Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 249)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 249 Feature configuration
XProtect Smart Wall enables swift change of live video displayed on the video wall to meet specific
security scenarios and needs. One way to change what is displayed on the video wall is with Smart
Wall presets. The surveillance administrator define the Smart Wall presets in the Management Client
for optimizing the surveillance coverage for different recurring surveillance scenarios. Smart Wall
presets work for the entire video wall or parts of the video wall and determine which cameras are
displayed and the layout of the content on the monitors in the video wall.
With Smart Wall presets, the display changes can be triggered automatically by rules. The display
changes can also be triggered manually by the surveillance operators using XProtect Smart Client by
dragging and dropping views and cameras onto the logical representation of the video wall in XProtect
Smart Client or by selecting the different Smart Wall presets defined by the surveillance administrator.
See the XProtect Smart Client documentation for more information about how to use the XProtect
Smart Wall features in XProtect Smart Client.
Configure Smart Walls
A Smart Wall configuration consists of defining the Smart Wall, adding monitors and defining the
monitor layout, and optionally specifying Smart Wall presets and the layout and content of the different
monitors.
You need not define Smart Wall presets, if you only want to display cameras and XProtect Smart
Client views that your XProtect Smart Client users manually can push onto the video wall.
If you want to use rules to change automatically what is displayed on the video wall and/or if you have
typically surveillance scenarios where you want to display the same content on the video wall each
time the scenario happens, you should define Smart Wall presets.
The configuration of the Smart Wall is very flexible. You can include all monitors on the video wall in
one Smart Wall or group the monitors and configure a Smart Wall for each group. Smart Wall presets
can change the layout and content of all monitors in a Smart Wall or only some of the monitors.
Monitors can be part of several Smart Walls and Smart Wall presets. Create as many Smart Walls and
Smart Wall presets you need to optimize the coverage of your typical surveillance scenarios.
a. Define the Smart Wall
1. Expand Client, and select Smart Wall.
2. In the Overview pane, right-click Smart Walls and select Add Smart Wall.
3. Specify the settings for the Smart Wall.
4. In the General View Item Properties settings, define if you want system status information
and title bars to appear above the cameras' layout items.
5. Click OK.
b. Add monitors and define the monitor layout
1. Right-click the Smart Wall and select Add Monitor.
2. Configure the dimensions of the monitor so it resembles one of the physical monitors on the
video wall.
3. Use the preset behavior settings Empty preset and Empty preset item to define what is
displayed on a monitor with an empty preset layout or in a preset's empty preset items when a