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APEC AP-5004 User Manual

Rugged mobile dvr dedicated to vehicle applications
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Chapter 1. AP-5004 Overview
AP-5004 is a rugged mobile DVR dedicated to vehicle applications. There are many factors that need
to be taken into consideration when installing mobile DVRs on a vehicle.
1. Power – The power source of a mobile DVR comes from batteries on the vehicles. But the voltage
varies widely among different vehicle models and the surge of voltage caused by the
engine ignition is really dangerous. The mobile DVR needs to have protection against
this.
2. Heat – The difference of temperature in a vehicle also varies widely. Depending on the
installation area, the temperature may vary from below zero at winter to as high as more
than 60 degree C at summer time. Because of this condition, the mobile DVR needs to be
able to work at wide temperature range.
3. Vibration – The mechanical structure of mobile DVR needs to endure the shock and vibration
forces generated when the vehicle is moving. Different vehicles and the smoothness of
the road can be a deciding factor.
4. Communication – It is difficult to have stable and high speed communication link between the
vehicle and control center. This is important for emergency event handling. The mobile
DVR needs to have the capability of communication with control center through GPRS,
3G, Wi-Fi or even satellite.
5. GPS tracking – It is also very important for the control center to know the location of vehicles
with e-Map indication. This is helpful for event tracking, emergency rescue, or vehicle
fleet management.
AP-5004 is designed to meet all the special requirements that we've just listed. Please refer to the
features and specification below for more details.
1.1 Features:
Power -
Input voltage – 9V to 32V DC
Power consumption – 15W
Power-on delay at the engine ignition and a power-off delay at engine shutdown.
Optional external 12V / 2A box with input voltage regulation to power the cameras.
Heat Dissipation -
Heat dissipation through entire case, NO fan needed.
Operation temperature: -10 to + 60 degree C.
Vibration resistance
5 – 500 Hz vibration at 2.18G
Support 2.5" SSD for video data storage
MIL-STD-810F-514.5.C3 certified
Mechanical –
Size - 240mm*160mm*65mm
Weight – 3 Kg.
Wireless Support –
2.5G (GPRS) / 2.75G (EDGE) / 3G (UTMS) / 3.5G (HSDPA) / 3.75G (HSUPA) / Wi-Fi / GPS
integration. Send SMS when alarm
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  • Page 1 This is helpful for event tracking, emergency rescue, or vehicle fleet management. AP-5004 is designed to meet all the special requirements that we've just listed. Please refer to the features and specification below for more details. 1.1 Features: Power - Input voltage –...

  • Page 2: Front Panel

    SecuTrack CMS can monitor up to 500 vehicles by 64 per group Remote Live View Remote Playback GPS tracking with e-Map support Two-way audio communication between CMS & the AP-5004 on the vehicle. Video Quality – 720x480 @ 60 fps 360x240 @ 120 fps...

  • Page 3: Installation

    The machine itself , 1*AV cable , 1*IO cable and 1*manual CD. There is no hard disk included UNLESS customer requests it at the time AP-5004 is ordered. The RED boxes on Fig. 1-3 are external devices that need to be installed for AP-5004 configuration. Current standard delivery firmware version for AP-5004 is MDVR2.X.

  • Page 4: Vga Monitor

    Insert the AV cable connector that comes with AP-5004 to this plug to retrieve camera video signals and audio inputs. AP-5004 can support 4 cameras. The audio RCA plugs are reserved for future use. Connect camera video outputs to the BNC leads on this connector.
  • Page 5 “ 3G basic Knowledge” for more information. 4. Note 4.1 Camera power – The 12V camera power is NOT included in AP-5004. It has to come from battery of the vehicle. If you need assistance, please consult your local reseller or e-mail sales@apeccctv.com...

  • Page 6: Chapter 2. Getting Started

    Please connect a VGA monitor on “VGA1” or a TV monitor to “S-Video” of AP-5004 back panel for local live screen. AP-5004 has delay power ON / OFF after the vehicle ignition is turned ON or OFF, if the “ACC” signal is connected. ( Please refer to section 2.1, chapter 1).The default delay ON time is 15 seconds and delay OFF time is 30 seconds.
  • Page 7 You can change it to “IR control” mode from the main screen by clicking the “Setup” button, enter “system configuration”. Under “Running mode”, change the “Control” field from “mouse” to “IR” and then click “OK”. AP-5004 will reboot and change to IrDA control mode.

  • Page 8: Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (Gui)

    Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.1 Introduction This chapter covers AP-5004 operation. Mouse is used for all of the operations and keyboard is ONLY for data entry, when necessary. Local VGA GUI screen :...
  • Page 9 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.2 Surveillance screen panel The Surveillance screen panel enables you to define which live images are displayed on screen. Fig. 3-2 A. You can select 1 / 4 split-screen display. Fig. 3-3 B. Use the sequence button to automatically cycle through all the connected cameras. C.
  • Page 10 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Live Single Camera View 3.2.1 Snapshot You can do snapshot of camera image when viewing single camera window. Right click mouse and the screen will have a “SAVE” button appears. Click it and you will get a pop up window as Fig.3-6 Fig.
  • Page 11 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Basic information indicates date/time & size of current playing file. Calendar Function buttons Play buttons Split-screen buttons Fig. 3.6 Lock file Recording data status information Back to live surveillance Function buttons: Bookmark Alarm log Backing up the data Thumbnail Browse Search by Event...
  • Page 12 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) How to play recording file: Step2: Select an hour from time line. Step3: Select camera to playback. Step1: Select a date from calendar. Step4: Click anywhere on recording data score bar to start playback from the required point. Fig.
  • Page 13 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.3.1. Play buttons: Use the Play buttons to control playback of stored footage from the cameras. Step backward Step forward Play Pause Control playback speed(1/8x ~ 4x) The fastest speed of the single image playback is 4x; slowest speed is 1/8x. Click “+” button once to double playback speed from normal.
  • Page 14 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Fig. 3-10. You can also zoom in specific point of the image to get clear view. Brightness Contrast Sharpness Zoom-in Restore Smooth 3.3.4. Status Button The status panel displays the playback status of the current record. The aqua line (Data) indicates record data over an one hour time interval, as Fig.
  • Page 15 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.3.5 Bookmark User can have bookmarks at the specific time during playback. Bookmark: 1. During playing recording file user can click “bookmark” button to mark the specific time point. 2. User can write down the note and click “Add” button to save it.
  • Page 16 Fig. 3-14 bring up Fig. 3-15. If you answer “OK”, AP-5004 will clear all data on the USB Flash Disk. Fig. 3-15 Fig. 3-16 If you click “Cancel”, then, Fig. 3-16 shows you how much space left on the USB Flash Drive before doing file copy.
  • Page 17 For back up to VCD/DVD RW, the procedure is similar, but you will need to answer the burning speed you want. The default speed is X5. Note: It takes some time for AP-5004 to get video data before it can start the back up process. 3.3.8 Thumbnail Browse Finds video images and selects them for processing individually, in whole folders, using a simple time selector and built-in image viewer .you can check out the results with the built-in viewer.
  • Page 18 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Fig. 3.21 Previous - Search forward Next - Search backward Zoom in - The whole Thumbnail search was divided to three layers. The first layer is hourly based. Each picture on the windows is the first picture of that hour When select a specific hour to do Zoom in, it goes into second layer.
  • Page 19 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) selectable Time/GPI/Motion Detection key in the date / time you want to search Fig. 3-22 3.3.9.2 Search by Event Searches the list of recorded files for the specified event such as a specific area of motion or a GPI Trigger that occurred within the specified time interval.
  • Page 20 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) date/time/camera# indication Back Fig. 3-24 search result list previous record replay next record 3.3.10 Search by Motion On Fig. 3-23, if you select motion detection as Fig. 3-25, the screen of Fig.3-26 will pop up for your selection of the motion detection area.

  • Page 21: Search By Text

    Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 4. And then select search area by mouse left button drag. 5. Click “ok” to start searching motion files at that specific area. Fig. 3.26 Search result and following operations are the same as Fig. 3-24. 3.3.11 Search by Text ( This function is NOT available on firmware version MDVR 2.0 ) This function is to search record video files that contain specific POS text data for playback.
  • Page 22 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) starting string of a transaction ending string of a transaction the strings you want to search in logical “AND” combination POS device selection default all “ON” Fig. 3-27 The search result is as Fig. 3-28. The first record of the search result is playing on the screen. But the background searching keeps going.
  • Page 23 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) overlay POS text POS text panel when checked, enable overlay POS Fig. 3-28 text on video, search result list scroll up/down to see complete POS text Note : Click the “search result list” button to show the record list of search Fig.
  • Page 24 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.4 Snapshot You can do snapshot to capture one image of current playback file by click “pause” button and then, mouse right click. You will see a “SAVE” button appears on the image screen and mouse cursor becomes “X”.
  • Page 25 [ System setup] 3.6 Setup Click the Set Up button to enter AP-5004 system configuration menu. There are sub menus, System Setup, Record Setup, Alarm and Motion Detection can be configured. This section explains each of the menu pages in turn.
  • Page 26 Fig. 3-33 Standard: sets the video signal format. Choose NTSC in the US, or PAL in Europe and most Asian countries. If you are not sure about this option, select Auto. AP-5004 will detect the video standard automatically. Brightness: adjusts the amount of light or brightness for the selected camera according to your preference.
  • Page 27 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Hue: adjusts the dominant color for the selected camera. Quality: adjusts the video quality for each camera. The default setting is 80. We recommend that you not set this to 100 to avoid a slower rate of video transmission and using up a significant amount of hard disk space.
  • Page 28 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.6.4 TV output Use the TV Output menu to configure the video output of AP416. It can be standard VGA computer monitors or TV type screens. Set the device type, standard, outputs and other parameters. Set the Camera (From) and Camera (To) options to specify the range of cameras that are displayed in the cyclic display mode.
  • Page 29 Gateway and DNS IP are necessary if you want the camera videos of this AP-5004 can be access from remote PC client through Internet. If you change HTTP port other than “80”, you will need to...
  • Page 30 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) tag the port number following IP address of the unit. Consult your network manager if you don’t understand how to do. normally one set is enough, unless you want to use two network cards May use port other than 80.
  • Page 31 Mic Timeout and Speaker Timeout – Time out period setting for remote access. Self Test – Local test from microphone to speaker. Camera n – Select audio source that is to relate with the camera. AP-5004 has ONLY one audio source from mother board, so you have ONLY one choice here.
  • Page 32 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) AP416 can receive POS text from LAN port. There are two methods: 3.6.10.1 Direct connect – If the POS machine can send out POS text through its LAN Port, then, you can connect it directly to the LAN that AP416 can access it. The configuration procedure is: 3.6.10.1.1 Select POS LAN device –...
  • Page 33 3.6.11.1 Port – You have selections here “COM”, “AP204”, “(SIP)LAN” & “(DIP)LAN”. COM ports are the COM1 & COM2. On AP-5004, COM2 is RS485 dedicated for PTZ camera control. “AP-204” is the RS232 to LAN converter that you set up at section 3.6.10. Only the AP-204 units that were connected successfully will show up here.
  • Page 34 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.6.13 Date/Time Select your correct time zone at “T.Zone” field. The year/month/date/hour/minute/second also can be configured. AP-5004 will reboot to the new time zone after click “OK”. Time zone select Year / Month / Date / Time set up Fig.
  • Page 35 Fig. 3-46 This section provides another way for connecting AP-5004 to Internet. PPPoE uses your existing LAN to dial up to your ISP for Internet service. You don’t need a telephone line here. But you do need an ISP login account name and password.
  • Page 36 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) This function enables AP-5004 to connect to Internet through an external USB 3G modem. You need a 3G account for login. Select the USB port of AP-5004 where 3G modem is plugged. Select the baud rate and enter 3G phone number.
  • Page 37 If you don’t want to use any one of the NTP server in the list, you can edit it. But after all this, please click “Test...” button to see if the NTP server connects to your AP-5004 successfully.
  • Page 38 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Clock refresh period select NTP server from the list if you don’t want to use NTP server in the list, you can edit here click to test if the NTP server is alive Fig. 3-51 After making the changes, click on the Test &...
  • Page 39 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Level 2. 4 POS units – Can connect maximum 4 cash registers. Level 3. Full functions – Can connect maximum 16 cash registers. The Hybrid license can be max. 16. After key in the “License key”, click “Register...” to complete the process.
  • Page 40 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.14.22 Configuration File: You can backup or restore system configuration into a file for future restore in case of something wrong that causes loss of configuration, or restore it to another machine in case it has similar functions. Backup configuration data: 1.
  • Page 41 Fig. 3-56 3.14.23 Default settings Select “Yes” here and click “OK” button to restore default setting to AP-5004. The default administrator name and password are “webmonitor” and “oyo”. Default IP address is 192.168.10.10. Fig. 3-57...
  • Page 42 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.14.24 Revise firmware Here you can do firmware revise from local VGA screen as Fig. 3-58 below. You can put the firmware binary file in a VCD/DVD or USB HDD. You will be asked to select the device that is to be used for revise firmware.
  • Page 43 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) 3.15.1 DVR setup Use the DVR menu under the Record Setup tab to set the Digital Video Recorder parameters. selectable “Auto stop” or “Cyclic Recording” Fig. 3-60 Select either Auto Stop or Cyclic Recording. Auto Stop recording stops when disk space runs out. Cyclic Recording continues to record until disk space runs out and then overwrites the oldest records.
  • Page 44 GPI1 is trigger Fig. 3-62 On Fig. 3-62, you relate camera recording with GPI trigger. AP-5004 can have max. 16 GPI . The trigger of each GPI can relate to the recording of multiple cameras based on your selection. You can...
  • Page 45 ( This function is NOT available on firmware version MDVR 2.0 ) This function is particularly for POS integration. If you don’t have POS machine connect to AP-5004, you can skip this section. There are two selections for each camera, “POS event” and “Text”. “POS Event” is defined at “Alarm”...
  • Page 46 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) [ Alarm] 3.16.1 Alarm setup The fields set up here at Fig. 3-64 apply to all kinds of alarms except the POS Event Text, which is dedicated to POS integration. Click “Test” button to test if the e-mail can be sent successfully. receiver’s e-mail address how many times you want to send the e-mail when alarm trigger...
  • Page 47 Fig. 3-67 3.16.4 Video Lost This alarm triggers when AP-5004 detects there is no video from the camera that connects to it. Only “Beep” alert can be set. Select the camera# and others are the same as Fig. 3-67.

  • Page 48: Pos Event

    Fig. 3-69 3.16.6 Disk Error This alarm triggers when AP-5004 detects disk error. That means AP-5004 can not access, read or write to the disk. Pop up message on VGA screen or audio beep alert can be enabled. Setting is similar same as Fig.
  • Page 49 Chapter 3. Graphic User Interface (GUI) Fig. 3-70 Note: The text was captured from the POS machine; you should check what text will be sent from the POS machine, then set appropriate text in POS Event. 3.17 Motion Detection You can set up Motion detection parameters for each camera on the screen of Fig. 3-71 Fig.

  • Page 50: Chapter 4. Ir Remote Control Operation

    Chapter 4: IR Remote Control Operation Chapter 4. IR Remote Control Operation 4.1 Introduction This chapter covers remote control operation using IR remote controller. The AP-5004 must be in IR remote control running mode for this operation. 4.2 Main menu Press the Menu button on the remote control to display the main menu on screen.
  • Page 51 Use the Password Protect option to enable password protection, set administrator and user passwords, set the auto lock period and lock the system immediately. Enabling password protection prevents unwanted users from accessing or configuring the AP-5004. The Password Protect menu has the following choices: Enable - enables password protection.
  • Page 52 Use the Left or Right arrow buttons to confirm the operation. 4.3.2 Video Use the Video menu to set all the video parameters for the cameras connected to the AP-5004. There is one video screen for each camera with the following parameters: Standard - sets the video signal format.
  • Page 53 Mirror Vertical – flips the video signal from the selected camera along the vertical axis. Max Connection - limits the maximum number of connections allowed to access the AP-5004 over the Internet. Set to zero to allow the maximum number of connections.
  • Page 54 Normally, video input#1 is map to position #1. But you actually can set video inputs to any position from #1 - #16, (depends on how many AP-5004 cards you install) on the screen as long as there is vacancy.
  • Page 55 Press the OK button to confirm the choice. 4.3.5 TV output The AP-5004 can be connected to a VGA monitor or a TV to view the camera video signal. Use the TV Output menu to set the following parameters for the video output port: Device - sets the output to VGA or TV.
  • Page 56 4.3.6 OSD text A line of text can be displayed with the video from each camera connected to the AP-5004. Use the OSD Text menu to enable the text and alter it. You can also set the position of the text using the X and Y parameter values.
  • Page 57 4.3.7 TCP/IP Use the TCP/IP menu to set the IP address of the AP-5004, the gateway, the subnet mask, the DNS server IP address, and the HTTP port. If you want to use the AP-5004 on your network, see your network administrator to obtain a valid IP address for the AP-5004.
  • Page 58 Note: It is important that you set up a user name and password. The user is different from the administrator and has access to only the video. Use the More Users function to alter the authorities of users who access the AP-5004 from the Internet. To set an Admin/User name or password: Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to select the field to change.
  • Page 59 11. Press the Right arrow button to select Yes to enable the user to hear the live audio from the selected cameras. 4.3.9 Audio Use the Audio menu to set up the audio parameters for the AP-5004. The configurable parameters areas follow: • Mic Gain – adjusts the gain of the microphone.
  • Page 60 1. You can use the Prev Page and Next Page buttons on the remote control to toggle between the COM1 menu and COM2 menu. 2. When an optional GPIO module is connected to the serial port, the AP-5004 detects it automatically and provides GPIO options in the system menu.
  • Page 61 4.3.13 Alarm Use the Alarm menu to define what constitutes an alarm condition and how the AP-5004 reacts when such a condition occurs. You can configure an alarm condition to be generated when motion is detected by the camera, if the video signal is lost from a camera, if the disk space is too low, if there is a disk error or if pos event.
  • Page 62 Press the OK button to save your settings. Set Action Use the Set Action option to define what action is taken by the AP-5004 when an event occurs. The following options are available: Video Lost - generates an alarm when the video from the selected camera is not available.
  • Page 63 The Registry Server menu enables you to set up the registry server for your device. If you are using a dynamic IP address for the AP-5004, you can set up the device to post its IP address to the APEC registry server.
  • Page 64 4.3.17 Algorithm You can change the compression algorithm used by the AP-5004 to record video. The AP-5004 supports MPEG, JPEG, MJPEG, and H.263 ,MPEG4 algorithms for compression. For the JPEG and MJPEG algorithms, the video quality is better but the data rate is also high. The H.263 and MPEG4 algorithm provides a good video quality with low data rate .
  • Page 65 Level 3. Full functions – Can connect maximum 16 cash registers. 4.4 Record setup Use the Record Setup menu to set all the record options for the AP-5004. There are four Record Setup submenus - AP-5004, Record Schedule, Motion Detection, GPI Trigger , Text Record and Pre-Alarm.
  • Page 66 E-mail, or text message. To change the AP-5004 mode: Select the Mode option from the AP-5004 submenu using the Up and Down arrow buttons on the remote control. Use the Left and Right buttons to select either Cyclic Recording, or Auto Stop.
  • Page 67 Chapter 4: IR Remote Control Operation Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to select a field to change, from the following options: Enable -enables the recording schedule. Mon through Sun - enables recording on the specified days of week. Start Hour/Minute/Second - sets the exact time when the recording starts.
  • Page 68 Chapter 4: IR Remote Control Operation • Disable all area –set no area is motion detect area. 3. Select the Enable field and use the Left and Right arrow buttons to toggle between Yes, to enable the motion detection feature, and No, to disable it. 4.
  • Page 69 4.5 Playback Use the Playback function to display a list of all recordings stored on the AP-5004. Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to select a recording to play back and press the OK button to confirm. The chosen...
  • Page 70 4.5.1 Playback list Use the Playback list function to display a list of all recordings stored on the AP-5004 as follows. Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to select a recording to play back. The alarm condition which caused the file to be recorded is indicated in the list.
  • Page 71 Motion Detection – The yellow bars represent where motion detection was set off. Searching for a file: The AP-5004 playback list can be searched for a specific file. You can conduct the search based on time, event, or text. 4.5.2 To search for a recorded file: While viewing the play list, press the Menu button to display the menu.
  • Page 72 Unlock File! option from the menu. 4.5.4 Backing up the data If the AP-5004 is equipped with CD/RW, DVD+RW drive, you can back up your recorded files to a CD, DVD, or USB hard drive.
  • Page 73 Chapter 4: IR Remote Control Operation Note: The AP-5004 will begin to collect data as soon as the above screens are displayed. When the required data has been collected, the backup can begin. 4.6 System Maintenance Press the Menu button on the remote control to display the main menu on screen. Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to select one of the five options and press the OK button to confirm your choice.
  • Page 74 Chapter 4: IR Remote Control Operation 4.6.2 System log Any operation will be written into system log include local operation and remote operation. User can search system log by specific time. 4.6.3 Default settings Use the Default Settings option to reset all configurable parameters to their factory default settings. When the Default Settings option is chosen from the System Setup menu, a message is displayed asking you to confirm.
  • Page 75 Chapter 4: IR Remote Control Operation 4.6.5 Revise firmware Use the Revise Firmware option to upgrade the firmware in the AP-5004. The firmware can be revised through an external read-write CD drive, a USB flash drive, or a USB thumb drive. Connect the device to the AP-5004 and then use this option.
  • Page 76 5.2 Connecting The AP-5004 GUI can be viewed from a Windows IE browser when the device is connected on the same network as your PC or if it is connected through a cable or xDSL modem to the Internet. Refer to the hardware manual for more information about making connections using the RJ-45 Ethernet (LAN) port.
  • Page 77 Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation 5.3 Surveillance screen panel split windows select Group sequencing Fig. 5-6 The split windows selection icons are there for your selection to show the camera videos on local screen. It can be 1/4/9/16 splits. The group sequencing icons are for changing camera videos shown on the local screen in grouping sequence.
  • Page 78 Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation middle speed Click to bring up advanced PTZ functions as Fig. 5-9-1 snapshot Fig. 5-9 full screen camera audio select 5.5.1 Advanced PTZ function Fig. 5-9-1 is the screen for Pelco D type PTZ control. You can do “Auto Pan”, “Patrol”...
  • Page 79 Click the SETUP button to display the setup screen as Fig. 5-11. set up Fig. 5-10 Use the setup screen to change user definable parameters for the AP-5004. Choose a submenu from the list on the left and click the link to display it. Fig. 5-11...
  • Page 80 5.6.2 Set name & on screen display Use the Set Names and On-Screen Display page to set server names of AP-5004 and all cameras. You can also use this page to key in text to be displayed on screen with each camera under the Set Overlay Text option.
  • Page 81 AP-5004 generate alarm if the GPI state changes to “close” by external event. There are maximum 8 GPI and GPO points in a AP-5004 depends on the IO device installed. The state of GPO can be “ON” or “OFF” . When “OFF” is selected as below, it means the output points are “open” and when “ON”, it means “close”.
  • Page 82 • Set Video Compression Algorithm – Selectable MPEG4 / H264 / JPEG / MJPEG here. • Set IP Registry Host IP Address & Path – This function is good for AP-5004 that is working at ISP mode or dynamic IP. It directs AP-5004 to do registry at a registry server and then, remote PC client can access through registry server to find the AP-5004 unit.
  • Page 83 , you will get the screen as Fig. 5-17. You can then enter the MAC ID or server name of the AP-5004 that you want to search. In this example, we used server name “DVR” and we did get one machine. You then need to login using proper user name and password to see the video.
  • Page 84 The arrow button on top of Fig. 5-19 is to click for two way audio communication between remote PC client to AP-5004. After click it, the audio panel is brought up as Fig. 5-20. The green data rate bar indicates that the two way audio link is established and the transmission speed indicates the bandwidth consumption for this audio link.
  • Page 85 5.6.7 Set serial port AP-5004 has 2 serial ports built-in. COM1 is RS232, 9 pin D type. COM2 is RS485, 2 pin at the back panel slot. COM1 is default for modem connection and COM2 for PTZ control. You probably need to enter modem initialization string for successful modem connection.
  • Page 86 Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation The NETI/O Setting is used only when you have VP-204 connected to this AP-5004. VP-204 is a RS232 to LAN converter for POS till machine integration with AP-5004. When connect VP-204 to the same LAN segment of VP-5004, it will detect VP-204 and you can then select it at the “Port” field of Fig.
  • Page 87 Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation select serial device to connect with POS machine select camera for POS text overlay select POS machine model click to browse font table after selected, font name will be put here automatically Fig. 5-23 5.6.9 System information Click the System Information link to display the System Information page.
  • Page 88 You can use “Set NTP Server” to configure a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server for synchronization of AP-5004 internal system clock. Select a server and enable it using the drop down menus. Enter a time period using keyboard for the period of synchronization. Click Done when all parameters are entered correctly.

  • Page 89: Record Setup

    Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation Fig. 5-27 5.6.13 Alarm Log Any alarm will be written into alarm log including motion trigger GPIO trigger Disk error Video loss POS event.…..etc. User can search alarm log by specific time and double click one of the alarm log on the list to play specification-recording data.
  • Page 90 Monday, from 09:00 to 16:00. If you set “Start Time” and “Stop Time” both at “00:00:00”, that means always recording to AP-5004. You can select the recording criteria of each camera from following conditions: 1.
  • Page 91 “Done” after finishing. 5.7.4 POS Text record When AP-5004 is connected with POS till machine, you can set it up to record when POS text received. Recording can be ONLY when specific POS text strings which are defined as “POS Event”...
  • Page 92 Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation select POS event or text. When POS event, only special text string defined as “event” triggers the record. When text, any POS text received, triggers the record Fig. 5-32 5.7.5 Set Pre-alarm You can set each camera to record before alarm happens. The maximum number of frames a camera can record for “Pre-Alarm”...

  • Page 93: Alarm Setup

    “POS Event”. For example, when the string “void” is received, you may consider this as an abnormal situation and want AP-5004 to generate alarm. This is what POS event used. The configuration is straight forward as Fig. 5-35...

  • Page 94: Set Motion Detection

    Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation selectable GPI, Motion Detection, Video Lost, Disk Space Low, Disk error, POS event destination e-mail address Please remember to set up DNS IP in “System Configuration” if you use a domain name here in stead of physical IP Fig.
  • Page 95 DNS IP address in System Configuration The “file name “ field needs to pay particular attention. When it is empty, AP-5004 will generate the file name automatically in following format : IP-CH#-yymmddhhnn-xx, where “IP” is the IP address of AP-5004, “CH#”...
  • Page 96 Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation selected for listing on Fig. 5-30 today Fig. 5-37 select time and click “Play file” to get the file Fig. 5-38 Fig. 5-39 click to play click to bring up Fig. 5-32 3. By search – On Fig. 5-37, click “Search” to bring up Fig. 5-40. You can query by “Start”...
  • Page 97 “ Camera 1-16”. Only when the “Display” filed is set less than 16 cameras, then you have choices here. 4. Bandwidth – Click “Low” or “High” based on your remote connection link speed to AP-5004. 5. Status bar selection – Here you can select “Data”, “Motion”, “GPI” to show different status. On Fig.

  • Page 98: Configuration File

    Fig. 5-42 5.13 Configuration File Here you can back up the system configuration data of AP-5004 to a file or restore the configuration data from a file and upload to AP-5004. This function is good for system configuration back up for multiple machine set up or when abnormal condition occurs, the system manager of AP-5004 can restore previous configured data to the machine.
  • Page 99 Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation Fig. 5-44...
  • Page 100 Chapter 6. DCS Plugin Installation Guide v3.0 This DCS plugin will allow us to view remotely APEC DVR’s using IE. Uninstall your current DCS, apply the patch to the DVR and after that connect to the DVR using IE. It will download and install the DCS.
  • Page 101 Chapter 6: DCS Plugin Installation Guide v3.0 Fig. 6-3 Fig. 6-4 The DCS will start to install after downloading the dcs.cab. Please be aware that the download can take a few minutes depending on the bandwidth of your connection to AP-5004 DVR. Fig. 6-5...
  • Page 102 Chapter 6: DCS Plugin Installation Guide v3.0 After the installation, you will be able to access remotely the AP-5004 DVR Fig. 6-6 Windows XP + IE7 Login to Windows XP using a Administrator level account. If you have DCS / Secuwatch / Secuwatch Client installed in the PC, please uninstall it first.
  • Page 103 Chapter 6: DCS Plugin Installation Guide v3.0 Click here Fig. 6-9 Fig. 6-10 The DCS will start to install after downloading the dcs.cab. Please be aware that the download can take a few minutes depending on the bandwidth of your connection to AP-5004 DVR. Fig. 6-11...
  • Page 104 Chapter 6: DCS Plugin Installation Guide v3.0 Fig. 6-12 After the installation, you will be able to access AP-5004 DVR remotely. Fig. 6-13...

  • Page 105: Chapter 7. Ap-5004 Mobile Dvr 3G / Gps Configuration

    Wi-Fi while the vehicle is moving. It is helpful to consult the document “3G Basic Knowledge” before proceed to do the configuration. 7.1 Requirements For AP-5004 to work on 3G / GPS , you need the followings available: 3G USB modem AP-5004 with FW MDVR 2.x...
  • Page 106 Chapter 7: AP-5004 Moible DVR 3G / GPS configuration Fig. 7-1 After installed, run the software to get the data of “Dial number”, “User name”, “Password”, and “APN”. If the SIM card uses on the 3G modem has a PIN code, you need to disable it using this software, as Fig.
  • Page 107 APN: Access Point Name. Provided by ISP. Blank for Taiwan ISP provider. Boot Connection: Yes: AP-5004 will try to connect automatically during the startup using 3G modem as configured. No: It does not connect automatically. Connect: Click this button to manually start the connection.
  • Page 108 “IPofDVR” is the IP address of that AP-5004. For example : Fig. 7-6 Here “61.222.188.36” is the IP address of APEC demo DVR. Then find the field as below and set it to one(1) minute. Default value was “0”.
  • Page 109 Fig. 7-9 7.6 How to configure GPS AP-5004 will search for USB GPS modem ONLY when power on start up. Please make sure to insert GPS modem on USB port before power on AP-5004. After AP-5004 boot up into ready, go to “System setup”->”serial port”.
  • Page 110 Chapter 7: AP-5004 Moible DVR 3G / GPS configuration AP-5004 will reboot after you click “OK”. After reboot, if you are at a place that can receive GPS signals, you will be able to see the GPS coordinate text at the bottom left of the video window as Fig. 7-12.

  • Page 111: Appendix A: Auto Re-Connect Feature

    A.2: How to disable auto re-connect feature When auto-connect feature is activated, and AP-5004 had been connected successfully to 3G, go to "System Setup ", "3G ", to check its status. If "Connect Status " shows "Reconnecting ", as Fig. 7-15,...
  • Page 112 Chapter 7: AP-5004 Moible DVR 3G / GPS configuration Fig. 7-15 Appendix B. FAQ Q1: Can't connect to the 3G network! A1: Please check these following things: 1. Check if the SIM card is inserted correctly. 2. Check if you SIM card has 3G/GPRS/UTMS service and check if your USB modem can support that network service.

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