0.120. Later, by pressing the “Refresh” button of the IP Utility, you will be able to see the list of cameras with their new IP addresses.

  • Page 13: Access The Camera

    VMGB-370 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-370 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 > Network > Basic Settings > TCP/IP menu.

  • Page 15: Temperature Measurement

    VMGB-370 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: Set Normal Mode

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Display Temperature in Optical Channel Check to display thermal channel temperature information in the optical channel. Display Max./Min./Average Temperature Check to display maximum/minimum/average temperature information on liveview when the temperature measurement rule is line or area. Position of Thermometry Info Select the position of temperature information showed on the live view.

  • Page 17: Set Expert Mode

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual keeps more than Filtering Time, it triggers pre-alarm. Alarm Threshold When the temperature of target exceeds the alarm threshold, and this status keeps more than Filtering Time, it triggers alarm. Pre-Alarm Output and Alarm Output Check Pre-Alarm Output and Alarm Output to link the pre-alarm or alarm with the connected alarm device.

  • Page 18: Set Thermography Rule

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Set Thermography Rule 1. Customize the rule name. 2. Select the rule type to Point, Line, or Area. Then draw a point, line, or area on the interface where the position to be measured. Point Please refer to Paint Thermography for detailed configuration.

  • Page 19: Point Thermography

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Area's Temperature Comparison Select two areas and set the comparison rule, and set the temperature difference threshold. The device alarms when the temperature difference meets the setting value. 5. You can shield certain area from being detected. Refer to Set Shielded Region for detailed settings.

  • Page 20: Manual Thermography

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual rectangle area to change its shape and size. 4. Right click the mouse to stop drawing. 5. Optional: Select one area and click to delete it. 6. Click Save. 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.

  • Page 21: Measure Body Temperature

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Measure Body Temperature 1. Go to Configuration Temperature Measurement  Body Thermography Configuration. 2. Select thermal channel. 3. Click Draw Area, then click the mouse on the black body in live view and save it. 4. Set the black body parameters.

  • Page 22: Body Thermography

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Body Thermography Body Thermography function can detect temperature of human face or body in the scene, and output alarm if the temperature is higher than the setting value. Set Body Thermography Parameters Configure the parameters of body temperature measurement. Go to Configuration → System →...

  • Page 23: Set Body Thermography

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Version View the version of the current algorithm. 2. Click Save. Set Body Thermography Measured Body Temperature in Thermal Channel 1. Go to Configuration → Body Thermography → Body Thermography Configuration. 2. Select thermal channel. 3. Click Draw Area, then click the mouse on the black body in live view and save it.

  • Page 24: Measure Face Temperature In Optical Channel

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Measure Face Temperature in Optical Channel 1. Go to Configuration → Body Thermography → Body Thermography Configuration. 2. Select the optical channel. 3. Check Enable Face Detection to detect human faces, and measure the temperature in the scene.

  • Page 25: Set Face Capture

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Set Face Capture The camera can capture the face that appears in the configured area, and the face information will be uploaded with the captured picture as well. Overlay and Capture 1. Go to Configuration>Body Thermography >Face Capture >Overlay and Capture.

  • Page 26: Event And Alarm

    VMGB-370 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 27: Normal Mode

    VMGB-370 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 28: Set Video Tampering Alarm

    VMGB-370 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 29: Set Alarm Input

    VMGB-370 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 30: Set Exception Alarm

    VMGB-370 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 31 VMGB-370 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 32: Arming Schedule And Alarm Linkage

    VMGB-370 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 33: Manual Alarm

    VMGB-370 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 34: Send Email

    VMGB-370 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 35: Trigger Recording

    VMGB-370 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 36: Live View

    VMGB-370 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 37: Light

    VMGB-370 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 38: Ptz Speed

    VMGB-370 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 39 VMGB-370 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 40: Video And Audio

    VMGB-370 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 41: Bitrate Type And Max. Bitrate

    VMGB-370 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 42: Profile

    VMGB-370 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 43: Audio Settings

    VMGB-370 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 44: Set Roi

    VMGB-370 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 45: Display Settings

    VMGB-370 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 46: Exposure Settings

    VMGB-370 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 47: Blc

    VMGB-370 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 48: Set Target Color

    VMGB-370 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 49: Dde

    VMGB-370 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 50: Digital Zoom

    VMGB-370 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 51: Overlay Picture

    VMGB-370 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 52: Video Recording And Picture Capture

    VMGB-370 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 53: Set Ftp

    VMGB-370 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 54: Video Recording

    VMGB-370 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 55: Record Manually

    VMGB-370 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 56: Capture Configuration

    VMGB-370 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 57: View And Download Picture

    VMGB-370 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 58: Network Settings

    VMGB-370 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 59: Multicast Discovery

    VMGB-370 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 60: Port Mapping

    VMGB-370 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 61: Multicast

    VMGB-370 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 62: Access To Device Via Pppoe Dial Up Connection

    VMGB-370 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 63: Set Onvif

    VMGB-370 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 64: System And Security

    VMGB-370 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 65: Export Diagnose Information

    VMGB-370 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 66: View Open Source Software License

    VMGB-370 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 67: Set Rs-232

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Set RS-232 RS-232 can be used to debug device or access peripheral device. RS-232 can allow communication between the device and computer or terminal when the communication distance is short. Connect the device to computer or terminal with RS-232 cable.

  • Page 68: Security

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Security You can improve system security by setting security parameters. Authentication You can improve network access security by setting RTSP and WEB authentication. Go to Configuration → System → Security → Authentication to choose authentication protocol and method according to your needs.

  • Page 69: Security Audit Log

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Security Audit Log The security audit logs refer to the security operation logs. You can search and analyze the security log files of the device so as to find out the illegal intrusion and troubleshoot the security events.

  • Page 70: Set Ssh

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual Set SSH SSH is a protocol to ensure security of remote login. This setting is reserved for professional maintenance personnel only. 1. Go to Configuration → System → Security → Security Service. 2. Check Enable SSH. 3. Click Save.

  • Page 71: Set Qos

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual 2. Select Create the certificate request first and continue the installation. Click Browse and Install to import the certificate to the device. 6. Click Save. Set QoS QoS (Quality of Service) can help improve the network delay and network congestion by setting the priority of data sending.

  • Page 72: User And Account

    VMGB-370 User’s Manual User and Account Set User Account and Permission The administrator can add, modify, or delete other accounts, and grant different permission to different user levels. Caution To increase security of using the device on the network, please change the password of your account regularly.

  • Page 73: Appendix

    VMGB-370 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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