ARH PARKIT User manual

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ParkIT User’s Manual
For versions from 1.12.0.8
Document version: 12.07.18
Table of Contents
About this Manual.....................................................................................................................................................................................................3
Key Features of ParkIT........................................................................................................................................................................................3
Accessing the Camera..............................................................................................................................................................................................3
Live View.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................4
Configuration Wizard...............................................................................................................................................................................................5
Setup..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................6
Profiles.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................6
Editing Profiles ...............................................................................................................................................................................................7
HTTP Server Setup ........................................................................................................................................................................................7
Hardware Layer Setup.................................................................................................................................................................................8
Live View Setup..............................................................................................................................................................................................9
Users...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Date and Time ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Easy Setup........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Image.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Image Post Processing ............................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Advanced Setup ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Image Setup................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Brightness Control..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Optics Control ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Flash Control................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
Motion Detection............................................................................................................................................................................................. 19
Event Manager .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 21
Software Trigger......................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
UART Trigger................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
GPIO Trigger................................................................................................................................................................................................. 24
Scheduler ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Upload.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 28
FTP................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
SMTP............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
HTTP POST .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Logging ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Diagnostics ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Camera Log .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 30
Update.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 30
Restart .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
Help....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Recovery Mode ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
Recovering a Lost IP Address ....................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Appendices............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 33
Contact Information.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 34
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About this Manual
The aim of this guide is to help users to operate the camera and to make the most of it.
With the provided information below, users can easily manage the ParkIT camera through its web interface.
Key Features of ParkIT
Auto brightness control designed for license plate recognition
Automatic day-night mode switch, autofocus
Camera image rotation (180°), horizontal and vertical mirroring
Illuminant color compensation, automatic white balance
Frame filtering
Hardware motion detection
Low bandwidth usage, built-in adjustable image compression
Automatic time synchronization (NTP)
Trigger IN/OUT
Accessing the Camera
In order to access the camera, it has to be connected appropriately. For more information see ParkIT Install Guide.
For communication with the camera, camera commands have to be used. The easiest way of handling these
commands is through the web interface of the camera. For more information on other communication methods
see ParkIT Programmer’s Manual.
Access from Browsers
Steps of accessing the web interface of the camera from a browser:
1. Connect the camera to a computer or network switch then power on the camera.
After it is powered on, both status LEDs (red and green on the camera front) are turned
on while the camera is booting. After finished, the green status LED flashes two times
while the red one turns off signaling that the camera is ready for operation.
2. Enter an alternate IP address (or set your computer’s IP)
in the 192.0.2.x subnet – where x is an integer number
between 1 and 254 except 3 – with the subnet mask of
255.255.255.0.
3. Use the ping command to test the communication with the camera
Windows: Linux:
C:\>ping -t 192.0.2.3 username@mylinux:~$ ping 192.0.2.3
4. Soon, the ping package returns: Reply from 192.0.2.3 If not, power off then on and enter the
previous ping command again.
5. Start a browser then enter the default IP address of the camera into the address bar
(http://192.0.2.3). After this, the camera starts with administrator privileges, ready to be set up and
configured.
For more information on accessing the camera, see ParkIT Install Guide.
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Live View
The live image of the camera can be viewed on this page.
Under the camera image, a status bar is located providing the following information:
date & time (GMT)
NOTE: To alter date and time, see Date and Time configuration.
IP address of the camera
current FPS of the camera
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Configuration Wizard
The ParkIT camera must be configured before using. Use the Configuration Wizard for setting up camera features
(e.g. zoom, focus etc.) quickly and easily. The wizard guides users through the main calibration steps configuring
various properties of the camera including the Event Manager. Of course, the use of the wizard is optional –
camera properties can be set manually as well.
Steps of the Configuration Wizard:
Step 1: Set network settings to communicate with the camera. See Network Setup for more information.
Step 2: Time and date settings. For more information see Date and time.
Step 3: The Wizard can optimize the camera for ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) or Overview
purposes. Select the one that is appropriate for your purposes.
Step 4: With the help of the Automatic Zoom (ZFG - Zoom From Geometry) feature, optimal character size on the
camera image for ANPR can be reached quickly and easily. To use autozoom, enter the required data (e.g.
distance of the number plate) into the textboxes then click next. Click ‘Skip’ to set zoom manually.
Step 5: Based on the values provided in the previous step, the camera creates a red rectangle that should include
the license plate completely. If not, then adjust the position of the camera in order to do so.
Step 6: Use the Autofocus feature to achieve sharp camera image. The focusing process can operate on the entire
camera image or on a specified section of it. Use the rectangle to select the area for the Autofocus.
Step 7: Configure the basic camera parameters. For more information see Easy Setup description.
Step 8: Configure triggering and trigger events. For more information see Event Manager description.
Step 9: Set or create camera profile. For more information see Profiles.
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Setup
Profiles
Under the profile menu, the list of profiles can be viewed. Camera profiles are pre-set camera configurations
containing a complete set of settings that are loaded at startup and cannot be changed at runtime. One of the
profiles has to be always active and the active profile cannot be deleted.
The camera has a pre-defined default profile that cannot be erased but altered only or Set as current by users.
NOTE: To activate new profiles the camera must be restarted.
Creating new profiles
New profiles can be created according to the followings:
1. Click Create new on the ‘Profiles’ page.
2. Customize the new profile by setting the parameters of the ‘HTTP server’, ‘Hardware layer’ and ‘Live view
setup’ menus.
3. Enter a name for the new profile and click Save.
NOTE: Maximum 32 different profiles can be created.
Export profiles
Settings of camera profiles can be saved into a .tar.gz file, ready to be uploaded to other ParkIT cameras. The name
of the file will contain the exact date and time of exporting as follows: yyyymmdd_hhmmss.tar.gz
E.g. 20120620_101422.tar.gz
The saved settings can be uploaded to other ParkIT cameras by browsing the .tar.gz file in the Setup/Update page.
Export profiles, users and groups
Besides saving all profile settings into a .tar.gz file –just as in case of ‘Export all profiles’–, this option also saves
user and group configurations. The result will be a compressed .tar.gz archive as detailed in the previous option
and can be uploaded to other ParkIT cameras in the same way.
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Editing Profiles
HTTP Server Setup
NOTE:HTTP Server options (except ‘Name of the server’) are read only and cannot be altered by users.
HTML rootpath: Path of the static files (HTML pages, images etc.).
Listen port: Port used by the web server, the default is 80.
Max. connected clients: Maximal number of connected clients (to the web server) at the same time. Maximal
value is 64.
Max. sessions: Maximal number of sessions at the same time.
Max. opened modules per session: Maximal number of opened modules per session at the same time.
Session timeout (seconds): Maximal length of a session, max 3600 seconds (60 minutes).
Filter module: If defined, then queries are only transferred to the module specified here.
Default module: If no module with the specified name/type has been found, then the module specified here is
called.
Name of the server (title of the website): Text appearing in the address bar of the browser.
Click Save to save the settings.
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Hardware Layer Setup
Capturing
Image capturing frequency of the sensor:
The image capturing frequency of the sensor
determines the number of frames the sensor
captures in one second. Note that the actual
number of frames processed by the camera
can be further reduced with the help of the
Skipping frames and Number of skipped
frames (see next chapter) options.
This option can be used for reducing mains
flickering –caused by artificial light sources–
on the camera image. By this value, the
camera can be synchronized to the mains
frequency of its environment (230V@50Hz or
110V@60Hz).
Skipping frames: Frames captured by the
sensor can be skipped and omitted from
processing.
0 = no skipping, the system processes all
images
1 = every second frame is processed
7 = every eighth frame is processed (it
drops 7 frames than keeps one)
Number of frames per second: This option calculates the actual FPS value from the Image capturing
frequency of the sensor and the Skipping frames values.
Flashing
Number of flashes on the built-in illuminator in one second: Flashing frequency of the illuminator.
Image rotating, mirroring
The system is capable of rotating and mirroring images.
Rotate in degrees (0 or 180). Camera image rotation in degrees.
Horizontal mirroring: If ticked then horizontal mirroring is enabled.
Vertical mirroring: If ticked then vertical mirroring is enabled.
Image buffering
NOTE: Image buffering parameters are read only.
Reserved memory size for the GXD system (Mbytes): Maximal size of memory for the system. The rest of the
memory is used as image buffer. This memory is dynamic, if the system needs more memory it allocates for
itself automatically.
Maximal size of an image: Max. size of images in the camera memory.
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Live View Setup
The camera is capable of streaming live image with four parallel configurations. Number of configurations to be
used can be set at Number of servers (default: 1). Settings for each configuration can be specified in the
corresponding Server sections.
Server options:
Port of the server: Default: 9901.
Number of skipped frames: The number of frames
reduced at the Skipped frames option on the
Hardware layer setup page can be further divided here
by omitting frames from the image stream.
Type of the container:
MJPEG (only if the image channel is set to live
image)
JPEG sequence (only if the image channel is set to
live image)
H264 - For creating H264 streams (only if the
image channel is set to motion detection image)
NOTE: JPEG sequence and H264 streams cannot be viewed in browsers.
Image Channel: The source of images the camera transmits can be of two types: Camera image and Motion
detection image.
Maximum number of simultaneous connections: Default: 2.
Idle connection limit (in milliseconds): Default: 10.
Frame limit: Connection is closed as the number of frames the camera has sent reaches this value.
Default: 0 (0 = no limit).
Connection time limit: Connection is closed after this time is up. It represents the maximal length of
connection time in seconds. Default: 0 (0 = no limit).
Values are applied after clicking Save.
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Users
NOTE: At the first occasion, the camera automatically starts with administrator rights. In order to create new users
and groups, a user with ‘admin’ privileges must be created first.
Settings related to users can be managed on this page. The camera handles users on five different access levels
(detailed below). Users can be deleted and edited with the corresponding buttons. Note, that edited user settings
will be applied only after restarting the camera.
Adding new users
New user profiles can be created after clicking on Add new user. In the appearing form, data of the new user must
be provided into the corresponding fields.
Access level of the logged out users:The camera can be enabled to be accessed by users who are not logged in.
The access level of such users can be set up by this option.
NOTE: Users with ‘Guest’ access level cannot be created; this access level can be set up as ‘Access level of the
logged out users’.
Change password of the ‘root’ user:Password of the Administrator level user can be changed here.
NOTE: Only numbers and the letters of the English alphabet can be used in passwords and user names. Settings
are applied after clicking Save.
Access levels of the ParkIT camera
Access level Privileges
Guest no privileges, only login page
Viewer live view
help
log in/out
Normal user live view
help
login/log out
easy setup
advanced setup
motion detection
event manager
diagnostics/camera log
certain steps of the Configuration Wizard (see page 5)
Power user live view
help
login/log out
easy setup
advanced setup
event manager
diagnostics/camera log
profiles
restart
Configuration Wizard
Administrator access to every camera feature
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