moving ptz by alarm trigger

[cctvlad 0]

hey there

ive set up a ptz camera with geovision software, but the customer wants to be able to autotrack the vechles coming into the yard but as i understand i would need the right camera for object tracking and not a standard ptz cam but however i can set a preset on alarm trigger to move to a certain way we do have other cams on the yard that can act as a motion sensor am i right in saying this. even though the manual has specific way of telling you how do this but is there a more comprehensive way of understanding the process.

do these inputs by the I/O application need motion sensors wired in or can the cameras act as a motion sensor.? then i can get presets to move on motion trigger.

any help would be great

[Soundy 1]

I'm not familiar with the setup in the GV, but I've done something along these lines with a Vigil DVR.

 

Basically, I took an alarm output of a separate Video Analytics box, to an alarm input on the Vigil machine, then told the Vigil to send a specific preset to the camera when that input was tripped.

 

Worked pretty well, but the problem was, Vigil only supports one alarm-triggered preset per camera (or did at the time, I don't know if they might have improved on that now).

 

Motion-tracking CAN be done with a standard PTZ, but requires specific software to control the camera. I don't know if there's any that will integrate cleanly with the GV, but you could probably run both on the same system.

[bike_rider 0]

What Soundy describes is pretty much how GV works too. For me a wireless passive IR triggers its base station. The alarm out on the base station goes to the alarm in on the GV. Each alarm input can be set to send a PTZ to a specific location.

 

You will need one of the GV I/O cards or boxes. I think you are also asking if motion detection on one camera can be used to trigger another camera (a PTZ) to go to a preset location. I don't think that can be done.

 

As far as tracking the vehicle on the PTZ, it depends a bit on what version of GV you have. On 8.2 and less (I think) you need two cameras - one fixed that can see the whole scene and one PTZ to track. I think 8.3 supports single camera tracking for some models. GV does only support a "limited" number of cameras for auto tracking, so you'd need to get the latest list from GV.

 

Some cameras also support auto tracking. I have a Panasonic PTZ that does a great job of tracking people walking around (50 feet away), but at that distance cars go by too fast for it to see them.