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When this item is selected, Launcher will enter lock mode. In lock mode, whenever users want to invoke the menu,

a dialog asking for ID and password will appear.

Users can select whether or not to autorun Launcher when Window boots up.

The Change local admin’s password dialog looks like this:

The User Management utility looks like this:

Lock:

Monitor start up mode:

Tools:

The main user interface for Launcher is an icon on system tray, and the popup menu appears when the user clicks on

the icon. The menu items are listed below:

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Monitor:

Playback:

Logout:

Exit:

Starts up the Monitor program. If the Monitor program is already running, clicking this button will re-open the

Monitor window.

Starts up the Playback program. If the Playback program is already running, clicking this button will re-open the

Playback window.

Logs out user from IP surveillance. After logging out, if the user wants to return to the menu, and clicks the Launcher

icon, the authentication box will appear prompting for username and password again.

Exits Launcher. If users choose this option, Launcher will show a message box prompting to confirm if users really

want to exit, and warn users that exiting Launcher will also close Monitor and Playback.

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Features of the Monitor Program

Traditional Surveillance Features:

• Real-time monitoring

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Pan and Tilt control

• Recording

Special Features:

The digital surveillance system supports not only the features listed above, but also the following features, which

make the system more powerful and convenient.

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Simultaneous real-time monitoring and recording audio and video

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High quality video up to full screen display

• High compression ratio

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Maximum of 16 cameras with different monitor layouts

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Auto alarm in multiple modes

• Account-password protection

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Multiple recording modes: Event-driven, Scheduled, and manual recording for each camera.

• Just-in-time snapshot

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Motion detection with 3 alert windows for each camera

Monitor Program

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Application Layout and Functionalities

This section demonstrates a global view of the monitor program, shown below. The components of the monitor

tool will be introduced in detail in the following sections.

Misc. Functions

Channel Area

Layout Area

Hard Disk Status

Video Area

Common Control Area

DI/DO Control

Alert Message

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There are several parts in the monitor tool:

These include application exit, minimization, full screen monitoring, lock, stop alert, and configuration menu for

camera configurations, global settings, scheduler settings and the user information of this application software.

Tips for these operations are provided

when you move the mouse cursor over each icon.

This area displays the status of each video channel. The information indicates the status of connection, recording,

selection, and alert-event trigger.

In this area, you can see the video of the selected channel in the display frame. The number of the display

frames in the video area depends on the layout chosen by the user. You can also use convenient controls to

alter the video display.

You can change the monitoring layout in this area. There are six kinds of layouts: 1, 4, 6, 9, 13, or 16 video

display windows in the video area.

In this area, you can get the status of the hard disk in which the video database resides. The status reminds

you of the available storage space remaining on the hard drive you have selected to record to.

This area includes volume control, manual recording, video printing, snapshot, and trash can to remove video

from display windows.

This tool receives the digital input signal and sends digital output signal to the remote Video Server/ Network

Camera series product associated with the dedicated video channel.

This tool will display the latest alert messages received by the remote Video Server / Network Camera series

product associated with the selected video channel.

Misc. Functions:

Channel area:

Video area:

Layout area:

Hard disk status:

Common control area:

DI/DO control:

Alert Message: