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  • Page 1 IR Internet Camera ICA-302 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Ce Mark Warning

    PLANET Technology. Disclaimer PLANET Technology does not warrant that the hardware will work properly in all environments and applications, and makes no warranty and representation, either implied or expressed, with respect to the quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Controlling User Access to the Video Stream ............... 13 Making Video available from the Internet..............14 CHAPTER 4 WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT ..............18 Introduction ........................18 Connecting to ICA-302....................18 Welcome Screen....................... 19 Viewing Area ........................20 Control Panel Screen....................... 21 Advanced Functions Area....................

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction

    • Greater image quality in day and night with longer life span ICA-302 can be deployed in many different situations, such as library, train station or factory production line to provide efficient, human-resource reducing, and offers flexibility, affordability, and reliability for the proper surveillance of...

  • Page 6: Internet Features

    Internet Features • User-definable administration port number This allows Internet Gateways to use “port mapping” so the ICA-302 and a Web Server can share the same Internet IP address. • DDNS Support In order to view video over Internet, user must know the Internet IP address of the gateway used by ICA-302.

  • Page 7: Physical Details

    Physical Details ICA-302 Rear Panel Rear Panel This Ethernet port can detect or negotiate the transmission Network Cable speed of the network automatically. Please use Category 5 RJ-45 “straight through” cable to connect the Network Camera to a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet network switch or hub.

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    Package Contents The following items should be included: If any of these items are damaged or missing, please contact your dealer immediately. • PLANET ICA-302 Camera x 1 • Wall mount x 1 • Installation software and manual CD x 1 •...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Basic Setup

    Chapter 2 Basic Setup This Chapter provides details of installing and configuring the ICA-302. System Requirements • To use the LAN interface, a standard 10/100BaseT hub or switch is required. • System Requirement for viewer: • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later System •...

  • Page 10: Setup

    Initial setup can be performed either from the web browser or using the supplied IPEditV3 utility. This utility can locate the ICA-302 even if its IP address is invalid for your network. You can then configure the ICA-302 with appropriate TCP/IP settings for your LAN.
  • Page 11 4. After the ActiveX control was installed and ran, the main screen will be displayed. 5. Now, you login to the Network Camera as a full-authorized administrator. You can enter “Setting” to change the password and setup “Administrator” or “User” authority. Please refer to “Setting”...
  • Page 12 Setup ActiveX to use the ICA-302 The ICA-302 web page communicates machine via ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from ICA-302 and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly. To use the...
  • Page 13 By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for Network Camera.

  • Page 14: Chapter 3 Advanced Viewing Setup

    Web browser. This Chapter is for Administrators only. Introduction After finishing the network setup, the ICA-302 can immediately be used by all users on your LAN. This chapter describes some additional settings and options for viewing live video: •...
  • Page 15 3. Make the required adjustments, as explained below, and save your changes. Camera Setting PTZ Type ICA-302 can connect with external scanner to control PT through RS485 bus. There are some protocols supported and will add more models in gradually.
  • Page 16 • Default: System default value. Note: Higher image quality requires more bandwidth. These function buttons are reserved for PTZ model. It’s not Image, Mirror, functional in ICA-302. Focus Mode, White Balance Mode, Exposure Mode Saturation, Image quality adjustment, the parameter ranges from 0 to 255...

  • Page 17: Controlling User Access To The Video Stream

    Controlling User Access to the Video Stream By default, only system administrators can connect to the ICA-302 and view live video. If desired, you may apply the access privileges to known users, by requiring each user to login to the ICA-302 with their individual username and password.

  • Page 18: Making Video Available From The Internet

    302. This port is called the "HTTP Port2". (The first port is port 80.) The HTTP port2 is disabled in default settings. If you prefer to use a different port number than port 80, you can specify the port number on the ICA-302's Network screen, as shown below.
  • Page 19 DDNS service provider. • Limitation: if the ICA-302 is installed with private IP address behind the NAT router, please find and enable the DDNS feature on the router. This can prevent the remote users from not be able to connect to the camera.

  • Page 20: Viewing Via The Internet

    Where the Router/Gateway's Domain name is ica302.dyndns.org and the " HTTP Port2" number on the ICA-302 is 1024. Using the Windows Viewing/Recording Utility If using the CamView Utility, the details of the ICA-302 must be entered on the Internet tab of the Add Camera screen.
  • Page 21 CamView - Add Camera Screen You can then select the camera in the Cameras list on the main screen, and click OK to establish a connection and view live video. Please check respective chapter for further details of viewing Video using either the Windows Viewing/Recording utility or Web Browser.

  • Page 22: Chapter 4 Web-Based Management

    This Chapter provides Setup details of the ICA-302’s Web-based Interface. This Chapter is for Administrators only. Introduction The ICA-302 can be configured using your Web Browser. This must have an IP address, which is compatible with your PC. Connecting to ICA-302 •...

  • Page 23: Welcome Screen

    Welcome Screen When you connect, the camera Home screen will be displayed. The Home screen can be divided into three areas: • Viewing Area - Images from the Network Camera • Control Panel Area - Network Camera Manipulation and image quality control •...

  • Page 24: Viewing Area

    This welcome screen is displayed when you log in machine Viewing Area Screen • The ICA-302 web page requires ActiveX control to display the video content. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the camera and installed on your PC. •...

  • Page 25: Control Panel Screen

    Control Panel Screen When you connect, the camera control panel screen will be displayed. Camera direction Up, Down, Left, Right, Home Camera moving speed adjustment (If using external scanner) Adjust camera focus Recall/Preset Mode Camera Preset/Recall positions Frame rate adjustment via image quality Video Resolution Video Brightness adjustment positions Audio feature On/Off...

  • Page 26: Advanced Functions Area

    Capture current screen and save to HDD or other media Camera setting Menu Clicking on Setting on the menu provides privileges to all the settings for the ICA-302. The Setting menu is divided into 2 categories: Basic and Application settings: The Basic menu provides essential configurations of the ICA-302, and the Application menu is provided for various applications.

  • Page 27: System Screen

    Basic Setting Parameters in the Basic configuration menu provide machine adjustment; the available configurations are listed below: Basic Setting Symbol Item Action System Define Frame Rate, camera name and view system log file. Camera Adjust camera parameters. Network Configure Network setting such as DHCP On/Off, DDNS and PPPoE User Setup user name, password and login privilege.
  • Page 28 This displays the name for the ICA-302; camera name is useful while multiple units are used. Default frame The default frame rate in ICA-302 is 30fps, the video frame rate rate can be adjusted in this menu or on the Control panel menu...

  • Page 29: Camera Screen

    Camera Screen Data - Camera Screen Camera Setting PTZ Type ICA-302 can connect with external scanner to control PT through RS485 bus. There are some protocols supported and will add more models gradually. Camera PT User can control the direction of Pan and Tilt.
  • Page 30 Image quality adjustment, the parameter ranges from 0 to 255 Sharpness, Contrast, Hue Options These functions are not available for ICA-302. Audio, Camera tour Reset to default If this option is enabled, all the settings in this page will be...

  • Page 31: Network Screen

    LAN, it will issue the DHCP packets to request an IP address that is dynamically assigned by the DHCP server. If it can not get a DHCP address on a limited tries, the ICA-302 will assigned a default IP address as the default IP address.

  • Page 32: Ddns Setting

    DDNS Setting The DDNS is designed to solve dynamic IP problem, by allowing users to connect to your ICA-302 using a friendly domain name, rather than an numeric IP address. Please refer to the chapter 3 Advanced Viewing Setup Making Video available from the Internet.
  • Page 33 The ICA-302 can directly connect to the ADSL, however, PPPoE setting should be setup first in LAN environment, and then connect to the ADSL modem. Power on again, then the ICA-302 will dial up to the ISP connect to the WAN through the ADSL modem.
  • Page 34 If the PPPoE option “Send mail after dialed” is selected, then when PPPoE dials up to ISP successfully, a mail that contains the Dialup IP Address/ Netmask/ Gateway address/ DNS Server address will be mailed to preset e-Mail address. Please consult your ISP personnel to obtain proper PPPoE/IP Hint address related information, and input carefully.

  • Page 35: User Screen

    IP Filter Screen The IP filter can set 10 different user’s IP address, which are allowing enter or disregarding by the ICA-302. Please configure “User” before “IP Filter”. Each “User” username and password matches with one “IP Filter” user. IP Filter Screen...
  • Page 36 Function Notification The page of user setting is very closely related to the IP filter settings. While the administrators are setting these two pages, they should notice that login authorities are not only based on the login names but also the range of IP addresses. Administrators could reject login users according to both login names and IP addresses.

  • Page 37: Ftp Client Screen

    Reboot this device FTP Client Screen Setup the ICA-302 as a FTP client and configure FTP server related information to upload images to server When there is a motion been detected, user can send the captured images to the pre...
  • Page 38 FTP Client Screen Network Settings FTP server IP address or domain name of the destination FTP server name Please input the Username/Password for the FTP server Username, Password Remote path Please input the uploading file path to the destination FTP server.

  • Page 39: Smtp Screen

    SMTP Screen This screen is displayed when the SMTP menu option is clicked. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. The mail server address must be filled in this field. SMTP Screen Network Settings SMTP server Enter the address of SMTP server used to send the mail.

  • Page 40: Schedule Setting Screen

    Schedule Setting Screen The Schedule can enable motion detection in an arranged period in order to avoid unnecessary images transmitting and catch the desired images. Schedule Setting Screen Motion Detection Screen The motion detection is implemented by a patented software algorithm, it runs on the Network Camera, due to a larger processing power of motion detection, the overall performance of Network Camera will be degraded;...
  • Page 41 Network Settings Enable Motion Enable or disable Motion Detection function in ICA-302 Detection Sensitivity Select the desired option to suit your environment. If covering a large area, you usually need higher sensitivity, since a moving object will take only a small portion of the image.

  • Page 42: Time Setting Screen

    Time Setting Screen This screen is displayed when the Time Setting menu option is clicked. You can setup the ICA-302 time or make it synchronized with PC or remote server. Also, you may select your time zone in order to synchronize time locally.

  • Page 43: Popup Screen

    Popup Screen This screen is for setting event message while a motion has been detected. A message window will be displayed on the screen immediately when any motion is detected. Pop up Screen Network Settings Pop-up text Input the warming text. Display mode Only administrator can see the message or any user can see it.

  • Page 44: Firmware Upgrade Screen

    Firmware Upgrade Screen 8. Select the Firmware binary file. (It must be make sure that the Firmware only apply to ICA-302, once update, it will be burned into FLASH ROM of system.) 9. Once the firmware file was selected, select “Upload”.
  • Page 45 ICA-302. Once the upgrading process completed, the ICA-302 will reboot the system automatically. Note: please wait for 20 seconds, and then you can connect to machine again.

  • Page 46: Factory Default Screen

    Factory Default Screen This screen is displayed when you click the Factory Default option in the application menu. Please Click “OK” button to load default settings to camera. The “Factory Default” button will restore to the factory default configuration, all information changed and saved on the flash will be lost, and restored to the factory default setting.
  • Page 47 Network Settings Upload a captured image to FTP server Mail captured image to specific mail address Mail Note: This function is available for logging-in as an administrator only. Capture: This screen is displayed when you click the Capture menu and the function can capture current image and save it to storage media.

  • Page 48: Activex Control

    ActiveX Control In the viewing area, the plug-in ActiveX control support a lot of functions by clicking the right mouse button. This feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control, right click the Right Mouse Button, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides feature that are unique to the ActiveX control.
  • Page 49 After the “Actual size” was selected, the image will displayed as the actual size, in this example, the image displays as a 320 x 240 pixels. After the “Status bar” selected, machine status will be displayed on the bottom. It displays •...
  • Page 50 • Rotate - Normal: “Rotate 0”, the default state. - Rotate: “Rotate 180”, rotate the image by 180 degree; used on the camera was up side down mounted. - Flip Vertical: Flip the image vertically. - Flip Horizontal: Flip the image horizontally. •...
  • Page 51 Note: The images on the split window are the same camera, but with different time. It is useful on the low frame rate condition, and then user can check the images that are the recently got. Rotate & Quality & Resolution Rotate: An image can be rotated in predefined 180-degree increments.
  • Page 52 Resolution: Available resolution: ‧176x144‧320x240‧352x288 ‧640x480 If users control the ICA-302 of NTSC through internet, they could have 5 choices of resolution: 640x480, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144, 160x120. If users control the ICA-302 of PAL through internet, they could have 6 choices of...
  • Page 53 The control method is the same as control panel’s Hint “Resolution”. Quality: Available quality: • Highest (The same as “Clarity” on control panel ) • High • Medium (The same as “Default” on control panel ) • • Lowest (The same as “Fluency” on control panel ) The control method is the same as control panel’s “Image Hint Quality”.

  • Page 54: Image Recording

    Image Recording This screen is displayed when you click the “Image Recording” menu on the ActiveX control. Recoding Screen Save as JPEG: Select this option and click “Save as JPEG” for detailed configurations. The pre- defined schedule can be set by JPEG.
  • Page 55 During the JPEG file recording, a yellow icon displays on lower right position of the image to indicate the JPEG saving process. If users want to stop the recording, please press the “Stop Image Recording” to stop the image recording process. After “Stop Image Recording”, list the files, these files are named as file_name_prefixed_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss_ms.jpg Save as AVI:...
  • Page 56 During the AVI file recording, a red icon displays on lower right position of the image to indicate the AVI saving process. If want stop the recording, please press the “Stop Image Recording” to stop the save as AVI process. After the “Stop Image Recording”, list the file on the selected saved directory, the file were saved by the filename_prefix_date_time.avi.

  • Page 57: Save Current Picture As

    Save Current Picture As This screen is displayed when you click the “Save Current Picture As” menu on the ActiveX control. • Please select the “Save Current Picture As” to save the current display image into the local PC. • Please input the ”file name”, and click “Save”...

  • Page 58: Chapter 5 Client Utility

    Chapter 5 Client UTILITY This chapter provides how to manage multiple network cameras by powerful CamView utility. INSTALLATION The CamView utility is a powerful utility for video recording, viewing, and camera administrations. Please insert the user’s manual CD and start the CamView installation from the default page or manually browse the Utility folder in the CD to install the software: 5.1.
  • Page 59 • Decide which directory to install the software. By default, just hit the Next button to continue...
  • Page 60 • Decide the program group name. By default, just hit the Next button to continue. • Decide whether to create a desktop icon of the program. Then press Next.
  • Page 61 • Ready to install. By default, just hit the Install button to start installation. • Installing, wait for a moment.

  • Page 62: How To Use

    • Installation complete. CamView software can be launched after pressing Finish. HOW TO USE After successfully installing the utility, this icon will be added to the desktop. Double click it to launch the program. User need login authentication while starting to use CamView. Two pairs of default login ID and password: admin/admin and guest/guest.
  • Page 63 Note: It is strongly suggested to change the Login ID and Password for security concerns. 5.2. CamView User Interface CamView main screen 5.2.1. Date and Time The current date and time of the computer are displayed here. 5.2.2. Alert Message A message box will appear while alert event occurs.
  • Page 64 5.2.4. Rotate, Full screen and Lock Press the Rotate button to rotate the up-side-down images. Press the Full Screen button to enlarge the viewer screen to full computer screen. Press Esc button on the keyboard to return to main CamView screen. Press the Lock button to forbid intruders to operate the CamView unless they input the correct password.
  • Page 65 5.2.11. Camera Selector Here are the camera number buttons to select cameras. Blue color: the normal camera icon. Pink color: the current selected camera. 5.2.12. Minimize, Audio and Close application button The right top button is for minimizing the CanView software; all the proceeding tasks will not be terminated.
  • Page 66 Note: Free Space Alert Percent (%) and Free Space Alert Size [MB] is OR condition combination, any one above is TRUE, then an alert message will appear automatically. Max Number of Events: Set the number of lines which you want to show in the alert message window.
  • Page 67 The following lists describe for each setting: • IP: IP address of the camera. • Port: Connection port of the camera. The default is 80. • Login ID: Please input the login ID if you enable authentication function of the specific camera.
  • Page 68 5.3.3. Scheduling As shown in Figure 5.3.3, users can schedule recording. When you press the Add button, the editing task will be added to the Schedule Items column. When the Modify button is pressed, the new schedule recording will be updated to the specified item.
  • Page 69 5.3.4. User Settings Two accounts to access CamView. Admin / Admin: Administrator has the supreme authority to change all the settings. Guest / Guest: Guest only can view the images only or perform the view related function. Such as switch viewer screen layout, switch camera channel or minimize / close the CamView.

  • Page 70: Camera Configuration

    Figure 5.3.5. The External Tab 5.4. Camera Configuration Users can hit the button shown in Figure 5.4 to configure the associated camera Please refer to Chapter 4 Web-Based Management. Figure 5.4 5.5. Recording Figure 5.5-1. Figure 5.5-2. Figure 5.5-3. Select a camera by pressing the button with camera number as shown in Figure 5.5-2, selected camera icon will be like Figure 5.5-3 and then press the toggle button as shown in Figure 5.5-1.
  • Page 71 The second way to record automatically, the method has described in section 5.3.2 Camera Setting Auto Recording. The last method to record is done by scheduling. Schedule recording tasks are described in section 5.3.3 Scheduling. The CamView will start to record on time. 5.6.
  • Page 72 5.6.2. Snapshot List The Snapshot List tab lists snapshots, and displays the information about the specified snapshot file. When you hit the Show button, Internet Explorer will be invoked to display the snapshot. Figure 5.6.2 The Snapshot List Tab 5.6.3. Video Search The video search tab lists video file information about the specified search.
  • Page 73 Figure 5.6.3-1 The Calendar Form Note: The pink color indicates the motion recording event. Figure 5.6.3-2 The Video Search Tab 5.7. Image Rotation After the button is pressed, the displayed image rotates 180 degree. It is used for the camera being installed upside-down direction. Note: Recorded video / image files will not be rotated.

  • Page 74: Full Screen

    5.8. Full Screen After this button is pressed, it will show full screen mode and press the keyboard "Esc" key or the center of screen to return normal mode. Figure 5.8 5.9. Lock Application Press this button will avoid strangers to access CamView unless they have correct password.
  • Page 75 As shown in Figure 5.10-1 and Figure 5.10-2, with the map image in layout, you can drag the camera icons into proper positions to deploy your cameras. The following describes layout entries: • Name: Define a name for this layout. •...
  • Page 76 Figure 5.10-2 Layout example 2 • When your mouse moves over the camera icon, you can click the right button to display a menu which has options to set the configuration, show the record list, record, show video and remove the camera icon. Figure 5.10-3.

  • Page 77: Appendix A Troubleshooting

    Q: IP Finder program (ipeditv3) cannot find ICA-302 A:• Re power the ICA-302 if cannot find the unit within 1 minute. • Do not connect ICA-302 over a router. IP Finder program cannot detect ICA- 302. • If IP address is not assigned to the PC which running IP Finder program, and then IP Finder program cannot find ICA-302.
  • Page 78 ICA-302 via a crossover cable. • Make sure the Internet connection and setting is ok. • Make sure enter the IP address of Internet Explorer is correct. If ICA-302 has a dynamic address, it may have changed since you last checked it.
  • Page 79 A: This might be caused from the firewall protection. Check the Internet firewall with your system or network administrator. The firewall may need to have some settings changed in order for the ICA-302 to be accessible outside your LAN.• Make sure that the ICA-302 isn’t conflicting with any other web server running on your LAN.•...

  • Page 80: Appendix B Bandwidth Calculation

    Bandwidth Calculation Appendix B: Bandwidth Calculation The frame rate of video transmitted from the ICA-302 depends on connection bandwidth between client and server and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements form your ICA-302.

  • Page 81: Appendix C Specifications

    Appendix C Specifications Appendix C: Specifications Model ICA-302 Horizontal Resolution 380 TV Lines Image Device 1 / 3” Color CCD image sensor NTSC:542(H) × 492(V) / Effective Pixels PAL:542(H) × 582(V) NTSC : 1 / 60 – 100,000 sec / PAL : 1 / 50 –...

  • Page 82: Tcp/Ip, Http, Smtp, Ftp, Ntp, Dns, Ddns, Arp, Dhcp, Pppoe

    Up to 30fps for all resolutions Frame Rate Windows 2000, XP Compatibility 10/100Base-TX Email, FTP, Popup message Notification Linux Static or Dynamic Type Of IP Address Ethernet Firmware Upgrade 2 Levels, Administrator or user Security Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.0 or later Viewer IP Filtering TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, NTP, DNS, DDNS,...

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