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1 Feature Overview

1.1 Main Services Introduction

• CMS(Centre Management Service): Manage other service registration and command distribution.
• DMS(Device Management Service): Manage devices, and receive/send/forward alarms.
• MTS(Media Transmission Service): Receive Audio/Video streams from devices and forward to SS(Storage Service), client
and decoding devices.
• SS(Storage Service): Management/Search/playback of Audio/Video records.

1.2 Key Features

Easy to Use
• Integrates all the management operations in the client.
• Auto search to add devices quickly in LAN.
• Imports devices from smartPSS, which is convenient to upgrade from smartPSS to DSS Express.
Easy Expansion
• Easy capacity expansion via license.
Flexible Storage
• DSS Express supports edge storage and center storage. The center storage includes the local disk management for small
projects and extend storage by IPSAN in mid-sized projects.
System Backup and Restore
• DSS provides database backups so that your system config data can be well protected and recovered when accidents
occur.
Client
• PC Client
• Moblie Client

2 Detailed Product Features

2.1 Central Management

Advanced group management concepts grant different access rights to different users. DSS Express separates 3-level roles,
administrator, super user, operator.

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2.2 Stream Media Management

Allow a large quantity of users in various locations to view a video simultaneously without overloading the device itself by
using the Media Transmission Service (MTS) to distribute the video streams.

2.3 Storage Management

Flexible edge storage and center storage can meet the requirements of projects of different scales

2.4 DSS Express Control Client

Organization Management
·Through organization to achieve device group management.
Device Management
·Device initialization: Initialize Dahua's device
·Add devices via auto search
·Support IP, P2P, Onvif
· Manage Dahua’s devices such as network camera, NVR, DVR, Access Control, VDP, etc.
User Management
·Add, edit and delete the users.
·Assign different users with different permissions.
·User can be restricted by the MAC and expiry data.
·Can set user PTZ permissions.
Storage
·Central storage: local disk storage and extend storage via iSCSI.
·Add, edit, delete, enable and disable the record plan.
·Supports edge storage and central storage for record plan.
Resources Binding
·Bind Access Control channels with the corresponding cameras.
E-Map
·Raster map, main map and submaps.
·Up to 8-level submap.
·Add, edit and delete the submap on the map.
·Add, edit and delete the hot spots (camera, alarm input) on the map.
·View the live video and playback on the map
·Zoom in and zoom out the map
·Decode the video to video wall quickly
·Supports visible range and initial angle.
·Icon flash on map when alarm is occurring.
Event Management
·Detect the device exception, video events, alarm input, access control Events, etc.
·Alarm Scheme: All day template, Weekday template, Weekend template and custom template.
·Alarm Priority: Low, Medium, High.

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·Linkage: record, snapshot, live video, alarm output, PTZ, video wall, E-mail, etc.
·Add, edit, delete, enable and disable alarm scheme.
·Display event alarm info including alarm time, alarm name, alarm status, etc.
·View the live video or pictures from related camera.
·Acknowledge the event alarm.
·Arming control for event alarm
·Forward the alarm to relevant user
·Send alarm e-mail.
·Process the alarm events.
·Search alarm events
Video Wall
·Add and manage the video wall.
·Supports On/Off the screen ID.
·Supports combine screens to one screen.
·Bind the decode channel with the corresponding screen.
·Decode the real-time video to wall
·Decode the playback video to the video wall.
·Manually/automatically decode to wall.
·Control the video wall split
·Change the stream type of video channel.
·Adding box, on/off screen and back display.
·Tour the video channel.
·Schedule plan: Set the running task on timeline.
·Tour plan: Loop different task, can set loop time
·Supports NKB to control video wall.
Live View
·Displays device tree. Show/hide offline device.
·Displays the device IP address or device name on the device tree
·View real-time video.
·Common layout and custom layout
·PTZ control
·Manual recording
·Snapshot
·Instant playback
·Digital zoom
·Fisheye dewraping
·Audio talk
·Set alarm window.
·Decode the video to video wall quickly
·Turn on/off the audio in live view
·Region of Interest: Divide one window into 4 or 6 parts, one shows whole image, others show the detail.
·Save the current live view as a view.
·Supports 4 Live View tabs.
·Supports adding channel to favorite
·Video tour according to device, organization, favorite or view.

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·Quickly switch to playback.
·Supports NKB to control camera on Live View.
·Switch to playback quickly.
·View map via live view window.
·Set POS overlay style.
·Smart tracking.
·Basic device setting: camera properties, video, audio.
Playback
·Playback the record from the edge devices or central storage.
·Video filter: normal, motion, alarm, video loss, tampering video.
·Sync play.
·Reverse playback.
·Slow and fast forward (up to 64X and 1/64X).
·Playback frame-by-frame.
·Lock or mark the important record for central storage.
·Supports smart search
·Supports search record of POS data
Download Center
·Download record from central storage or device.
·Download record by timeline, files or tags.
·Supports multi-task download.
·Supports dav, MP4, flv, asf, and avi format.
Access Control
·Door status and door events monitor.
·Door group and door level.
·Access right management.
·One-key to lock/unlock the doors.
·Fire linkage
·Advanced door rules, such as anti-passback, first card unlock, inter-door lock, multiple card unlock, remote verification
·extract record from device
Personnel Management
·Add, edit and delete the person and department.
·Issue the card, fingerprint via USB reader or devices.
·Authorize by door or door group.
·Private password and face authentications.
·Imports person from SmartPSS.
Video Intercom
·Video intercom between VDP devices based on SIP protocol.
·Video intercom between VDP devices with command center.
·Releases the text information to VTH.
·Address book releases to VTO.
Attendance
·Set access control devices as attendance stations.
·Attendance time period and holiday management.
·Attendance shift management and arrangement.

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·Attendance report management
Visitor Management
·Visit Registration, Appointment Registration.
·Searching Visit Record and Export.
Vehicle Entrance
·Edit parking-lot, includes total and available spaces, parking name etc.
·Manage owners, vehicles and cards.
·Bind LED screen with ITC or spot detector device.
·Open the barriers via VTO with cards or remotely.
·Force existing vehicles to leave.
·Search and export the historical pass records.
·Supports daily, weekly, monthly, and annual statistics of vehicle entrance.
Face Recognition
·Automatically captures faces in the camera field of view.
·Extracts face attribute information from captured face.
·Real-time face comparison.
·Quickly register face to face library.
·Searching face via face attribute.
·Searching face via uploading a face image.
·Searching records.
·Generate the track for the specific face.
·Generate daily, weekly, monthly attribute report based on the gender and age.
Alarm Controller
·Display all Alarm controller devices and subsystems under device.
·Arm/Disarm Alarm controller.
·Arm, Disarm, Cancel Alarm, Normal, Bypass, Isolate In zone or subsystems.
ANPR
·Real-time license plate recognition
·Search history license plate recognition result
Log
·Client Operate log.
·Door device log.
·Search and export log.
Backup and Restore
·Backup system data automatically (daily, week, month).
·Backup system data manually.
·Restore system data from server or local file.
Other Functions
·Device time calibration, server time calibration

2.5 DSS Express Mobile Client

History Record
·Show recently viewed channels, you can open live video or playback via history records.
·Up to 20 history records, then replace the oldest operation record.
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Live View
·Open more than one channel at same time, up to 16 channels.
·Three stream type: HD(high definition), SD(standard definition), FL(Fluency).
·Supports PTZ control.
·Supports horizontal screen play.
·One-key switch to playback.
·Snapshot, local record, audio talk.
Playback
·Replay device record and center record(Up to 8X and 1/8X).
·The calendar shows whether there is a video on that day.
·Supports Snapshot.
·Manually do local record.
·Supports 1X, 2X, 3X, 4X, 1/2X, 1/4X, 1/8X playback.
Alarm Center
·Subscribe the alarm.
·Alarm processing.
·Alarm video and alarm picture.
·Alarm search.
Map
·Supports Google map.
·Displays the video channel on the map.
·View video and do playback.
Favorite
·Quickly view video of channel added to the favorite.
Files Management
·View picture and video via local file.

3 Miscellaneous

3.1 System requirements

The following are requirements for the computers used, please refer to:
http://www.dahuasecurity.com/

3.2 Supported languages

Chinese, English, Russian, Macedonian, Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese,
Korean, Bulgarian, French, etc.

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3.3 Licensing structure

3.3.1 Base License

You can buy base license to extend performance based on the parameters defined in the free version requires an
additional base package fee

3.3.2 Channel license

You can buy channel license for Basic CCTV, POS, Access Control, Video Intercom, Alarm Host, ANPR, Face
Recognition, Attendance Terminals, etc.