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Speed Dome Internet Camera
ICA-601 / ICA-651
User's Manual
Version: 1.00
Date: July. 2007
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  • Page 1 Indoor / Outdoor Speed Dome Internet Camera ICA-601 / ICA-651 User’s Manual Version: 1.00 Date: July. 2007 1/71...
  • Page 2 Copyright Copyright © 2007 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 Indoor / Outdoor Speed Dome Internet Camera Model: ICA-601 / 651 Rev: 1.0 (July. 2007) Part No.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    2.5 IPWizard ......................18 2.6 Configure With IPWizard ................20 2.7 Using UPnP of Windows® XP™ ..............22 2.8 Setup ActiveX to use the ICA-601 / 651 ............27 Web-based Management ..................29 3.1 Introduction ....................... 29 3.2 Connecting to ICA-601 / 651 ................. 29 3.3 Live View ......................
  • Page 5 3.8.3 MPEG4/QQVGA ................... 49 3.8.4 JPEG/QVGA ..................50 3.9 Audio ........................51 3.10 User ......................... 52 3.11 E-Mail ....................... 53 3.12 FTP ........................54 3.13 Schedule ......................55 3.14 Alarm output ....................55 3.15 Voice alert ....................... 56 3.16 Object detection ..................... 57 Appendix A: Troubleshooting &...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    The ICA-601 / ICA-651 can send video and audio via the internet to a web browser anywhere in the world. The ICA-651 can be setup into most of the wicked outdoor environments and keep working properly with the IP-66 protecting cover.

  • Page 7: Package Contents

    1.3 Package Contents User can find the following items in the package for ICA-601: User’s Manual ICA-601 x 1 Quick Guide x and Utility CD x 1 Leaf Spring x 3 Telephone box x Screw x 3 Power Adapter x...
  • Page 8 1. If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. 2. Using the power supply that is not the one included in ICA-601 / ICA-651 packet will cause damage and void the warranty for this product.

  • Page 9: Basic Setup

    2. Basic Setup This chapter provides details of installing and configuring the ICA-601 / 651 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, 1.5GHz or above ·...

  • Page 10: Physical Details

    Please use Category 5 “straight through” cable to connect the ICA-601 / ICA-651 to a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet network switch or hub. Note that, in case you need to connect the device to PC or notebook directly, you should use cross over cable instead.

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation

    5. Line in (audio in) Connect an audio input source to the ICA-601 / ICA-651. 6. Line out (audio out) Connect a loud speaker to the ICA-601 / ICA-651. This function is for voice alerting and two-way audio. 2.3 Hardware Installation 2.3.1 Physical Installation of ICA-601...
  • Page 12 2. Take away the 3pcs leaf springs inside the accessory box. Attach the springs onto the outer cover. According to thickness of ceiling to adjust the location of springs. Find springs directions as following photo: 3. Push this outer cover into the ceiling. Check if the leaf springs are clipped to ceiling tightly. 11/71...
  • Page 13 4. Find safety hook inside the outer cover. Use the safety hook hanging the inner speed dome cover 5. Have all the cables across the outer cover 12/71...
  • Page 14 6. Take away 3pcs screws inside the accessory box. Use the screws to fix the inner cover and outer cover. 13/71...
  • Page 15 7. Check speed dome main body. Fit in the pin into pin hole of base plate. Drive 2pcs screws until the speed dome fits the plate tightly and solidly 8. Follow anti-clockwise to fix the hemisphere cover onto speed dome. 9. Now the ICA-601 is fixed on the ceiling. 14/71...

  • Page 16: Physical Installation Of Ica-651

    2.3.2 Physical Installation of ICA-651 1. Use the rubber ring, nut, and screws to mount the power box and ICA-651 to the wall. Note: You will need to choose correct screws to fix the ICA-651 to the wall. The other types of screws have to buy locally.
  • Page 17 The “Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for IPWizard” will display on the screen and click “Next” to continue. Please click “Next” to install with original settings, or you may click “Change…” button to modify the install folder then press “Next” to continue. 16/71...
  • Page 18 Please click “Finish” to complete the driver installation Please double-click the utility icon on the desktop, and then you will see the ICA-601 / 651 initial utility - IPWizard. Please refer to the next section to operate this utility to finish the initial configuration of your ICA-601 / 651.

  • Page 19: Ipwizard

    ICA-601’s IP address and set up related parameters in the ICA-601. Search Button: When click Search button, a searching window will pop up. IPWizard is starting to search ICA-601 on the LAN. The message “No Network Devices Is Found” will appear on this window if IPWizard cannot find any camera on the LAN.
  • Page 20 Wizard Button: When IPWizard 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 21: Configure With Ipwizard

    2.6 Configure With IPWizard 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 22 DNS2: The same function as DNS1. It is optional, not necessary Note: If no IP address is assigned after 30 seconds, the ICA-601 / 651 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...

  • Page 23: Using Upnp Of Windows® Xp

    Wizard Page 3: Confirmation This page shows the new configurations. If it is correct, please press “Submit” icon and the setting information will be save to your ICA-601 / 651. Click on “Exit” to close this window. 2.7 Using UPnP of Windows® XP™...
  • Page 24 The “Control Panel” will display on the screen and double click Add or Remove Programs to continue The “Add or Remove Programs” will display on the screen and click Add/Remove Widows Components to continue. 23/71...
  • Page 25 The following screen will appear, select Networking Services and click Details to continue. The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select Universal Plug and Play and click OK to continue. 24/71...
  • Page 26 Please click Next to continue 25/71...
  • Page 27 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 26/71...

  • Page 28: Setup Activex To Use The Ica-601 / 651

    Double-click My Network Places on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with ICA-601 / 651 to view your device in an internet browser. 2.8 Setup ActiveX to use the ICA-601 / 651 The ICA-601 / 651 web pages communicate with the ICA-601 / 651 using an ActiveX control.
  • Page 29 By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for ICA-601 / 651. 28/71...

  • Page 30: Web-Based Management

    Use the following procedure to establish a connection from your PC to the ICA-601 / 651. Once connected, you can add the ICA-601 / 651 to your Browser’s Favorites or Bookmarks. Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of the ICA-601 / 651. The Default IP: “ http://192.168.0.20 “...
  • Page 31 After the ActiveX control was installed and run, the first image will be displayed. Note: If you log in the ICA-601 / 651 as an ordinary user, setting function will be not available. If you log in the ICA-601 / 651 as the administrator, you can perform all the settings provided within the device.

  • Page 32: Live View

    Monitor Image Section ActiveX Control Monitor Image Section: The image shot by the ICA-601 / 651 is shown here. The date and time are displayed at the top of the window. Video Profile: The ICA-601 / 651 support multi-profile for both MEPG-4 and M-JPEG simultaneously.

  • Page 33: Activex Control

    PTZ Control: Click to display the following control panel: Camera direction Focus control Zoom control Camera speed Camera tour Save preset Go preset Auto pan • Camera direction: Control camera up/down/left/right and home position • Zoom control: Press WIDE to zoom out, and press TELE to zoom in. •...

  • Page 34: Digital Zoom

    On the ActiveX control icon, click the LeftMouseButton, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides features that are unique to the ActiveX control. These features include: • “Digital Zoom”, • “Record”, • “Snapshot”, • “Voice”, • “Statistics”, • “About” 3.4.1 Digital Zoom Click Digital Zoom to active this function as above.

  • Page 35: Record

    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. While you want to stop it, press Stop to stop recording. Select Browser, the pop-up window to select the save path and file name prefix, select OK to continue.

  • Page 36: Voice

    3.4.4 Voice Click Volume to activate this function. This is one control bar for speaker volume. Scroll this control bar to adjust the audio attribute. Check the volume mute will mute the speaker output. 3.4.5 Statistics Click Statistics to activate this function. A window will be popup to show the statistics information of the streaming status.

  • Page 37: About

    3.4.6 About Click About to show the ActiveX information 3.5 System Setting This function is only available for user logged into ICA-601 / 651 as administrator. Click in each menu name to display its setting page. Item Action Configure Network settings such as Wireless, DHCP, DDNS, 3GPP,...

  • Page 38: Network

    User Setup user name, password and login privilege E-Mail Setup E-Mail configuration This device is a client site and configure information to upload images to server Alarm output Setup alarm output action Video Alert Setup Video alert action Object detection Setup Object detection and Object tracking 3.5.1 Network Use this menu to configure the network to connect the device and the clients.

  • Page 39: Ddns Server

    Subnet masks contain four bytes and usually appear in the same "dotted decimal" data. For example, a very common subnet mask in its binary demonstration 11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000 will usually be 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.

  • Page 40: Pppoe

    PPPoE: Stands for Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet A standard builds on Ethernet and Point-to-Point network protocol. It allows ICA-601 / 651 connect to Internet with xDSL or cable connection; it can dial up your ISP and get a dynamic IP address.

  • Page 41: 3Gpp

    Password (PPPoE): Type the password for the PPPoE service which is provided by ISP. IP Address / Gateway: It will display IP address and gateway that ICA-601 / 651 gets a dynamic IP from ISP, when ICA-601 / 651 each dials up success.

  • Page 42: Upnp

    Note: Where host is the host name or IP address of the ICA-601 / 651, and N is the number of the profile (1-=MPEG4 VGA, 2=MPEG4 QVGA, 3=MPEG4 QQVGA) for the video stream. 3 is recommended.

  • Page 43: Camera

    Enable UPnP discovery: To enable or disable the UPnP discovery service here. 3.6 Camera Use this menu to set the function of the camera of ICA-601 / ICA-651 3.6.1 Common PTZ protocol type: The Network Camera is connected to built-in ICA-601 / ICA-651 and controls this device thru RS485 bus.

  • Page 44: Picture

    Move speed: Moving speed of P/T control. User need to set value properly. Baud rate: This is the communication speed between network module and ICA-601 / ICA-651. Note that please DO NOT changes the default value except on special purpose. If so, user needs to check and set value properly for both sides.

  • Page 45: Tour

    Use this menu to perform the principal settings of ICA-601 / 651. 3.7.1 Date & Time You can setup the time setting of ICA-601 / 651, make it synchronized with PC or remote NTP server. Also, you may select the correct time zone of your country.
  • Page 46 Date: Displays the date of the device. Time: Displays the date of the device. Synchronize with PC: Press “Set Time” button to do the time synchronization with PC time. Synchronize with NTP: Select if you want to synchronize the date and time with NTP server (Network Time Protocol).

  • Page 47: Maintenance

    3.7.2 Maintenance Factory Default: Reset this device to factory default settings. Note that click this button will reset all device parameters to the factory settings. Firmware upgrade: The device supports new firmware upgrade. Unzip this firmware file to binary file and store it into your PC. Then follow the steps as bellows carefully: 1.

  • Page 48: Video

    3.8 Video This device provides 4 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 MPEG4/VGA Video Type: It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile. Resolution: It’s VGA mode (640x480) in this profile.

  • Page 49: Mpeg4/Qvga

    3.8.2 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 idea bit rate is between 256kbps and 4096kbps.

  • Page 50: Mpeg4/Qqvga

    3.8.3 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 idea bit rate is between 64kbps and 384kbps.

  • Page 51: Jpeg/Qvga

    3.8.4 JPEG/QVGA 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. Quality: This profile provides 5 quality levels: Best, Better, Normal, Low, and Lowest in which Best: Video is the best but need more bandwidth to transmit image Lowest: Video is much worse but the bandwidth requirement is also lower.

  • Page 52: Audio

    3.9 Audio Audio: To enable or disable audio function Audio compression format: The device supports two audio codec: G.726 & AMR Note that if users want to record the video streaming with audio, then user shall choose G.726 mode. However, if users want to receive audio over 3GPP service, then AMR is the right option.

  • Page 53: 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. Administrator level has authority to setup and modify all settings of ICA-601 / 651, thus please keep this account for higher security.

  • Page 54: E-Mail

    3.11 E-Mail Using E-Mail function, user can send an e-mail with attached image file that has been shot triggered with an external sensor or the built-in object detection function. The image file also can be sent periodically. Common You may setup SMTP mail parameters for future event-message receiving such as object detected or sensor activated.

  • Page 55: Ftp

    3.12 FTP Use this menu to set up for capturing and sending still images to an FTP server. Using FTP client function, user can send an image that has been shot linked with the built-in object detection or external sensor input to an FTP server. The image file also can be sent periodically.

  • Page 56: Schedule

    3.13 Schedule This menu is used to specify the schedule of IR LED for actions provided by this device. Start time and End time: Specify the start time and end time. 3.14 Alarm output Users can perform setting in this menu to control the alarm output of the device linked to the object detection or the external sensor input.

  • Page 57: Voice Alert

    Event: Controls alarm output by synchronizing it with built-in object detection or the external sensor input (DI). Object detection: Select this option when user link the alarm output to the objection detection function. Sensor (DI): Select this option when you link the alarm output to the external sensor of the device.

  • Page 58: Object Detection

    3.16 Object detection Using this menu, user can set the conditions to activate the built-in “Motion detection” and “Object tracking” functions. Motion detection Use this menu to specify motion detection window 1 to window 4 and set the conditions for detection while observing a captured image.
  • Page 59 Sensitivity Define the sensitivity value of motion detection. Move this bar to the right will increase the sensitivity. Move the slide bar to right will increase the sensitivity. 58/71...

  • Page 60: Appendix A: Troubleshooting & Faq

    ICA-601 / 651. program. IPWizard program cannot • Re power the ICA-601 / 651 if cannot find the unit within 1 minutes. find ICA-601 / 651. • Do not connect ICA-601 / 651 over a router. IPWizard program cannot detect ICA-601 / 651 over a router.
  • Page 61 Access ICA-601 / 651 Cannot access the login • Maybe the IP Address of the ICA-601 / 651 is already being used page and other web pages by another device or computer. To confirm this possible problem, of ICA-601 / 651 from...
  • Page 62 • If it’s not working after above procedure, reset ICA-601 / 651 to default setting and installed it again. • If the problem is not solved, the ICA-601 / 651 might be faulty. Contact your dealer for further help. Image or video does not •...
  • Page 63 Frame rate is slower than • The traffic of the network and the object of the image affect the the setting. frame rate. The network congestion causes frame rate slower than the setting. • Check the bandwidth of Internet connection. If the Internet bandwidth is lower than target bit rate, the video streaming will not work correctly.

  • Page 64: Appendix B: Ping Ip Address

    It’s also a very useful tool to confirm ICA-601 / 651 installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 65: Appendix C: Bandwidth And Video Size Estimation

    Appendix C: Bandwidth and Video Size Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the ICA-601 / 651 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 ICA-601 / 651.
  • Page 66 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 67: 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 68 (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 67/71...
  • Page 69 Click these two options (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. 68/71...
  • Page 70 Click to confirm (6). Enter the web page http://www.dyndns.org/ again. Input your username and password that you just applied to login administration interface of DDNS server. Input your account (7). If the correct username and password are input, you can see the following picture at the top-right of the login page.
  • Page 71 (9). Click the “ Dynamic DNS ”. (10). Click the “Create Hosts”. (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”...
  • Page 72 4. Setup the DDNS and PPPoE of Network Device At last, users have to enter the web page of Networked Device and setup the necessary information of DDNS and PPPoE after the application of DDNS service. Please check the user manual to access the DDNS and PPPoE pages. After saving the modification, restart the device.

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