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FAQ Analytics

The FAQ section is intended to collect the most frequently asked questions from users and provide answers to them.

What is Analytics?

Analytics is a software module for video analytics. Video analytics is a technology for obtaining various data from surveillance cameras or archive recordings using computer vision methods.

You can find more information about Analytics on the «Introduction to Analytics» page, as well as in the «Analytics Architecture» and «Types of Analytics» subsections.

Подробнее об Analytics вы можете найти на странице, а также в подразделах «Analytics Architecture» и «Types of Analytics»

What does Analytics consist of?

The following components are necessary for the correct operation of analytics:

  • Orchestrator: distributes incoming video analytics tasks to executable files

  • Orchestrator client

  • Push server (push1st): provides communication between system elements

  • Vectorizer: generates image vectors of faces

  • Executable files: capture and analyze video streams in accordance with tasks

  • ClickHouse: a column-based analytical database

For the user web interface and media server, it is recommended to use VSaaS products – VMS and Mediaserver.

You can find more information about the architecture of analytics on the «Analytics Architecture» page.

Which VSaaS components does Analytics work with?

Analytics works with components such as VMS and Mediaserver.

VMS

Center of management for orchestrating all components of the video surveillance system, ensuring performance monitoring and interaction with other products of the VSaaS platform.

VMS:

  • Has a simple administration interface

  • Possible integration with customer systems

  • Supports up-to-date interfaces, web client, mobile applications, and desktop client

You can find more information about VMS on the «VMS» page.

Mediaserver

  • High-performance video-audio-data processing server, either as a standalone product or as part of the VSaaS platform

  • Receives video and data streams from cameras and devices, processes them, archives them, and delivers them to users in selected formats

You can find more information about Mediaserver on the «Mediaserver» page.

What types of Analytics exist?

Currently, the following types of Analytics are available:

  • Facial recognition is a tool for automatically locating a human face in a video stream and identifying the person based on a standard model of the resource in existing databases

  • Queue procession is a tool for automatically locating and accurately counting the number of people in a designated area of a video stream

  • Motion detection is a tool for automatically locating motion in a designated area of a video stream

  • License plate recognition is a tool for automatically locating the license plate of a vehicle in a video stream and identifying it based on the resource in existing databases

  • Visitor counting is a tool for automatically locating and accurately counting the number of people who have passed through a designated area or entrance over a certain period of time

  • Camera damage/overlap/vandalism detection is a tool for automatically locating and detecting camera damage, obstruction, or vandalism in a video stream

  • Loud sound detection is a tool for automatically detecting loud sound phenomena using the microphone of a video camera

  • Smoke/fire detection is a tool for automatically locating and detecting smoke and open flames in a designated area of a video stream

  • Line crossing detection is a tool for automatically locating and determining the fact of crossing a designated line in a video stream

More information on types of Analytics: «Types of Analytics»

Licensing

There are several types of licenses for the Analytics product. More information on licensing can be found on the «Licensing Analytics» page.

How to install and configure Analytics?

You can find a detailed Analytics installation guide on the Install Analytics documentation page.

The First Launch and Configurations page provides detailed instructions for the first run.

The Administrator Guide page provides a complete guide on how to use the Administrator client.

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