Catalog ST PCS 7.1 - September 2005

■ Overview
Digital video monitoring is becoming increasingly important in
many areas of industry. There is a growing need to check processes
and production shops visually. Use of the tried and
tested Internet technology in connection with integrated hardware
and software results in new, user-friendly and low-maintenance
solutions for the visual monitoring of objects.
The appropriate use of the SIVICON video Web server, e.g. for
plant monitoring, remote diagnosis or maintenance, enables a
high product quality to be achieved, while cutting production
downtimes. Depending on the occurrence of certain events, appropriately
qualified operating and service personnel can be
brought into action very quickly.
■ Application
• Visual checking in the process control system
• Monitoring of unmanned production shops and stores
• Plant monitoring: regional, national and global
• Monitoring in working areas with critical conditions for humans
• Work safety/security
• Construction site monitoring
• Visual checking in the object safeguarding
Operator control and monitoring
SIVICON: Video web-server
for process monitoring
■ Function
The embedded video Web server "SIVICON" is an independent
unit in which video signals from conventional analog cameras
are converted into digital signals and transmitted in compressed
form via the LAN or ISDN to the SIMATIC PCS 7 system.
Various versions are available with connections for 1, 2, 4, 6, 8
and 16 conventional analog cameras. Depending on the version,
the servers are equipped with up to six signal lines and four
alarm outputs. In case of a event or a fault, it enables messages
to be generated and forwarded independently. The operator,
service engineer or alarm control center is alerted by means of
e-mail or SMS (short message service) as required: either directly
or via the Internet.
Several picture sections can be monitored by means of the integral
motion detection function, and trigger events when changes
occur, e.g. generate a SIMATIC PCS 7 message.
One product version with integral digital recording offers the opportunity
for recording the pictures locally on the video Web
server over a longer period and to evaluate them later in the
SIMATIC PCS 7 system. In this way it is possible to view and
evaluate not only the event itself, but also the important period
leading up to it.
SIVICON is maintenance-free, easy to install and can be controlled
by means of SIMATIC PCS 7 or any Internet browser.
A convenient HTML interface is available for configuration purposes.
The SIVICON video Web server is integrated into
SIMATIC PCS 7 by means of ActiveX controls. There is one
ActiveX control for displaying video pictures and one for controlling
the cameras. In addition there is the option of forwarding
events that have been recorded by the video Web server to the
SIMATIC PCS 7 signaling system by means of an additional application.
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