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Digital Sprite 2
6, 9 & 16 camera, high performance digital multiplex recorder range

The Digital Sprite 2 provides true flexibility by functioning as either a standalone plug and play system, or as part of a multiple unit installation.

Up to two internal hard disks provide more than 2 months high quality, continuous digital recording. Dedicated Micros RAID and JBOD units may also be used to provide an extended storage solution suitable for all applications and budgets. Recordings are accessible to the user at the touch of one button or via powerful GOTO and event preview facilities.

Models in the DS2 range are now available with a built in CD writer, providing a quick and easy way of copying key events to CD. Standard Digital Sprite 2 models may have an external CD writer connected via the SCSI port.

Password protected multiple user network viewing and control is available via the network viewer over a LAN, WAN or Internet. The optional remote keyboard provides local control of up to 16 units.

Benefits

  • FAST ACCESS TO 2 MONTHS OF HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL RECORDINGS*

  • MODELS WITH INTERNAL CD-R (CD WRITER) AVAILABLE

  • COMPATIBLE WITH DEDICATED MICROS RAID AND JBOD UNITS FOR EXTENDED STORAGE

  • ALL RECORDINGS HAVE TAMPER PROOF MECHANISMS APPROVED FOR EVIDENCE.

  • SIMULTANEOUS RECORD, PLAYBACK, BACKGROUND IMAGE ARCHIVING, MULTIPLE USER NETWORK VIEWING AND PLAYBACK WITH NO LOSS OF PERFORMANCE

  • VIDEO MOTION SEARCH– ALLOWS THE USER TO SEARCH BACK THROUGH RECORDINGS FOR MOVEMENT IN A
    PARTICULAR AREA OF THE IMAGE.

  • VARIABLE RECORD PRIORITY PER CAMERA TO ENABLE A HIGHER RECORD RATE FOR CAMERAS FOCUSSED ON SENSITIVE AREAS.

  • FILE EXPORT OF DIGITALLY SIGNED IMAGES OVER THE NETWORK

  • ALARM NOTIFICATION VIA E-MAIL

  • AUDIO RECORDING

  • NETWORK REMOTE SUPPORT ALLOWS REMOTE SYSTEM ADJUSTMENTS NEGATING THE NEED FOR SITE VISITS

  • TWO OPTIONS FOR REMOTE VIEWING: VIA ETHERNET CONNECTION OR DIAL-UP PPP

  • IR REMOTE CONTROL OFFERS FRONT PANEL CONTROL INCLUDING PLAYBACK AND VIEW OF EVENT LOG.

  • UVV BGV-KASSEN CERTIFICATION COMPLIANT

* Applies to 600GB models recording at factory default setting of 6PPS with 18KB file size

Specifications

LANGUAGES
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Czech, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian and Swedish

CAMERAS
6, 9 and 16 camera models available
Loop through BNC connectors provided for each camera input, with software configured termination. Cameras auto detected on power up. Option to trigger light duty relay output R1 or R2 (500mA @ 12V-48Vmax) on camera fail.

HIDDEN CAMERAS
Option to view all or selected cameras, without affecting cameras recording.
Hidden cameras can be viewed via the network.

MONITOR VIEWING
Main monitor:
Full screen, programmable sequence.
Programmable multi-screens: picture-in-picture, quad, 9 way, 8+2, 12+1,16 way
x2 electronic zoom, freeze frame.
Mon A: Composite video BNC connector or S-video 4 pin mini DIN connector.

Spot monitor:
Full screen, programmable sequence.
Mon B: Composite video BNC connector.

SCHEDULING
Choice of day, night or weekend offers the ability to automatically:
• Select the cameras to be recorded
• Switch alarms and activity on/off
• Select whether alarms and activity are interleaved or exclusively recorded
• Alter the record rate for standard, alarm and activity recording
Activation is via timer or alarm panel link to AUX input

VARIABLE RECORD PRIORITY PER CAMERA
Cameras connected to the Digital Sprite 2 can be recorded at a High, Medium (Standard) or Low priority for day, night, and weekend schedules. This allows cameras in sensitive areas to be recorded more frequently than cameras located in less sensitive areas without affecting the overall record rate.

VIDEO MOTION DETECTION
Programmable 16 x 8 masking grid for each camera view.
5 levels of sensitivity
Options:
• Up to 30 minutes of tagged pre and post activity recording per event.
• Main monitor display of last alarm, 2 second dwell return to prealarm display
• Buzzer activated on alarm
• Trigger light duty relay output R1 or R2 (500mA @ 12V-48V max)

ALARMS
Normally open/closed alarm contacts available via on board 25 way Dtype connection (or optional remote alarm module).
Up to a total of 8 contacts may be assigned to each camera input. Multiple alarms can trigger one camera and/or 1 alarm can trigger multiple cameras
Options:
• Up to 30 minutes of tagged pre and post alarm recording per event.
• Main monitor display of last alarm, 2 second dwell per alarmed camera, return to pre-alarm display
• Trigger telemetry preset on alarm
• Buzzer activated on alarm
• Relay closure on hard disk failure
• Trigger light duty relay output R1 or R2 (500mA @ 12V-48V max)

Standard Alarm/Relay Connections:
Alarms: 17 internal programmable alarm inputs.
Relays: 6 on board relay outputs (500mA @ 12V-48V max).

E-MAIL NOTIFICATION
Up to five email addresses can be emailed on alarm or other critical events.
Notifies the following events on a camera by camera basis:
• Alarm
• Activity
• Camera fail
Also power up, global alarm, panic alarm or date change
E-mail contains - JPEG picture of camera image on first alarm, machine I.D., camera number, alarm number, time and link to network viewer.
Access to mail server is required via Ethernet or dial-up over PPP for this feature.

IR REMOTE CONTROL
Provides operator with remote front panel control of single or multiple racked units including:
• The ability to change cameras and camera views
• Search using the GOTO function and review of the event list
• Playback of images from the hard disk

AUDIO
The user has the option to record and play back a single channel of audio in real time. Recorded with images from camera one, audio can be played back either directly from the unit via powered external speakers. Recorded audio is automatically copied when images from camera 1 are archived to CD-R or exported across a network.
Connections:
Mic in: 3.5mm jack socket (requires an electret/condensor microphone with a sensitivity of –50dBV or better)
Line in: 47KΩ input impedance, 1V pk-pk, RCA phono socket
Line out: 1V pk-pk, RCA phono socket

SEARCH AND PLAYBACK
VCR style keys offer:
• One button touch playback.
• Frame advance/rewind, fast picture search and pause keys
• Event list, including event list filter with unique quadrant preview facility
• GOTO time and date
• Playback in quad , picture in picture and full screen
VIDEO MOTION SEARCH FACILITY
Allows the user to search through hard-disk recordings for movement in a particular area of the image. The unit is then able to search back through the hard drive and create a list of activities for the user to view and archive as required. Searching can also be filtered to limit the search to user-defined times and dates.

RECORDING
Playback and record to hard disk simultaneously
Hard disk sizes are constantly increasing in capacity. Please contact customer service or consult the DM web site, for latest available disk size configurations for the Dedicated Micros product range.

At time of press the maximum internal storage for the DS2 with internal CD is 600GB, providing 2 months of digital recordings at a factory default setting of 6PPS with 18KB file size

Event partition and protected images:
Separate area on disk can be defined to extend the storage time of alarms and events. The event partition area in Gigabytes (GB) is configured by the installer and overwrites itself when full. The system can be configured to protect images permanently from being overwritten when the global alarm is activated. The end user can also manually configure sections of recorded images to be permanently protected from overwrite, and remove permanent protection.

EXTERNAL RAID DEVICES
We recommend that only DM approved external RAID devices should be used with the DS2 range
Please contact Technical Support in your region for further information on recommended devices or visit the web site at www.dedicatedmicros.com/support

The table below shows the disk size required for low, medium and high image qualities, at the equivalent of 24 hour record speeds - 6 pictures per second (shared across all cameras), and audio disabled.

 

IMAGE QUALITY*

LOW MEDIUM HIGH
14K 18K 25K
Record duration

DISK SIZE

1 day 9 GB 11 GB 14 GB
7days 53 GB 68 GB 94 GB
31 days 231 GB 297 GB 412 GB
62 days 463 GB 595 GB 825 GB
*Please refer to our record calculator on the DM website for other possible calculations

RECORD RATE
Digital Sprite 2 can record 2 asynchronous cameras at 50PPS (PAL), 60PPS (NTSC).

TIMED EXPIRY
• Timed expiry option allows images to be held for a selected number of days.
• Images on the disk which are older than the number of days selected are not accessible

EVENT COPYING
Individual images, event sequences, audio from camera 1 and user defined recorded sequences can be saved to the internal CD-R drive of DS2 (or an external CD-R* connected to the SCSI port for models without CD). The CD containing the images, the sequences and images themselves are digitally signed for authentication purposes. Playback of images from the CD is via a standard CD ROM drive. The CD playback software will auto-run and does not require the installation of software on the users PC.

DIGITAL SIGNATURE
The use of digital signatures makes it possible to detect whether single image or a sequence of images has been tampered with.

NETWORK CAPABILITIES
A standard Ethernet connection allows live and recorded viewing on a networked PC using DM’s Network Viewer software or via web pages using a standard Internet browser. Network viewing is independent and does not affect the recording or local operation. The Digital Sprite 2 includes a network bandwidth limitation option, which allows the bandwidth used by the Digital Sprite 2 to be reduced.

Network Viewer software features include:
• Live full, quad, 6, 9 and 16 way screens
• VCR style fast forward and rewind, playback and frame advance/rew
•GOTO time and date and unique quadrant event review
• File export of digitally signed images over the network to the user’s PC using Network Viewer software.
• Archived images can be viewed using DM's PC Playback software, supplied with the product and as a free download from the DM website. (PC Playback operates on PC's installed with Windows 95 and above).
• Copy single images as JPEG and sequence of images as AVI to save to a PC
•Operation of relay output on the unit – via Network Viewer
• Telemetry control, including PTZ and telemetry presets
•Multiple user access
• Configurable password protection
• Event log

Web pages features include:
• Viewing of live images in full screen and quad format including telemetry control
• Playback (full screen only) including GOTO function
• Password authentication.

Web pages are also compatible with Mac and Linux Netscape browsers version 4.7x.

NETWORK REMOTE SUPPORT

Enables system adjustments to be made remotely to a networked unit. One user may connect to the unit in a password protected admin mode, that allows access to the menus as they appear on the unit themselves.System adjustments can then be made remotely over the network, such as change the record rate, set up the activity grid, program presets and more – without the need for a site visit.

COLOUR RESOLUTION
Sampling rate: 13.5 MHz to CCIR 601
Number of pixels:
PAL 720h x 512v
NTSC 720h x 448v

16.8 million colours 256 levels of grey, 8-bit luma.

COMPRESSION
Standard JPEG format files
User definable compression

DATA
SCSI - 50-pin HD SCSI-2 connection.
NET - RJ-45 10-baseT Ethernet connection.
BUS A - RS-485 telemetry port 1.
BUS B - RS-485 telemetry port 2 (Used in conjunction with BUS A with Sensormatic telemetry).
485 BUS - 2x MMJ ports for DM 485-BUS accessories.
SERIAL 1 - 9 way (Male) D Type RS 232 serial port.
SERIAL 2 - 9 way (Male) D Type RS 232 serial port.
(Either SERIAL 1 or SERIAL 2 can be used for PPP)

CD-RW
DVR with CD: Built in slim-line CD writer for Compact Disc Recordable High Speed Media.
DVR without CD: Use optional external SCSI CD Writer.

TEMPERATURE RANGE
Operating temperature 5 – 45OC (41 – 113OF)

RELATIVE HUMIDITY
10% - 85% Non-condensing

DIMENSIONS
DVR with CD:
89mm (H) x 440mm (W) x 445mm (D)
3 1/2 ” (H) x 17 5/16” (W) x 17 1/2” (D)

DVR without CD:
66mm (H) x 440mm (W) x 409mm (D)
2 5/8 ” (H) x 17 5/16” (W) x 16 1/8” (D)

Optional Keyboard:
65mm(H)* x 410mm (W) x 183mm (D)
(* 100mm including Joystick)
2 9/16” (H)* x 16 1/8” (W) x 7 1/4” (D)
(* 4 1/8" including Joystick)

WEIGHT

DVR with CD: 11.4 kg (25.1 lbs) with built-in PSU
DVR without CD: 6.8 kg (15 lbs) without PSU 7.6 kg (16.8 lbs) with PSU

POWER SUPPLY
DVR with CD:
180W Internal Power Supply
Input Voltage: 100-240 V AC 50/60 Hz

DVR without CD:
72W External Power Supply
Input Voltage: 100–240 V AC 50/60 Hz
Output Voltage: 5, +12, -12 V DC

 

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