Exacq and POS

[3RDIGLBL 0]

Anyone using exacq with a Verifone Ruby System II cash? Wondering what text insertion device is being used successfully with this cash register system and exacq.

 

Thanks

[Soundy 1]

Your basic text-inserter just overlays the text on an analog video feed, so as long as you have that, the DVR shouldn't matter.

 

I've most recently used a Honeywell SmartPIT for text overlay and found it an excellent unit, and Honeywell's support was outstanding (I needed the text filter custom-tweaked; they did it and sent me the new filter within half an hour).

 

http://www.honeywellvideo.com/products/ias/da/pr/125775.html

[3RDIGLBL 0]

Thanks Soundy. You can't search or anything though right? So if any zero sales are done we can't search on zero sales or voids or what not?

 

Customer was sold on NUUO and is now moving towards an exacq solution but may want to have pos integration in the near future.

 

Thanks

[Soundy 1]

With text OVERLAY, no, it's pretty much impossible to search the POS text (short of some pretty fancy anayltics). What you need is the ability to capture and log the POS data in sync with the video. Many DVRs can do this, but need to support the exact format that the POS uses - ie. which columns are what data (price, date, till number, etc.), and what control characters are used to delimit columns and rows.

 

Vigil, for example, supports a wide number of POS data formats via both serial and network. It can also connect directly to several different types of databases (MSSQL, etc.) and read the POS data straight from the backend system.

 

The SmartPIT can re-output the filtered data as plain text as well, so it could be used with a DVR that can log POS info but doesn't recognize the format your POS system uses.

[thewireguys 3]

Are they on Exacqs supported list?

[3RDIGLBL 0]

A slight shift here. How about audio? Customer may want audio in the area of the cash. I know about the legal stuff, customer just wants to know if this can be done.

 

They have analog cameras so I was thinking of using one or two of the ACTi IP Servers. They seem to have motion built in but not sure which IP Server would be best to use with exacq.

 

I guess there are two parts to this one!

 

I am signed up for exacq training in June so I may have a lot of this answered. But customer wants to know now

[thewireguys 3]

I have used Acti 4201 without without any problems. I also know Axis encoder also work.

[3RDIGLBL 0]

Acti 4201 is a cube camera?

[thewireguys 3]

yes it is a mega pixel camera with audio.... Just saying I know it works with audio.

 

From Exacqs web site:

 

Notes:

- Audio supported in all Axis, ACTi and Sony IP cameras and encoders

[3RDIGLBL 0]

A con on the ACTi is that it does not appear to support video motion detection, only hardware motion is supported.

 

Axis is more expensive and only has up to a 6 channel encoder but it does support video motion detection.

 

The video motion detection will be huge with the encoders because of the possibly of having 9 analog cameras. We don't want 24x7 recording and putting motion detectors everywhere may cost more than just going with a couple Axis solutions.

 

Some analog cameras have built in motion detection like many of the IP cameras but I'm not sure if this will work through an encoder back to exacq.

[thewireguys 3]

Acti have on camera motion detection