Events

MOBOTIX cameras possess integral week-time and event control. This enables the transmission of alarm messages (telephone, e-mail) and the saving of images to be triggered in response to events and/or at specified times. Events can be prompted by internal camera sources or by external signals, such as via the switch input or a network signal. Internal camera sources which can trigger off events are:

• video motion detection,
  
  
• microphone volume,
  
  
• passive infrared detector,
  
  
• overheating inside the camera.
  
  

Furthermore, periodic recordings or shots are also possible at certain times every hour, every weekday or every month. MOBOTIX cameras also offer the option of analyzing character strings on the serial port or via network messages and of calling up an event on a data-dependent basis. For more information go to serial interface RS232.

In addition to saving image sequences, the events can also trigger audio messages via the camera speaker, alarm messages to the telephone or image transfer to the Internet by FTP or e-mail.

The switch output on the camera can be operated on an event-controlled basis with its own time control and can, for example, be set in such a way that, on weekdays, it is activated in the dark in order to switch on a spotlight via a relay.