Speco Technologies NR series of network video recorders (NVRs) are feature-rich, powerful units that offer analytics as well as a wealth of features to make an installers job easier.
One feature of the NR, that offers immense value to installers and end-users alike, is the ability to receive an alert if the recorder detects that a camera has gone offline. We understand the frustration and challenges that could be caused by thinking a camera is recording when in reality it was offline for whatever reason and no one was aware. To address that concern, we added the ability to detect an “IPC (IP Camera) Offline” event. Once configured, if the recorder detects that an IPC has gone offline, you can configure the recorder to have an audible message play (digital deterrent), a push notification sent to your app, an alarm output trigger, a buzzer emit from the recorder, a pop-up message on the main display, and/or an e-mail sent to a designated address. These actions will be triggered almost immediately after the camera goes offline, which allows your designated personnel to monitor the situation and work to ensure a quick return to operation of that camera.
This is part of a suite of events which our NR series recorders monitor that could affect the performance of a surveillance installation. These other events include a full hard drive (HDD), a loss of a network connection for the recorder, the unauthorized removal of a HDD, a disk error, and more, and the same notifications can be configured for these as with an offline IPC.
You can access these settings by going to the Settings menu on your NR recorder. From there, you click on “AI / Event,” and then go to the “General Event” tab. Under that tab you can access the setup options for both “IPC Offline,” which is for the camera going offline specifically, and “Exception Alarm,” which contains the settings for other operational events.
These features are available on both our desktop and patented wall-mount NR series recorders:
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For more information on the NR series recorders, click here: https://specotech.com//?s=nr
