hello friends and good day this is Fred with Tech Talk and I'm coming at you today with a quick
video on Dahua Smart Motion Detection (SMD) and what you can do to eliminate
false motion activated recordings and alerts. We have had a couple of comments by some of
our subscribers who are pulling their hair out with ghost alarms. They are getting hundreds of
alerts over the course of a night when they do playback there's nothing on video and they can't
understand what the problem is. There is a simple solution to this we're going to cover it right now
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Okay, so yes motion detection is very important when you review video looking for an incident. You
do not want to go through 24 7 for a week looking for someone that damaged your property or may have
stolen something from your shed. You want to look at alerts that are created by movement of people
and vehicles and find that incident quicker. Okay, not everybody sets up properly to do that.
The first thing I'll tell you I see these YouTube videos by Yoyos talking about hanging four
cameras off of one cat5 cable. Okay, so you're going to run one cat 5 cable with four twisted
pairs and you're going to put video baluns on the end of each listed pair and have four c,ameras run
through one cable. Common sense will tell you the cameras not designed to operate that way. Okay,
Cat5 cable is 24-gauge cable...it's very thin cable. The first thing is using the proper wire.
You are not going to save a buck by using one wire to run four cameras and get the full effectiveness
of the camera, these cameras are designed for one cable trust me. So, if you're running IP cameras
home run the IP camera with a cat5e or cat6 cable. Home run one direct wire directly to the PoE
switch that's built into the NVR or your standalone PoE switch. If you are using
analog equipment, same thing. Use RG59 Siamese cable, a proper cable with 18/2 power cable.
Hook it to a proper a proper power supply box, you know. If it is a 9-channel power supply box
it should be 10 amps. 12 volts 10 amps. You want to make sure you hook these things right,
that's #1 use the proper equipment. There are Smart Motion Detection (SMD) cameras. I am going
to show you the difference between the (SMD) Smart Motion Detection camera and the normal camera.
Okay. There is a minimal price difference ($20 or $30) a camera, but it makes a huge
difference. Okay, the first thing we're going to do is review a regular camera, a standard camera
and see what it records for motion okay? So, let's go into playback here and we will pick a property
that has normal cameras okay. We will do playback
okay? We want to do playback by not all recordings, but by motion detection. That
will pull up just our motion activated recordings. As you can see, there are only a couple from this
location. Let's see, based on the fact this is a standard camera not a smart motion detection
camera, let's see what we're getting from motion. Okay, oh there it is right there. See the shadow
in the snow? That is ghosting right ?it's not a person, it's not a car, it's something in the
environment causing the motion. Okay, let's see what the second tick mark here on the bottom is.
Oh there it is some smoke some smoke on the roof okay
there's a truck in the background but that's not what triggered this motion.
Let's look at the one more, the third hash mark and see if this is a person or a vehicle
ah no as you can see more smoke okay. So, these are what we would call ghost alarms.
That is standard data for a normal camera okay as with everything you get what you pay for. So, now
let's switch to a location that does have a Smart Motion Detection (SMD) camera. This is a location
that we installed from scratch, the best western we actually took over the wire was already run
and we were limited as to what we could put in there for equipment. This location is all us.
Again, it does have Dahua Smart Motion Detection (SMD) cameras let's see what we get from there
We will do the main parking lot and I would go out on a limb and say hopefully
all of these are vehicles. We will go through a couple of these and see what we get okay
#1 is a car that's good we're off to a good start here
see the second tick mark here in a minute we'll see what that is
there's another vehicle there on the top left your screen two out of two!
it's a very clear, crisp picture to these four-megapixel cameras.
There we have a dumpster truck, trash truck driving by
we'll try one more just to make sure there's no uh false motion. I apologize for taking
up so much your time we just want to give you a good equal comparison uh-oh
Mr. policeman. He's doing that illegal U-turn,
do not do that with big brother watching! Alright, we see you. So as you can see,
as you can see by those two comparisons, SMD does work. Again, for the cost difference in
my opinion it's well worth it. Also, most of these smart analytical cameras have night color view so
instead of infrared coming on at night, which is kind of a black and white picture with some green,
it looks like military nods if you were in the military and put on nods it's not a very crisp
picture. These Dahua Smart Motion Detection (SMD) cameras also have the night color
which is awesome I wish I could show you the camera it actually has two small
spotlights that come on and shine very brightly when there's motion. Almost acting as a virtual
alarm to scare off intruders. So, I definitely recommend that camera so now you are going to
say well that's great Fred, how do i activate how do i activate this smart motion control?
We are going to do that by hitting the plus here okay. Then we are going to go into
device configuration okay you're going to pick your location
whoops shaking the laptop on you guys sorry
and we're going to make sure under event that motion is picked first of all so we'll
pick event we'll come to motion detect and we'll make sure camera one has motion enabled
okay so you want to do that you'll want to make sure that the motion is triggering
triggering the proper channel okay so motion on channel one should record on channel one
okay so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna go and use the link to the web browser
if you've watched previous video videos of mine on down i love this function you can
actually click this button and it will open up the recorder in a browser as though you are logging in
to the recorder itself on site which is awesome hickvision hik connect has nothing like this okay
so we'll log into the camera here and we will go into the in the top right hand corner okay
these are the smart uh analytic settings okay and what we want to do if you look down on the bottom
there will be an smd icon okay want to go into parameters and we want to click smd
and in the setting we can enable channel one smart motion and we can tell it to target
okay we want to target humans and motor vehicles okay there's also a sensitivity setting okay you
can go low medium high i have found medium works perfect in most locations as long as you're not
trying to track vehicles you know two or three hundred yards away okay i definitely would uh
suggest this post record is how many seconds after the motion triggers the recording does the
uh camera or recorder uh record that segment okay so 10 sec 10 seconds is generally good
and we're just going to hit apply okay it's as simple as that
once you do that these smd cameras will only activate recording and alerts uh if it's a uh
a vehicle or a person okay and it's very accurate i would say it's 95 accurate every now and then
you'll see something crazy um that's out of the norm um that will record but for the most
part it really is even in new england where we have snow um vehicles and people there are links
in the description to this video for smd cameras for this particular camera the four megapixel dome
you can actually put up to 256 gigabit uh of micro sd card in this camera and use it as a
standalone solution without a recorder if you're doing one two three four cameras if you want a nvr
there are smd nvrs okay there's also a link to the smd nvr series
in the description to this video these cameras also have two-way audio okay so you can hear
what's going on um and speak through the camera which i think is very cool so all right that uh
includes everything to do with smd smart motion detection and these smart cameras we're going
to have a video probably our next video coming out in the near future that will cover people counting
with the same cameras you can actually i call it a drawing a line in the sandwich you can draw
an intrusion line and every time a person crosses that the camera can count for you this is great
for retail stores if you're trying to calculate conversions and foot traffic and stuff like that
so look for that coming out in the future and we'll see in the field