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May 2015
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Advanced Configuration
Alarm Actions:
Just as there can be many sources of alarms, there
are also a variety of responses or actions to these alarms. Some of the
alarm actions are only used with pan/tilt cameras. Actions such as
Point, Load ScanList, Go To Preset, and Engage Radar Track would
only be used with a pan/tilt camera and are not used with the FC-Series
fixed camera.
For the FC-Series, typically a rule will be configured to Send a
Notification, Capture an Image, or generate an Output on the GPIO
device. If more than one of these actions is needed, it is necessary to configure multiple rules. An
example of each one of these actions is provided below.
When the
Send Notification
option is selected as the rule Action, a
Notification List must be selected. The
Send Notification
action uses
a Msg System and a Notification List that are set up in the Services
menu (refer to
Msg Systems, pg. 2-13
).
It is possible to attach an image with the notification when it is sent.To
attach a snapshot, select an option from the
Attach Image File
pull
down list. The option “All Non Radiometric” sends a normal JPEG
image and “Radiometric” sends a radiometric JPEG, a specific type of
JPEG that includes temperature data. Only the FC-Series R cameras
are able to send radiometric images.
Each rule that sends a notification also has the option to send an
activity report to the same notification list every 6, 12, or 24 hours. The
activity report indicates whether or not an alarm was triggered during
the specified time period. Note that this can be selected on a rule by
rule basis.
Alarm Rule Examples:
The following examples show rules that
control actions from alarms that are internal to the camera (rather than
coming from another source on the network). The first three lines and
the fifth line of these rules are always the same for the alarms coming from the FC-Series camera
itself
,
and only the source type changes (Analytics, Radiometric IR, or GPIO Input)
FC-Series Options:
Video Analytics,
Radiometry IR (FC-Series R only),
and GPIO
Enable each alarm rule
Indicates the
alarm comes
from the camera
itself, rather than
another device
on the network.
