User's Manual

5
MicroPower System Overview
How It Works
MicroPower Technologies has developed an extreme, low power, camera and radio architecture that has been
designed from the ground up to be solar powered. When combined with the MicroPower Trust Linx™ wireless
protocol, reliable long-range digital CCTV video can be transmied while consuming less than 10% of the electrical
power that most convenonal wireless IP cameras consume. Ulizing this patented technology, the MicroPower
wireless video cameras can remain transming and fully operaonal for up to ve days in complete darkness,
relying on only the internal rechargeable baeries. Overcoming most weather condions without any performance
loss or need for maintenance. Addionally, the TrustLinx radio technology reliably coexists with other wireless
technologies such as tradional Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/a/n), while reliably transming high-quality digital video to
distances up to 1/2 mile with the standard antennas.
MicroPower’s technology eliminates the need for trenching and/or long cable runs to remote outdoor cameras,
thus signicantly reducing installaon me and labor costs, allowing cost eecve remote video coverage in
locaons where surveillance was never before possible.
A maximum of (4) wireless cameras
may be simultaneously linked to a
single hub (Cameras must be within
range, and have good Line of Sight
between the antennas). A total of
30fps are available to be shared
between all the cameras connected
to a given hub.
The Solveil Hub acts as the only
data connecon point to which a
Video Management System (VMS),
Network Video Recorder (NVR) or Hybrid Digital
Video Recorder (DVR) can communicate.
Just like any convenonal IP CCTV camera, the
standard Ethernet TCP/IP video data from the
hub may be transmied through virtually any
convenonal broadband or wired network technology
such as LAN, DSL modem, cable modem, cellular
modem, mesh network, wireless back-haul etc. to
reach your chosen VMS soluon.
The standard h.264 video streams generated by the
hub are available to the VMS via RTSP.
The MicroPower Solveil System operates on 2.4GHz, but is not using convenonal WiFi communicaons (though it
does use the same frequencies, and channel number designaons). The camera system uses two bands within a
selected 2.4GHz channel. First is the “Payload Band” also referred to as “Wide Band”. It will occupy channels 2, 6,
or 11 on the 2.4GHz spectrum. The wide band communicaon is used to deliver the video payload one-way, from
the camera to the hub. Next, the hub species a “Narrow Band” or “Command Band”, which is a small subdivision
of the channel used for the wide band communicaons. This is where the command level communicaons occur
between the hub and the camera(s). These terms “Wide Band” and “Narrow Band” are used throughout this
document.
Ethernet Switch
VMS Server
VMS Display Monitor
Antennas
Antennas
Antennas
Camera
Camera
Camera
MiniHub