Honeywell K14392V1 manual Rapid Eye Storage Estimator, What to watch out for, Estimates

System Administrator’s Guide

What to watch out for

Adding cameras, using high rates, high-resolution and high quality settings for continuous recording, contribute to shorten the video archive on a unit. High settings in combination, on many cameras, can shorten a unit's video archive from thousands of days to a few hours. See table 7–7,p. 127. If a Rapid Eye unit's video archive becomes too short for your needs, try lowering the resolution and frame rates for continuous recording. How to do so is explained in Recording Video: Continuous Recording Settings, p. 68.

Scheduling Cameras can lengthen a video archive.

Estimates

To make storage estimates, use Honeywell’s Rapid Eye Storage Estimator that is installed with Rapid Eye software. To compare and understand the effect of factors on storage, see the tables for Number of Cameras, Audio, Scheduling Cameras, Frame Rate for Continuous Recording, Quality, and Resolution, in the next sections.

Estimate from a unit's statistics

If a Multi System Administrator (Multi SA) only needs to know roughly how far back in time video can be obtained, data is available when running a Maintenance Session:

•Recording tab. "Estimated Storage Capacity" in days, see Estimating Storage Capacity, p.71.

•Daily Usage Rate. Averaged over the latest 7 days of activity; see the procedure: A Multi-Media Unit’s Storage Statistics, p. 127.

Rapid Eye Storage Estimator

The Storage Estimator is installed along with Rapid Eye Software.

1.Click Start.

2.Point to (or click) All Programs.

3.Point to Rapid Eye Multi-Media 8.0. A menu appears.

4.Click Storage Estimator.

Finding out how long recorded video will be stored

An operator may need to know how far back in time that video, audio and data can be obtained. Honeywell provides a Storage Estimator to show the approximate length of a unit's video archive, based on a unit's settings.

High settings in combination, for many cameras, can shorten a unit's video archive from thousands of days to a few hours. See table 7–7,p. 127. If the archive is too short for your needs, lower the resolution and frame rate of continuous video.

Storage Process: Video, Audio, Data

Recordings of video, audio and data are not permanent. When a unit's storage fills, the oldest recorded video, audio and data are replaced with more recent recordings. The amount of time that recordings are available is known as the length of the video archive. More cameras, high recording rates, high-resolution and high quality settings, all contribute to shorten the video archive on a unit. Scheduling can lengthen a video archive.

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