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CMOS Box Internet Camera
ICA-120
User's Manual
Version: 2.00
Date: April. 2009
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  • Page 1 CMOS Box Internet Camera ICA-120 User’s Manual Version: 2.00 Date: April. 2009...
  • Page 2 Copyright Copyright © 2009 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
  • Page 3 Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET CMOS Box Internet Camera Model: ICA-120 Rev: 2.0 (April. 2009) Part No. EM-ICA120v2...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Content Introduction........................ 5 1.1 Overview......................5 1.2 Features ......................5 1.3 Package Contents..................... 5 Basic Setup ....................... 6 2.1 System Requirements..................6 2.2 Physical Description..................6 2.2.1 Front View ....................6 2.2.2 Rear View ....................7 2.3 Hardware Installation ..................8 2.4 Initial Utility Installation ..................
  • Page 5 3.8 Video........................51 3.8.1 Common ....................51 3.8.2 MPEG4/VGA ..................52 3.8.3 MPEG4/QVGA..................53 3.8.4 MPEG4/QQVGA................... 54 3.8.5 VIDEO/JPEG..................55 3.9 Audio........................56 3.10 User ......................... 57 3.11 E-Mail....................... 58 3.12 Object Detection .................... 59 3.13 Event Server ....................61 3.13.1 FTP Server..................

  • Page 6: Introduction

    NOTE: 1. If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. 2. Using a power supply with a different voltage that the one included with the ICA-120 will cause damage and void the warranty for ICA-120.

  • Page 7: Basic Setup

    2. Basic Setup This chapter provides details of installing and configuring the Internet Camera 2.1 System Requirements Network Interface 10/100MBase-TX Ethernet Monitoring System Recommended for Internet Explorer 6.0 or later System Hardware · CPU: Pentium 4, 3.0GHz or above · Memory Size : 512 MB (512 MB or above Recommended ) ·...

  • Page 8: Rear View

    DC Power Jack The input power is 12VDC. NOTE Only use the power adapter supplied with ICA-120. Otherwise, the product may be damaged. LAN Socket The LAN socket is a RJ-45 connector for connections to 10Base-T Ethernet or 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet cabling.

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    2.3 Hardware Installation 1. Attach the camera with the included stand 2. Fix camera to desired location with stand 3. Plug an Ethernet cable into the camera Connect an Ethernet cable to the LAN socket located on the camera’s rear and attach it to the network.

  • Page 10: Initial Utility Installation

    2.4 Initial Utility Installation This chapter shows how to quick set up your internet camera. The internet camera is with the default settings. However to help you find the networked camera quickly the windows utility-IP Wizard can search the cameras in the network that shall help you to configure some basic setting before you started advanced management and monitoring.
  • Page 11 4. Please click “Next” to install with original settings, or you may click “Change…” button to modify the install folder then press “Next” to continue. 5. Please click “Install” to start the installation.
  • Page 12 6. Please click “Finish” to complete the installation . Please double-click the utility icon on the desktop then you will see the utility.

  • Page 13: Ip Wizard

    2.5 IP Wizard When you installed the camera on a LAN environment, you may execute IP Wizard to discover camera’s IP addres s and set up related parameters in the camera. Search Button: When click Search button, a searching window will pop up. IP Wizard is starting to search camera on the LAN.
  • Page 14 Wizard Button: When IP Wizard finds your camera, Wizard button will become available. Please select the device you would like to configure in the Information Box. The device will turn into yellow which means this device is selected; please press “Wizard” button. Or you could double click the mouse left key on the selected camera.

  • Page 15: Configure With Ip Wizard

    2.6 Configure With IP Wizard After pressing Installation Wizard, please key in Username and Password of the device when login dialog box appears on the screen. You can login the setup page if authorized name and password is correct. Default username/password for machine login: admin/<no password> Wizard Page 1: Username and Password This page is about the change of the authorized user name and password of the selected device.
  • Page 16 Wizard Page 2: LAN Setting This page is about the select of Static IP or DHCP ON. You can configure this camera to obtain its address automatically or manually assign. If there is a DHCP server in your network environment and you select “DHCP ON”, camera can automatically obtain an IP address.
  • Page 17 Note: If no IP address is assigned after 30 seconds, the camera will work with its default IP address 192.168.0.20. User may now open your web browser, and key in http://192.168.0.20 the address bar of your web browser to logon camera’s web configuration page. Wizard Page 3: Confirmation This page shows the new configurations.

  • Page 18: Upnp Function

    2.7 UPnP Function NOTE: Windows 2000 does not support UPnP feature. 2.7.1 Windows XP  UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device.
  • Page 19 The “Add or Remove Programs” will display on the screen and click Add/Remove Widows Components to continue. The following screen will appear, select Networking Services and click Details to continue...
  • Page 20 The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select Universal Plug and Play and click OK to continue. Please click Next to continue...
  • Page 21 The program will start installing the UPnP automatically. You will see the below pop-up screen, please wait while Setup configures the components. Please click Finish to complete the UPnP installation...

  • Page 22: Windows Vista

    Double-click My Network Places on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with camera to view your device in an internet browser. 2.7.2 Windows Vista  UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals.
  • Page 23 Double-click My Network Places on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with camera to view your device in an internet browser.

  • Page 24: Setup Activex To Use The Camera

    2.8 Setup ActiveX to use the Camera The camera web pages communicate with the camera using an ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the camera and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly. To use the camera, user must setup his IE browser as follows: 2.8.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP ...

  • Page 25: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Xp

    2.8.2 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP  From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. Set the first 3 items • Allow previously unused ActiveX control to run… • Allows Script lets •...

  • Page 26: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Vista

    2.8.3 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista  From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Internet” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. • Enable “Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls” • Prompt “Initialize and script active controls not marked….” From your IE browse ”Tools”...

  • Page 27: Web-Based Management

    This chapter provides setup details of the camera’s Web-based Interface. 3.1 Introduction The ICA-120 can be configured with your Web Browser. Before configure, please make sure your PC is under the same IP segment with camera. 3.2 Connecting to Camera Use the following procedure to establish a connection from your PC to the camera.
  • Page 28 Web browser may display the “Security Warming” window, select “Yes” to install and run the ActiveX control into your PC. After the ActiveX control was installed and run, the first image will be displayed. NOTE: If you log in the camera as an ordinary user, setting function will be not available. If you log in the camera as the administrator, you can perform all the settings provided within the device.

  • Page 29: Live View

    3.3 Live View Start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator. Video Profile ActiveX Control Streaming Protocol Language Setting Menu Video Information Monitor Image Section 2-Way Audio Monitor Image Section The image shot by the camera is shown here. The date and time are displayed at the top of the window.
  • Page 30 Setting Menu This function is detail setting for camera that only available for user logged into camera as administrator. Item Action Configure Network settings such as Wireless, Network DHCP, DDNS, 3GPP, PPPoE and UPnP Camera Adjust camera parameters Configure system information, date & time, System maintenance, and view system log file.

  • Page 31: Activex Control

    3.4 ActiveX Control The plug-in ActiveX control supports a lot of functions by clicking the left mouse button. Note that this feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control icon, click the LeftMouseButton, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides features that are unique to the ActiveX control.

  • Page 32: Digital Zoom

    3.4.1 Digital Zoom Click Digital Zoom to active this function as above. User can drag or scale the box over the video to adjust zoom ratio and position. 3.4.2 Record Click Record to activate this function. Press Record button to start recording. The video file is saved as ASF format into your local PC.

  • Page 33: Snapshot

    3.4.3 Snapshot Click Snapshot to activate this function. Press Snapshot button to take a picture. The image file is saved as JPEG format into your local PC. Select Browser, the pop-up window to select the save path and file name prefix, select OK to continue. If you like to retrieve the saved image, select the file to display the saved image by using any one of graph editing tools.

  • Page 34: Statistics

    3.4.5 Statistics Click Statistics to activate this function. A window will be popup to show the statistics information of the streaming status. Note that this information is the statistics between the device and your local PC. 3.4.6 About Click About to show the ActiveX information...

  • Page 35: Network

    3.5 Network Use this menu to configure the network to connect the device and the clients. 3.5.1 Network This section provides the menu of connecting the device through Ethernet cable. MAC address Display the Ethernet MAC address of the device. Note that user cannot change it.

  • Page 36: Ddns Server

    shown in the corresponding, more readable form as 255.255.255.0. Gateway A gateway is a piece of software or hardware that passes information between networks. You'll see this term most often when you either log in to an Internet site or when you're transient email between different servers.
  • Page 37 The Internet uses DNS servers to lookup domain names and translates them into IP addresses. Domain names are just easy to remember aliases for IP addresses. A dynamic DNS service is unique because it provides a means of updating your IP address so that your listing will remain current when your IP address changes.

  • Page 38: Pppoe

    PPPoE: Stands for Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet A standard builds on Ethernet and Point-to-Point network protocol. It allows ICA-120 connect to Internet with xDSL or cable connection; it can dial up your ISP and get a dynamic IP address. For more PPPoE and Internet configuration, please consult your ISP.

  • Page 39: Streaming

    3.5.4 Streaming RTSP is a streaming control protocol, and a starting point for negotiating transports such as RTP, multicast and Unicast, and for negotiating codecs. RTSP can be considered a "remote control" for controlling the media stream delivered by a media server. RTSP servers typically use RTP as the protocol for the actual transport of audio/video data.
  • Page 40 Where host is the host name or IP address of the camera. Compatible 3G mobile phone Please contact your dealer to get the approved list of compatible 3G phone.

  • Page 41: Upnp

    3.5.5 UPnP UPnP is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled Network Camera. If your operating system is UPnP enabled, the device will automatically be detected and a new icon will be added to “My Network Places.”...

  • Page 42: Ip Filter

    3.5.6 IP Filter You can enter different user’s IP address which are allowing enter or denying by the device. IP Filter To enable or disable the IP filter function here. IP Filter Policy Choose the filter policy where is denying or allowing.

  • Page 43: Ip Notification

    3.5.7 IP Notification In case the IP address is changed, system is able to send out an email to alert someone if the function is enabled. SMTP Notification (e-mail) If enable this function, then the “Send to“ and “Subject” field need to be filled.
  • Page 44 HTTP Login Password Type the password for the HTTP server. Proxy Address Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP Proxy. Proxy Port Set port number of Proxy. Proxy Login Name Type the user name for the HTTP Proxy. Proxy Login Password Type the password for the HTTP Proxy.

  • Page 45: Camera

    3.6 Camera Use this menu to set the function of the camera of camera 3.6.1 Picture Rotation Turn the “Mirror” and “Vertical Flip” On or OFF. The image will be overturned as below. White Balance Auto: will adjust the white balance automatically. Hold: will hold the white balance.
  • Page 46 Exposure Control Auto: will adjust the internal gain automatically. Hold: will hold the internal gain. Brightness Large value will brighten camera. Sharpness Large value will sharpen camera. Contrast Large value will contrast camera heavily. Night Mode User can turn Auto or Off of the night mode. This function is very useful under low illumination environment.

  • Page 47: System

    3.7 System Use this menu to perform the principal settings of camera. 3.7.1 System Device Title You can enter the name of this unit here. It’s very useful to identify the specific device from multiple units. Software Version This information shows the software version in the device. User can check the system log information of the device, including the Main Info, Appended Info, Operator IP, and so on …...

  • Page 48: Date & Time

    3.7.2 Date & Time You can setup the time setting of camera, make it synchronized with PC or remote NTP server. Also, you may select the correct time zone of your country. Server Date Displays the date and time of the device &...
  • Page 49 Daylight Saving Sets up the date and time of daylight saving stop time. Stop Time Daylight Saving Sets up the date of daylight saving offset. Offset...

  • Page 50: Maintenance

    3.7.3 Maintenance Hard Factory Default Recall the device hard factory default settings. Note that click (Include network this button will reset all device’s parameters to the factory setting) settings (including the IP address). Factory Default (Except The unit is restarted and most current settings are reset to the network setting) factory default values.
  • Page 51 6. Once the firmware file was selected, select “Upgrade”. 7. The upgrade progress information will be displayed on the screen. 8. A message will be shown while the firmware upgraded. Once the upgrading process completed, the device will reboot the system automatically. 9.

  • Page 52: Video

    3.8 Video This device provides more video profiles as below to support different request to each client simultaneously. Each user can choose his preferred video profile as his request independently. 3.8.1 Common Text Overlay Setting There are some important information can be embedded into image, including date, time, and/or text.

  • Page 53: Mpeg4/Vga

    3.8.2 MPEG4/VGA Video Type It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile Resolution It’s VGA mode (640x480) in this profile Bit rate Control Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 384kbps and 4096kbps.

  • Page 54: Mpeg4/Qvga

    3.8.3 MPEG4/QVGA Video Type It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile. Resolution It’s QVGA mode (320x240) in this profile. Bit rate Control Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 128kbps and 1024kbps.

  • Page 55: Mpeg4/Qqvga

    3.8.4 MPEG4/QQVGA Video Type It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile. Resolution It’s QQVGA mode (160x120) in this profile. Bit rate Control Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 24kbps and 320kbps.

  • Page 56: Video/Jpeg

    3.8.5 VIDEO/JPEG Video Type It’s JPEG mode in this profile. Resolution User can select VGA, QVGA, or QQVGA mode as the resolution of this JPEG profile. Rate Control The quality level is between 1 and 100. The higher value is the better quality. Max Frame Rate Defines the targeted frame rate of this profile.

  • Page 57: Audio

    3.9 Audio Audio To enable or disable audio function Audio Input Source To select audio source from built-in MIC or external MIC Audio Mode To select Simplex or Full duplex (2-way audio) mode Input Gain To adjust gain of input audio Output Gain To adjust gain of output audio...

  • Page 58: User

    3.10 User Use this menu to set the user names and password of the Administrator and up to 10 users, and access right of each user. Viewer login Anonymous Choose this to enable anonymous user login. Only users Choose this to disable anonymous user in database login.

  • Page 59: E-Mail

    3.11 E-Mail You may setup SMTP mail parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message out, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering. SMTP Server Type the SMTP server name or the IP address of the SMTP server.

  • Page 60: Object Detection

    3.12 Object Detection Use this menu to specify motion detection window 1 to window 4 and set the conditions for detection while observing a captured image.   Add and Del To add or delete the motion windows. User can specify up to 4 Included and/or Excluded windows to monitor the video captured by this device.
  • Page 61 Sensitivity Defines the sensitivity value of motion detection. The higher value will be more sensitivity.

  • Page 62: Event Server

    3.13 Event Server Setup FTP/TCP/HTTP server configuration 3.13.1 FTP Server You may setup FTP parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message to an FTP server, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering as SMTP.

  • Page 63: Tcp Server

    3.13.2 TCP Server In addition to send video file to FTP server, the device also can send event message to specified TCP server. Name User can specify multiple TCP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each TCP server setting. TCP Server Type the server name or the IP address of the TCP server.

  • Page 64: Http Server

    3.13.3 HTTP Server The device also can send event message to specified HTTP server. Name User can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP server. Test Check the HTTP server whether it is available or not.

  • Page 65: Event Schedule

    3.14 Event Schedule 3.14.1 Setting This menu is used to specify the schedule of Events and activate the some actions provided by this device.     Name Name of the Event or Schedule. Enable Enable or disable this Event or Schedule. Type Schedule start with Event trigger or Schedule trigger.

  • Page 66: Record

    Camera will send a 15sec recording file to FTP server every min. NOTE: 3.14.2 Record You can select which file type you would like to record and set a prefix file name. Name Name of the Event or Schedule. Record File Type You can select AVI or JPEG format for event recording.

  • Page 67: Appendix A: Reset Factory Default Settings

    Appendix A: Reset Factory Default Settings This button is used to restore the all factory default settings. Sometimes restarting the device will make the system back to a normal state. However, if the system still got problems after restart, user can restore the factory default settings and install it again. Restore the device: 1.

  • Page 68: Appendix B: Ping Ip Address

    Appendix B: PING IP Address The PING (stands for Packet Internet Groper) command is used to detect whether a specific IP address is accessible by sending a packet to the specific address and waiting for a reply. It’s also a very useful tool to confirm camera installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 69: Appendix C: Bandwidth And Video Size Estimation

    Appendix C: Bandwidth and Video Size Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the camera depends on connection bandwidth between client and server, video resolution, codec type, and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements for your camera. The required bandwidth depends on content of video source.
  • Page 70 MPEG4 Resolution Stream setting fps setting Current stream Current fps 640*480 VGA 384Kbps 5 fps 373Kbps - 388Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 1024Kbps 5 fps 1024Kbps - 1036Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 2048Kbps 5 fps around 1800Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 384Kbps 20 fps around 550Kbps...

  • Page 71: Appendix D: Ddns Application

    Appendix D: DDNS Application 1. Preface If you have a Cable modem or xDSL, this is a great way to host your own Networked Device or other TCP/IP Service. Get your own domain like www.yourname.com, www.yourname.com.tw etc. (Note: This domain must be registered with Internic via registration authorities such as Network Solutions, DirectNIC, Register.com etc).
  • Page 72 (3). After the columns show up at the left side, click “Create Account”. (4). Fill the application agreement and necessary information. a. Username b. E-mail address and confirmation c. Password and confirmation d. Submit all the input information and finish creating an account...
  • Page 73 Click these two options...
  • Page 74 (5). Check your e-mail mailbox. There will be an e-mail with a title “Your DynDNS Account Information“. Click the hyperlink address to confirm the DDNS service that you just applied. Then DDNS you applied activated. Click to confirm (6). Enter the web page http://www.dyndns.org/ again.
  • Page 75 (8). Click the “Services”. (9). Click the “ Dynamic DNS ”. (10). Click the “Create Hosts”.
  • Page 76 (11). We could create a domain name without any charge at this step. First, we input the host name. (No.1) Then we pick a domain that is easy to remember. Finally (No.2), click the “Add Host” to submit the domain name information. (No.3) 4.

  • Page 77: Appendix E: Alarm I/O Connector

    Appendix E: Alarm I/O Connector Interfacing to the External I/O Some features of the Camera can be activated by an external sensor that senses physical changes in the area device is monitoring. These changes can include intrusion detection or certain physical change in the monitored area. For examples, the external sensor can be a door switch or an infrared motion detector.

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