Selea

The Selea interface from Geutebrück connects the Selea camera from a “Global Proof Guardian 704 ILB ACCR-System” to a G-Core server. The camera detects the top, front or rear side of a sea container for the horizontal and vertical number. This number has its standard according to the ISO-Norm 6346.

The information from the Selea camera server will be handled in G-Core as an NPRRecognition action. An additional picture, showing the founded number, can be used as an input stream in the plugin channel.

The interface is developed as a hardware plugin of G-Core.

The connection protocol is TCP/IP.

Functionality

The plugin offers a Port to a Selea camera via TCP/IP. The camera connects to this port and pushes a XML string to it.

This XML contains information on the number and the recognition time. A picture, used for the recognition, will be sent to a the given FTP server port. This picture is used by the plugin for the input stream.

The received numbers are used to fire NPRRecognition actions. These actions can be used to initiate events programmed in G-Set. Using pictures and actions, these events represent the existing of a sea container in front of the camera.

Usage

The Selea plugin can be added as a hardware plugin in G-Set.

A plugin must be installed for each Selea camera. The configuration of the plugin is done in G-Set.

Information from the Selea camera are translated into “NPRRecognition” actions.

Pictures from the camera are copied by the camera to a connected FTP server. The FTP server has to be provided by the operating system.

If the camera recognize a number on a sea container, the camera will connect to the Selea plugin and push the XML string with the number. The plugin must wait until the picture of this recognition is made available through the FTP server before sending the NPR Recognition action. This can take several seconds to minutes. Therefore events can occur considerably later than the point of time the sea container passed the camera. However, the events contain the correct time with the recognized number.

Some setting must be done for proper functionality.

Camera Settings

General Settings

The options Save notification on memory in case of sending failure and Send saved notifications should both be checked. Otherwise the XML string is different.

FTP Connect

The option Enable FTP notifications should be checked. Otherwise there will be no pictures available.

Also the File name format settings should be set as they are on the screen shot:

XML Connect

The option Enable XML notifications should be checked. Otherwise neither XML strings nor actions are fired.

Actions Setting

The Actions settings should be set as they are on the screen shot:

• If Image notify is checked, a picture will be copied to the FTP server.

• If Text notify is checked, an XML event will be created.

• If Snapshot is checked, a picture inside camera storage will be created (obsolete).

Plugin Settings

Name	Description
Custom Actions	(not used)
FTP Server image path	In this path, the plugin is searching for pictures corresponding to a NPR recognition action.
FTP Server timeout in sec	If no picture is found after this time frame, a default picture will be used and the NPR recognition action is fired. If set to "0", the plugin will fire the action immediately.
PrintDebugMessage	(Developer debug output)
XML PORT	TCP/IP port of the plugin where the camera can connect their XML connector.