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Automatically starting presentation MOBOTIX.exe, which introduces the different options of the DVD:

• Installation of the complete MxControlCenter Demo on a computer (approx. 2 GB)
• Launching the demo from the DVD (takes a while to load)
• Installation of MxControlCenter on a computer
• Open the readme files
• Open the documentation folders with the current MOBOTIX PDFs

|-- MxControlCenter

Preconfigured MxControlCenter installation for presenting the different demo layouts:

• All MxControlCenter files, including application files for starting the demo from DVD.
• MxControlCenter_Demo_DVD.msi for installing the MxControlCenter Demo on a computer.

|   |-- Mx_Clips

MxPEG clips with audio recorded from MOBOTIX cameras or MxControlCenter that are included in the different layouts.

|   |-- Mx_ES

Complete folder structure with event data from several MOBOTIX cameras, including audio channel.

|   |-- Mx_Infos

Instruction files, which can be assigned to individual cameras and provide easy access to alerting procedures, for example (empty).

|   |-- Mx_Mempics

Reference images, which can be stored for individual cameras, e.g. to make sure that the corresponding cameras is still properly positioned (empty).

|   `-- Mx_Sounds

Sound files, which can be played back for certain actions of MxControlCenter (empty).

`-- Mx_Documents

Folder for current MOBOTIX documents (PDFs)

|   |-- Mx_Docs_DE

German MOBOTIX documents

|   |-- Mx_Docs_EN

English MOBOTIX documents

|   |-- Mx_Docs_ES

Spanish MOBOTIX documents

|   |-- Mx_Docs_FR

French MOBOTIX documents

|   |-- Mx_Docs_IT

Italian MOBOTIX documents

|   `-- Mx_Docs_NL

Dutch MOBOTIX documents

`-- Setup

Installation files

• MxControlCenter.msi for installing MxControlCenter on a computer (without clips and event structure)
• Adobe Reader installation files (English, German, French)

Demo Clips

(Demo clips with audio)

This layout presents the most important advantages of the MOBOTIX concept:

• Detailed and true-color display for both live cameras and playback of recorded video data.
• Lip-synchronous audio channel from the camera's integrated microphone can be transmitted and recorded.
• Smooth video with audio channel in all resolutions (CIF 320x240 to QXGA 2048x1536 and custom formats).
• One MOBOTIX camera with a 90° Super Wide Angle is sufficient to monitor a complete room.
• True colors even when fast and extensive changes in the images are displayed.
• Continuous recording (e.g. 1 fps) with automatic, event-driven adjustment of the frame rate (max. 30 fps).

Select a camera window (yellow frame) and click on the Audio channel button to hear the sound recorded by this camera.

Demo Clips & Live

(Demo clips with audio and the possibility to integrate a live camera)

This layout is identical to the Demo Clips layout, with the exception that the camera window in the center is empty. You can include your own camera or a publicly accessible camera in this window.

• Click on the Layout Editor button .
• Right-click the camera window in the center of the layout and select the Configure command from the context menu.

• In the Element Type list, select the Live entry and click on Add. Enter the IP address or the DNS name of a MOBOTIX camera.

  If you do not know the IP address or the DNS name of a camera, MxControlCenter can automatically search for MOBOTIX cameras in all reachable networks. To do so, click on the Search button in the Configure Element dialog.

  If you do not have a camera, you can enter preparkcam.mobotixserver.de to test the functionality of this window (this will only work if you have an Internet connection).

• Click on OK to display the desired camera in the camera window in the center.
• Click again on the Layout Editor button and store the layout.

Search & Analysis

(Video search and enhanced features)

This layout demonstrates the following functions:

• Video Search: (enhanced event search on several cameras)
• Synchronous Playback: (synchronized playback of the recorded video sequences of all cameras in a layout)
• 360° Surveillance Solution: ceiling camera with 180° lens, Software PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) and PP (image Post Processing)

A complete file server structure has been integrated into this layout, just like the one created by the cameras on a file server. This layout simulates a video search on recorded video data of a MOBOTIX system.

Video Search

When searching video, you search for specific times or events on all video data that have been stored by all cameras in the current layout. One distinct advantage of the MOBOTIX system is the possibility to connect all recorded events using a Reference Time, which provides a means to search several cameras if you would like to examine e.g. what a specific person has done while visiting a company.

You can examine the scenes more closely at any time by zooming into images using the software zoom features or by using the image post-processing features (adjustment of color, brightness, contrast and sharpness) to further enhance specific details of an image.

• Select the camera window in the top left corner of the layout (yellow frame).
• Click on the Video Search button .
• The first event has been highlighted on the Events tab, with the event image being displayed in the Player window. Using the Player controls, you can examine the individual video sequences.
• To switch to another camera, simply select the desired camera on the Cameras tab. The events of this camera will be shown once you switch back to the Events tab.
• The Playlist allows manipulating the individual events as scenes and to play back the whole "movie" as one (with audio channel, if present). In addition, you can export video sequences as an AVI file.

This dialog also provides the PTZ/PP features.

Manually Examining the "Scene of a Crime"

In order to find an ideal example, select the first camera in the top left corner of the layout and start your search at 14:27, since you would like to see what a suspect (driver of an SUV) has done during his visit to the company:

1. Select the camera window in the top left corner of the layout (yellow frame).
2. Click on the Video Search button .
3. Click on the Show all frames of all sequences button.
4. Enter 14:27:12 in the Event time field.
5. Click on the Play button and see what the driver of the SUV does until he leaves the image area.
6. Click again on the Play button .
7. Click on the Set reference time automatically to the time of the current image button to copy this time to the next camera you would like to examine. (This button will stay pressed the whole time while conducting the video search.)
8. Select the next camera on the Cameras tab.
9. Click again on the Play button and only stop the playback shortly before the person leaves the image area.
10. Repeat steps 8 and 9 from above every time the person is about to leave the image area.

Automatically Examining the "Scene of a Crime"

This feature allows you to play back all recorded camera video streams if video has been recorded at a give time. When doing this, it is irrelevant if the cameras have recorded continuous or event-controlled video. Using this feature provides a good method for quickly examining the development of a potentially critical situation:

• Click on the Synchronous Player button (the button remains pressed ). To get a better view of the cameras, move the dialog to the side or below the cameras.

  Note: This dialog needs to remain open when showing synchronized playback; closing the dialog will stop the synchronized playback.

• Enter the same time in the Synchronous Player as in the previous example: 14:27:12.

• Click on the Goto button in the Synchronous Player dialog to load all events from the cameras that can be shown on the specified time.

  If there are now video data available at the specified time, two time stamps will be displayed in a camera window:

  • Upper time stamp: last available video sequence
  • Lower time stamp: next available video sequence
• Click on the Play button in the main window of MxControlCenter to start the synchronous playback.

You will now get a good overview over the events recorded by all cameras in the layout while the driver of the SUV passes the cameras. You should let the playback run for at least three minutes to get an impression of the different events recorded in this scenario.

To stop the synchronous playback, deactivate the Synchronous Player button in the main window or click on the Close button in the Synchronous Player dialog

360° Surveillance Solution (PTZ)

The strengths of the MOBOTIX system are a direct result of two advanced characteristics: the high quality of the recorded video streams and the integrated software features, which provide the basis for a detailed analysis of the critical situations. To use the virtual pan/tilt/zoom feature, simply click with the mouse into the image or move the joystick to zoom into any interesting details.

This example simulates a room surveillance (e.g. a hotel lobby) using a D22M and 180° lens that is installed in the ceiling, allowing you to examine the interesting events.

• Click on the Show PTZ/PP button and move the palette to the side or below the cameras.
• Select the camera window in the center (yellow frame).
• Activate the PTZ checkbox.
• Set the Lens type to 180° and Camera mount to Ceiling. The application compensates the lens distortion depending on the selected lens type.
• Select the desired zoom level using the slider control, mouse wheel or joystick.
• Click on the upper area of the image until you see the "horizon" of the image.
• Activate the Automatic Rotation Mode checkbox to start virtual autorotation.

Click into the image to manually move or rotate the image. Setting the View mode to QuadCam view 360° creates four virtual cameras.

The lower part of the palette contains the options for image post processing PP, which are identical to the PP palette (see next item).

Closing the palette or clicking on a different camera window will store the settings for the selected camera window. To apply the stored settings in the MxControlCenter main window, simply activate the Switch Pan/Tilt/Zoom on/off button .

Image Post-Processing (PP)

This palette allows controlling the following image parameters:

• Color contrast
• Brightness
• Contrast
• Image sharpness

Closing the palette or clicking on a different camera window will store the settings for the selected camera window. To apply the stored settings in the MxControlCenter main window, simply activate the Switch PostProcessing on/off button .

Note: If Switch Pan/Tilt/Zoom on/off has been activated, you can also zoom the selected channel using the mouse wheel or a joy stick. If the image has been zoomed, a mouse click or a movement with the joystick will move the displayed image section on that direction.

Mx on PTZ

(Pan/Tilt system)

This layout with MxPEG clips demonstrates how a MOBOTIX camera directly mounted to a PTZ head (Videotronic) controls the PTZ head via the RS232 interface.

Other PTZ Domes

(Other Pan/Tilt systems)

This layout also shows MxPEG clips from PTZ dome cameras, but this time using analog and IP dome cameras from other manufacturers, which are integrated seamlessly into MxControlCenter. The MxControlCenter video management system thus allows re-using your investments (expensive PTZ dome cameras) by integrating them into a video surveillance solution (hybrid system).

The integration not only covers the camera display, but also the recording of video data, which works in the same manner as for MOBOTIX cameras. This also means that you can use the MxControlCenter features (software PTZ, PP, synchronous player, etc.) to analyze the stored video data.

In this layout, two cameras from third-party manufacturers have been integrated using a MOBOTIX MxServer PC:

• An Axis 232d (IP dome camera) with MxServer recording the video stream. MxControlCenter directly controls and displays the live video stream of this camera.
• An analog Bosch AutoDome using an MxServer with video digitizer card (frame grabber) to record the (digitized) video stream. Controlling the Bosch Autodome is likewise accomplished by MxControlCenter, since the digital control commands are sent to the MxPEG Server, which converts and forwards the commands to the Bosch AutoDome.

The interlacing mode of the third-party cameras leads to motion (comb) artefacts, which are clearly visible in the right VGA image if fast movements occur. In non-interlaced mode (bottom left), the motion artefacts are barely visible since they are suppressed using software means ("soft-focus"). This is a definite disadvantage versus the MOBOTIX cameras, since they always use progressive scan mode when creating the images (full frames).

Cars Day/Night

(Cars in day and night situations)

This layout demonstrates an application in a driving car (top left), in broad daylight (top right), as well as recordings of moving cars at night without any additional lighting (bottom).

The exposure window (shown in the bottom left clip) always controls exposure in such a way that the license plates of the car is clearly visible despite the headlights.

Gate Day/Night

(Factory gate in day and night situations)

These recordings show MxPEG clips of the cameras at the MOBOTIX company entrance at various night situation (top and left), which had been recorded using motion detection (VM) and event recording.

The CIF image (top center) shows the recorded video of a Day/Night model with automatic switching from the day to the night image sensor in the course of a day. This is also a collection of scenes, which had been recorded using motion detection (VM) and event recording.

Mx Lenses

(Different lenses)

This layout shows five different lenses, which are shown in Mega resolution (1280x960). Note that the focal lengths of MOBOTIX lenses do not reflect the actual focal length of the lenses, but the focal length converted to 35 mm camera format (e.g. the L22 lens would have a focal length of 22 mm on a 35 mm camera).

Distances

(Different distances)

This layout uses three different lenses, which are shown in VGA resolution (640x480, left) and Mega (1280x960, right) resolution.

The advantages of the high-resolution sensor of the MOBOTIX cameras can be shown very well using the two images at the bottom. Both images have been recorded using the same lens (tele 135 mm). If you compare the VGA image (left) to the Mega image (right), you will notice that the VGA image (with about the same resolution as today's analog cameras) only allows recognizing details up to 30 m (100 ft.), while the Mega image allows recognizing details in more than 50 m (160 ft.) distance! This will be even more obvious if you are using the features of the software zoom on the Mega image.

This example clearly demonstrates, that you would have to use two regular analog cameras with 0.4 megapixels resolution in order to cover the same area with one MOBOTIX camera and megapixel resolution. Using a MOBOTIX camera with 3 megapixel sensor will therefore save even more cameras!

8x SW Zoom

(8x software zoom)

This layout shows a parking lot situation. All images have been stored using one lens but different settings of the integrated software zoom of the MOBOTIX camera. Thanks to the 3 megapixel sensor, you can examine all details clearly with all zoom settings, even in the recorded image.

These images had been taken using an M22M with 3 megapixel image sensor and a tele lens 135 mm; the distance to the cars was about 50 m (16 ft.).

3MEGA QXGA

(3 megapixel image 2048x1536)

The same parking lot situation as in the 8x SW Zoom layout, recorded as 3MEGA image (2048x1536)

Number Plates

(Number plate recognition)

This layout shows the license plates of passing cars during the day (left) and at night (right). The images were taken with infrared illumination and a long-pass filter (only lets light with long wavelengths pass). In addition, the images are using custom image formats to transmit only the relevant image information and thus save on bandwidth.

Image Formats

(Different image formats)

This layout shows the most common image formats provided by the MOBOTIX cameras:

MEGA Scaling

(Camera software zoom levels in Mega format 1280x960)

This layout shows a scene with different settings of the camera software zoom, using a Mega resolution image (1280x960) to start with. The clips demonstrate that the MOBOTIX cameras deliver smooth video with audio in every resolution. In addition, the MOBOTIX processes for true software scaling guarantee that the camera always delivers the best image quality in every resolution.

The images have been recorded using a camera with 3 megapixel sensor.

XGA Scaling

(Camera software zoom levels in XGA format 1024x768)

Similar to the MEGA Scaling layout, this layout shows a scene with different settings of the camera software zoom, using an XGA resolution image (1024x768) to start with.

The images have been recorded using a camera with 3 megapixel sensor.

D1-PAL Scaling

(Camera software zoom levels in D1-PAL format 768x576)

Similar to the MEGA Scaling layout, this layout shows a scene with different settings of the camera software zoom, using a D1-PAL resolution image (768x576) to start with.

The images have been recorded using a camera with 3 megapixel sensor.

VGA Scaling

(Camera software zoom levels in VGA format 640x480)

Similar to the MEGA Scaling layout, this layout shows a scene with different settings of the camera software zoom, using a VGA resolution image (640x480) to start with.

The images have been recorded using a camera with 3 megapixel sensor.

Free Zoom

(Clips with camera zoom)

These clips in VGA format show the zoom of the camera as it is increased and reduced again step-by-step. In addition, the right clip shows the exposure windows to demonstrate the you can define individual exposure windows for every zoom level. Note that image quality remains high even in the zoomed images, because the camera has a 3 megapixel image sensor

Move the mouse pointer over the center of the image and examine the enlarged image during the full length of the clip; the zoom levels are shown in brackets in the lower right corner.

MxPEG 2.0

(Non-tiling clip with MxPEG 2.0)

The new high-performance MxPEG 2.0 codec shows smooth transitions even when much of the image changes, as is clearly visible in the changing cone of light from the halogen light.