Bosch MegaPixel NWC-0700, User Manual

Page 1: ...MegaPixel IP Camera Type numbers NWC 0700 NWC 0800 NWC 0900 en Manual_en ...

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Page 3: ...troduction 12 3 2 Connectors 13 3 3 Housing and mounting 13 3 4 Network cabling 14 3 5 Optics 14 3 5 1 Using manual iris lenses 14 3 5 2 Auto iris lenses 14 3 5 3 Using auto iris lenses 14 3 6 Accessing cameras 15 3 6 1 Supported network services 15 4 Software 16 4 1 Software installation 16 4 1 1 Configure firewall 17 4 1 2 Bosch Application Manager 17 4 1 3 Camera installer 18 4 1 4 Installation...

Page 4: ...ion Detection 28 4 2 8 Save to 31 4 2 9 Advanced 32 4 2 10 Permission 33 4 2 11 Remote Viewing 33 4 2 12 Day Night 34 4 2 13 Auto Iris 34 4 2 14 Right click menu 35 4 2 15 User authentication 37 4 2 16 Language selection 37 4 2 17 Browsing archives 37 4 2 18 AVI Maker 37 4 2 19 HTTP access 38 4 2 20 Firmware Loader Upgrading the cameras 38 4 3 DiBos8 set up for Bosch Megapixel cameras 38 4 3 1 Pre...

Page 5: ...voltage points or short out parts that could result in a fire or electrical shock Never spill liquid of any kind on the unit Do not place objects filled with liquids such as vases or cups on the unit 5 Lightning For added protection during a lightning storm or when leav ing this unit unattended and unused for long periods unplug the unit from the wall outlet and disconnect the cable system This wi...

Page 6: ...ring service Unplug the unit from the main AC power source and refer servicing to qualified service personnel when any dam age to the equipment has occurred such as the power supply cord or plug is damaged exposure to moisture water and or inclement weather rain snow etc liquid has been spilled in or on the equipment an object has fallen into the unit unit has been dropped or the unit cabinet is d...

Page 7: ...al lines from the camera must be SELV or Limited Power Source For safety reasons the environmental specification of the camera lens assembly must be within the environmental specification of 10 C 14 F to 50 C 122 F DANGER High risk This symbol indicates an imminently hazardous situation such as Dangerous Voltage inside the product If not avoided this will result in an electrical shock serious bodi...

Page 8: ...C ICES INFORMATION U S A and Canadian Models Only This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following conditions this device may not cause harmful interference and this device must accept any interference received includ ing interference that may cause undesired operation Disposal Your Bosch product was developed and manufac tured with high quality material and...

Page 9: ...TY OF ANY SECURITY OR SIGNALING RELATED FUNCTIONS OF THIS PRODUCT i NOTICE This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules and ICES 003 of Industry Canada These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipmen...

Page 10: ...ICE This user guide has been compiled with great care and the information it contains has been thoroughly verified The text was complete and correct at the time of printing The ongoing development of the products may mean that the content of the user guide can change without notice Bosch Security Systems accepts no liability for damage resulting directly or indirectly from faults incompleteness or...

Page 11: ...ructions and manuals 2 1 Product information Contact Bosch Security Systems On the web at http www boschsecurity com By post e mail or phone fax from the above mentioned webpage click contact select Security Systems from the drop down menu and scroll down for your region 2 2 System requirements The DiBos8 digital video recorder system is the primary viewer and recording system for the Megapixel ca...

Page 12: ...tand 1920x1200 Resolution 24 Inch LCD Display 1920 x 1200 resolution For Setup and verification Standard PC monitors can be used images are automati cally scaled to the correct size 2 3 Network switch or router Using a 100 Mbps network switch or router is recommended Simple hubs do not provide collision management and are not suitable for a multi camera audio video system Suggested models Power ov...

Page 13: ...ENDnet TPE S88 POE Switch Hub www trendnet com 10 100Base TX 8 PoE ports and 8 non PoE ports True IEEE 802 3af PowerDsine PD 6001 AC PoE Single port hub www powerdsine com 10 100Base TX Single Midspan POE port True IEEE 802 3af i NOTICE PoE network equipment must be CE marked for use in Euro pean Community Note that the cameras are designed for use with indoor network cabling only ...

Page 14: ... To provide seamless transition between day and night modes the color sensor is set to default resolution of 1920x1200 pixels In low light conditions NWC 0900 can automatically switch to the 1 3 megapixel 1280x1024 monochrome sensor enabling the delivery of clear imagery at illumination levels as low as 0 01 lux NWC 0900 typically delivers 20 fps in day mode and over 30 fps in night mode All camer...

Page 15: ...10 DC supply 500 mA The center contact in the power connector is pos itive DC iris connector NWC 0900 does not support auto iris so does not have this connector 3 3 Housing and mounting All camera models feature durable aluminum housing The ambient temperature should be maintained between 0 ºC and 40 ºC The cameras are not to be used outdoors without appro priate protective enclosures When using o...

Page 16: ...tting up the camera direct it at the scene and try clos ing the iris by several F stops At some point the image will look its sharpest Leave the iris closed at this value In situations where motion blur can be expected an iris value should be selected that gives best balance of resolution depth of focus and motion blur 3 5 2 Auto iris lenses Standard DC auto iris lenses can be used with the NWC 07...

Page 17: ...lled by means of Bosch Video System software HTTP requests issued from DiBos8 or Internet Explorer 3 6 1 Supported network services NWC 0700 NWC 0800 and NWC 0900 implement video over TFTP and HTTP network protocols The HTTP protocol allows direct access to the cameras using DiBos8 and through Internet Explorer or other HTTP based applications The Bosch Video System software utilizes TFTP protocol...

Page 18: ...ras connected over a local area network to a server PC run ning DiBos The Bosch Video System software is supplied on the CD This program includes camera setup live viewing and firmware upgrade software modules 4 1 Software installation To install the Bosch Video System software 1 Make sure your Windows XP 2K account has administrative privileges 2 Run the setup exe from the CD Setup process instal...

Page 19: ...the network AVInstaller exe the camera finding and installation pro gram LocalMachine exe the viewing and archiving program FirmwareLoader exe the firmware upgrading program The executables are located in the installation folder You should grant access to these applications when the firewall prompts you If you are using the Windows XP firewall add these three pro grams to the Exceptions Tab of the...

Page 20: ... of the host PC and automatically assigns IP addresses to the cameras It selects those addresses that belong to the same sub net work as the host PC itself and not yet assigned to other network cameras To detect and install the cameras auto matically the user should simply press the Automatic but ton in the Basic mode The installer will find configure and verify the operability of the cameras and ...

Page 21: ...meras window Select all active cameras using the Ctrl or Shift click combination Find Cameras this function will locate all cam eras that are present on the local network and are accessible by the broadcast request At the completion of this operation the installer will show all detected cameras Set IP this function allows the user to program a specific IP address in the camera If the camera has al...

Page 22: ...nction for other network devices on the same net work segment will run the risk of creating duplicate IP addresses in Automatic mode Configure the DHCP server to leave a block of IP addresses unassigned Manually assign IP addresses to the Megapixel cameras in this block of free IP addresses Finally segmenting the network with only megapixel cameras used in their own segment would allow Automatic a...

Page 23: ... installed using the Camera Installer the Video System can be activated by clicking on the corresponding Run button in the Application Manager The BOSCH Video System screen will then appear and if applicable a pop up message warning that the display resolution is differ ent from camera resolution Click OK the images are automati cally scaled to the available screen resolution Shown below is the Bo...

Page 24: ... camera layout 4x4 camera layout 10 camera layout with 2 large and 4x2 smaller images 8 camera layout with 1 large 3x1 and 1x4 smaller images 13 camera layout with 1 large 2x2 and 4x2 smaller images Depending on the chosen screen layout and the actual number of installed cameras the unused sections of the layout will be empty blue screens Displays the archive controls not operative in this softwar...

Page 25: ...ally scale the image down to correctly display the full image size Camera resolution in pixels is displayed in the upper left corner of the image Full size Reduced size display In order to fit multiple video images on screen the images are displayed at a reduced display size The format of the reduced size display is determined by the chosen screen layout see Section 4 2 1 Toolbar An individual cam...

Page 26: ...n the outline and holding down the mouse button or alternatively with the key board arrow keys A maximum of four independent live zoom windows can be opened for each camera Each zoom window will display live video at the image resolution provided by the camera Fig 4 6 Bosch Video System showing the zoom window 4 2 3 Settings Settings menu is displayed by clicking on the Settings button in the tool...

Page 27: ...level menu is displayed the Reset all item is disabled The lower level menus con tain a Camera field that displays the camera num ber to which the settings apply The Camera field can be expanded to a drop down list of all installed cameras for selec tion The list includes an All cameras option to apply settings to all cameras 4 2 4 Exposure Exposure is a lower level menu to adjust exposure related...

Page 28: ...ing conditions In low light situations the expo sure time will gradually increase to 80 ms Quality is to enable longer exposures up to 40 ms at the expense of the slower frame rate In low light situ ations the exposure time will gradually increase to 80 ms Motion blur may become high but video will contain less noise Moon Light is to enable very long exposures of up to 500 ms Auto exposure On Off ...

Page 29: ... image color sat uration Red adjusts the red tint This set ting changes the target for camera s automatic white balance computa tion The effect is gradual it takes 20 30 seconds for the camera to adjust fully to the new setting Blue adjusts the blue tint This set ting changes the target for camera s automatic white balance computa tion The effect is gradual it takes 20 30 seconds for the camera to...

Page 30: ...ecording Save only motion With motion detection selected to Detected by Camera the cam era will only output the images triggered by the motion detec tion function in the camera Select Frequency to Max in order to enable a high frame rate for the Motion Detection window 4 2 7 Motion Detection Motion detection is achieved by analyzing inter frame bright ness changes on a pixel by pixel basis There a...

Page 31: ... zones on a square grid The largest grid sup ported for any Bosch camera model and image size is 8 by 8 The actual grid for any particular model is determined by the chosen zone size a drop down list in the lower right corner of the Motion Settings screen and the camera s pixel resolution The actual grid is displayed in the lower left corner When motion is present the Motion Settings window displa...

Page 32: ...Detected by provides two selected options the software motion detection and the in camera motion detection Note Select to Detected by Camera when Motion Triggered Recording on DiBos8 is used Sensitivity is a group of controls to adjust motion detec tion computation Level adjusts the inter frame brightness change threshold that triggers motion detection Lower set tings may cause false motion detect...

Page 33: ...l taneously If the number of zones activated simultaneously is larger than Limit motion detection will be blocked This parameter cannot exceed the number of zones in the grid displayed in the lower left corner of Motion Settings 4 2 8 Save to A lower level Save to menu allows one to specify the directory path for video archives and snapshot images Note that the other selections in this menu are fo...

Page 34: ...and placed into the sys tem tray of the Windows task bar Show motion is an option to mark the areas of the image where motion was detected Use double packets is an option to use data packets with 2904 bytes instead of the regular 1450 bytes for image transmission This allows for the increase of image trans mission bandwidth but may lead to a less stable perfor mance on overloaded net works Warning...

Page 35: ...on access control is used to set up password pro tected access to the Bosch Video System For any user there are three levels of access available from the drop down list Administrator grants full access to all features of Bosch Video System Viewer grants access to live video and browsing the archives but not to the set tings Live only grants access to live video only Adding changing and removing us...

Page 36: ...e camera Switch At changes the adjust ment level of darkness from daylight to nighttime mode Toggle Guard changes the adjustment level of brightness from nighttime to daylight mode Toggle Guard set to 0 corresponds to Switch At set to 100 Toggle Guard should be adjusted to prevent mode toggling during the transitional lighting 4 2 13 Auto Iris The Auto Iris menu allows monitoring the state of the ...

Page 37: ... states Disabled the auto iris is either disabled by un checking the Enabled check box or is not present Evaluating the camera is pre paring to close the iris Too Dark the camera cannot close the iris because the scene illumination is too low Closing the iris is closing down by the number of F stops appropriate for the illumination level Closed the iris is closed to the correct F stop Opening the ...

Page 38: ...ccess to changing the main groups of set tings as described in Settings see Section 4 2 3 Settings Miscellaneous enables access to the following Authentication see Permission Remote Viewing see Remote Viewing Save to see Save to Advanced see Advanced Camera enables access to a combined menu that includes Image Quality see Image Quality Exposure see Exposure Day Night see Day Night Auto Iris see Au...

Page 39: ... System allows setting up password protected access see Section 4 2 10 Permission If one or more user accounts were created the Bosch Video System will display a log in dialog prompting for the user name and password as shown 4 2 16 Language selection Bosch Live Video System supports interfaces in English other languages will be added in future releases Press the F2 key to bring up the language me...

Page 40: ... Megapixel cameras DiBos8 is using HTTP requests for live viewing and recording of Megapixel images Though DiBos8 may not have display capabilities to view mega pixel camera images in full resolution it does however process and record the images in megapixel format Detail of live and recorded images can be viewed using the DiBos8 zoom func tion The megapixel camera can send up to 5 streams to the ...

Page 41: ...up DiBos8 for Megapixel Cameras Bosch Megapixel cameras are added as JPEG IP cameras in the Network Devices section The screens to set up are accessible in the Video and audio connection screen of Configuration 1 Mark Network and click the Add button in the JPEG IP cameras field 2 Mark the newly created IP camera in the Network tree and click the Edit button in the JPEG IP cameras field 3 The Sett...

Page 42: ...1 y1_value qualty quality_value doublescan doublescan_value mdn port_no Table 3 1 describes the parameters The requested image can have a smaller size electronic zoom function than the camera sensor size The image size is defined by the x0 y0 x1 and y1 coordinates on the sensor For the NWC 0700 and NWC 0800 the coordinates are defined in pix els The NWC 0900 has two sensors of differing resolution...

Page 43: ...ue The top coordinates of the requested image window default y0 0 x1_value The right hand coordinates of the requested image window e g x1 1600 y1_value The bottom coordinates of the requested image window e g y1 1200 quality_value The compression quality of the JPEG image with the range from 1 to 21 default quality 12 21 gives highest quality doublescan_value Doublescan is the parameter that allo...

Page 44: ... x1 2048 y1 1536 Taking the shaded area as a zoomed image with size 1024 px H X 768 px V at the drawn location the parameters would have the following values x0 410 y0 492 x1 1434 y1 1260 Fig 4 9 Size of the 3 1 megapixel sensor area in pixels and percentage NOTE Image sensor resolution NWC 0700 1600x1200 hxv pixels NWC 0800 NWC0900 2048x1536 hxv pixels y 0 x 2048 y 1536 2048 x 1536 pixel sensor a...

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