APEC AP-5004 User manual

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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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Central Monitoring System Integration -
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
MPEG4 compression
Dual stream support for different video quality / FPS at the local recording and remote
transmission operation.
Firmware version – MDVR 2.0
1.2 Front panel
1.3 Back panel
Fig. 1-1
Fig. 1-2

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2. Installation
Please refer to the wiring diagram of Fig. 1-3. Standard delivery of AP-5004 package include
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. You can also get this information after running up AP-5004 by
entering “advanced set up ->”system information” from GUI screen.
2.1 Power connection -
Connect the “+” & “—“ terminals on the power plug to the correct polarity of vehicle battery.
The “ACC” terminal needs to be wired to the “ACC” signal of engine ignition, in order to
activate the AP-5004 power-on/off delay feature. If you don’t want to bother the “ACC”, then
you can connect “ACC” and “+” terminals together to enable power control by the ON/OFF
switch at the back panel. Under this condition, there will be no power-on/off delay..
VGA
monitor
TV
monitor
Fig. 1-3
Power plug
USB Mouse /
Keyboard
AV cable
IO cable

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2.1 Capture-in
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.
2.2 VGA monitor
Although there are two VGA outputs on Fig. 1-3, VGA1 & VGA2, currently only VGA1 is
available. VGA2 is reserved for future use. You can connect a VGA monitor on VGA1 to have local
live view and do playback or configuration.
2.3 TV monitor
The S-Video output on Fig. 1-3 is to connect to a TV monitor.
2.4 DIO connector
AP-5004 can support 4IN and 4OUT dry contact IO points. Plug the IO cable that
comes with AP-5004 to this connector. Each IO has uses a set of 2 pins ("+", "-")
2.5 RS485 interface
AP-5004 has a RS-485 interface for PTZ camera control. This is combined on
the DIO connector, as on Fig. 1-3, “DATA+”, “DATA-“ and “GND” leads are
for RS-485.
2.6 Hard disk / SSD card installation
AP-5004 uses 2.5” SATA hard disk or SSD card. The installation procedure is as follow:
2.6.1 Remove hard disk from AP-5004 cabinet.
Loosen the screws on hard disk tray that tights with AP-5004 cabinet as Fig. 1-4
2.6.2 Pull out the hard disk tray as Fig. 1-5
Fig. 1-5
Fig. 1-4

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2.6.3 Loosen the 4 screws at the two sides of the hard disk tray and lift up the plastic tape to move
tape out the hard disk. Then you can exchange the hard disk or install a new one.
2.7 USB Mouse - You need a mouse when you want to do the system configuration or back up
record files. There are 4*USB ports on AP-5004. Two at the back panel and the other
two at front. If you don’t use mouse, you can use IR remote controller to operate it.
3. External 3G modem an GPS modem installation
You will need an external 3G modem for communication between AP-5004 and control center.
If you also want to have GPS tracking with e-Map support on SecuTrack CMS, then, you will need
a GPS modem. Please refer to the documentations “FW MDVR1.x 2.x 3G-GPS configuration-
guide” and “ 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
to [email protected]
4.2 Vehicle camera – You may need small size or weather proof cameras for the installation.
If you have difficulty in finding them from your local market, please consult
[email protected]
4.3 Video / Audio cable – Cables connecting video & audio signals from cameras or
microphones to AP-5004 are important to ensure the video / audio quality. Please use proper
quality AV cable to avoid noise generation.
Fig. 1-6
screw screw

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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. So, please wait a little bit for VGA screen to show up after
power ON.
AP-5004 can support maximum 4 channel cameras. So, those buttons or indicators for operations on
more than 4 channels, are NOT workable on AP-5004.
2.1 Main screen
After AP-5004 boots up, you can see its main screen as Fig. 2-1.You can see the camera videos on
local VGA screen. The graphical user interface (GUI) composes of the control panel, status panel, and
camera selection panel. Please go on to Chapter 3 for a detailed explanation about the GUI operation.
Fig. 2-1
2.2 Running mode of AP-5004
There are two kinds of running modes on AP-5004, “mouse” mode or “IR control” mode. The
factory-default operation mode is “mouse".
2.2.1 Change running mode.
You can change AP-5004 running mode back and forth between “mouse” and “IR Control”.
Each time you change mode, AP-5004 will reboot to take the change into effect. Please be noted,
Camera
selection
control
status

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you can configure or operate all the advanced functions ONLY at mouse mode.
2.2.1.1 From mouse mode to IR mode
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.
2.2.1.2 From IR mode to mouse mode –
Follow these instructions to switch from IR remote control running mode to mouse running
mode:
1. Press the Menu button on the remote control to display the setup menu on screen.
Fig. 2-2
2. Use the up and down arrow buttons to highlight the Running Mode option and press the OK
button to confirm your choice.
The running mode menu will be displayed on screen.
3. Use the up and down arrow buttons to highlight the Control – IR Control field.
4. Use the left and right arrow buttons to toggle between Control – IR and Control – mouse.
5. Press the OK button when the control field is set to mouse.
The unit will reboot when the OK button is pressed. It will restart in mouse running mode. Please
refer to Chapter 4 for IR control OSD operation.
Menu button

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Chapter3.GraphicUserInterface(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 :
Fig. 3-1
DVR basic information: including date, time, total hard disk size and LAN status.
Camera status:
RM
Color Recording Mode
Gray No video signal
Blue No recording
Red Full recording
G
Color Status of each DI and DO device.
Gray DI or DO not detected
Red DI or DO was detected
Color Motion detection Status
Gray Motion not detected
Yellow Motion detected
Setup
Camera status
Playback
DVR basic information
surveillance
screen panel
sequential
page
page up
page down
IO control
full screen

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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.
B. Use the sequence button to automatically cycle through all the connected cameras.
C. The arrow buttons to page down or page back cameras.
D. Enlarge button
Click the enlarge button to switch to full screen live video display.
Double click mouse right button to switch back normal live video.
E. IO control button
Click to bring up GPIO status panel as Fig. 3-5.
On Fig. 3-5, the top row of yellow points indicate current status of GPI. It becomes RED when
GPI is activated. The middle row of yellow points indicate historical status of GPI. That means, if any
of the GPI was activated before, the corresponding point became RED and stay RED unless the “clear”
button is clicked. The bottom row yellow points indicate current GPO status. When activated, it becomes
RED and remains there until it is de-activated. Click “close” to close this IO status panel.
B
Fig. 3-3
C
Fig. 3-4
A
D
E
F
Fig. 3-5
current status
historical status
clear
closeGPO status

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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
Click “OK” and then you will be asked to select a back up device. Then, click “Backup”
to save the image. After that, you need to click “Quit” to leave the back up window.
3.2.2
3-3 PLAY Back Record file
Click the PLAY button to bring up Fig. 3.6 for playback the recorded files in the hard disk.
Fig. 3-6
camera
select
video adjustment overlay text enable
IO control

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Fig. 3.6
Function buttons:
1. Bookmark 2.Alarm log 3. Backing up the data
4.Thumbnail Browse 5.Search by Event 6. Search by Text
Calendar
Function buttons
Play buttons
Split-screen buttons
Recording data status information
Basic information indicates
date/time & size of current
playing file.
Back to live surveillance
Lock file

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How to play recording file:
Fig. 3.7
Fig.3-8
Date Color Meaning
Red Have recording data
White No recording data
Square Today’s date
Orange The day that was selected for playback
Lock file: click the score bar under time line can lock
file to keep the file will not be erased when cyclic
recording.
Step1: Select a date from calendar.
Step2: Select an hour from time line.
Step3: Select camera to playback.
Step4: Click anywhere on recording data score
bar to start playback from the required point.
Select camera: Select the cameras you want to display
Record data status: click anywhere on score bar to start playback from the required point.
Click to show normal
record status
Click to show motion
detection recording status
Click to show alarm trigger recording status

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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. Click “-” button will decrease playback speed.
3.3.2. Split-screen display buttons:
Split-screen display buttons enables you to define which split-screen is displayed on screen.
3.3.3. Video adjustment when playback
Fig.3-9
You can do camera image adjustments for brightness, contrast, sharpness and smoothness when
single camera view is selected at playback. Click “pause” and then do the adjustments via the buttons as
These buttons ONLY appear when single camera window is
selected on local display screen
“water mark” flag.
becomes RED if the
video was modified
Only appears when
single camera view
Selectable 4 split-screen
The arrow buttons to cycle through

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Fig. 3-10. You can also zoom in specific point of the image to get clear view.
Brightness Contrast Sharpness Zoom-in Restore
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. 3-8.
Click “motion status button” on Fig. 3-10 to show motion status of the record file. The yellow bars
(Motion) indicate the instance when motion was detected. On Fig. 3-10, camera#1 had
motion trigger started from around 22:00 till 32:00 minutes in this hour.
Fig. 3-10
Click GPI status button to show GPI trigger status of the record file as Fig. 3-11. The vertical small
orange bars indicate when GPI events were detected.
The vertical yellow line on Fig. 3-10 is the playback cursor. Click anywhere on the Data, Motion, or
GPI lines to start playback from that point.
Smooth
motion trigger
indication
GPI triggers detected
Fig. 3-11
play back cursor
motion
status
button
GPI status
button

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3.3.5 Bookmark
User can have bookmarks at the specific time during playback.
Fig. 3.12
3.3.6 Alarm log
Any alarm will be written into alarm log including motion triggerǵGPIO triggerǵDisk errorǵVideo loss
ǵPOS event.…..etc. User can search alarm log by specific time and double click one of the alarm log on
the list to playback the video.
Fig. 3.13
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. The new bookmark file will
be locked.
3. Select one of the lists of recording file in
bookmark field and click “play” button to
playback.

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3.3.7 Backing up
You can back up record files to VCD/DVD RW or USB HDD drives. Click the “backup” icon.
Fig. 3-14 shows the back up device found. Here we have “USB Flash Disk”. Then, click “OK” to
bring up Fig. 3-15. If you answer “OK”, AP-5004 will clear all data on the USB Flash Disk.
If you click “Cancel”, then, Fig. 3-16 shows you how much space left on the USB Flash Drive
before doing file copy. You then need to select the date / time and cameras on Fig.3-17
Fig. 3-14
check to
select it for
back up
back up device currently connects to
this machine
Fig. 3-15 Fig. 3-16
Fig. 3-17 Fig. 3-18

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Then, click “OK” to start file copy as Fig. 3-18. After completed, Fig. 3-19 show you the result of
how many files, size and date / time period that was back up.
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.
1. Select search starting time and camera.
Fig. 3.20
2. Using a simple time selector and built-in image viewer .You can check out the results with the built-in
viewer.
Fig. 3-19

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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 hourΖWhen select a specific hour to do Zoom in, it goes
into second layer. The second layer displays 16 pictures based on evenly divided time slots in this hourΖ
Then if any one of these pictures is selected to do Zoom inΔit goes into the third layer. This layer displays
16 pictures from left to right, that are most close to the time slot of layer twoΖ
Zoom out - Back to one layer upΖ
Back- Back to Thumbnail Browser window
Ok - Start playback recorded file
3.3.9 Search Function
When you click search button, Fig. 3-22 appears on the screen. It is default at “Time” search. But
you can select “GPI” or “Motion Detection” from the “Rule Selection” field.
3.3.9.1 Search by Time

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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.
Search by GPI Trigger:
Fig. 3.23
The search result gives you the first camera image which was related to that camera on the screen.
as Fig. 3.24 . On Fig. 3-24, you can do play, list all files of the search, select next or go previous record.
There is a date / time and camera # indication window to show you when and which camera
video you are currently looking.
1. Select the GPI# you want to search
2. Select “All Time Range”Ε”Today”Ε”Yesterday”
or “User Define” for quicker searching.
3. Click “ok” to start search GPI Trigger files in the
specific time.
selectable
Time/GPI/Motion Detection
key in the date / time you
want to search
Fig. 3-22

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3.3.10 Search by Motion
OnFig. 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.
Fig. 3-25
1. Select motion detection of the camera# you want
2. Select the time period you want. It can be “All Time
Range”Ε”Today”Ε”Yesterday” or “User Define”
3. Click “ok” to start search motion files at that
specific time range.
Back
previous record
next record
search result list
replay
Fig. 3-24
date/time/camera#
indication