IndigoVision Modules
PTZ Control
Control Center enables users to control PTZ cameras when viewing live video. In addition, administrators can configure custom controls and presets for each PTZ camera. They can also set a user priority for PTZ cameras, and specify that certain users can hold a connection to a PTZ camera, preventing other users from controlling it.
PTZ cameras can be controlled using an external joystick, or directly on the video pane using a mouse. The camera can be easily panned and tilted in different directions and at different speeds by simply moving the mouse, and zoomed by clicking.
Thumbnails
Thumbnails display still images taken from recorded video within the current range of the timeline. Thumbnails for 8 hours of footage are displayed in 2 seconds.
Thumbnails make searching through large amounts of footage easy and efficient. Time-based thumbnails allow users to identify an event where the exact time is not known, for example, the theft of a car from a parking lot. Motion-based thumbnails are excellent for identifying events where there are many sources of, or varying amounts of motion.
Maps
Control Center allows users to display a map of a site to help locate cameras and alarms. If using a dual monitor setup, users can drag and drop maps onto the second monitor. This means that the full map can be viewed on one screen, and the video panes on the other.
Watermarking
A watermark is added when exporting video sequences for evidential purposes. Control Center takes a digital signature of the sequence and watermarks this onto the video. This provides an extremely high level of security.
Motion Search
Control Center allows users to search through a recording and identify any significant motion that occurred during it. The user can specify which areas of the scene are to be observed or ignored when searching.
Control Center also provides intelligent motion search capability based on object size, direction of motion and appearance or disappearance of an object from a scene (museum mode).
Control Center creates a motion profile, which is displayed in the timeline as a graph. Users can display thumbnails, which display images of significant motion within the time range shown in the timeline.
Once Control Center has compiled a motion profile of a recording, users can search through it based on the motion found over the current threshold. This threshold can be changed at any time. Users can zoom in for a more detailed view of the profile, and can also skip directly backwards and forwards through the profile.
Virtual Matrix
To enable use with a CCTV keyboard, Control Center automatically numbers monitors, cameras, salvos, sequences and guard tours. Users can view video on monitors or PC panes in the same way as controlling a matrix. This functionality is supported using keyboards, providing an efficient and familiar control method to end users. Any number of users can use the virtual matrix functionality at the same time, giving a very powerful system. Up to 999 cameras and 999 monitors can be numbered, making Control Center a 999 x 999 virtual matrix.
Administration
Site Setup
Control Center allows administrators to manage network devices, sites, recordings and the recording schedule. In Control Center, a site can include cameras from many different geographical locations and networks.
Device Discovery
On startup, Control Center automatically detects all IndigoVision devices that are on the same local network as the PC. If required, administrators can also specify scan addresses to discover devices on other networks.
User Accounts and User Access
The Administrator user account provides access to all functions within Control Center. The administrator can set up any number of Operator user accounts, and can specify which sites and cameras each user can access, and which functions they can perform, for example, view only, or control PTZ cameras.
Alarm Sources
Administrators can specify which sources alarms should be viewed from, and the time period when alarm sources are active. Video recorded at the time of an alarm can also automatically be protected.
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