American Dynamics ADCI625-P221, Configuration And User'S Manual

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Alarms
If using a Illustra 625 PTZ Feature Plus camera it will be possible to configure and trigger alarms.
The dome can be commanded to carry out a specified operation when a alarm is triggered.
Note
Scheduled tasks, return to home, alarms and manual camera control will always begin when they
are selected or scheduled to start. None of these camera actions have a priority over the other. If a
camera action is in progress and a new action is selected or activated the previous action will stop
before the new action is started.
The dome provides four alarm inputs. By connecting alarm devices, such as smoke alarms,
twilight sensors, or motion sensors, to these inputs, you can enhance the usability of your video
surveillance system. You can further improve your video surveillance by assigning a action, such
as a preset or pattern, to start whenever an alarm input changes from normal to abnormal.
• For 15 seconds after being triggered any additional individual input changes on that alarm
source will only be logged and not generate any other action. This is to reduce the effect that any
oscillating alarm source, e.g. if a door is simply vibrating in the wind, causing a series of alarms
to be generated.
• Input alarms are triggered upon change of state. Either from opened to closed or from closed to
open. The camera will report the current state of each input alarms (open or closed) as well as
an active or inactive status in the alarm configuration page. Active alarms will also be visible in
the current faults page.
• The triggering of any input alarm will affect scheduled tasks and delay them until at least 30
seconds has passed since the last digital alarm input was triggered.
Alarm Actions
Upon triggering each alarm input can be configured to trigger any combination of the following
actions:
• PTZ action: none or a stored preset, pattern, sequence or scan.
• The result of this PTZ action will continue until another PTZ, scheduled task or return home
command is received. A PTZ command from the Web GUI or ONVIF will be responded to
immediately, possibly interrupting the programmed PTZ action. A PTZ action from a different
digital input will also be done immediately. PTZ commands originating from a scheduled task
only interrupt the alarm PTZ action if more than 30 seconds has passed since the triggering.
Otherwise, they get delayed.
• Activate the digital output contact. This stays active until the alarm is acknowledged and cleared
by an operator.
• Send an external alarm WS-Event that includes alarm details
• Send an external alarm via email that includes alarm detail, where to retrieve the AVI video file
and one JPEG picture of the event if recording MJPEG to local storage. If MJPEG is not being
recorded on local storage, then no JPEG picture will be sent.
• Send an audio file to the dome. If a speaker has been connected to the audio output on the
dome the file can be played as the alarm is triggered.