Gyyr DVMS 400, Designer'S Manual

Page 1: ...Designer s Guide Spring 2001 edition Digital Video Management System GyyrDVMSDesignGuide01 01 doc ...

Page 2: ... Options 9 PRE CONFIGURED SYSTEMS 9 PRE CONFIGURED SYSTEM ACCESSORIES 10 CUSTOM CONFIGURATIONS 10 External SCSI Hard Drive Solutions 7 CALCULATING RECORDING DURATION STORAGE NEEDS 11 Image File Sizes 11 Calculating Required Hard Drive Size 12 Calculating Record Duration 13 PICTURE QUALITY AT DIFFERENT COMPRESSION SETTINGS 13 REMOTE CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS 13 Remote Connectivity Overview 13 Remote Con...

Page 3: ...IPLEXER 17 Multiplexer Setup 17 Recommended Multiplexers 17 Viewing Considerations using RAS 17 ETHERNET BANDWIDTH CONSIDERATIONS 18 TEXT INSERTION CAPABILITIES 19 Compatibility With Cash Registers 19 Compatibility With ATMs 19 SEARCH CAPABILITIES 20 Storage of Video 20 Playback Criteria 21 Search Mode 21 Text Search 21 KEY COMPETITIVE FEATURES 22 TECHNICAL APPENDIX 24 Hard Drive Size Inconsistenc...

Page 4: ...al Video Recording As with most technology today it has become cost effective to process information digitally as opposed to analog methods This includes most modern CCTV equipment used in Security today With the Personal Computing market driving the cost of technology down at an astonishing rate digital recording is a viable alternative to some VHS based Time lapse applications Two primary factor...

Page 5: ... to you based on activity time of day text generation or external alarms These recorded events should have the detail you need based on your criteria And you should be able to retrieve the specific events you want quickly and easily from the local site or remotely A properly designed and installed DVMS system will be a reliable flexible recording solution All with the benefit of longer unattended ...

Page 6: ...re configured systems Additionally we offer the product in modular form through select system integrators This allows the PC adept integrator to design a custom system using the particular Hard Drive size the application requires Differences between IDE and SCSI Drives The DVMS IDE interface allows connection of up to 2 hard drives The SCSI interface allows connection of up to 7 devices SCSI hard ...

Page 7: ...d can greatly increase the recording capacity of any SCSI based DVMS system This case will have robust cooling easily keeping the heat generating SCSI drives cool enough for maximum performance The case will have it s own power supply and SCSI connector The case will connect to the DVMS using a standard SCSI cable If a SCSI DVMS system were configured with the maximum size drives available today y...

Page 8: ...uad applications you can utilize the same advanced recording capabilities of DVMS 400 In these instances you can use the integrated video motion detector to record only when there s activity If a single ATM Cash register is used you can also perform the same advanced searches available on the DVMS 400 This product is also optimized to connect to an external Multiplexer which normally allows record...

Page 9: ...VD RAM DAT further slows the review process because the desired scenes must be restored to the hard drive before it can be viewed This is true of most if not all competing systems that use DAT as an archival source Full restoration of a DDS 3 12 GB tape to disk could take well over an hour That s before you can review a single clip As the price of HD storage and random access media comes down and ...

Page 10: ...al SCSI 5 2 GB DVD RAM Drive DV DVD C 5 2 GB DVD RAM Cartridge Double sided 2 6 GB per side Custom Configurations A variety of custom configurations are available to authorized Gyyr System Integrators For those specialized applications that require very specific storage needs you can order the product without any drives Note that this variation of product in not on our regular price list and is no...

Page 11: ...6 57 155 71 443 85 733 100 020 9 257K 385K 514K 642K 771K 901K 13 371K 557K 743K 928K 1 11M 1 30M 18 514K 771K 1 02M 1 28M 1 54M 1 80M 27 771K 1 15M 1 54M 1 92M 2 31M 2 70M 36 1 02M 1 54M 2 05M 2 57M 3 08M 3 60M 40 1 14M 1 71M 2 28M 2 85M 3 42M 4 00M 54 1 54M 2 31M 3 08M 3 85M 4 62M 5 41M 72 2 05M 3 08M 4 11M 5 14M 6 17M 7 21M Probably the most difficult question to answer is How long can I record...

Page 12: ...em with the following equation H x R x 1 26 S C H Hours of recording time needed R Rate of image capture images per second C Compression ratio ex 15 for 15 1 S Size of Hard Drive in Gigabytes Example A Customer wants to use DVMS 400 to record 4 cameras with each camera updated every second Therefore the capture rate is 4 fps The 20 1 compression ratio gave acceptable picture quality The Customer w...

Page 13: ...in picture size quality SVHS quality 20 1 Medium Quality moderate artifacting Good for general use with moderate detail VHS quality 25 1 Medium Low Quality Obvious artifacting Good for verifying activity or identification if close up Sub VHS quality 30 1 Low Quality Major artifacting Verify activity with low detail Not suitable for identification 35 1 Lowest Quality Suitable only for verifying act...

Page 14: ...en up into hundreds of motion zones each programmed to one of 4 sets of criteria Motion Record Options You can set the DVMS to record only when there s activity This is extremely useful to reduce storage requirements as you only record when there s motion Additionally the motion events can be marked during recording to allow easy retrieval Motion events can be programmed to record at any desired i...

Page 15: ...phics card Accelerated Graphics card recommended Windows 95 98 or NT 4 0 w Service pack 4 or higher CDROM drive for installing the RAS Sound card speakers if you wish to monitor audio Ethernet Card or Modem installed for Network or Telco connectivity Most PCs manufactured after Jan 1998 meet these minimum requirements Any Pentium 200 or higher Celeron Pentium II and Pentium III systems will have M...

Page 16: ...ive Note The Remote Audio is currently disabled in existing versions of RAS We expect remote audio to be enabled in the very near future If a text generation device is wired to the text insertion port s of DVMS you can remotely enable or disable the text displayed on the RAS video window This does not affect recording Recording of Live View to PC Hard Drive By enabling the RECORD TO COMPUTER RECOR...

Page 17: ...with the bin file Neat DVMS 100 with an External Multiplexer DVMS 100 can be used with virtually any new or existing Multiplexer This is a convenient way to increase the recorded cameras up to 16 DVMS 100 connects to a Mux just like a regular TLVCR and the CCTV monitor connects to the Mux as normal Multiplexer Setup DVMS 100 has an option for quick setup which is used to get the system up and runn...

Page 18: ...p RAS will read the Multiplexer coding and display the selected camera view In this mode you CAN recall a camera view based on camera number If a video clip generated from a compatible Mux has been retrieved and stored onto the RAS PC then RAS can replay the clip with greater control These images are contiguous and are randomly accessible This clip can be quickly reviewed at different speeds forwa...

Page 19: ...Equipment AVE is a good source for such a device They make converters for hundreds of different ECRs The converter would probably connect to a special board edge connector internal to the ECR and convert the data to RS232 Async ASCII This output can then connect to the DVMS Text input Compatibility With ATMs Traditionally Gyyr has offered many ways which to provide text overlay capability with ATM...

Page 20: ...u to partition each hard drive into separate areas where the video is stored The default setting for each connected drive is 50 Event 50 Time Lapse By separating the storage areas for each type of recording you can control them independently The advantage is that if the time lapse partition get filled it won t take away from the storage designated for Event recording A typical scenario is a Time L...

Page 21: ...p to auto record whenever someone uses the exit The manage can easily create a report that searches for all motion alarm events that occur during the last 24 hours but only on the exit All this criteria can be put into a report and the manager runs the report when they get to work in the morning After just a few keypresses up pops a list of all the activity at that exit during the previous day The...

Page 22: ...mpression ratios from 35 1 to 10 1 User can program different compression rates for time lapse or alarm motion events This maximizes disk space Separate storage of T Lapse and Motion Events Drives can be partitioned allocating a certain amount of space reserved for both Events and Time Lapse recording This is handy when the Time Lapse partition fills up and you don t want the Event space used The ...

Page 23: ...Image Authentication Proprietary Wavelet image format allows for verifying integrity of the original file as well as the original recording unit Jog Shuttle Operation Multiple speeds forward and reverse using a familiar Jog Shuttle wheel with inset dial Easily the best way to navigate to a desired scene Integrated Text Insertion Directly connect Text Generation devices such as ATMs Cash Registers ...

Page 24: ...herwise you d have to convert the scientifically accurate figures to how the hard drives are advertised Note PAL notes and figures in RED All DVMS units 100 thru 1600 grab a 720 x 243 NTSC or 720 x 288 PAL pixel image per field Multiply by 2 bytes pixel gives 349 920 NTSC or 414 720 PAL total bytes per uncompressed image field How the formulae were Derived To calculate the Size of the hard drive n...