Fike FVA-IP, Installation And Operation Manual

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Installation and Operation Manual FVA-IP Camera
4 P/N 06-523 (Rev. 6) Revision Date: June, 2019
1.3 Scalable System Architecture
A Fike Video Analytics system is comprised of at least one FVA‐IP camera, a video management system, and the
monitoring solution. You can connect any number of FVA‐IP cameras and network recorders via standard LAN /
Ethernet network to expand the system to meet end user needs (limit of 32 cameras per network recorder). FVA‐IP
cameras can be powered by a FM approved fire alarm control panel (FACP), an approved security and fire camera
power supply with battery backup, or as a supplemental means a Power‐Over‐Ethernet (POE) switch with battery
backup. With the Fike Video Analytics video management software, any approved PC workstation can be used as a
monitoring system so long as it is connected through a standard IP network connection. Figure 2 is an example of the
scalable enterprise architecture.
Fig 2 – Typical installation of a Fike Video Analytics system with 8 FVA‐ IP cameras, a FSM‐IP video management system,
and a LAN network connected to security workstation and remote monitoring of the site.
Fike Video Analytics comes with a video management system called FSM‐IP Network Video Recorder (NVR). The NVR
provides a storage point for video alarms from the FVA‐IP Cameras and acts as an information conduit between the
video management software monitoring station and the cameras themselves. The number of FVA‐IP cameras that can
be supported in any Fike Video Analytics installation is dependent on the speed and robustness of the network to
which the cameras are attached. It is this flexibility of number of cameras, NVR platforms, and video management
software monitoring stations that makes Fike Video Analytics systems scalable to any size application.