Analytics

Analytics is a set of tools that processes camera images in an intelligent way. This processing includes object counting, flow control, objects left and removed, face detection and others that we will see in detail below. This system is capable of detecting the moment when there is a violation of pre-defined rules and triggering alarms in order to attract the attention of the operator.

Analytics can complement monitoring in a variety of ways such as triggering alarms, archiving events, and generating reports.

Analytics is considered an additional module as it is not included in the camera server license.

The system supports server-side or edge analytics processing. In the case of server-based analytics, camera images will be processed by the system's analytics module, on servers dedicated to image processing. In edge analytics, the cameras themselves already process the images and only send metadata and events to the system.

Analytics has its own server/service for image processing, which can be installed on the same machine where the cameras are recorded or on another computer designed just for this service (most recommended). Learn more about distributed processing in the chapter Understanding distributed processing.