Questions & Answers
Q. What is the maximum number of cameras you can manage on a single VAST installation, provided that a lot of server performance and storage?
A. Logically, there is no limitation of number of licenses you can upload to a server. If you have a super-server with 4 ZM processor and 10 gigabyte LAN or you can add more than 1,000 licenses into one server, as long as you do the proper storage calculation. We can help with the storage calculation, backward calculation, obviously, you can do that with the volume. So the fact is, there are some basics on the metals here.
So first of all, you need to have enough volumes in your hard disk array in terms of 85 or 86 you are doing. Make sure that everybody can handle, or is handling, 200 megabits per second max. So the number of cameras you’re allocating to that volume, should not be exceeding 200 megabits per second, data. So that means, if you do have four volumes, that is handling 200 megabits per second, per volume, that means you can handle 800 megabits per second. And if there is a full HD cameras at two megabits per second, that is easily translated to 400 cameras. In terms of VAST licensing, you can easily add 400 licenses into one server.
So the other thing is, in terms of the scale of the system. You do have VIVOTEK NPRs distributor and with the client system, or CMS station, we have, NS9521, we can have unlimited, definitely unlimited MVRs on it. Like I said, we tested 400 MDRs, that was so hard. We connected to the MVRs all around the world, but it’s, at the moment we have the discussion, how we can actually take it to next level to test 500. So I’m committed in Sydney, to pull wire connection to my headquarter for another six, seven years I have here.
But the fact is, with the CMS there is no limitation. The limitation is your internet bandwidth and also, it’s how many cameras you want to display on the screen. In terms of recording, we do have servers that are supporting 128 licenses, coming with it, and it is already included of free, for ONVIF cameras. You don’t need to pay for anything, you bought it separate. Everything is included, we just need to put hard disk in there and the creative volume and great, you can go ahead with it.
But if you want to use your own servers, if you want to use top-end HP servers or Dell servers, depend on the specification, you can easily go and get your 256 channels, guaranteed with 47 CPU, 16 gigabyte of RAM, guaranteed you can do 256 channels. If you do dual ZM 10 gigabyte LAN, 32 gigabyte, you can go to 512 cameras. And you can manage them all. However, you can have failover readiness.
Q. Does the temperature detection work accurately without black body reference?
A. Correct, so if this system is using infrared sensor, that you need to be 80 centimeters or closer to the system, it definitely is accurately. With our tests, hundreds of measurement with the handheld and also this system, the accuracy of the system is 0.2 +/-. Yeah, the answer to your question is, yes it is accurate, it is doing that without black body because this is the infrared sensor, it is not the thermal imaging. And it is a very good looking system too.
It has lots of functions, mass detection, facial recognition and also, temperature detection. Fully integrated to VAST 2 software. The most important thing with this system, is the scale of the system. You can have one tablet per door and there is a Central Management System that you can manage up to 20 of the temperature, facial recognition, mass detection tablets, and unlimited 3D people counting cameras to control the occupancy level of the building, with the 3D People Counting Cameras.
Q. Can you use non- VIVOTEK of cameras in VAST, is there a cost?
A. Yes. If you buy VIVOTEK NVR that are coming with the VAST software, they are already supporting ONVIF. The 32-channel free software you get, it doesn’t support ONVIF, but if you buy a license extra, on top of 32 channel, the purchase licenses with a tiny amount, one of it does support ONVIF and it does support ONVIF profile S, profile, G, and profile T, which does support H.265 . If your camera does support ONVIF profile T our VAST software does support ONVIF profile T so you can get the camera on VAST software H.265, correct.
Q. Is there just one face recognition solution supported or can you utilize any vendor’s face recognition algorithm?
A. With facial recognition, at the moment the integration is happening with mask facial recognition, which is a different little machine. This is a Linux-based machine, it’s coming with two channel, four channel and eight channel. And you can use any of the VIVOTEK cameras, however, if you do have third party facial recognition, yes you just need to buy data magnet license with VAST and facial data from that facial recognition to your VAST software. We can take it offline, connect you to the engineers to give you instruction or you can fetch your data from the third party facial recognition to your system.
If your facial recognition system does support TCIP or the supporting data of the TCIP, definitely our data magnet can fetch your data and bleed it to your bleeder, while you are redeploying back, you can see the face and the information of the registered people into that software. Yeah.
Q. Can you fisheye dewarp in playback and export footage?
A. Of course. Good. Yeah, as I said during the presentation, yes you can do in night view, in playback and after exporting the footage. That is correct and it is super easy to do it, and the answer is, absolutely. You can do it.
Transcript
Heath (00:00):
Good morning everybody. Welcome to another webinar for ISCS. Today we’ve got Farshid from VIVOTEK. He’s going to give us a run-through of the VAST 2, their VMS system. Without further ado, I’ll hand it over to Farshid, but if you have any questions, just feel free to throw them in the Q&A section and we’ll get to them at the end of the presentation.
Farshid (00:29):
Thank you, Heath. Good morning everyone, my name is Farshid, I’m VIVOTEK ANZ Country Manager, and thank you very much for joining this session today. And thank you very much, Heath and ISCS, for organising this webinar. We’ll go through some of the very, very important and main features of VAST 2, which is VIVOTEK’s sophisticated Video Management System and Central Management System. I hope you enjoy the session. Yeah, please raise your questions, if you have any questions, during the presentation.
Farshid (01:00):
All right, let’s just start. Okay, VAST 2. VAST 2 is a VIVOTEK Video Management System and we are trying to change the way that people are experiencing their video management. This platform is so elegant, is so nice, easy to use. I would say it is easiest Video Management System in the world at the moment, and you can enjoy a lot of cool features that are included in this software. So we recently released version 2.10 which has a lot of cool functions. We’ll go through some of them and after the presentation, I do the live demo for you guys. If you have any questions, you can please raise your question. I prepared a video for you, first, to do the introduction and then we go to the presentation.
Video Play Back (01:57):
2 rapid advances in technology and connectivity, the world, our cities, and our lives are all secured through IP surveillance systems. In every corner, street, and shop, protection is provided. VAST 2 represents the apex of this technology. With a user-friendly interface, enhanced search functionality, and extensive add-ons to customize for any application, VAST 2 lets you intelligently secure every moment.
Video Play Back (02:37):
The alarm notification is sent immediately once triggered by a suspicious event. It is pinpointed through the E-map display, then precisely located and support issued right away. With evidence retained for easy access and against any risk of future uncertainty. With Smart Search we can quickly discover any relevant video, locate any object and solve any situation, eliminating the need to scroll through hours of footage.
Video Play Back (03:30):
Smartly secure your life with an open platform system that integrates smoothly with third party software to enhance retail, transportation, industrial, and city surveillance applications. Perfect vision, perfect recall. Smartly secure your life, VAST 2.
Farshid (03:52):
That was a little introduction of VAST 2 software you saw. It was pretty good. So this software is providing a lot of functions. Unbelievably, it is easy to operate, it is easy to install and it’s a very, very intuitive and it has very good and elegant interface. So the good thing is, this software is free for 32 channels VIVOTEK cameras. That means up to 32 channel, if you buy VIVOTEK cameras you don’t need to pay for any licenses. About 32 channels, you just pay the one-off fee, per license, per camera, forever. So you can go easily up to 256 cameras per server.
Farshid (04:40):
Actually, the limitation is only on your hardware, there is no limitation, logically, on your software. If your hardware or server or network has the capacity to manage 1,000 cameras on a server, we don’t have any problems. VAST software and the database of the VAST software is capable to handle unlimited volumes, unlimited cameras by 200 megabits per second, per volume recording. And also, it can support unlimited username or passwords for different users. So this solution is providing a lot of bits and pieces, modules and functionalities. We go through all of them, not all of them, sorry. The major one today and I do have the live demo for you to see how easy is that to operate the software.
Farshid (05:22):
Okay, first of all, the main and key features. VAST 2 software has more than 100 of key features, we just actually highlighted the most important ones. First of all, easy to support multi monitors, as a tab. So you can have unlimited tabs on your screen and you can put different cameras on different tabs, you can put a electronic map, you can put your alarm system, alarm search. So whatever you want to put on different tabs, you can do it, and also, you can save it in the tabs that you are creating, later you can save it and make it what you want, at client site.
Farshid (06:01):
So we have ad-on solutions, so for failover redundancy; active directory integration; transportation solution, which is integration with the VAST System, our mobile NVRs; and also transaction and data magnet integration, which is for PO System, for license plate recognition, for third-party access software system or any other third-party systems that are supporting TCP/IP data and communication. Auto stream size for client applications so whenever you do have the matrix, you want to show so many of the cameras, the system will automatically adapting the stream to make sure the CPU usage of the client is optimized.
Farshid (06:40):
We do have fantastic de warping function on fisheye cameras. We are king of fisheye cameras. We have a pro range of 360 cameras, but the de warping function in the VAST 2 software is amazing. You can do this de warping in live view, in playback and afterwards, even you expose the video, you can do all the de warping and get the snapshots or easily playback the video in that de warped mode. So you can customize the layouts for different clients, unlimited players. You can create, customize it, complete it, make it for your own.
Farshid (07:14):
We have mode Alarm Search and Exports, which is fantastic, which is easy to operate. And we do have matrix for Video Wall solution and that software is completely free. This is fantastic function, fantastic extra add-on in regards to software. So you don’t need to pay for any licenses while you are doing the Video Wall, if you have multiple Video Wall matrix. You can have 64 cameras in your tab or per screen, so since the software does support multiple tabs and multiple screens for free, you don’t need to worry about anything. Just, you can put 64 cameras per screen.
Farshid (07:54):
And also, we do have a Smart Search II function, which we’ll go through that. The Smart Search II function is all relevant to a Smart VCA and a Smart Motion Detection in VIVOTEK cameras. And it’s all about searching the metadata, especially remotely, to search an event or any kind of incident quickly. We can do it and that is 70 times faster than normal video shuffling or video search.
Farshid (08:23):
Cybersecurity Management, if you are aware of that, VIVOTEK has a very advanced Cybersecurity with Trend Micro inside our cameras, hard photo to the chips of all the cameras. However, we do have cybersecurity management on VAST 2 software that allows you to get alerted if someone is attacking your cameras and, also, it is giving you, What is the source of the attack and what sort of attack is that? And also, you can generate a graph, how many attacks happening to your cameras and how your cameras are preventing those attacks.
Farshid (08:51):
A Smart VCA Integration, we do have, at the moment, eight different… we do analytics on compatible cameras. In the VIVOTEK range all of them are integrated to VAST 2 software and you can easily search for the metadata. And also, we do have Systems Resource Overview Dashboard inside the software, which is pretty cool, especially if you have multiple servers in your network. You can easily see what is the CPU usage; memory usage; network usage and how that that server is performing, and if there is anything wrong with that server you get an alert for that too.
Farshid (09:25):
Okay, there are so many cool things about VAST 2 software. First of all, very, very nice, intuitive user interface design. The user interface of VAST 2 software is elegant. It is so easy. It’s beautiful. You can customize the layouts to whatever you want, panoramic, fisheye cameras, PVC cameras and there are so many easy buttons and easy functions that you can operate.
Farshid (09:46):
Auto Setup, so if you have cameras in your network, you connect your server to your network and search for the cameras, no matter if you are talking about ONVIFor VIVOTEK cameras, the system will search the network, you just need to select them, authorize them and click on apply. You can group the cameras per volume, so you can allocate 20 cameras to hard disc volume one, 20 cameras to hard disc volume two or up to 200 megabits per second, you can do it. No matter how many cameras you can feed to that volume, you can do it and that gives us the functionality. Whenever you want to retrieve the footage, the system is working effortless. It is so easy to operate.
Farshid (10:26):
We do have 2.5D Visualization Electronic Map, integrated to the View Cell, so you can see your electronic map in the View Cell. I will show you in the live demo, this is pretty cool and, not only that, the alarm system, you can ask the system to pop up the electronic map and bring up the cameras so you exactly know what camera is raising alarm, and there it is. And also, you can get the live view of the camera straightaway.
Farshid (10:55):
You can schedule the backup, you can get a backup of your recording if you do have offsite storage or you do have internal storage, obviously you can do so. You can completely schedule that for how many days you want to get a backup, for what cameras. So you can get a backup from your sensitive cameras, that is pretty easy. And also, it is super easy to explore the Evidence of Footage, the timeline in VIVOTEK software, VAST software, is super easy to operate, get there and you can just select or, based on the search, even search a Smart VCA Search.
Farshid (11:38):
Yeah, so you can easily export the footage. So whenever you export the footage, you can export it in two different formats, 3GP and also EXE file. With the EXE file, which is common with the player, that gives you the opportunity to re-export the video, do the playback in the slow motion, go frame-by-frame, forward and rewind the video too. We do have another very cool function, Evidence Lock. If you find something very important, you can lock it in the database that no-one can touch it, unless you unlock the Evidence Lock.
Farshid (12:15):
So Multi-Monitor and Tabs. So VAST software does support multi-monitors. That means you can have multiple tabs and just right-click on that tab and send it to the screen that you want. By default, if you do have multiple screens also, you can set up the system, on opening the software, what layout is going to what display. So for example, I do have four cameras I want to put on Display One and I do have eight cameras I want to put on Display Two. I do have very important camera I want to put on Display Three. So I can set it up, save it, as soon as I open up my software all the layouts are already allocated to their screens, automatically popping up. No matter from what sources you get the video, from the local server or from a remote server, you can do it.
Farshid (13:02):
We do have another cool function, which is called Video Content Analysis Report, that is mainly for our 3D People Counting Camera. We have a fantastic 3D People Counting Camera with 98% accuracy and you can generate the reports from that camera. Even you can setup automatic reports. So you can actually set up automatic reports for daily reports, for weekly reports and for monthly reports and it will automatically send you the reports of multiple 3D People Counting Cameras.
Farshid (13:42):
The other function we have is Advanced Search, which is competed with Smart Search II. In the Smart Search II, we easily can search the metadata. Instead of shuffling the video frames, we just actually search for the metadata, that is why it is so fast, since the metadata is quite tiny, so we can easily search for the people movement in a specific area. If someone crosses a line or virtual fence, or if someone leaving something behind, or someone removing something. We can easily search based on those metadata and get access to the video straightaway.
Farshid (14:21):
Smart Search II is the function that we are talking about. It is super cool. It is very advanced. It is extremely quick. I haven’t seen that in any other software as quick as this one, because on edge, video analytics is happening on the camera side and the metadata is coming with the video. It is in your database already and you can perform the search. This is quite important, especially if you are managing the site remotely. So you are over internet and you want to find a video, this is the important thing. So you just draw a box go through that and draw a box around that area you want to search, select the criteria you want, the time and date and then perform the search. In a fraction of time, it is giving you all the results and straightaway you go to the video and you can export it from remote site to your computer, or you can do it, if you have local server, locally through your LAN.
Farshid (15:14):
With the Smart Search II Plus we have a few very important functions that you can easily perform the search afterward. So for example, the Smart Motion Detection with human tracking; Line Crossing, so that is the post-event kind of search. You can draw a line anywhere in the video and ask the system to find if someone crossing that line in a specific period of time; Loitering, or dwell time and also Intrusion Detection. So all these functions are available and you can easily perform the search in VAST 2 software.
Farshid (15:51):
With the Failover Solution, we do have N plus one redundancy solution if you do have multiple operational servers and you want to have one redundant server or two redundant server, that is very easy to set it up. There’s a licensing involved, obviously, but you can have different ethernet servers here to backup your system. If Operational Server One is going down, the backup server or failover server will take over the job until you get the server repaired and return it back to your LAN.
Farshid (16:22):
We do have a lot of other advanced functions through our Data Magnet Integration, like facial recognition and license plate recognition and also POS integration. With VIVOTEK Facial Recognition System, which we will launch by end of April, you will be able to see the data of the person that’s entering into your building, at the right side of your cell. As you can see at the left picture, my friend Emilio is moving in the picture and his information is popping up on the right side. With the License Plate Recognition System, the license plate recognition will be with the cameras, also you can do that too. So while you are using VIVOTEK License Plate Recognition Cameras, you can get the information of the license plate at the right side of the image, not only on live video, but on playback.
Farshid (17:16):
And also, you can perform the search based on the license plate. For example, you can search that specific license plate and ask the system to search how many times that car accessed your site in last 30 days or last 60 days. Depends on the retention time, you can easily find the license plate and straightaway go to the video, export the video, take the snapshot, whatever you want.
Farshid (17:38):
At the right side of the picture, you do have the example of POS Integration. With POS Integration there is license involved. You need to get the data magnet license and, if the POS system can provide TCP/IP data or data of TCP/IP, we can fetch the data to data magnet, there is a very easy instruction, SDK API that you can fetch the data from, in all system. And feed it digitally into your video, and whatever you search the item, it is going there straightaway to the video.
Farshid (18:09):
We have another cool function in VAST 2 software, which is Multi Site Management. That means, with VAST software, if you do have multiple sites, I’m talking about hundreds of sites, you can manage them all from VAST 2 software, for free. So especially if you are using VIVOTEK NVRs, which are already licensed, no matter if you are talking about the Linux-based, HN 32-channel one or Windows-based 32 channel up to 128-channel. You can manage them all centrally for free. As a substation you had them all, but this is not all about it. The exciting part of this is, you don’t need to do any kind of complicated network settings for port forwarding. Obviously you do have multiple site store managers or the operation managers, they do have access to the system, locally through wifi, or if somehow internet with QR code or Cloud system, that we provide for free in our Linux-based systems.
Farshid (19:06):
But how about if you want to see everything at your headquarter? So just imagine if you have 300 branches and you want to do network settings, call forwarding, cast the firewall, this kind of stuff, how much headache you need to go through. So we’ve already sorted that issue with a very, very advanced technology. It’s called Open VPN, which is supported in our VAST 2 software as well as Linux-based NVRs. So whatever you do, you don’t need to do any of these, going through all the hassles. No opening the ports, no SPI complicated configurations in terms of Static IP or port for running 300 sites. And also, no Network Area Translation. So whatever we do, we just use the technology called Open VPN.
Farshid (19:55):
With Open VPN, we just need one static IP address VAST 2 server. So you create user name and password in VAST 2 server for Open VPN and you put that public IP address to your NVRs at the distributed sites with that user name and password. So all the NVRs would create a connection with VAST 2 software and you can see all the NVRs under VAST 2 name, CMS or Central Management System. That is how we can manage so many sites. We already tested 400 sites under one VAST machine, but honestly, we didn’t have the opportunity to test more than 400 sites at the moment. But this technology is pretty cool.
Farshid (20:43):
So what’s new in VAST 2.10? So maybe you are using it at the moment or you have used VAST 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 but 2.10 is the best. It has a lot of cool functions. So first of all, we added our digital watermark to make sure that no-one is manipulating the video. We do have the POS machine with the data magnet integration. So this is something new we already added up to that. You can enable and disable each alarm individually. If you do have hundreds of alarms and you want to temporarily disable something, it is just a swipe button. So you just swipe it, turn it on, turn it off, and, of course, you can schedule that.
Farshid (21:26):
And yeah, so those adjustment volume under live video if you are using audio, and obviously, you can add RTSP and ONVIF, that was in version 2.9, it is completed in version 2.10. It is much easier, however, you can use DDNS Address with VAST 2 software. So if you are going to use DDNS on your cameras and you do have cameras at a ridge and they’re connected to LT writers, you just need to use VIVOTEK DDNS free services or your own DDNS services. You just put that DDNS address and a port and just add your cameras, straightaway it’s coming up, especially if you use VIVOTEK cameras which are supporting edge H.265 smarter stream technology. You can get very high quality image straightaway with tiny bit rate. I’m talking about five megapixel, eight megapixel or even 20 megapixel cameras.
Farshid (22:21):
The other magnet, we’ve already added up some cool functions to that that makes it very, very easy for the system integrators, if they want to integrate the server on the system. And also, we do have Evidence Image for LPR cameras with the data magnets, so it’s already there, you can easily see the license plate and search for it. And also, Data Magnet Integration with Access Control, as I said.
Farshid (22:45):
Display Watermark, so you can adjust it inside the software. It’s super easy. You just need to go to Configuration, Client Setting, the Station Settings, and then you type whatever you want to add as a watermark. And the text opacity and also, the text frequency, how many times you want to repeat the text on your video. That is how you can adjust it. In your Configuration menu you just put it there, and obviously, you need put the password with your Verification Watermark Software, to check if there is any frame over there manipulated.
Farshid (23:25):
With Alarm Management. So we do have a fantastic Alarm Management, you can see the list of alarms you have already created, or create a new alarm. Based on this function, you can select the alarm source and, obviously, select the cameras, link it to another camera and also, create action for that. So for example, you want to send an alarm or you want to trigger something or you want to take any specific action, send an email or send SMS, so this kind of stuff, they are all supported. And, of course, you can schedule that for individual cameras. However, there are some cool functions in terms of connecting the cameras together, for example, based on video analytics we tell Camera Number One, if you detect a person, push the PDC camera to a specific preset to see the face of the person at a distance.
Farshid (24:19):
So in terms of system requirement, VAST is a very, very large software to operate, however, the core of the software is super powerful, you just need a tiny CPU to operate the software, especially whenever we are talking about the recording. For 64-channel recording, you just need a Core i3 CPU. For 128-channel recording, you just need Core i3 or Core i5 CPU, I would recommend, because you might need to record at higher resolution. So 128-channel in full HD with Core i3 is easy, but if you’re talking about 128-channel combination of two megapixel, five megapixel, 4K, 20 megapixel cameras, we strongly recommend you go with VAST-tested, factory-tested NVRs, which is coming with a license. You don’t need to worry about anything, very well-priced and all the functions are there. And you get all the updates for free in the future.
Farshid (25:13):
If you want to go with 256-channel, so just Core i7 CPU, Core i5 top-end or Core i7 CPU with 16 gig RAM is recommended. Eight and above RAM is on the edge, but if you use 16 gigabyte of RAM, easily you can manage and record 256 cameras. The fact is, VAST software has 512 megabits per second recording capacity per normal server and 400 megabits per second uploading capacity for the client. So you can have unlimited clients.
Farshid (25:44):
In terms of client machine as you can see, it depends on what resolution you want to record. You can use different CPUs, if you use Core i7, obviously, you can easily decode nine of the 10 ADP cameras at 25 frames per second, that means you can easily decode 80 megapixel. So if you go with the 10th generation of Core i7, you can easily go to 16 cameras, 32 megapixel decoding. We have test that with a Core i7 60 gigabyte of RAM, I could actually decode around 67 megapixels. So that was on the edge of superior usage, I got 80%, but you don’t need to go to high resolution, especially if you’re using matrix, because the screen doesn’t have enough pixel to show all the pixels.
Farshid (26:34):
Okay, here we go. At the moment we’re going to demo something for you, but after the demo I have a very, very exciting offer from ISCS for the people are attending in this webinar. There’s a fantastic deal is provided by ISCS for you guys, so we’ll go through that, and then Questions and Answers.
Farshid (26:57):
Okay. Let’s go and, get with the software. With the VAST 2 software, obviously, the installation is pretty easy. It’s like you install the normal software. As soon as you install the software, it’s creating icon on your desktop, or you can just go to the Search and search for VAST 2 application. You just double click on it, that’s going to run the application for you, and Username and Password that you created initially, during installation. And then, obviously, the IP address of your main server.
Farshid (27:33):
At the moment, please consider that I’m using my laptop and I’m connected over wifi to my server. So the standard port is using VAST 2 software instead of 443 but you can change it to any port you want afterwards. So the IPN address of the server, my username and the password. If I have Active Directory Icon, I can join the Active Directory Icon, for sure. And if I want to go to login this one, I just need to tick this. But I don’t want to, I want to login on this machine and I just click on, login.
Farshid (28:03):
So straightaway, I get to the server. At the left side, the first thing is taking attention is the camera tree but I can easily hide it. Right, so this is layout of the main page of the VIVOTEK software. That, you can do a lot with it. Okay… Here we go. So the thing is, here, on this button, you can select different kind of layouts to make your own customized layouts. So as you can see I do have option eight by eight, that’s means 64 cameras are in display on one screen, or I can actually make a focused kind of layout, or I can actually customize it for myself.
Farshid (28:46):
Let’s say I want to customize something specific. So I go three by three and I want to drag and drop some of the cameras. So at the left side I have panoramic cameras, I have fisheye cameras, I have multiple head cameras, I have dome, bullet so many cameras. I have 60 cameras here to play with, but I want to create very interesting layout for myself. So whatever I do, I just start with the top-end camera here, which is our panoramic camera. With the panoramic camera, I put it here. It’s going up here and that is 20 megapixel camera.
Farshid (29:21):
It looks a little bit strange for me so I want to have a better view here, I just actually go all the way to this, and I can actually make it exactly, in a panoramic, proper aspect ratio. Even if I want to make sure the aspect ratio is fantastically adjusted, I just need to go to, Fit the Screen with the Ratio, and select it. So that is perfect view of this camera I can get. If I want to see what sort of resolution, what sort of codec, what sort of feature I am getting at the moment. So, I just right-click on it, and go here and it’s showing me I am getting 20 megapixel image and 25 frames per second at only three megabytes per second. The image quality is fantastic. I can actually zoom in, zoom out, and I can do a lot, a lot of functions like, vision of interest. We do have de warping function for our cameras. I can put this beautiful car in, that is Heath’s car right out there. So, in my region of interest, make sure that that what I have is already protected.
Farshid (30:32):
So, if one wanted to lower down the resolution of the camera, I can easily do that like this, as long as my CPU is enough to decode 20 megapixel, the system is going to go to 20 megapixel. But, if I want to lower down the CPU usage, I can definitely switch to lower resolution and different codec. Lower down the resolution and you can see best video is super smooth over wifi. So, let’s say I go here and select another camera. So, I want to get another camera from that side or from inside, I just drag and drop the camera, or however, I can easily just double-click on the camera. Okay? So, let me…
Farshid (31:58):
So I put this one here and I put my LPR camera here.
Farshid (32:10):
With the LPR camera I just go to Show Data and I click on Show Data so the license plate information is coming on the right side.
Farshid (32:23):
So, I created a layer here, panoramic camera , and of course the auto camera and the license plate recognition, and everything. And I want to make display it for myself. I just click on Add a Layer or Add a View. So if I want to Add a View, I just put the name on it, Farshid, let’s say webinar. And then I create a layer. So the thing is, as soon as I go to the camera three, I see the views over here. I do have a lot of views here. So if I for example, switch to another layer, and I want to go back to the layer I already created, I just need to double-click on this Farshid webinar, and it is just coming up.
Farshid (33:10):
It is as easy as that. So, with the camera three you can group the cameras. As you can see here, for example, since we are presenting this from VIVOTEK Experience Center, so this is the name of our experience center, Delta VIVOTEK experience center. These are the cameras, are allocated to one NVR and so we do have the cameras, the bullet cameras, the experience center, or we can go to all the cameras as you can see here. So, all the cameras at the experience center, the cameras at the front of the building, and also the cameras on the ground floor. So, the beauty of that is if I want to see all the cameras at the front of the building I just need to go to the layout I want, select it, and I just drag and drop the front of the building here, so it’s bringing up all the cameras at the front of the building automatically.
Farshid (34:08):
So I can group the cameras in so many different kind of ways. As I do have six cameras at the front of the building, only six cameras coming up. However, I can easily move the cameras to somewhere else and maybe the panoramic camera, make it slightly bigger. Also just fit it to my screen. As simple as that. And I can create this layer as well.
Farshid (34:40):
So the other cool function we have in VAST 2 software is that these are new functions in VAST 2.10. Is the electronic map integration in the view cell and also the web browser. You may know that video of the fantastic Covid -19 defender solution and I can get the data of the Covid defender on the screen, all right. I already added up the web GUI here. So let me just move it to this one, I make it slightly bigger. So it is giving me all the information of the building in conjunction with other cameras we have at the moment. Heath is going at the front of the facial recognition and temperature detection panel. As soon as he is going there, the system is going to actually measure his temperature, it’s going to take a photo of him, it’s showing the photo for five seconds and it’s disappearing for privacy reasons. We do have a bigger screen here showing off that one and also is giving us with the 3-D people counting camera we have how many people are in the building, out of the capacity of the building.
Farshid (35:43):
And also it is giving us the welcome message. So this is the Delta VIVOTEK Eltek building. So it’s showing welcome to Delta at the moment. Okay.
Farshid (35:51):
So the other cool function I wanted to show you is…one sec, go to four view, remove this one, is the electronic map. With the electronic map you just need to drag and drop or double-click on the electronic map so it’s coming on here. So since I do have a lot of cameras on this level, so I can zoom out and see all the cameras in this one. And also I can make it similar to 3-D map by moving this bar and make it 2.5-D. So when I move around I want to select my camera. I look at it so different colors, I group the cameras, for example, the cameras in the warehouse, manufacturing and testing area, are marked yellow here. And for example, common area at the ground level are purple. In the experience center they are all green, and outside of the building they are all red. So if you want to see one of the cameras that is outside of the building, like our four megapixel PDC Camera, I just double-click on that, and automatically would always come in here.
Farshid (37:07):
So this camera has auto tracking function. If The people are moving in front of camera, it will look up people and automatically follow them. And it’s going back to its normal, home position, after a specific period of time, or after the person is leaving. So that is giving me the opportunity if I want to search if someone intruded in that area, with the specific time to search the metadata.
Farshid (37:29):
So if I want to see a camera, for example, in the warehouse, I can easily go and find a camera in the warehouse. So I just double-click on this one, and I get the camera in the warehouse. See straight away the camera coming up. So if I want to see the fisheye camera in the warehouse, I just double-click on the fisheye camera in the warehouse and the camera is popping up straight away. And if I want to make any of them bigger, I just double click on that, so going to the proper view, and this is a perfect opportunity for me to show you the de warping function of fisheye cameras in this view. So first of all, I can actually make the video fit to my screen with a proper aspect ration. Okay, so this is the proper aspect ratio of the camera. Make sure that it is on the top resolution and I can start doing the de warping. So with the de warping we have eight de warping functions, and then so I can select any of them. So for example, I can select one 103R which is four Y eight 360 view.
Farshid (38:44):
And then I can move around, zoom in, zoom out. And then also the cool function I have here is called autopan. I can select one of the panels, put it on auto-spinning. While it is doing the auto-spin, it is pretty smooth here, I’m not sure if it’s smooth on Zoom. While it is doing the auto-spin, I can just go here and put one of the images on my vision of interest. Crystal clear video, this camera is at 6.7 meters high, but you can see a perfect view of the camera.
Farshid (39:17):
So we do have different modes here. So if I want to go to 108R, which is the compressive mode, it looks like you do have eight cameras. Again, the same thing I can do, I can move the panels, zoom in, zoom out, take the snapshot. Or I want to put this one on pano, I just click it and put it on pano. The top panel is spinning, however I can set any of the other panels and zoom to the region of interest.
Farshid (39:49):
So I would like to show you another camera here to show you how the panoramic view of the camera is working. So let me remove all this…. So let’s say, I do have this camera and, which is level one of our office, and I want to see panoramic view. So, if I go to panoramic view, it doesn’t look quite nice here. I just make it panoramic and… sorry. Just go like this. Okay? And I can center the stairs right at the center of the image. So the fact is, whenever I go with the proper aspect ratio, in crystal ball it looks like oval, but that it not the point we want. We can actually have this camera in panoramic view here, however, we can have it exactly in the crystal ball in another view like this.
Farshid (41:06):
However, the other thing is, if I want to get the 90 degrees of that, I just go here, click on 1R. Look at that. How beautiful is that? So I can easily move around.
Farshid (41:17):
Okay so these are some cool functions of VAST 2 software in terms of creating a layout. There are few other function that I would like to show you. One of the most important functions I’d like to show you is the Smart Search 2 function based on video analytics and also license plate recognition.
Farshid (41:51):
So I want to perform Smart Search based on video analytics. So my 4K camera in front of the building, and I want to know if someone, intruder in a specific area, during last night. So, as you can see someone is moving at the moment, it has a tracking dot on it. Let me just make it full screen. I just need to go to Smart Search 2 function here. So as soon as I click on it, since the camera is already selected, it is giving me the area that is covered by the Smart VCA. So I want to see if someone passed this area in last hour, or last night, doesn’t matter. So I just click on it and I select the type of video analytics I want to search, I click on intrusion, and then I click on search in last hour. As you can see it is giving me 80 results. So every result you see here, that is including people. So double-click on it, so the video is here, and the timeline is showing me the metadata highlighted here in green or red, or sorry yellow.
Farshid (42:58):
As you can see, these are the metadata we are searching for. So two people intruded in that area and I want explore this footage. So I just click on export, put it around that, the indicators and click on okay. So please not that I am connected to my servers or wifi. I’ll click it once to record, to extract the footage of a 4K camera, and as soon as I click on this one, straightaway I’m on the folder of the exported footage, with the player, and my video is already in this folder, which is this one. So this video is the real video, but whenever I go to this folder, I do have the video player from the software which is playing back the metadata as well. Okay
Farshid (43:50):
So this is the function of Smart Search 2. So that is super, super easy to operate it. Let’s say if we can find anything from 2AM to 7AM, and search. So see from 2AM this morning to 7AM, we have only six results. The first result happened at 6:20 AM, and here we go. As soon as someone come into the area, so instead of going to review hours of videos, I just go search for the metadata. It is as simple as that. And whenever you do have the videos like this, you do the playback, it is just showing you the metadata video, so it doesn’t show you all the video. So it’s just jumping to another event, another event, you can easily find the evidence you need and export it.
Farshid (44:49):
So I would love to say that VAST software also is capable to do the synchronized playback for 16 cameras, and also you can explore the footage of 16 cameras simultaneously. So that was the Smart Search function.
Farshid (45:03):
LPR function. So with the LPR function I already added our lower LPR camera here, you just need to go to this matrix and you do have a data magnet function here. So you click on data magnet, you just go here and select your AMPR camera or automatic number plate recognition. In last 24 hours, I want to see how many cars accessed and with what license plates. So all the license plates coming up here, I just need to double-click on the license plate I would like to check and double-click on the video, and straightaway I get it, XN 35LJ.
Farshid (45:37):
So I want to search how many times this car, this truck has tried to access our warehouse in the last month. So I just need to go here, come down, and select the number plates, and just put XN 35, even I don’t need to type everything. And then I go to the timeframe, instead of going 14th of four, I go to 14th of March and then search it. Look, it is just listing all the date and times that this car is try to access our warehouse, and also I do have some other cameras over there to monitor what is happening, why the transaction happening. Are they dropping off something or are they picking up something?
Farshid (46:37):
Okay so there is another last thing I would like to show you is the setting menu. In the setting menu is super easy to operate. We are talking about adding of the cameras, adding of the NPRs, adding a POS system, adding a digital input output devices, data magnet, and also external devices which is including the joystick to control the PDC cameras. Recording setting, backup failover, local database repair, and also the alarm management. As you can see here, I go to alarm management, I see a lot of alarms here. Some of them turned off some of them are on, I see that the video analytics or some other criteria are working. Username and password management, I can have unlimited passwords here with different access level, and I can actually select the person, and also give access to specific kind of functions, for specific cameras. So I can have unlimited usernames and passwords here.
Farshid (47:37):
Licensing, if you are using the free software, 32-channel and you want to add licenses in the future, not a problem. You just need to generate their inputs file. If you’re attending the training, we train you how to do it. Send a request form to your distributor, your distributor, they do have access to the online portal, will add the licenses to that, and give you the license back. You upload it to your server and happy days. You can buy licenses one by one, or in any kind of combination you want.
Farshid (48:03):
SMTP is for email settings based on events, you can send email to different recipients. Preferences, you can adjust all the preferences here. For example, what layer do you want to sent to what screen? And there are so many personalized things you can do here, and also the watermarking, as I said, it’s just a watermark, you can adjust it here.
Farshid (48:32):
And obviously the last one but not least, the electronic map and you can change your electronic map here. As you can see, I already actually added up two layers here, I do have all the cameras here. I can drag and drop the cameras from this camera tree at the left side, to the map, and save it.
Farshid (48:52):
Okay so that is all about major functions of VAST 2 software. Please bear in mind we do have full training for VAST 2 software. Please call in with your sales people at ISCS. More than happy to host you here at St Leonards Experience Center. We do have a sophisticated experience center here, not only for VIVOTEK solutions, we do have so many other technologies here from third party, technology partners including an Nx Witness, that is supplied and distributed by ISCS.
Farshid (49:30):
So let’s go back to the presentation and the good news. All right, so thank you very much first of all for attending this presentation, but question and answers.
Heath (49:45):
All right, well I’ve got a few for you.
Farshid (49:47):
Sure.
Heath (49:47):
Thank you anyways…
Farshid (49:48):
No worries
Heath (49:49):
for the demonstration it was helpful
Farshid (49:50):
My pleasure
Heath (49:51):
Thanks for having us at the experience center. Anyone who’s interested in coming down here it’s at St Leonards. Pretty easy to get to, parking at the front it’s pretty good.
Farshid (50:02):
Yep.
Heath (50:03):
So just get in contact with one of your ISCS sales contacts. If you’re interstate, we could do something digital.
Farshid (50:11):
Yep.
Heath (50:12):
So a question that I’ve got here… What is the maximum number of cameras you can manage on a single VAST installation, provided that a lot of server performance and storage.
Farshid (50:28):
Yeah Good question, very, very good question. Logically, there is no limitation of number of licenses you can upload to a server. If you have a super-server with 4 ZM processor and 10 gigabyte LAN or you can add more than 1,000 licenses into one server, as long as you do the proper storage calculation. We can help with the storage calculation, backward calculation, obviously, you can do that with the volume. So the fact is, there are some basics on the mentals here.
Farshid (50:57):
So first of all, you need to have enough volumes in your hard disk array in terms of 85 or 86 you are doing. Make sure that everybody can handle, or is handling, 200 megabits per second max. So the number of cameras you’re allocating to that volume, should not be exceeding 200 megabits per second, data. So that means, if you do have four volumes, that is handling 200 megabits per second, per volume, that means you can handle 800 megabits per second. And if there is a full HD cameras at two megabits per second, that is easily translated to 400 cameras. In terms of VAST licensing, you can easily add 400 licenses into one server.
Farshid (51:38):
So the other thing is, in terms of the scale of the system. You do have VIVOTEK NPRs distributor and with the client system, or CMS station, we have, NS9521, we can have unlimited, definitely unlimited MVRs on it. Like I said, we tested 400 MDRs, that was so hard. We connected to the MVRs all around the world, but it’s, at the moment we have the discussion, how we can actually take it to next level to test 500. So I’m committed in Sydney, to pull wire connection to my headquarter for another six, seven years I have here.
Farshid (52:16):
But the fact is, with the CMS there is no limitation. The limitation is your internet bandwidth and also, it’s how many cameras you want to display on the screen. In terms of recording, we do have servers that are supporting 128 licenses, coming with it, and it is already included of free, for ONVIF cameras. You don’t need to pay for anything, you bought it separate. Everything is included, we just need to put hard disk in there and the creative volume and great, you can go ahead with it.
Farshid (52:45):
But if you want to use your own servers, if you want to use top-end HP servers or Dell servers, depend on the specification, you can easily go and get your 256 channels, guaranteed with 47 CPU, 16 gigabyte of RAM, guaranteed you can do 256 channels. If you do dual ZM 10 gigabyte LAN, 32 gigabyte, you can go to 512 cameras. And you can manage them all. However, you can have failover readiness. I hope I answered your question.
Heath (53:17):
Extensively. Yeah. Yes. Okay, I’ve got another one here. I’ll go through, maybe two more. Does the temperature detection work accurately without black body reference.
Farshid (53:27):
Correct, so if this system is using infrared sensor, that you need to be 80 centimeters or closer to the system, it definitely is accurately. With our tests, hundreds of measurement with the handheld and also this system, the accuracy of the system is 0.2 +/-. Yeah, the answer to your question is, yes it is accurate, it is doing that without black body because this is the infrared sensor, it is not the thermal imaging. And it is a very good looking system too.
Farshid (53:59):
It has lots of functions, mass detection, facial recognition and also, temperature detection. Fully integrated to VAST 2 software. The most important thing with this system, is the scale of the system. You can have one tablet per door and there is a Central Management System that you can manage up to 20 of the temperature, facial recognition, mass detection tablets, and unlimited 3D people counting cameras to control the occupancy level of the building, with the 3D People Counting Cameras.
Farshid (54:30):
Please come here to St Leonards if you are in New South Wales and look at it, or we can provide you another presentation for the Defender System.
Heath (54:39):
Okay, just two more here, there’s two that are the same. First one’s, Can you use non- VIVOTEK of cameras in VAST, is there a cost? And is there just one face recognition solution supported or can you utilize any vendor’s face recognition algorithm?
Farshid (54:59):
Okay. So, the first question, can you use ONVIF from VAST software? Yes. If you buy VIVOTEK NVR that are coming with the VAST software, they are already supporting ONVIF . The 33-channel free software you get, it doesn’t support ONVIF, but if you buy a license extra, on top of 33 channel, the purchase licenses with a tiny amount, one of it does support ONVIF and it does support ONVIF profile S, profile, G, and profile T, which does support H.265 . If your camera does support ONVIF profile T our VAST software does support ONVIF profile T so you can get the camera on VAST software H.265, correct.
Farshid (55:37):
And here’s another question,
Heath (55:42):
yeah about whether you-
Farshid (55:44):
Ah, facial recognition, sorry. Yeah, with facial recognition, at the moment the integration is happening with mask facial recognition, which is a different little machine. This is a Linux-based machine, it’s coming with two channel, four channel and eight channel. And you can use any of the VIVOTEK cameras, however, if you do have third party facial recognition, yes you just need to buy data magnet license with VAST and facial data from that facial recognition to your VAST software. We can take it offline, connect you to the engineers to give you instruction or you can fetch your data from the third party facial recognition to your system.
Farshid (56:21):
If your facial recognition system does support TCIP or the supporting data of the TCIP, definitely our data magnet can fetch your data and bleed it to your bleeder, while you are redeploying back, you can see the face and the information of the registered people into that software. Yeah.
Heath (56:39):
One last quick one is, Can you fisheye dewarp in playback and export footage.
Farshid (56:46):
Of course. Good. Yeah, as I said during the presentation, yes you can do in night view, in playback and after exporting the footage. That is correct and it is super easy to do it, and the answer is, absolutely. You can do it.
Heath (57:02):
That’s it for our Questions and Answer. We might just move onto the last slide. Thanks everyone, for attending. Thank you Farshid, for your time.
Farshid (57:11):
My pleasure. Thank you very much for you time.
Heath (57:13):
Again, for any upcoming webinars, we do have the webinar hall, which is iscs.com.au/webinars. You can go there, we don’t currently have the next one lined up, we’re in the process of working that one out so that’ll probably be around June. Feel free to go on there and you can check any time. I will also be uploading this webinar, probably tomorrow, so you’ll be able to watch it back and that’ll be the transcript and the closed captions and that.
Heath (57:42):
Thank you very much.
Farshid (57:45):
No worries. Thank you very much, guys. Sorry for the glitches happened. The camera moved several times but yeah, we are trying to fix this one of glitches the next webinar. But yeah, I appreciate your time. I hope you enjoy it. Please go to our website, vivotek.com under product software you can get your hands on VAST software. You can get a 256 channel version trial for 60 days and after that it is converting to 32 channel, free for you. Please test it out.
Farshid (58:19):
If you want to test it with out with ONVIF cameras, get the software from the website, install it in 256 channel trial version. It does support ONVIF and you can test it for 60 days.
Heath (58:32):
All right, thank you.
Farshid (58:33):
Thank you.
Heath (58:33):
Have a good day.
Farshid (58:34):
Have a good day, cheers.
