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Cameras

You can add your cameras to IRIS+ Essential and watch their live play here.

Click the Cameras menu on the left sidebar.

IRIS+ Essential is able to handle the following number of cameras, depending on the hardware used:

Hardware Max. number of cameras
Nvidia Jetson NX 10
x86-64 50

Before you start

Please make sure that everything described in the First Steps is done and tyou have all these information for each camera:

  • The location / desired name of the camera

  • Camera RTSP address (including username and password if the camera is protected)

  • The current resolution and FPS setting.

Note

Make sure your camera's active infra range is aligned with the desired distance range.

Make sure your camera's cover is clear. Dirt on it can heavily effect the night vision accuracy.

Add a new camera

Make sure that this camera's own settings match the following before adding any cameras to IRIS+ Essential:

  • Codec: h264.
  • Maximum supported resolution: 1920 x 1080 px.
  • Required frame rate: Between 1 and 10 FPS, depending on use case (see below)
  • Recommended bitrate: 1536 kbps.

It is recommended to provide a dedicated stream profile for IRIS+ Essential.

The frame rate recommended for each solution type varies, according to the following:

Recommended frame rate Solution type
1 FPS Intrusion, Hazardous Area, Multi Object Detection, Crowd, Fall Detection, Multi Object Counter, Metadata Output
4 FPS Zone Crossing, Loitering, PPE, Traffic Counting, Stopped, Metadata Output (with tracking)
6 FPS Video Output
10 FPS Wrong Direction
  1. Click the New Camera button. Fill in the form on the right side.

  1. Camera name: This name should identify the camera for operator users (eg. Entrance 1).

  2. RTSP URL: The location of the camera. The recommended format is rtsp://username:password@url:port/parameters.

Info

Special characters included in the password may cause issues, therefore it is highly recommended to omit using them. Otherwise, as a workaround you can 'escape' such characters by replacing them in the following format: MyPassw@rd MyPassw%40rd. Note the replacement of the @ character with %40.

  1. Technical name: The technical identifier of the camera (auto-generated).

  2. Thermal: Tick this checkbox if the camera is a thermal one.

  3. PTZ: Tick this checkbox if the camera is a PTZ one or is otherwise capable of movement or zooming.

  4. GPS coordinates: Tick this checkbox to define GPS coordinates by which your camera can be identified.

  5. Click the Save button to register the camera.

After a few seconds, the new camera should appear in the Cameras list. The live view of the new camera is available after clicking on its name or preview image in this list.

Warning

Do not modify the resolution or the framerate of a stream after it is connected to IRIS+ Essential. If the stream's settings are changed, IRIS+ Essential will stop processing that stream and will be in unhealthy state in monitoring services used.

If a stream's settings are changed regardless, but the new settings are still compatible with IRIS+ Essential, the processing of the streams can be restarted by clicking on the RELOAD ALL button below the registered camera thumbnails.

NOTE: It may take a while to load a preview image for your cameras. You can continue your work, the preview will appear automatically later.

In some rare cases IRIS+ Essential can not determine your stream's FPS and asks for confirmation whether your framerate matches the requirements.

Edit an existing camera

  1. In the Cameras list, click on the preview image of a camera.
  2. Click the Edit button above the camera's live view.
  3. Modify your settings. In this form everything is the same as when adding a new camera with the following exceptions: - RTSP URL should be filled only if the URL is changed. For security reasons, the current username and password is not visible in the URL. - Deleting a camera deletes all alarms, events and incident records which belong to this camera.
  4. Click the Save button to apply the new settings or Cancel to discard your edits.

Delete an existing camera

Warning

Deleting a camera deletes all alarms, events and incident records which belong to this camera.

  1. In the Cameras list, click on the preview image of a camera.
  2. Click the Delete button above the camera's live view.

Camera Live view

In the Cameras list, click on the preview image or the name of an existing camera. The live view will load in a few seconds.

Camera Live view

Display features

  • If a Solution with ROI is associated with this camera, positive / negative ROI are displayed as green / white polygons.
  • Detections inside the ROI (or if there is no ROI) are solid orange / aqua polygons, depending on the detected object type. Their object type is denoted above the polygons. In the label next to it is the 'detection score' - the number that tells you the strength of the detection. This is influenced by the Sensitivity rating of the Camera associated with a Solution. You can learn more about fine-tuning this in the Expert Settings part of the guide.
  • If an alarm is triggered, a Bell icon will appear in the top right corner of the player.
  • The timestamp of the video is in the bottom left corner of the player (can be different from the one that comes from the camera) in the timezone of the device. The timezone can be modified in the Control Panel.

Controls

  • and toggles between pause and play
  • jumps to the triggering moment and pauses the player
  • rewinds to a few seconds before the Event
  • switches to live play
  • << jumps backward ten seconds
  • >> jumps forward ten seconds
  • / : shows / hides annotations
  • opens the video in full-screen mode

Troubleshooting

If something is wrong with the configuration of your cameras, IRIS+ Essential has several indicators:

  • A red "warning" badge on the Cameras button on the left-side panel
  • A clickable red "Error" message on the malfunctioning camera
  • A clickable notification bar will appear in the bottom right corner

Clicking the "Error" message or the notification bar will navigate you to the System Health page of the Control Panel, where information regarding the camera's health status will appear to help you investigate the issue.

If you have configured your network to use static IP

IRIS+ Essential supports both static IP and DHCP, however in some rare cases, static IP may result in network issues. In that case, it is recommended to switch to DHCP and try again.

Next steps

After the registration of your cameras, you may continue by setting up Solutions.