Vodafone Business Surveillance – IP470 Installation User Guide
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Additional configuration options
There are several additional configuration options available on the encoder’s home page:
Change time zone
The time used by the encoder (for both live video and recordings) is automatically set by synchronising with
Vodafone Business Surveillance Server. The encoder saves all recordings in UTC (GMT), and during display
of both live video and recordings the viewing client will offset the time displayed by the time-zone
configured in this setting.
NTP Service
Many IP cameras can display the current date/time overlayed on the video. To print the correct time, IP
cameras need an accurate time source – to help provide this the encoder can run an NTP (Network Time
Protocol) server to ensure that the encoder and all IP cameras use the same date and time.
The option to enable/disable NTP is available from the Time and date settings page. Once enabled it is
necessary to log in to each IP camera and configure it to use NTP as a time source. The address for the
NTP server should be the IP Address of the encoder’s LAN port (that it is connected to).
SecureConnect
SecureConnect is a feature that allows IP cameras, video analytics and other edge devices to be remotely
configured and controlled using the secure Vodafone Business Surveillance architecture. This allows a
remote user to operate IP devices using Vodafone Business Surveillance Client.
The most common use case is to access the configuration web pages of attached IP cameras – and the
encoder can automatically add a SecureConnect channel for each camera when adding the camera to the
encoder.
The SecureConnect page displays all configured SecureConnect channels on the encoder, allowing the
user to add/edit/delete entries. Additionally, the user can decide how much of the configured streaming
bandwidth can be used by all SecureConnect users combined – the higher the bandwidth ratio, the lower
the amount of remaining bandwidth for video transmission.
For more information on SecureConnect please refer to the Knowledge Base Article: Using
SecureConnect to access remote devices.
