Before you can monitor GPS units in Security Center, you must add them to the plugin
role.
You can add GPS unit entities to Security Center
using Safety Vision.
Before you begin
- Install Security Center on a vehicle
server.
- Install the Vehicle Monitoring plugin on a vehicle server.
- Ensure that Security Center has a geo-fenced
map.
- In Windows Device Manager, ensure the GPS Sensor is listed in the Sensors category.
- In Windows Location Settings, confirm that location service is enabled.
Procedure
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Ensure that the Safety Vision Windows app is running on the server and is
accurately reading data.
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From the Config Tool home page, open the Area view
task.
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Click Add an entity and select GPS
unit.
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From the Model list, select Safety
Vision, and then enter an entity
Name.
Tip: For better search indexing, it is a best
practice to include the vehicle type and identification number in the entity
name.
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Click the Safety Vision tab.
The default location of the Safety Vision metadata file is automatically
listed. If the install location has changed, navigate to the proper metadata
location.
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Click the Properties tab, and
then configure the following settings:
- Polling
- Adjust the polling times for the unit.
- Poll interval: Polling interval in seconds.
- Stale location age: If the system does not receive location
data for the GPS unit by the time indicated here, it considers the data to be
stale.
- Accelerometer
- If you are using an accelerometer, select the unit model. Define any accelerometer
thresholds and whether to receive events based on these thresholds.
- Display unit
- If you are using an onboard LCD screen, select the unit model.
- Input/output device
- Input or output for external sensors.
- Local archivers
- Destination archiver for offloaded video data.
- WiFi
- If you are using an embedded WiFi adapter, select Monitor WiFi
connection. You can choose to receive events when the GPS unit is
connected or disconnected from WiFi, and set the intervals in seconds for verifying the
unit's WiFi connection.
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(Optional) Click the Metadata tab and override the
plugin defaults for the metadata configuration of the GPS unit.
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Click . The Add metadata
configuration windows opens.
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Enter a Metadata key and
Triggers.
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To raise a GPS metadata match event, bookmark video, or protect
video when the system identifies a match for the metadata key and value
pair you configured, select the associated check boxes. Metadata matches
can also be tied to alarms, event-to-actions, incidents, and so
on.
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Click Apply.