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Welcome everybody to this video of what’s involved with pre-programming camera systems so that business owners being yourself know what you’re getting out of it, what values it, and that you’re not getting ripped off.
In this video, we’re going to be commenting over and unboxing of a large Dawa camera system that includes several different types of cameras.
0:25
So some 180 TI cameras, so normal turret cameras.
And right now we’re looking at the 180 cameras and a few different switching options as well there too.
So we’re getting everything set up here first.
Now, the reason we do this, the reason why we do the pre programming is because technically we could just grab all these cameras out-of-the-box, go up into a lift and put them all up around the warehouse and just hope they work.
0:52
But what happens if they don’t?
That becomes hours and hours of trying to troubleshoot which camera is where, which one’s not working, a bunch of fun.
So when we first get our gear, it all kind of comes in pieces.
So it also allows us to be able to put it all together and test it in a nice clean environment.
1:11
So right now we’re going through and testing the hard drives, adding the hard drives to the NVR, making sure the NVR is all cabled properly and then also sealed properly.
And then we will get that all boxed up.
Now to continue on, when we go through and we pre program systems, what we’re doing is we’re ensuring that the system and the hardware all works before we get it to site.
1:38
Specifically for sites where we’re doing stuff that’s maybe a little bit further out than a hub or if we’re working with parts that are not just common off the shelf.
Or in this case, we’re working with enough stuff to where it’s hard to just go and grab more than we’ll, we’ll do that.
1:54
Now for those of you who are not IT savvy, what we’re doing now is the Della cameras come on a 192168.1.1 O 8 IP address.
They all come through that way.
And in this case, we’re going to be taking those cameras off of that subnet and moving them to a separate 1.
2:10
So in this one, it’ll be that .100 classy address.
So the reason we do that and we don’t leave it on the .1 is because as you add new devices within the Dawa ecosystem, they all start on that .1 network and you can start getting some problems, a little bit of IP conflict, conflicts, you know what I mean?
2:29
Things like that.
So what we’re doing is we’re going through, we’re initializing all the systems right now with what’s called a config tool.
Now Dawa calls it a config tool.
Hike Vision and Uniview have their own version of that.
Even the higher level like Tier 1 camera systems have their own version.
2:45
The idea there is that we can go through and bulk initialize and do bulk IPA changes all while we’re getting ready.
So right now we’re doing it on the NVR.
We’re putting the NVR onto the future network.
3:00
So it is going to become kind of the hub for that, if that makes sense.
Basically the old .1 subnet and this new .100 subnet won’t talk together until all the cameras have been moved to that new .100 subnet.
So we’re going in, just going through double checking everything works, and then it’s time to get the cameras out and start plugging them all in, empowering them all up.
3:24
Now Nectarios will look at this and he will tell me, hey, you don’t need to take them all out of the boxes.
You can leave them in the boxes.
Hikvision in particular also have little windows on their boxes where you can actually just get to the CAT6, the RJ45, and plug them in without removing them.
3:41
I don’t open the boxes at all, which is lovely.
We’re doing this more for the show here.
So basically going through and setting them all up on the desk so you can see.
And then we’re going back into the config tool and we’re going to initialize every single one of those cameras in bulk.
3:56
So the idea there being is we don’t want to have to go through and do every single camera, which if you’re up at 64 plus cameras, you don’t want to do them all one at a time, web browse in, initialize it, change the IP address, check that it’s working.
4:15
We want to be able to kind of go through and do this as much as we can.
So as you can see right now, we’ve gone through and we have redone all of the OR we are redoing all the IP addresses now.
So they’re all initialized and we’re doing them in sections.
So what we’re doing is we’re taking out specific camera types.
4:34
So that may be the normal 6 to 8 megapixel turret cameras are going to be the first one in this case.
That’s what’s the first segment of IP ranges.
Is that the second segment when again, we have 3 segments for this specific site, but the second segment is going to be your T ox.
4:51
So they’re the ones that we use for alarm detection as well as camera footage.
The third group will be the 180 Tiox, which also do alarm detection, but then instead of having just the standard 110° angle, which is that it’s a fisheye.
5:07
So it’s actually 2 cameras that kind of like stitched together to make a full 180 camera vision.
So we’re going to do all of those in different ranges.
Your security installer should be able to give you the IP schedule of how they’re doing that so that when they hand you over the documents at the end, you should have a map, you should have the cable schedule, and you should have the IP schedule as well.
5:31
It could all be combined in one document.
It could be 3 separate documents.
It depends on the installer, but you will need that for future service.
So make sure you get those things now.
So right now we’re kind of looking back and we’re going through the remote devices and now that we’ve IPD them all, we’re going to add them to the NVR in order.
5:50
Now the way reason we do this is when we’re installing the cameras on site, we want to be able to put the camera in, plug it in.
We’ll have the NVR already installed Insight and then we can see the cameras on our phone.
So soon as we plug in that camera, because we’ve done all of this prep, it’ll just come to life on our phone.
6:07
So you could actually be up on a scissor lift installing a camera and as soon as you put it up there, look at your phone and re angle that camera instead of driving back and forth and getting everything done and then do it twice and then the third time all at once, we get the NVR set up.
The cameras are set up pre programmed.
6:22
We run the cable, we install the NVR Insight, we install the camera on site.
As soon as we put that camera up, we can go through and we can adjust it, make sure it’s working.
If there’s any cable faults, we’ll know exactly when that is too.
We’re just at this case, we’re literally just naming the cameras at this point, the IP addresses, so that way they’re easy to find the the name matches the IP address.
6:44
When the installer goes around and installs them on a map, he’ll put the IP address.
The last octet of the logical address there is the ID on the map and then we’ll know which cable number goes with that as well too from the cable schedule.
So once we do that, we’ll go in.
7:01
In this case, we’re going to drop the frame rate down pretty low because we’re actually doing this as a larger kind of test system.
So we’ll drop it down to like 14 frames and put it on a just a a really respectable low bit rate.
So it’s still full resolution, but we’re not crushing the local network with the bandwidth.
7:18
And then basically we’re going to copy that across the segments.
Again, what we’re trying to avoid is going into every single camera web, browse every single camera and adjust the settings individually.
It takes a very long time and when that happens, usually you as the client are paying for that time.
7:37
So we’re using technology to kind of get all of this hard to do on site stuff done really quick, really fast and having it done with no hassles because there’s no environmental problems here.
It’s literally just set up on a bench and we’re going that on this bench.
7:57
You can kind of see as we start labeling the cameras and stuff, there’s quite a bit, there’s actually quite a bit on the floor as well too, because there’s no room on the desk for them.
And again, we’re taking them out of the boxes so they don’t stack up nicely.
So you can at least see the type of cameras that are going in.
So now we’re going through and we’re just finishing that last middle section of the cameras to make sure that all of the settings are copied across each one.
8:21
Again, we do one per segment.
So whether that’s the segments are usually types of cameras because the firmware is slightly different on them.
So that’ll do that.
And again, we don’t reduce the resolution on the camera.
We still want it to be 4K footage.
8:38
We just right now we’re just lowering the the bit rate so that it specifically like the sub stream doesn’t just smash the system.
The substream when the cameras are recording for your system, they have a mainstream which is full resolution and what we call a substream.
8:56
This is a low resolution feed.
So even though it’s recording at the high resolution, when you look at it on your phone, you’re probably seeing the substream just because it’s quicker.
It doesn’t use as much data on your phone.
It it comes up really quick.
We also can use that in the control room so that when we’re actioning alarms, that happens.
9:12
Now what we’re doing is we’re just going through and we’re updating the recording schedule for all of the cameras.
What we want is a system is to record 24/7.
We have enough hard drive space nowadays, so we want to record 24/7 and we want to record not just the normal 24/7, but we also want it to trigger whenever there’s motion or an alarm, which is like the IBS.
9:33
So you’re a smart analytics, we want that to trigger so the metadata shows up on your search bar.
So you can actually have 24 hours of footage, but you can see when somebody walks in front of the camera or when an alarm goes off on that camera.
So that’s what we’re doing there.
9:49
Last thing we’ll do is we fix the time.
Make sure that the clocks are all working and then as we’re putting everything away, I label the bottom of the camera with the last octet from the IP address that we’re giving it.
That way when they put the camera up, they can literally see, oh, this is camera .112.
10:08
Mount it to the thing, write it down directly on the map and the schedule and then they’re good to go.
It’s nice, smooth, easy, clean.
It’s the best way that I found to do it after a decade of doing this.
It’s just a little bit of pre planning, saves us hours, if not days of time on site trying to figure out where all the cameras are and which ones, which and which ones aren’t working, all that kind of fun.
10:30
And then of you as the end user, the business owner, you should be getting again a camera map.
You should be getting a cable schedule so we know what cable goes to which locations and which they’re labeled as.
And then you should be getting a logical IT map so that you know the ranges that are being used.
10:47
If you have an IT company, make sure that you let them know to work with your security installer as well, because it’s better for us to get that out first.
So if we are working on the client network, Wender V Lans, or if we’re working on a separate network completely, which is what we prefer to do, we make sure that we’re not conflicting IP addresses and we also have a path out through the Internet connection if needed.
11:09
Now, this is a lot of information and I know for business owners in particular, you’re not going to remember all this, but I want you to know what’s available and what’s possible so that when you do talk to your security installers that you’re not just being taken advantage of.
I want you to have enough knowledge to where you can go out there and have the intelligent conversation and make sure that you’re getting exactly what you need.
11:30
And they’re not just kind of putting up garbage.
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Until then, you guys have a very, very lovely day and we will speak to you next time.