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MSDAU RF ANTENNA

The MSDAU provides a standard SO-239 connector on the right side for an external
antenna connection, as shown below with the included cable and connectors for the
antenna mount.

The design of the antenna used will determine its optimum gain and frequency range.

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Summary of Contents for 42212TNI

Page 1: ...Unidentified Flying Object Data Acquisition System Systems for the UFO Data Acquisition Project UFODAP ufodap com System Installation Guide Revised 10 10 22 Version 1 08 Copyright 2022 Ronald Olch RHOlch Systems ...

Page 2: ...Y EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERR...

Page 3: ...nna 28 Pole mounted Camera Installation 31 Preparing a Dome camera for operation 32 Ethernet cable connections 34 Setting up an installed camera 38 Dahua camera Configuration 42 Dual Camera Setup for Triangulation 55 Camera separation for triangulation 56 Maximum target detection distance 57 Camera calibration for triangulation 58 Tips and Techniques 59 Telescope Control 59 MSDAU antenna function ...

Page 4: ... for focus and zoom 62 Testing OTDAU setup and tracking 63 System setup for triangulation 65 Initial camera and MSDAU setup and test 65 Initial camera connection and testing 66 Can a camera be used with other software as well as OTDAU and MC at the same time 67 ...

Page 5: ...or more DAUs and supporting components Planning your system involves the following considerations Site selection Verification of usable viewing site lines to the intended field of view If you will collect data from one or more cameras Multi Sensor Data Acquisition Units MSDAUs or both If you are using a camera s selection of the type of camera s for your situation Pan Tilt Zoom PTZ or fixed optica...

Page 6: ...g more than OTDAU software running on a local computer and using a USB webcam on a windowsill The most complex installations may utilize a combination of up to six DAUs with a total of up to 12 cameras and six MSDAUs The six units may be widely separated with OTDAU computers remote from their associated cameras and MC running at yet another remote site The internet connections that tie all these e...

Page 7: ...zoomed resolution However a fixed camera will not experience the motion lag of a PTZ camera and thus does a better job at tracking faster moving objects Note also the difference in light sensitivity between these cameras In color mode this will not be apparent during the day but may result in more granularity of the image in very dark conditions Near infrared light 700 1000 nm is beyond what the h...

Page 8: ...960 352x240 1280 x 720 1280 x 720 704 x 480 704x480 352x240 640x480 352x240 Sub Stream 1 resolutions 704 x 480 704 x 576 704 x 480 704 x 480 704 x 480 352 x 288 352 x 240 352 x 240 352 x 240 Sub Stream 2 resolutions 1280x720 1280 x 960 1280 x 720 704 x 480 1920 x 1080 704 x 480 704 x 480 704 x 480 352 x 240 Color sensitivity 0 005 lux 0 001 lux 0 005 lux 0 005 lux 0 005 lux B W IR sensitivity 0 0 ...

Page 9: ...to lower voltages used internally The hardware required for that function is known as a PoE Injector or Injector Switch This is a small device that is powered from a 115 230VAC 50 60Hz source An Ethernet cable connects a computer or router to the Injector s uplink or LAN port and another connects the Injector s PoE port to the camera or a MSDAU An injector may have more than one PoE port Each port...

Page 10: ...red and run time until recharged if battery storage is included Thus for example the total system power required for a field installation that includes the panoramic camera a 50230 camera an MSDAU and an RF bridge to a remote router would be 47 5W Thus this system could run continuously with a 100W solar panel during the day and continue during the night using battery storage in the GoalZero Porta...

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Page 12: ...vided with a lens cover and tape to protect the pan tilt mechanism from damage during shipping This must be removed prior to use Remove the dome using the provided star wrench to unscrew the three screws that fasten the dome to the housing as shown below ...

Page 13: ...he tape and lens cover and set aside for possible shipping perhaps for warranty repair should that be necessary Replace the dome onto the camera taking care that the o ring is in place and tighten the three screws ...

Page 14: ...e range of height and stability requirements However if the legs are spread too far then the leg tips cannot grip the ground which may result in undesired spread For tripod mounting open the tripod legs sufficient for stability Place the System mount on top of the tripod and start the tripod screw into the mount socket Try to align the mount in the approximate center of the tripod head Tighten the...

Page 15: ...o protect a floor from the tripod tips Setup Procedure 1 Open the tripod in the selected location Remove the protective cap on the tripod threads 2 Place the camera assembly on top of the tripod and using the knob under the tripod screw the tripod treads into the bottom of the camera assembly The assembly does not have to be precisely located at the center of the top of the tripod 3 The initial he...

Page 16: ...POE164 Injector This camera may also be used with the Planet POE171 single output 60W injector or a FSD 504HP due to their higher 60W outputs 4 Ethernet 6 cable 5 Ethernet 100 196 or 300 all weather cables Note The maximum length for a camera to injector cable is 100 meters or 328 feet Setup Procedure 1 Open the tripod in the selected location 2 Place the camera assembly on top of the tripod and u...

Page 17: ...spreading the tripod legs and by how far the legs are extended To extend them unlatch extend retract and re latch For stability it is better to spread the legs to a wider rather than narrower stance and extend the legs if necessary to achieve a desired height ...

Page 18: ...e available from ufodap com Please request a detailed parts list customized for your particular system configuration The brackets shown below may be attached to a camera or MSDAU mount to adapt it to a building corner or pole tower The stainless steel straps are provided with the pole mount adapter Note Your installation may require attachment of the pole mount to a larger diameter pole or structu...

Page 19: ...supported to the structure such that the camera and or MSDAU do not move in windy conditions as shown in the example below The optional addition of the owl can sometimes be helpful to prevent birds from landing on the dome leaving behind residue that can obscure the view ...

Page 20: ...ypically used with shielded Ethernet cable with the ground wire connected to the metal structure if any at the MSDAU Camera end and to a good building or rod ground at the structure end The MSDAU and Camera Mount enclosures are non metallic and thus isolate those electronics from ground Thus the MSDAU or camera should not be directly tied to the mounting structure such as a metal tower The purpose...

Page 21: ...ng to prevent water ingress Also a special gland nut has been pre installed to the box This gland nut allows a standard Ethernet cable with RJ 45 connector to be used without field termination and waterproofs the cable UFODAP camera cables are sized and specified to allow this and to provide long term use in outdoor conditions 1 Using the provided Allen wrench remove the three screws that attach t...

Page 22: ...uter gland nut shroud and insert the end of the camera cable that has no boot through the shroud and the nut into the box as shown below 4 Plug the cable into the camera s Ethernet jack and dress the cables inside the box as shown ...

Page 23: ...23 5 Reinstall the shroud to the nut and tighten the shroud by hand as much as possible Be sure that the rubber gasket under the shroud has fully tightened against the cable ...

Page 24: ...a is as shown below so that it can be tilted up Note that when positioning the camera field of view it may be both rotated and angled Loosen the Philips screw on the side of the camera mount You can rotate the camera about its axis and move it left or right with a ratcheting action until it is pointing as desired Then tighten the screw ...

Page 25: ...ent to a standard surveying type tripod The back plate includes four threaded holes to which either the pole mount adapter or the building corner mount adapter shown above may be attached An MSDAU mounted via the System Mounting Adapter is shown below The mounting position shown accommodates an additional camera or other item such as an antenna mount on the opposite side of the plate above the tri...

Page 26: ... Any camera and the MSDAU are powered via their own Ethernet cable to PoE injector In the above configuration the camera and the MSDAU each require an Ethernet cable to an injector usually located near a router In this tripod mount configuration refer to the use of the 5 8 11 tripod above ...

Page 27: ... steel straps are provided to attach the pole mount to any vertical rigid pipe Be sure that the pipe is sufficiently supported so that with the weight of the MSDAU it does not move in the wind The mechanical configuration of these components is set by your order when purchased you will not have to install or change any such configuration ...

Page 28: ... a standard SO 239 connector on the right side for an external antenna connection as shown below with the included cable and connectors for the antenna mount The design of the antenna used will determine its optimum gain and frequency range ...

Page 29: ...no well defined ground plane Its gain at any particular frequency is dependent on its extended length The optimal values may be calculated using this Whip Antenna Length and Frequency Calculator http www csgnetwork com antennagenericfreqlencalc html Thus the 6 7 to 30 inch antenna above has a range of about 187 MHz to 838 MHz but will provide signal well below and above those values but with lower...

Page 30: ...of the example below The various length elements are the primary antenna Its response is omnidirectional primarily in the horizontal plane Such an external antenna would be connected directly to the MSDAU antenna connector shown above It may be easily unscrewed from the mount for transport and reattached when the MSDAU is set up in the field ...

Page 31: ...d camera utilizes a junction box between the camera mount and the pole mount adapter as shown below The junction box provides a waterproof transition from the camera s Ethernet connector to a box mounted connector you use to attach the Ethernet cable ...

Page 32: ...rovided with the camera 2 Loosen the three screws on the top of the camera dome until they are free they are captive and will not fall out of the dome 3 Lift the dome off of the camera body taking care not to dislodge the o ring under the dome 4 Peel the tape off both sides of the pan tilt mechanism taking the plastic lens cap with it taking care not to touch the lens 5 Set aside the cap tape for ...

Page 33: ...t the o ring is in place 7 Use the star tool to tighten the three screws 8 Verify that the camera dome is dust free If it is dirty clean it with a slightly damp soft cloth The Dahua NK8BR4 360 degree camera and the N51BD22 bullet camera or other fixed cameras do not require any mechanical preparation for use ...

Page 34: ...d the cable box and screw it onto the connector body Be careful not to cross thread this connector If it does not screw in exactly straight then unscrew it and try again Cables provided by UFODAP come with this backshell installed on the cable 2 Your PoE Injector passes the Ethernet signals thru it to your router while injecting DC power on two unused cable wire pairs to power the camera To instal...

Page 35: ...quent step 4 Route the unconnected end of a long camera cable from the camera assembly or MSDAU to the PoE injector by some convenient route and avoiding creating a tripping hazard 5 As shown below plug the routed end of the camera or MSDAU cable into any of the four unused ports of a four port PoE injector or the POE port on a single port injector This cable may be a bit stiff so bend it near the...

Page 36: ...ort may be used to provide a wireless connection from the injector to the router As shown below plug the short cable into the Extender and the Extender into a wall outlet Plug the injector s power cord into the AC outlet as well The Extender should have been setup previously to communicate with the router per its manufacturer s instructions 7 If the Extender and Injector are outside be sure that t...

Page 37: ... Press the joystick again to set the address and continue normal operation 9 In addition to or instead of using a computer connected to the camera s router the camera may also be made accessible to any computer that is not directly connected to the camera s router That is at a different location no matter how remote via the internet To enable this the camera s router must be setup to port forward ...

Page 38: ...to Chrome 3 Click on this symbol found on the upper right next to the Address bar 4 That will open an Options and Settings page Scroll down until you find IE Compatibility Mode and select the IE 10 Forced Standards Mode setting 5 You can now close the Tab Options tab 6 In the tab labeled IE Tab Chrome Web Store on the Address line enter your camera s IP address such as 192 168 1 108 and press Ente...

Page 39: ... to close the IE window and restart IE via Config Tool again This time you should see video from the camera and have access to all of the camera s settings and manual controls You should now have a Live view of what the camera sees and a set of PTZ controls on the right side Check that the camera s PTZ functions are working by clicking on the various PTZ buttons to move the camera zoom and manuall...

Page 40: ...40 Click on the Setting tab to access all of the camera s adjustments as referenced below ...

Page 41: ...the Network settings then the default configurations provided with OTDAU and Mission Control software will not work and would have to also be adjusted to match In case you need to check or redo them they are the factory defaults except as follows The following section illustrates how to change these settings ...

Page 42: ...anual Dahua Speed Dome Web3 0 Operation Manual for complete instructions for camera setup operations The latest version of this manual as of this time is 4 2 0 It may be downloaded from the Dahua Wiki at https dahuawiki com Template Manuals The following screen shots were captured using Internet Explorer IE to setup and control Dahua 50A230 or 50230 cameras Other Dahua cameras are similar They sho...

Page 43: ...43 Set Picture settings to Profile Normal and leave others as shown above Set Flip to 180 degrees Set Exposure settings as shown above ...

Page 44: ...44 Set Backlight Profile to Normal and Mode Off Set WB to Profile Normal and Mode Auto ...

Page 45: ...45 Set Day Night settings as shown above Set Focus Zoom settings as shown above ...

Page 46: ...46 Set Defog Profile to Normal and Mode to Auto ...

Page 47: ...s Above shows frame resolution for 704 x 480 20 frames per second 1280 x 720 or 1920 x 1080 at up to 30 FPS could also be selected depending on OTDAU computer capacity ONVIF Authentication should be set to Off for no authentication ...

Page 48: ... 168 1 1 in the search bar of your browser 2 Log into your router The User Name is usually admin The Password may be password unless you changed one or both Check your router s manual for the actual default values 3 Check your router s subnet IP or LAN address It is usually factory set to 192 168 1 1 or 192 168 0 1 For your camera s to be able to connect to your router it must be on the same LAN a...

Page 49: ...atic When you reset the router or cycle power it will reassign all DHCP addresses transparently and none of the example Camera configurations that are provided with OTDAU software will need to be changed 4 Navigate to the router s DHCP settings Change the address range used by the DHCP Server Pool to avoid assigning an address that is the same as your camera s Do this by changing the Ending Addres...

Page 50: ...50 Select a HTTP Port number other than the default of 80 if the camera is needs to be port forwarded on your router Leave it as 80 otherwise ...

Page 51: ...ill need to modify the PC s IPv4 address to static instead of DHCP This change will place the camera s and the PC on a common LAN by setting the PC s IP address and that of the camera to have the same first three parts of the LAN address 192 168 1 x Despite this change the PC will still have internet access when connected to a router 1 Press the Windows R keyboard shortcut to bring out the Run box...

Page 52: ...52 4 Press the Windows R keyboard shortcut to bring out the Run box 5 Enter ncpa cpl and open the Network Connections window 6 Right click your computer s network adapter and select Properties ...

Page 53: ...5 Select Use the following IP address and change the IP address to the desired IPv4 address such as 192 168 1 50 as shown in this example NOTE This address must match the one in the IP field of the OTDAU Configuration when using an instance of OTDAU with Mission Control software ...

Page 54: ...esses are greater than the top of the DHCP range e g greater than 100 These steps will prevent conflict between automatic assignments of addresses by your router conflicting with the static addresses of your DAUs NOTE The IP address of your computer is shown above as x x x 140 It can be any value that does not conflict with any other statically addressed device on your computer such as a camera 14...

Page 55: ...ct can be to an observer half way between them Anything farther will also be in view The answer to the question what is the farthest object that can be seen is a complex function of several factors such as The size of the object The amount of optical zoom in use The amount of self illumination of the object The contrast ratio of the object vs the sky background The resolution of the camera imager ...

Page 56: ...56 CAMERA SEPARATION FOR TRIANGULATION ...

Page 57: ...itial target detection Using the 50232XANR camera 32x zoom focal length of 4 9 to 156mm Sony Starvis sensor IMX290LLR which is 4 56mm side Rearranging the equations to get camera distance pixels 3 pixels 30 focal length chip size 1920 3 30 4 9 4 56 20 631 feet or 3 9mi Of course after target detection with incremental zoom while staying on target the focal length and thus the distance greatly incr...

Page 58: ...amera Notice that after closing the camera configuration and reopening by clicking Load the camera will return to the above saved position Note that this setup assumes that one camera will acquire a target first and as it tracks if the target moves to enter the bounding box of the second camera both will track the same target and triangulation will occur After the above OTDAU setup open Mission Co...

Page 59: ...er compatible as defined in the document NexStarCommunicationProtocolV1 2 pdf You would have to provide the WiFi interface and a compatible GoTo controller perhaps without the telescope for software hardware integration and testing You would need to provide some type of telescope camera that results in the image available via either a USB or Ethernet interface If all of that could be arranged then...

Page 60: ...ft or 21 miles So that would require remote internet connected cameras Note that the wider the FOV the closer the cameras can be to triangulate a target at a given distance See also the following section on maximum usable target distance INITIAL INSTALLATION ISSUES The Operating System OS under which the OTDAU and Mission Control software run must be Windows 10 or 11 They can also run on an Apple ...

Page 61: ...zontally on top of the truck using wing nuts b Use the System mount both plates and the 5 8 11 tripod mount on the truck MSDAU vertical or c Your own L brackets or plate to attach to the wall plate CAMERA RESOLUTION TRADEOFFS A moving target may not be slow enough or hang around long enough to be able to zoom to 32x If you make that assumption then you would save money using a 12x zoom camera such...

Page 62: ...re i5 8250u TRACKING PROBLEMS If you have difficult tracking problems please share data about those issues as follows Verify correct operation without P T or Zoom enabled Then verify if there is a problem with only P T enabled Only if that works enable zoom To share data on this please send me the avi of the Wide camera and a screenshot of the Tracking and Camera parameters used at the time Howeve...

Page 63: ...le Handoff in Setup and Run The system then will attempt to point the PTZ at a target initially acquired by the fixed camera and perform a new detection and continuous tracking via the PTZ while recording if enabled both cameras Mission Control software is not used for this function Note that if you do not enable Handoff then tracking will still be performed by the fixed camera but the PTZ directi...

Page 64: ...t the camera is actually set to You cannot use it to set the camera s resolution You may also want to reduce the initial zoom speed for example from 2 0 to 1 0 Generally the process to validate system operation is to 1 Check operation with P T and Zoom disabled and use the Default settings Look for proper detection and tracking and adjust settings such as Crop Blur Delta Min and Max areas if neces...

Page 65: ...e tripods and mount the cameras with optional MSDAUs on them Connect an antenna to the MSDAU s Plug one end of a CAT6 cable into each camera and MSDAU Plug the other end of the cables into a common PoE injector Connect a short cable from the injector to a computer or router Run two copies of OTDAU and one of Mission Control on the computer Select per defined configurations for the OTDAU System con...

Page 66: ...our camera using the System configuration dahua 50232 108 80 1920x1080 json The MSDAU IP address is initially 192 168 1 144 If you had a second MSDAU it would be modified via its joystick to 145 To test it use the Mission Control software and select the Mission mission ms1 json then click Load To use MS with OTDAU load your camera configuration then select a mission such as mission pccam1 json You...

Page 67: ...amera stream may be viewed on several applications at once For example you can view and manually control an IP camera from the IE browser while OTDAU is using it The only constraint is you would not want some other application to be sending PTZ motion commands to the same camera as OTDAU is controlling MC and multiple instances of OTDAU can all run on the same computer or different computers since...

Page 68: ... and take off the lens shipping protective cap and the dome protection plastic film When you replace the dome be sure that the o ring is in place Power up the PoE injector and note fan noise and motion in the camera and display illumination in the MSDAU Software Use the Dahua ConfigTool to verify camera operation When you open it it should discover the camera Then click the WEB icon on the right t...

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