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AW-111 Series
Multi-Profile
CMOS Infra-Red

Network Camera

User's Manual
Firmware Version 3.0.2

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  • Page 1: Network Camera

    AW-111 Series Multi-Profile CMOS Infra-Red Network Camera User’s Manual Firmware Version 3.0.2...
  • Page 2 Network Camera User’s Guide Owner's Record The model and serial numbers are located at the bottom of device. Record these numbers in the spaces provided below. Refer to these numbers whenever you call upon your dealer regarding this product. Model No. ____________________ Serial No.
  • Page 3 Network Camera User’s Guide Declaration of Conformity This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Network Camera User’s Guide Table of Contents Overview ..........................6 Introduction......................... 6 Features ........................6 Minimum System Requirements................. 7 Package Contents........................ 8 Connections and Outlook....................9 Hardware Installation....................... 11 Preparation ........................13 Search and Set up by IPWizard................. 13 Search........................ 13 Wizard.......................
  • Page 5 Network Camera User’s Guide System....................... 42 Date & Time....................43 Maintenance....................45 Video: Configure profile ................... 47 Common....................47 MPEG4/VGA.................... 47 MPEG4/QVGA..................48 MPEG4/QQVGA..................49 Video/JPEG....................50 Audio: Audio parameters .................. 52 User: Manage user name, password and login privilege ........53 E-Mail: Setup E-Mail configuration ..............

  • Page 6: Overview

    Network Camera User’s Guide Overview This user’s guide explains how to operate the Network Camera from a computer. User should read this manual completely and carefully before you operate the device. Introduction This camera is an inexpensive and fully scalable surveillance device. Because the Network Cameras can be plugged into your existing local area network (LAN), you will potentially save thousands of dollars from unnecessary cabling.

  • Page 7: Minimum System Requirements

    Network Camera User’s Guide Multi-channel control software for surveillance application On-line firmware upgrade Minimum System Requirements Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later VGA Monitor resolution 1024 x 768 or higher Pentium-4, 2.0 GHz or higher Memory Size: 512MB or more Windows 2000, XP, Vista 7/84...

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    Network Camera User’s Guide Package Contents User can find the following items in the package: Item Descriptions 1. This Unit is the main element of the product. 2. Camera Stand with screws 3. Detachable WLAN Antenna (for WLAN model only) 4.

  • Page 9: Connections And Outlook

    Network Camera User’s Guide Connections and Outlook DC Power Jack LAN Socket Factory Audio Default Reset Output Jack LAN Socket The LAN socket is a RJ-45 connector for connections to 10Base-T Ethernet or 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet cabling. This Ethernet port built N-Way protocol can detect or negotiate the transmission speed of the network automatically.
  • Page 10 Network Camera User’s Guide IR LEDs Network Microphone Accessing Type LED Microphone The Network Camera has built-in an internal microphone. This microphone is hidden in the pinhole located on the front panel. IR LEDs These LEDs are Infra-Red type. It’s very useful for low-lux environment to provide extra light source for image sensor.

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation

    Network Camera User’s Guide Hardware Installation 1. Attach the Camera with the included stand 2. Place the Camera on the table or fix it onto ceiling or wall Use three screws to fix the Network Camera onto the ceiling or wall. You could also put the Network Camera on the table directly.

  • Page 12: Power Cable

    Network Camera User’s Guide Ethernet Cable 4. Connect the external power supply to Camera Connect the attached power adapter to the DC power jack of the Network Camera. Note: Use the power adapter, 5VDC, included in the package and connect it to wall outlet for AC power.

  • Page 13: Preparation

    Network Camera User’s Guide Preparation Search and Set up by IPWizard When you installed the Camera on a LAN environment, you have two easy ways to search your Cameras by IPWizard or UPnP discovery. Here is the way to execute IPWizard to discover Camera’s IP address and set up related parameter in a Camera.

  • Page 14: Wizard

    Network Camera User’s Guide If IPWizard finds network devices, Wizard button will be available. Please select the device you want to set-up or connect and click the left button of the mouse on the Information Box. The words on the Information Box will turn from white to yellow which means this device is selected.
  • Page 15 Network Camera User’s Guide selected device. Further procedures can be carried out when device is available on the LAN. After pressing Installation Wizard, please key in authorized username of the device and password when login dialog box appears on the screen. You can login the setting page if authorized name and password is approved.
  • Page 16 Network Camera User’s Guide Wizard page 3: Confirmation This page shows the information of the selected device to check if there is any mistake or not. If it is correct, please press “Submit” button and the setting information will be uploaded to the selected device.

  • Page 17: Using Upnp Of Windows Xp Or Vista

    Network Camera User’s Guide ® Using UPnP of Windows XP or Vista 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. If the operating system, Windows XP or Vista, of your PC is UPnP enabled, the Network Camera will be very easy to be found.

  • Page 18: Install The Device Behind A Nat Router

    Network Camera User’s Guide Install the Device behind a NAT Router Once installed, the device is accessible on your LAN. To access the device from the Internet you must configure your broadband router to allow incoming data traffic to the device.

  • Page 19: Access The Device From The Internet Explorer For The First Time

    Network Camera User’s Guide Access the device from the Internet Explorer for the first time Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of the Network Camera you want to monitor as below: The Login Window of the Network Camera is prompted: Type in your login name and password under “USERNAME”...

  • Page 20: Logging In As An User

    Network Camera User’s Guide According your browser’s security setting, the IE Web Page may prompt the “Security Warning” window. If so, select “Yes” to install and run the ActiveX control into your PC. Otherwise, the system will load the ActiveX silently. After the ActiveX control was installed and ran, the first image will be displayed.

  • Page 21: Operating The Network Camera

    Network Camera User’s Guide Operating the Network Camera Start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator. Video ActiveX Profile Control Streaming Protocol Language Setting Menu 2-Way Audio Monitor Image Section Monitor Image Section The image shot by the device is shown here. The date and time are displayed at the top of the window.

  • Page 22: Language

    Network Camera User’s Guide Language The device could provide multiple languages to meet customer’s requirement. 2-Way Audio The device supports 2-way audio function. User can chose to enable or disable this function by toggling the icon below. : Disable audio uploading function. : Enable audio uploading function.

  • Page 23: Digital Zoom

    Network Camera User’s Guide 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. Record 23/84...

  • Page 24: Snapshot

    Network Camera User’s Guide 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 25: Voice

    Network Camera User’s Guide Voice Click Volume to activate this function. There are two control bars for speaker and microphone volume respectively. Scroll these control bars to adjust the audio attribute. Check the volume mute will mute the speaker output. 25/84...

  • Page 26: Statistics

    Network Camera User’s Guide 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. About 26/84...
  • Page 27 Network Camera User’s Guide Click About to show this ActiveX information. 27/84...

  • Page 28: Administrating The Device

    Network Camera User’s Guide Administrating the Device System Setting This function is only available for user logged into Network Camera as administrator. Click on each menu name to display its setting page. Item Action Network Configure Network settings such as DHCP, DDNS, 3GPP, PPPoE and UPnP Camera Adjust camera parameters, day &...
  • Page 29 Network Camera User’s Guide MAC address: Displays the Ethernet MAC address of the device. Note that user can not change it. Obtain IP address automatically (DHCP): DHCP: Stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Enable this checked box when a DHCP server is installed on the network to issue IP address assignment.

  • Page 30: Wireless

    Network Camera User’s Guide could assign the second port number of http protocol, and the WAN users should follow the port number to login. If the http port is not assigned as 80, users have to add the port number in back of IP address. For example: http://192.168.0.100:8080. Therefore, the user can access the device by either http://xx.xx.xx.xx/, or http://xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx/...
  • Page 31 Network Camera User’s Guide SSID: This is the name of the wireless network the device is configured for. The field accepts up to 32 alphanumeric characters. The name must be exactly the same as that used in the wireless access point, or the connection will not be established. Leaving this field blank means the device will attempt to access the nearest open network.

  • Page 32: Ddns Service

    Network Camera User’s Guide Key value of WEP. WPA settings: - WPA Key: Key value of WPA. The device uses a pre-shared key (PSK) for key management. The pre-shared key can be entered either as Manual hex, as 64 hexadecimal characters, or as a Passphrase, using 8 to 63 ASCII characters.

  • Page 33: Pppoe

    Network Camera User’s Guide Dynamic Domain Name Server is necessary. DDNS: To enable or disable the DDNS service here. Server name: Choose the built-in DDNS server. DDNSHost: The domain name is applied of this device. User name: The user name is used to log into DDNS. Password: The password is used to log into DDNS.
  • Page 34 Network Camera User’s Guide up and get a dynamic IP address. For more PPPoE and Internet configuration, please consult your dealer or ISP. The device can directly connect to the xDSL, however, it should be setup on a LAN environment to program the PPPoE information first, and then connect to the xDSL modem.

  • Page 35: Streaming

    Network Camera User’s Guide 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 36 Network Camera User’s Guide 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 37: Ip Filter

    Network Camera User’s Guide Show the IP address and port for WAN access through Internet. If NAT traversal is configured successfully, user can use this IP address and port to access this device. IP Filter You can enter different user’s IP address which are allowing enter or denying by the device.
  • Page 38 Network Camera User’s Guide Send To: Type the receiver’s e-mail address. This address is used for reply mail. Subject: Type the subject/title of the E-mail. TCP Notification: If enable this function, then the “TCP Server“, “TCP Port”, and “Message” fields need to be filled.
  • Page 39 Network Camera User’s Guide If enable this function, then the fields below need to be filled. URL: Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP server. HTTP Login name: Type the user name for the HTTP server. HTTP Login Password: Type the password for the HTTP server.

  • Page 40: Camera: Adjust Camera Parameters

    Network Camera User’s Guide Camera : Adjust Camera parameters Use this menu to set the functions of the camera parameters of the device. Picture Rotation: Turn the “Mirror” and “Vertical Flip” On or OFF. The image will be overturned as below. 40/84...
  • Page 41 Network Camera User’s Guide White Balance: Auto: will adjust the white balance automatically. Hold: will hold the white balance. Exposure Control: Auto: will adjust the internal gain automatically. Hold: will hold the internal gain. Power Frequency: User should choose either 50 or 60 Hz to meet the power line frequency in your country. Note: If you found the video image is flash, you may need to choose correct frequency.

  • Page 42: System: Configure And Maintain System

    Network Camera User’s Guide System : Configure and maintain system Use this menu to perform the principal settings of the device. System DIPS (Dynamic IP Service): To enable or disable the DIPS® (Dynamic IP Service) function. Device ID (for DIPS): It’s a unique number of each device for identification and this ID is used for DIPS.

  • Page 43: Date & Time

    Network Camera User’s Guide You can find web page as below: Enter your Device Number and press “OK” button. Then, a new web page will pop up and link to your device accordingly. You will see that DIPS is a much easier service than DDNS. Device Title: You can enter the name of this unit here.
  • Page 44 Network Camera User’s Guide - Synchronize with PC: Click this option to enable time synchronization with PC time. - Manual setting: Click this option to set time and date manually. - Synchronize with NTP: Click this option if you want to synchronize the device’s date and time with those of time server called NTP server (Network Time Protocol).

  • Page 45: Maintenance

    Network Camera User’s Guide Maintenance Hard Factory Default (Include the network setting): Recall the device hard factory default settings. Note that click this button will reset all device’s parameters to the factory settings (including the IP address). Factory Default (Except the network setting): The unit is restarted and most current settings are reset to factory default values.
  • Page 46 Network Camera User’s Guide 2. Make sure that only you access this device while firmware updating. 3. Disable Motion Detection function. 4. Click “Browse” button. Select the Firmware binary file. (Note that it must make sure that the Firmware only applies to this device, once update, it will be burned into FLASH ROM of system.) 5.

  • Page 47: Video: Configure Profile

    Network Camera User’s Guide Video : Configure profile 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. Common Text Overlay Setting: There are some important information can be embedded into image, including date, time, and/or text.

  • Page 48: Mpeg4/Qvga

    Network Camera User’s Guide 4096kbps. User can set the desired bit rate to match the limitation of bandwidth. For VBR, user should choose the quality level to set the video quality rather than bit rate. 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 49: Mpeg4/Qqvga

    Network Camera User’s Guide Max Frame Rate: Defines the targeted frame rate of this profile. For example, set the frame rate to 15 fps, then the image will be updated for 15 frames per second as possible. User need to set reasonable max frame rate versus video quality under the limited bandwidth.

  • Page 50: Video/Jpeg

    Network Camera User’s Guide 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 51 Network Camera User’s Guide 51/84...

  • Page 52: Audio: Audio Parameters

    Network Camera User’s Guide Audio : Audio parameters Audio: To enable or disable audio function 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 52/84...

  • Page 53: User: Manage User Name, Password And Login Privilege

    Network Camera User’s Guide User : Manage user name, password and login privilege Use this menu to add, update, or remove the usernames and passwords of the Administrator and viewer. Viewer login: Select “Anonymous” to allow any one viewing the video once connected. Otherwise, only users in database can view the video after login.

  • Page 54: E-Mail: Setup E-Mail Configuration

    Network Camera User’s Guide E-Mail : Setup E-Mail configuration 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 55 Network Camera User’s Guide Type the receiver’s e-mail address. E-mail From: Type the sender’s E-mail address. This address is used for reply e-mails. E-mail Subject: Type the subject/title of the e-mail. 55/84...

  • Page 56: Object Detection: Setup Object Detection

    Network Camera User’s Guide Object detection : Setup 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 57: Event Server: Setup Ftp/Tcp/Http Server Configuration

    Network Camera User’s Guide Event Server : Setup FTP/TCP/HTTP server configuration 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 58: Tcp Server

    Network Camera User’s Guide FTP Path: Set working directory path of FTP server. FTP Passive Mode: Select passive or active mode connecting to FTP server. TCP Server In addition to send video file to FTP server, the device also can send event message to specified TCP server.
  • Page 59 Network Camera User’s Guide Name: User can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. URL: Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP server. Test: Check the HTTP server whether it is available or not. HTTP Login name: Type the user name for the HTTP server.

  • Page 60: Event Schedule: Configure The Event Schedule

    Network Camera User’s Guide Event Schedule : Configure the event schedule 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: Event trigger or Schedule trigger.

  • Page 61: Appendix A: Restore Factory Default Settings

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix A: Restore Factory Default Settings There is a button hidden in the pinhole near to the DC power connector. This button is used to restore the all factory default settings. Sometimes restarting the device will make the system back to a normal state.

  • Page 62: Appendix B: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix B: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions Question Answer or Resolution Features The video and audio The device utilizes MPEG4 and JPEG dual compression to codec is adopted in the providing high quality images. Where MPEG4 is a standard device.
  • Page 63 Network Camera User’s Guide holding down more than 3 seconds on the device. 2. Reconfigure the device. Forgot the IP address of Check IP address of device by using the IPWizard.exe the device. program or by UPnP discovery. IPWizard program •...
  • Page 64 Network Camera User’s Guide external network. Refer to your router's manual for details. • Access the device from the Internet with the global IP address of the router and port number of the device. • Some routers reject the global IP address to access the device on the same LAN.
  • Page 65 Network Camera User’s Guide than the setting. the 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 66: Appendix C: Ping Ip Address

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix C: 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 the device installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 67: Appendix D: Bandwidth Estimation

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix D: Bandwidth Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the device 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 form your device.

  • Page 68: Appendix E: Specifications

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix E: Specifications AW-111 Series CMOS IR Network Camera Model MPEG4 and JPEG simultaneously and multi-profile Video Encoder Video Resolution Up to 30fps @ 160x120 Up to 30fps @ 320x240 Up to 30fps @ 640x480 Audio Encoder RTSP: G.711, G.726...

  • Page 69: Appendix F: Configure Port Forwarding Manually

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix F: Configure Port Forwarding Manually The device can be used with a router. If the device wants to be accessed from the WAN, its IP address needs to be setup as fixed IP address, also the port forwarding or Virtual Server function of router needs to be setup.
  • Page 70 Network Camera User’s Guide Your WAN IP Address will be listed here. Note: Because a dynamic WAN IP can change from time to time depending on your ISP, you may want to obtain a Static IP address from your ISP. A Static IP address is a fixed IP address that will not change over time and will be more convenient for you to use to access your camera from a remote location.
  • Page 71 Network Camera User’s Guide If you are using the default camera port settings, enter 80 into the Public and • Private Port section, click Apply. Scheduling should be set to Always so that the camera images can be accessed • at any time.

  • Page 72: Appendix G: Ddns Application

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix G: 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 73 Network Camera User’s Guide (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 73/84...
  • Page 74 Network Camera User’s Guide 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. 74/84...
  • Page 75 Network Camera User’s Guide 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 75/84...
  • Page 76 Network Camera User’s Guide (7). If the correct username and password are input, you can see the following picture at the top-right of the login page. (8). Click the “Services”. (9). Click the “ Dynamic DNS ”. (10). Click the “Create Hosts”.
  • Page 77 Network Camera User’s Guide (11). We could create a domain name without any charge at this step. First, we input the host name. (Pink No.1) Then we pick a domain that is easy to remember. (Pink No.2) Finally, click the “Add Host” to submit the domain name information. (Pink No.3) 4.

  • Page 78: Appendix H: Power Line Frequency

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix H: Power Line Frequency COUNTRY VOLTAGE FREQUENCY COMMENTS *Neutral and line wires are reversed from that used in Argentina 220V 50 Hz Australia and elsewhere. *Outlets typically controlled by adjacent switch. Australia 230V* 50 Hz Though nominal voltage has been officially changed to 230V, 240V is within tolerances and commonly found.

  • Page 79: Appendix I: 3Gpp

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix I: 3GPP To use the 3GPP function, in addition to previous section, you might need more information or configuration to make this function work. Note that to use the 3GPP function, it strongly recommends to install the Networked Device with a public and fixed IP address without any firewall protection.

  • Page 80: Appendix J: Enable Upnp Of Windows Xp

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix J: Enable UPnP of Windows XP Use the following steps to enable UPnP settings only if your operating system of PC is running Windows XP. Go to Start > Settings. Click Control Panel 80/84...
  • Page 81 Network Camera User’s Guide Click Add or Remove Programs Click Add/Remove Windows Components The following screen will appear: 81/84...
  • Page 82 Network Camera User’s Guide Select Networking Services Click Details Select Universal Plug and Play Click Ok 82/84...
  • Page 83 Network Camera User’s Guide Click Next Please wait while Setup configures the components. 83/84...
  • Page 84 Network Camera User’s Guide Click Finish 84/84...

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