General
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Siemens Building Technologies
Fire Safety & Security Products
06.2008
1 General
1.1 Use
The SIMATRIX SYS, SIMATRIX NEO, SIMATRIX NEO V2, SIMATRIX 648 and
SIMATRIX 164 video matrix systems are supplied with software whose standard
settings cover the great majority of all the conceivable applications for these
systems. The video matrix systems can be further set up to meet individual
customer demands and to suit a variety of expansion levels by entering additional
system and operating parameters.
The programming software,
Vm_win8
for Windows, allows you to set up the entire
range of functions offered by the SIMATRIX video matrix systems from the
Windows configuration screen on your PC. The software also allows you to back
up your system configuration and edit camera texts.
As the description that follows applies to all the video matrix system types, they are globally referred to
as SIMATRIX. Only when there are differences between the systems are they referred to explicitly by
their model designation.
1.2 Requirements
Your PC configuration must satisfy the following requirements in order to program
the SIMATRIX system:
z
Pentium PC using one of the following operating systems:
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6)
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
z
A connection cable between the PC and the SIMATRIX is required if on-line
programming is envisaged
z
Programming software for the SIMATRIX
