Milestone XProtect Smart Client 3.0; User’s Manual
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It automatically displays live images when predefined
events occur, or when other users wish to share
important live images with you
It may display images from different cameras,
depending on which events have occurred or what other
users wish to share with you
It is surrounded by a thin blue border
As with other images, you can enlarge images from a Matrix
position by double-clicking the blue image bar above the image.
A view may contain several Matrix positions. This way you are able to watch live video from more
than one Matrix-triggered source at the same time.
If your view contains several Matrix positions, the positions are always ranked: One of the
positions will be the primary Matrix position; another will be the secondary Matrix position, and so
on. When the first live image stream is received, Matrix automatically presents the stream in the
primary Matrix position in your view.
When the next image stream is received, a first-in-first-out principle begins to apply: Matrix quickly
transfers the previously received image stream to your view’s secondary Matrix position, and
presents the latest image stream in your view’s primary Matrix position, and so on. This way, you
can always watch the latest image stream, while maintaining the last few previously received
image streams in your view as well.
Example: In the above 1+3 view, all the positions are used for Matrix content. The large position
has been defined at the primary Matrix position (1), and the three other positions as secondary
(2), tertiary (3), etc. Images from the latest image stream will always be shown in position 1,
images from the stream received before that will always be shown in position 2, and so on. Which
of the view’s positions should be primary, secondary, etc. is determined on the Smart Client’s
Setup tab.
Events
If manual triggering of events has been defined on your surveillance system, you can trigger
events from the Smart Client.
What is an event? An event is a predefined incident occurring on the surveillance system.
Depending on the surveillance system’s configuration, events may be caused by input from
external sensors connected to cameras, by detected motion, by data received from other
applications, or manually through user input. Events are used by the surveillance system for
triggering actions. Typically, most events on the surveillance system are generated automatically.
