5 ART Tracking Controllers
5.4 Cascaded systems
Cascading means that two or more stand-alone tracking systems are combined to one
large system in order to have only one consolidated data output. It is possible to cas-
cade TRACKPACK/E systems with or without ARTTRACK5 and ARTTRACK5/C and to
build cascades out of ARTTRACK (discontinued) with TRACKPACK systems (discon-
tinued). Therefore, the system is subdivided into one master and up to eight slaves.
However, the total number of cameras in the cascaded system cannot exceed 16 for
TRACKPACK/E only systems and 50 for combined ARTTRACK5 & ARTTRACK5/C and
TRACKPACK/E systems respectively.
The task of the master is to gather all single data outputs from all slaves and to merge
them into one single data output. The DTrack2 frontend connects to the master only and
allows to configure (e.g. cameras, output, tracking, etc.) the entire tracking system as
usual.
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The master has to be an ARTTRACK Controller with "full-featured" li-
cense (< DTrack2 2.10) and a Synccard2.
Starting with DTrack2 version v2.10 a new license model has been es-
tablished. The master controller needs to have a dedicated "cascaded
systems" license as well as a sufficient license for ALL cameras in the
cascade, e.g. 4 ARTTRACK5 + 4 TRACKPACK/E cameras = license for
8 cameras.
5.4.1 Connecting a cascade
Depending on your setup there are different options how to connect the single tracking
systems within a cascade.
Option 1 - master: all ART and ARTTRACK Controllers, slave(s): ART Controllers
with TRACKPACK/E or TRACKPACK controllers (discontinued) Connect the data
output of the slave controller(s) and the one of the master to the same local area network
LAN (e.g. application network, see option 1 in fig. 5.5 on page 67 and fig. 5.6 on page
68).
Option 2 - master: ART Controllers (DTrack2 => v2.11), slave(s): ART Controllers
with TRACKPACK/E or TRACKPACK controllers (discontinued) Connect the data
output of the slave controller(s) to the cascaded network port of the master (see option 2
in fig. 5.5 on page 67). Please use a switch for two or more TRACKPACK slaves.
Option 3 - master: ARTTRACK controllers (discontinued), slave(s): TRACKPACK con-
trollers (discontinued) Connect the data output of the slave controller(s) to the camera
network of the master (see option 3 in fig. 5.6 on page 68).
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