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.

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Set the current date & time.
Set up network.

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It will give you feedback if something went wrong (line would be red). If all settings were proper,
each line would be green.
All these settings are also available as separate configuration pages (see System settings).

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5. SYSTEM SETTINGS
5.1. NETWORK
WEB INTERFACE > BASIC SETUP > NETWORK
This page provides access to the network settings of the camera.
NETWORK SETUP
Hostname: The name of the device in the network.
Title of this site: Textual description of the device, for example CameraFrontRight, that will
appear as the title of the browser tab.
DHCP: Check this checkbox to have the camera to operate in DHCP mode, that is to obtain its
IP address, Netmask, Gateway, Primary and Secondary DNS from a DHCP server (DHCP mode).

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ONVIF: Checking this checkbox will enable the ONVIF interface of the camera. Please note that
with ONVIF enabled the amount of memory available for image buffering will be smaller.
IP VERSION 4 AND 6:
The camera supports IPv4 and IPv6. Both versions can be enabled simultaneously. At most two
IPs can be assigned to a device.
IPv4:
the IP address for the camera can be set automatically via DHCP (see option above), or
manually, a static IP address.
IPv6:
Only static IP addresses are supported. The /16 option stands for the length of the subnet
mask (16 refers to 8 characters long mask)
HTTPS
The camera’s onboard webserver is capable to run in HTTPs mode. It means that you will have
an encrypted, secure channel between you and the camera. Please note that while the
communication towards the camera is secured (HTTPs requests, web interface), but it is your
responsibility to protect the communication channel (e.g. with VPN) between the camera and
the data server for result upload.
To set up the HTTPs connection click CONFIGURE
GENERATE a Certificate Signing request by setting up the hostname and hit GENERATE.
Upload/Install your Signed Certificate (which you have from the 3rd party certification provider)
ACTIVATE the HTTPs
Enable RTP: select this option to enable RTP streaming.
Enable NTCIP: enables the National Transportation Communications for Intelligent
Transportation System (ITS) Protocol (NTCIP) which creates a seamless integration into
standardized ITS systems.
Settings are applied after clicking SAVE.

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5.2. DATE & TIME
WEB INTERFACE > BASIC SETUP > DATE AND TIME
Current date and time and timekeeping settings are managed in this page. Users can choose to
set date and time manually once or to use a time synchronization protocol (NTP), which will
keep time synchronized to a server over network.
Before you set the time please make sure that your time zone is valid (has the correct continent
/ Capital City). You can do this by using the Time zone’s drop-down list.
For manual time adjustment, either enter date and time in the corresponding fields, or
click to adjust the internal clock of the camera according to the PC’s clock.
Please note that the latter is a one-time adjustment only, it will not keep the camera synchronized
to the client PC.
Continuous synchronization is based on NTP (Network Time Protocol). The following settings are
available with NTP client:
Off: no NTP synchronization

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Regular NTP client: Regular NTP synchronization, according to the NTP standard. This is
compatible with all NTP servers and network configurations. Approx. one second accuracy
is guaranteed only.
Local network NTP client: Works only if the camera and the NTP server is on the same
local network, but guarantees higher accuracy than the standard NTP client. Also places
a higher load on the NTP server.
The following parameters have to be set:
NTP server hostname/IP: The address of the NTP server. (If the NTP server does not run on the
default port (123), specify the port in the following format: [hostname/ip]:[port].
Max. I/O time: Maximal duration of a query-answer cycle between the camera and the NTP
server, before the answer is dropped. This influences the accuracy. Best practice is to set it to
10000 µs on a local network.
Log: If it is enabled, the current state of synchronization can be monitored at the Maintenance
/ Camera log page.
To initiate an immediate synchronization to the NTP server, click the button.
The camera has an internal battery feeding its Real Time Clock (RTC) while the camera is
powered off. In power down state the battery is able to provide power to the RTC for
approximately 2 weeks. It takes about 12 hours in power up state for the battery to completely
recharge.

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5.3. USERS
WEB INTERFACE > BASIC SETUP > USERS
User management settings are displayed in this page.
If user management is not required, it can be turned off with the
checkbox. This increases performance. Administrator rights will be granted to all. This is also the
factory default state. In order to create new users, a user with 'Administrator' privileges must be
created first.
Users can be added , deleted and edited with the corresponding buttons.
Adding a new user: On clicking the plus ('+') button a form appears requesting the following
fields:
Name: the user name, this will be used to login.
User name cannot be 'root' and must contain only letters of the English alphabet, numbers
or underscore.

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Full name: The full name of the user.
Password: corresponding password.
Confirm password: confirm the given password to rule out mistyping.
Access Level: check the table below for the extent of each access level.
Access level
Privileges
Viewer
Login
Live View
Help
Normal
Login
Basic Setup –Live View
Advanced Setup –Motion Detection, Private Zone, Event Manager
ANPR - Browse
Maintenance –System Information, Camera Log
Help
Power
Login
Basic Setup –All menu Items
Advanced Setup –All menu Items (except IP Filter)
ANPR –All menu items
Maintenance –System Information, Camera Log, Restart
Help
Administrator
Access to every camera feature
Full name should contain only letters of the English alphabet, numbers, space or the
following characters: '.','/','_','+','-',',' (with regular expression:
/^[0-9A-Za-z\.\/_\+\- ,]*$/)
Password should contain only letters of the English alphabet, numbers or underscore
('_') (with regular expression:
/^[0-9A-Za-z_]*$/)

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Edit/Delete: It is possible to edit user parameters or delete existing users from the system with
the exception of the main "admin" user. This user cannot be deleted and its username and access
level cannot be modified.
Settings will be applied only after restarting the camera. If you click VALIDATE after
modification the camera will automatically restart.

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5.4. IP FILTER
WEB INTERFACE > ADVANCED SETUP > IP FILTER
Default Policy: The policy can be of two types
Reject All –in this case access is denied to all IPs except those listed
Accept All –in this case access is granted to all IPs except those listed
The exceptions to the default policy can be added and removed in the Add IP Address to Filter
List section.
The IP filter module affects only HTTP and stream communication, it does not restrict the SSH
and FTP access.