QNAP TS-EC1080 Pro TS-EC1080-PRO User Manual

Product codes
TS-EC1080-PRO
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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 finish 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 define the time to record feeds for each IP camera, allowing 
you to flexibility 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 2,600 IP camera 
models of over 90 brands and ONVIF specifications, including 
those support advanced features such as multi-streaming and 
fisheye-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, fulfilling 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 flash 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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