XProtect Smart Wall (usage)

Add or change cameras on Smart Wall

You can change the cameras that are being displayed on your Smart Wall. Immediately, other operatorsA professional user of an XProtect client application. who are using the same Smart Wall will see the changes.

Requirements:

You have set up a view that contains your Smart Wall overview. For more information, see Add Smart Wall overview to views.

Steps:

1. Make sure that your Smart Wall is running as described in View Smart Wall content.
2. If your Smart Wall is running on a different computer, open XProtect Smart Client on your current computer.
3. Go to the Live or Playback tab.
4. To add a camera from a view:
   1. Open the view that contains the camera that you want to add.

   2. In the camera view item, click More > Send to Smart Wall. Then select the Smart Wall, the monitor, and finally the tile inside the monitor.

      

5. To add a camera from the Cameras pane:
   1. In the Views pane, select the view that contains the Smart Wall overview.
   2. In the Cameras pane, find the camera that you want to add.

   3. Drag the camera to a tile in a monitor on your Smart Wall overview. The video from the camera is displayed in the Smart Wall.

      

   4. To verify that you added the correct camera, click the camera icon in the Smart Wall overview. A preview appears.

      

Add entire views to Smart Wall

You can share an entire view with other operators through your Smart Wall by sending the view to a Smart Wall monitor. What is currently being displayed on that monitor is then replaced by the content of the view containing, for example, cameras.

Requirements:

You have set up a view that contains your Smart Wall overview. See Add Smart Wall overview to views.

Steps:

1. Make sure that your Smart Wall is running as described in View Smart Wall content.
2. If your Smart Wall is running on a different computer, open XProtect Smart Client on your current computer.

3. Go to the Live or Playback tab and open the view that contains your Smart Wall overview.

   

4. In the Views pane, find the view that you want to send to the Smart Wall.

5. Drag the view into a tile in the preferred monitor and then release.

   

6. To reset the monitor to its original display, or to clear the whole monitor or a specific tile in the Smart Wall overview, see Stop displaying content on Smart Wall.

Add or change other types of content on Smart Wall

You can change what is being displayed on your Smart Wall, for example by sharing an image of a suspect. Immediately, operatorsA professional user of an XProtect client application. who are using the same Smart Wall will see the changes.

What can you add?

• Alarms
• Bookmarks
• Cameras or whole views
• Camera navigators
• Carousels
• Images and snapshotsAn instant capture of a frame of video at a given time.
• Hotspots
• HTML pages
• Maps
• Smart maps
• Text

Requirements

Text and cameras you can drag into your Smart Wall overview. However, before you can add other types of content to your Smart Wall, make sure that the content has been added to a view. See Add cameras and other items to views.

Steps:

1. Make sure that your Smart Wall is running as described in View Smart Wall content.
2. If your Smart Wall is running on a different computer, open XProtect Smart Client on your current computer.
3. Go to the Live or Playback tab.

4. Open the view that contains the element that you want to add.

   If you want to add cameras, you can drag the cameras directly from the Cameras pane. To add text, in your text editor, select the text and drag the text into a tile in your Smart Wall overview.

5. Hover over the view item. The camera toolbar appears.

   

6. Click Send to Smart Wall and select the Smart Wall.

7. Select the monitor and finally the tile inside the monitor.

   

   The selected tile in the Smart Wall monitor is updated accordingly.

Display text on Smart Wall

Displaying text on your XProtect Smart Wall is useful when you want to provide information to anyone who can see the Smart Wall.

Requirements

• To send text from an existing view, first you must add the text to a view. See Add cameras and other items to views.
• To add text using drag-and-drop, make sure that your text editor supports drag-and-drop operations.

Steps:

1. To add text from a third-party text editor:
   1. Open the view that contains your Smart Wall overview.
   2. Write the text in your preferred text editor.
   3. Select the text.
   4. Drag and drop the text into a tile in a Smart Wall monitor.
   5. In the window that appears, you can edit the text even further. Click Save.
   6. Immediately after, the text appears on the Smart Wall display.
2. To add text that has already been added to a view:
   1. Open the view that contains the text.

   2. Hover over the view item. The camera toolbar appears.

      

   3. Click More > Send to Smart Wall and then select the preferred Smart Wall.

   4. Select the monitor and finally the tile inside the monitor.

      

      Immediately after, the text appears on the Smart Wall display.

Alarms on Smart Wall (explained)

You can share a prioritized overview of all alarms by adding the Alarm List to your Smart Wall. This allows you to view and work with details about the alarm directly from the Smart Wall. See Displaying content on Smart Wall.

You can also display individual alarms on your Smart Wall by dragging and dropping the alarm from the Alarm List.

Alarm details

• The time of day when the eventA predefined incident occurring on the surveillance system; used by the surveillance system for triggering actions. Depending on surveillance system configuration, events may be caused by input from external sensors, by detected motion, by data received from other applications, or manually through user input. The occurrence of an event could, for example, be used for making a camera record with a particular frame rate, for activating outputs, for sending e-mails, or for a combination thereof. triggered the alarm
• The name and video feed from the device that triggered the alarm, and all devices that are related to it
• You can view additional details and change some settings for the alarm by clicking the arrow in the upper right part of the position in the view. The details are as follows:
  • The person the alarm is assigned to, its priority, and the state of the alarm. You can change these if you want to
  • The source, or what triggered the alarm, such as when a camera detects motion or an analytics event occurs
  • Instructions on how to respond to the alarm
  • Activities. These are comments that users entered. Typically, they indicate decisions or actions related to the alarm. Additionally, when someone changes the details of the alarm, the system adds the changes to the list of activities
  • If you were recording video when the event occurred, you can view the video of the moment the alarm was triggered by clicking the Playback tab, and then Go To Alarm Time

Send bookmarks to Smart Wall

Sending a bookmarkAn important point in a video recording, marked and optionally annotated so that you and your colleagues will easily be able to find it later. to a Smart Wall can help you quickly distribute a single image of, for example, a person or a video sequence of an incident.

Steps:

1. Create a bookmark as described in Add or edit bookmarks or Bookmark search results.

2. In the window that appears, click Display on Smart Wall and select the preferred Smart Wall.

   

3. Select a monitor and then a tile within the monitor. The bookmarked video sequence appears on the Smart Wall display.
4. To send a still image instead of the video sequence, select the Send still image only check box.

Smart map and Smart Wall (explained)

If you are using Smart Wall, you can share the smart mapA map functionality that uses a geographic information system to visualize devices (for example, cameras and microphones), structures, and topographical elements of a surveillance system in geographically accurate, real-world imagery. Maps that use elements of this functionality are called smart maps. with other operators who are using the Smart Wall. The current zoom level, the location that you have navigated to, and the layers that are visible are also sent to the Smart Wall.

Drag cameras from maps or smart maps to Smart Wall

If a particular camera on your map or smart mapA map functionality that uses a geographic information system to visualize devices (for example, cameras and microphones), structures, and topographical elements of a surveillance system in geographically accurate, real-world imagery. Maps that use elements of this functionality are called smart maps. recorded an incident, and you want to share the video from that camera, you can drag cameras from the map to the monitors of the Smart Wall.

You can also drag cameras from maps in floating windows and secondary displays.

Stop displaying content on Smart Wall

You can stop displaying content on your Smart Wall, for example when an incident is under control or the content is no longer relevant.

Stop displaying all content on a Smart Wall monitor

1. In your Smart Wall overview, go to the monitor that you want to clear.
2. Click the icon.
3. Select Clear View. On the Smart Wall overview. The tiles turn gray, and all content is removed from the Smart Wall display.

Remove specific content from a Smart Wall monitor

1. In your Smart Wall overview, go to the monitor where you want to remove specific content.

2. Right-click the tile that you want to clear and select Remove from View.

   

   The tile turns gray, and the content is removed from the associated position in the Smart Wall display.

Reset your Smart Wall

If you have removed content from a monitor, you can make it reappear by resetting the presetA predefined layout for an individual monitor in XProtect Smart Client. Presets contain predefined settings that determine which cameras are displayed, and how content is structured on each monitor on the video wall. that is associated with the monitor.

1. Click Select preset.
2. Hover over the preset that corresponds to the monitor that you cleared.

3. Click Activate. The gray tiles in the Smart Wall overview turn blue again.

   

Other operatorsA professional user of an XProtect client application. can manually change the content on a Smart Wall, and the content can change according to a schedule or rules. This means that the content that you remove can reappear later. To permanently prevent content from displaying, contact your system administrator.