Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 85)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 85 Defining your views
About Smart Wall
This is an add-on product. It is only available for selected surveillance systems (see "Surveillance
system differences" on page 42). Your user rights may restrict your access to certain features.
A Smart Wall lets you easily manage collections of wall-mounted monitors (monitor walls or video
walls), often used by command centers, city surveillance operators, traffic control centers, and so on.
A Smart Wall on a shared monitor provides an excellent overview. You can quickly share important
video from your view to your organization's Smart Wall by dragging your entire view (or a camera from
a map) directly onto the Smart Wall display.
Example of a Smart Wall setup
Events defined on the server can also trigger that one or more cameras are shown on the Smart Wall.
For example, if a door is opened, the Smart Wall can be configured to display the nearest cameras.
You do not need to set up or configure a Smart Wall, it is available from the Live and Playback tabs
(depending on your user rights).
View Smart Wall content
You can view Smart Wall content on all the Live and Playback tabs. However, the Smart Wall monitor
only displays live video even if you are viewing recorded video in your XProtect Smart Client. Similarly,
if you drag XProtect Smart Client views or cameras from maps onto a graphical representation of a
Smart Wall, the actual Smart Wall monitors will also only display live video and not recorded video.
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In the Views pane, expand Smart Walls, expand the required Smart Wall folder, then select
the relevant monitor.
User rights may in some cases prevent one or more cameras from being displayed on Smart Walls or
in your XProtect Smart Client.
Tip: If your organization uses Smart Wall, your XProtect Smart Client views may contain positions in
the view with graphical representations of Smart Walls. Such positions have a number of advantages,
such as the ability quickly to display important video on your organization's Smart Walls by dragging
entire XProtect Smart Client views, or single cameras from maps, directly onto the graphical
representations of Smart Walls.
Add a Smart Wall to a view
1. In setup mode, select a new or existing view. Wide layouts are especially suitable for
displaying Smart Wall content.