ARH MICROCAM User manual

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MICROCAM-02
USER MANUAL
Document version: 2018.02.25.
Table of Contents
MICROCAM-02 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1
USER MANUAL ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1
THE FCC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY............................................................................................................. 4
USER MANUAL ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1. ABOUT THIS MANUAL ........................................................................................................................................ 5
2. ACCESSING THE CAMERA ................................................................................................................................. 6
3. WEB INTERFACE ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
4. FIRST STEPS (WIZARD)........................................................................................................................................ 9
5. SYSTEM SETTINGS...............................................................................................................................................12
5.1. NETWORK ......................................................................................................................................................12
5.2. DATE & TIME................................................................................................................................................14
5.3. USERS...............................................................................................................................................................16
5.4. IP FILTER .........................................................................................................................................................19
5.5. PLAIN CONFIG.............................................................................................................................................21
6. IMAGE SETUP ........................................................................................................................................................22
6.1. IMAGING PIPELINE.....................................................................................................................................22
6.2. POST-PROCESSING....................................................................................................................................27
6.2.1. IMAGE.....................................................................................................................................................27
6.2.2. COLOR....................................................................................................................................................29
6.2.3. ADVANCED...........................................................................................................................................30

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6.2.4. PRIVATE ZONES .................................................................................................................................32
6.3. BRIGHTNESS CONTROL...........................................................................................................................33
6.4. EXPOSURE CONTROL ...............................................................................................................................35
6.5. FLASH CONTROL........................................................................................................................................36
6.6. MISCELLANEOUS ........................................................................................................................................37
6.6.1. SNAPSHOT, 1:1 VIEW, RECORDING A STREAM ..................................................................37
6.6.2. VISUAL AIDS........................................................................................................................................38
7. EVENTS AND ANPR ............................................................................................................................................39
7.1. EVENTS............................................................................................................................................................41
7.1.1. EVENT MANAGER .............................................................................................................................41
7.1.2. VEHICLE DETECTION TRIGGER....................................................................................................42
7.1.3. MOTION DETECTOR.........................................................................................................................43
7.1.4. SOFTWARE TRIGGER........................................................................................................................45
7.1.5. SCHEDULER TRIGGER ......................................................................................................................46
7.1.6. CARMEN GO TRIGGER MODULE ...............................................................................................47
7.2. ANPR................................................................................................................................................................56
7.2.1. BROWSE.................................................................................................................................................56
7.2.2. ANPR SETTINGS.................................................................................................................................58
7.2.3. TITLE EDITOR.......................................................................................................................................62
7.2.4. ENGINE MANAGER...........................................................................................................................64
7.2.1. BLACK/WHITE LISTS .........................................................................................................................65
7.2.2. RULES......................................................................................................................................................66
7.2.3. TIME SETTINGS...................................................................................................................................66
7.2.4. LICENSE PLATES.................................................................................................................................66
7.2.5. EVENT NOTIFICATIONS ..................................................................................................................66
7.2.6. EXAMPLES.............................................................................................................................................66
7.2.7. BLACKLIST FOR STOLEN CARS....................................................................................................66
7.2.8. WHITELIST FOR OPENING GATE ................................................................................................66
7.2.9. WHITELIST ON TOLL ROAD..........................................................................................................67
7.2.10. RESULT UPLOAD................................................................................................................................68

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7.2.11. DIAGNOSTICS .....................................................................................................................................72
8. MAINTENANCE.....................................................................................................................................................73
8.1. SYSTEM INFO ...............................................................................................................................................73
8.2. SENSORS ........................................................................................................................................................74
8.3. CAMERA LOG...............................................................................................................................................75
8.4. BACKUP/UPDATE........................................................................................................................................76
8.5. RESTART & RECOVERY MODE .............................................................................................................77
CONTACT INFORMATION .............................................................................................................................................81

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THE FCC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
47 CFR PART 15 SUBPART B
MICROCAM-02
FCC statement
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two
conditions:
This device may not cause harmful interference, and
This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause
undesired operation.
Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital
device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial
environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to
radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful
interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer responsible for
compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
Warning: Where shielded interface cables or accessories have been provided with the product
or specified additional components or accessories elsewhere defined to be used with the
installation of the product, they must be used in order to ensure compliance with FCC. Changes
or modifications to product not expressly approved by ARH Inc., Inc could void your right to use
or operate your product by the FCC.

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USER MANUAL
1. ABOUT THIS MANUAL
The structure of this manual follows the approach of configuring a new camera for its first-time
use.
All of the camera features are accessible through the web interface, using a web browser. No
external components need to be installed.
First, system settings are discussed, so that the device will be operational.
Next, the user will be guided through the process of setting up the image capturing process, so
that the camera will provide good quality images both for internal use - like license plate
recognition - and for the video feed streamed with the chosen encoding.
In the last section the tools of camera maintenance (firmware update, logs, etc.) are described.

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2. ACCESSING THE CAMERA
In order to access the camera, power and network connectors have to be connected
appropriately. For more information see the Quick Install Guide. Follow the five steps below:
Connect the camera to a computer or a network switch using the Ethernet cable, then power
the camera on. Soon both status LEDs (at the camera front) turn on and stay lit while the camera
is booting. When the green status LED flashes two times and the red LED turns off the camera
is ready for operation.
Note down your computer’s current IP address and settings.
Set your computer’s IP address as 192.0.2.x (with x other than 3 or 255, for example 192.0.2.54),
with the subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Use the ping command to test network connection to the camera
Windows: c: \ping -t 192.0.2.3
Linux: [username@mylinux ~]$ ping 192.0.2.3
In a couple of second the ping echo package will be received, if not:
check the Ethernet link LEDs at the computer or network switch for a physical link
check the IP of the computer by pinging its own address (using the example at step #2:
ping 192.0.2.54)
Start a browser and enter the default IP of the camera: http://192.0.2.3 into the address bar. The
camera’s user interface starts up with administrator privileges, ready to be set up and configured.
If the web interface is not accessible, make sure that neither a proxy nor a firewall is blocking
access, and that the browser is not in offline mode.
Under recent versions of Firefox (v. 56.0) it might be necessary to disable the feature "Use
hardware acceleration when available" to avoid possible browser/machine hangs (Located at:
Preferences/Performance/Use Recommended Performance Settings).

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3. WEB INTERFACE
Main areas of the camera interface:
Info bar
The information bar displays the menu and the current SW version.
ARH logo
Version number
Camera type, menu points
Side menu
Basic, advanced setup, ANPR, maintenance, help menu –click to open
Access camera settings via the navigator. Menu is organized into a tree structure.
Workspace
Use the workspace for settings. Save your changes, otherwise the previous settings remain
in effect.
Workspace
Sidemenu
Infobar

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Click the icon on the workspace to display Help on the page.
Workspace buttons have a popup help. Hover the mouse over the button to see the tooltip.
Use the Save button to save settings. All settings will be lost if you leave the page without
saving settings. A popup window will remind you to save settings.
Menu subpages can also be addressed via direct links, like http://192.0.2.3/#liveview/,
http://192.0.2.3/#eventman, etc.

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4. FIRST STEPS (WIZARD)
WEB INTERFACE > BASIC SETUP > WIZARD
The Wizard will help with the initial configuration of the system settings of the camera. It will
guide you through:
It will guide you through setting up an administrator user.