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Barco Video Wall Integration to XProtect VMS


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Contents

INTEGRATION OVERVIEW .............................................................. 3

GENERAL CONCEPT ............................................................................................ 3

ARCHITECTURE .................................................................................................. 3

PREREQUISITES .................................................................................................. 4

TERMINOLOGY .................................................................................................... 4

ABOUT INSTALLING THE BARCO WALL PLUG-IN ....................... 5

ABOUT CONFIGURING THE BARCO WALL BRIDGE CONFIGURATION ............................................................................. 8

ABOUT THE BARCO SIDEBAR ..................................................... 11

OPERATIONS ................................................................................. 15

CONTROL OF BARCO WALL VIA XPROTECT SMART CLIENT ................................. 15

CONTROL OF BARCO WALL VIA RULE SYSTEM .................................................... 16

TROUBLESHOOTING ..................................................................... 17

HINTS .............................................................................................................. 17

INDEX .............................................................................................. 18


www.milestonesys.com 3 Integration Overview

Integration Overview

General Concept

XProtect® Smart Wall is advanced video wall software that improves response times by providing a complete overview for large surveillance centers. This concept is now being extended to Barco video walls.

The Barco video wall controller independently decodes the requested streams and populates them on the Barco video wall grid by itself. You can control the Barco video wall in three ways: Barco’s Control Room Management suite software (CMS), XProtect® Smart Client, or a mix of both. This enables users to design an operational workflow that best suits the users’ needs and ensures smooth upgrades for existing customers. The Barco control room solution also supports the event-based rule architecture within XProtect Smart Wall.

Architecture

The red lines illustrates the control flow.


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The green lines illustrates the video flow.

You can control what is being shown on the Barco wall in three different ways:

1. Via an XProtect Smart Client operator

2. Via the XProtect Corporate or XProtect Expert rule system

3. Via the Barco sidebar application

In the XProtect Smart Client, the operator uses the available commands and layouts designed for XProtect Smart Wall. The commands issued by the operator are forwarded by a plug-in in the Event Server to the Barco CMS server. The Barco CMS and MGS servers contacts the relevant XProtect VMS servers to log in and receive video streams. In turn, these are decoded and shown on the Barco wall.

The XProtect Corporate and XProtect Expert VMS systems can also control the Barco wall automatically. This is done by setting up specific rules. For example, such a rule could be to show specific video from a camera having motion detected during night time. The rule system updates XProtect Smart Wall views, which again are forwarded to the Barco CMS server by a plug-in in the Event Server.

Prerequisites

Milestone XProtect Corporate 2013 (or later) or XProtect Expert 2014

Milestone XProtect Smart Wall 2013 or later.

Barco Transform N system: CMS 2.4.1 including MGS (Media Gateway Server).

For Barco customers currently using Apollo and/or Transform A, please contact Barco.

For Milestone customers currently using previous versions of XProtect Corporate, please contact Milestone.

In general, both Milestone and Barco support the widely available standard H.264 and, in most cases, MJPEG cameras and/or encoders. For a confirmation on a particular brand and model number, please contact Barco and Milestone for their interoperability lists or forward plans.

Please always contact Barco and Milestone for needs analysis and documented quotation.

Terminology

Cameras defined in XProtect are referred to as sources in Barco.

Smart Wall monitors are referred to as perspectives in Barco.


www.milestonesys.com 5 About installing the Barco Wall

plug-in

About installing the Barco Wall plug-in

Run the installer as an administrator.

The following setup dialogs are displayed:



plug-in



plug-in

Do not change the destination folder as the Event Server and the Management Client need to load the plug-in from a well-known place. If you have installed and run the Management Client from other machines, you should also run this installer on those machines in order to configure and maintain the Milestone-Barco integration.

After installation, you must stop and restart the Event Server. This loads the newly installed plugin in the Event Server. To load the plug-in, close and restart the Management Client.


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Bridge Configuration

About configuring the Barco Wall Bridge Configuration

You handle all configuration in the Management Client. When you select the Barco Wall Bridge node in the navigation tree on the left, the middle pane shows already your already created configurations. Use the context menu to create a configuration for each Barco wall available.

Type a name for the Barco Wall, and the address and credentials for the CMS server.

Click Logon to validate the entered values. Once you do this, the known XProtect Smart Walls and Barco displays are shown in the two lists.

To make a video wall set up in XProtect Smart Wall take over an entire Barco display, select a Smart Wall monitor and select the Barco displays to send it to.

If the layout and position is defined by the Barco Sidebar operator, then you should not select any check boxes.




Select the MGS Servers tab:

On this page, add one or more MGS server addresses. If you have installed multiple MGS servers, they are in a round robin way when video is started. ote that you must enter the port number.

To make Milestone cameras available in the Barco SideBar, click the Advanced tab:




Press the Select Camera(s)… button and choose a single camera or a group of cameras to use from the XProtect configuration. Each of the selected cameras are added to the Barco Sidebar as individual sources.

Note that XProtect Smart Wall monitors are exposed in the Barco Sidebar starting with the name XProtect- and the name of the monitor. Camera names start with XProtect- and the name of the camera.


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About the Barco Sidebar

When you have finished the configuration in the Management Client, the Barco Sidebar displays the XProtect Smart Wall monitors as Barco perspectives. A system that has three monitors could look like this:



Cameras added via the Advanced tab described above, or cameras added automatically during changes to XProtect appear as sources in the Barco Sidebar:



Decorators defined in the Barco system look like this:



They are shown within the Management Client in this way:

An administrator can select which of the decorators to apply for all sources (cameras) created and activated from the XProtect VMS server. The decorators are enabled without further parameters, and, therefore, you do not need to use all decorators.


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Operations

Control of Barco Wall via XProtect Smart Client

When you use XProtect Smart Client to control the Barco Wall, the XProtect Smart Client operator sees and works with it as if it were an XProtect Smart Wall. There are no Barco-specific implementation in XProtect Smart Client.

You can even choose to have both an active XProtect Smart Wall and an active Barco Wall showing the same content simultaneously.

You can drag and drop cameras cameras in predefined layouts, and you can select XProtect Smart Wall presets in the drop down.

All changes are sent to the Barco CMS system.


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Control of Barco Wall via rule system

You can define rules within the XProtect Advanced VMS to automatically modify the content of the XProtect Smart Wall and, thereby, the Barco Wall. If an indoor set of cameras are not supposed to identify motion during weekends, you could make the following rule to show video in case of motion:


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Troubleshooting

There are two log files available for troubleshooting:

C:\Program Data\Milestone\XProtect Management Client\Logs\MIPtrace.log

C:\Program Data\Milestone\XProtect Event Server\Logs\MIPLogs\MIPyyyy-mm-dd.log

In these, you may find some info level log entries from the BarcoWall plugin.

Hints

If you see this message in the Event Server log:

2014-05-22 09:27:16 UTC+02:00 Error BarcoWall EventReader runPoller SoapException:Some unexpected error occurred while calling this method from Session [SID=37/EventServer@MILESTONE@1].

Please contact Barco Customer Support.

The message may appear because you have entered a wrong user name and/or password on the Identification tab. If you do not see any monitors or displays in the Management Client, try restarting the Management Client (this may happen right after the first install).

If Barco Display shows camera sources, but you cannot see any video and only a black screen is shown – check the following:

That the configuration file on the CMS server containing the XProtect Advanced VMS server address and credentials contains the correct values.

That the MGS Server address is correct entered in the Advanced tab

That the camera is licensed and live feed has started

That camera codec is configured to either JPEG or H.264.


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Index

A

About configuring the Barco Wall Bridge

Configuration • 8

About installing the Barco Wall plug-in • 5

About the Barco Sidebar • 11

Architecture • 3

C

Control of Barco Wall via rule system • 16

Control of Barco Wall via XProtect Smart

Client • 15

G

General Concept • 3

H

Hints • 17

I

Integration Overview • 3

O

Operations • 15

P

Prerequisites • 4

T

Terminology • 4

Troubleshooting • 17

About Barco

Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops networked collaboration and visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets including mission-critical security & surveillance market. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and APAC. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with 4,000 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1.158 billion euros in 2013.

About Milestone Systems

Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the global industry leader in open platform IP video management software. The XProtect platform delivers powerful surveillance that is easy to manage, reliable and proven in thousands of customer installations around the world. With support for the widest choice in network hardware and integration with other systems, XProtect provides best-in-class solutions to video enable organizations – managing risks, protecting people and assets, optimizing processes and reducing costs. Milestone software is sold through authorized and certified partners. For more information, visit:

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