Application Guide
Advanced Recording
High-quality codec recording
The Surveillance Station supports H.264, MPEG-4, M-JPEG, and
MxPEG recording, ensuring high-quality recording videos for future
playback and reference.
Manual recording
On the Live-view panel, you can click the record button to start
recording the live camera feeds and click the stop button whenever you
want to nish recording. Manual recording helps you to capture critical
moments on a real-time basis.
Smart recording
Smart recording intelligently records standard resolution videos in regular recording, and switches to high resolution automatically when alarms are
triggered. This greatly saves your cost spent on hard drives and provides you with high resolution video evidence when needed.
Scheduled recording
With the intuitive drag-n-drop scheduled recording panel, you are able
to dene the time to record feeds for each IP camera, allowing you to
exibility set up a suitable recording plan with your existing storage
capacity.
Alarm recording
The alarm recording will only be triggered when motion detections and
camera input events occur, ensuring the critical events are properly
saved for future use.
Surveillance Station
The Surveillance Station is professional network surveillance Video Management
System (VMS). Being one of the Turbo NAS standard applications, the Surveillance
Station can be activated on the QTS App Center to turn the Turbo NAS into a
professional Network Video Recorder (NVR) system for real-time monitoring,
recording, playback, alarm notifications, Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA), and
management to safeguard your assets and property when used with supported IP
cameras.
Live-view
Various remote monitoring modes
The Surveillance Station supports various monitoring modes to display
1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 20, 25, 36, 42, and 64 channels on a single
screen. Users can also choose to sequentially display each channel or
use dual displays to have a wider view.
PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) control
On the Surveillance Station web interface, you can directly adjust the
PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) functions of supported cameras, greatly enhancing
the convenience in remote monitoring of desired corners.
The most professional NVR system
Wide range of supported IP cameras
The Surveillance Station is compatible with over 2,100 IP camera
models of over 90 brands and ONVIF specications, including those
support advanced features such as multi-streaming and sheye-
dewarping.
Comprehensive Turbo NAS product spectrum
The Turbo NAS comes in a full range of product spectrum from single-
bay to 24-bays. Each model offers 2 or 4 free IP camera channels,
and can be expanded to 8, 16, 24, 40, or 72 channels depending on
models, fullling all kinds of surveillance deployment needs.
Cross-platform support
The Surveillance Station works with all major web browsers such as
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. With QNAP
Surveillance Client for Mac, users can also enjoy a similar experience
on their Macs.
Advanced RAID storage technology
The Surveillance Station is installed on the Turbo NAS platform and is
protected against loss, theft, and damage of recorded videos with the
help of QTS security features and RAID technology.
Instant playback
On the Live-view page, whenever you want to look back to check
suspicious events of a camera channel you just missed, just hit ‘Instant
Playback’ button to bring up the window to review recent feeds.
Visual aid by E-map
Just upload the pictures of the monitoring locations to the Surveillance
Station and drag and drop the IP camera icons to the right place on
the E-map. Once an alarm event happens, the camera icons will ash
to indicate the event type for you to be alerted immediately and take
necessary actions.
Instant notification
When the alarm recording is enabled and an event occurs, an alarm
icon will be shown instantly on the monitoring page. The alert details
can be viewed by clicking the icon.
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