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Events

Events are incident notifications triggered by your solutions. A visualised output of your Counters can also be found here, see below for details.

Before you start

Once every Camera is registered and Solutions are created in IRIS+ Essential (with or without a Schedule), everything is set for receiving Events.

Event notifications

IRIS+ Essential

If IRIS+ Essential is opened in your browser, you can see the following indications of a newly triggered Event:

  • A notification badge will be displayed on the Events button at the left-side panel: it shows you the number of new detections since you last activated it. Clicking on it will take you to the list of recorded detections.

You can mute / unmute a browser tab by right-clicking on the tab and selecting the appropriate function.

  • A notification bar appears at the bottom centre of any page. The bar will not disappear until it is closed manually or the incident is investigated by clicking on the More link on it.

  • A Beeping sound is played (unless the browser tab is muted).

  • New detection Events are recorded in the Events view.

Integrated third-party software

IRIS+ Essential Events can be sent to a third-party software where user notifications are defined by the respective software's custom implementation. Please contact the software provider to learn more about third-party notifications.

Events view

Past or recently reported incidents can be managed in the Events view.

Click the Events menu on the left sidebar for this view.

Event Replay

Triggered Events are listed in reversed time order by default. This can be changed by clicking on the respective column's header. The Alarm which triggered the event can be recognised by its name.

Click on a row in the table to replay the incident. The replay starts from a few seconds before the Event's timestamp.

Tip

The playback availability is denoted by the Camera icon on right side of the Event's row. If the icon is missing, the playback of that Event is still loading.

Display features

Zone Crossing uses different types of ROI: 'Source' ROI are displayed as yellow, 'Target' ROI as red and 'Exclude' ROI as white polygons.

  • If a ROI is associated with a Solution, the ROI is displayed as a green polygon. Negative ROI are displayed as white polygons.
  • Detections are displayed as orange / aqua rectangles for people / vehicles, respectively.
  • At the triggering moment, a Bell icon will appear in the top right corner of the player.
  • The timestamp of the video is at the bottom left of the player (can be different from the one that comes from the camera) in the time zone of the device. The time zone can be modified in the Control Panel.

Tip

If multiple cameras are linked to the triggering Alarm, there might be no activity in the record of some of these cameras. In this case, the Event was triggered by the activity of different cameras.

Controls

  • and toggles between pause and play
  • jumps to the triggering moment and pauses the player
  • rewinds to a few seconds before the Event
  • switches to live play
  • << jumps backward ten seconds
  • >> jumps forward ten seconds
  • / : shows / hides annotations
  • opens the video in full-screen mode

Filter Events

You can filter what type of Events to display by clicking on the Filter events drop-down menu and ticking the respective checkbox. You can filter Events by:

  • Detection type (Intrusion-, Multi Object- and Crowd Detection or 'Any' alarm type)
  • Solutions, set up by the user, as described in Solutions
  • The time frame the detections were triggered within
  • Starred or Unread status

You can also identify an Event's detection type by its icon in the Event list.

You can select and mark specific or all displayed Events as Starred, toggle their Read/Unread status, or delete them.

Tick the checkboxes of the respective Events, or tick the checkbox at the top left corner of the Event list to select or deselect all currently displayed Events. You may change their status by clicking the three orange icons (shown above). Alternatively, to mark an Event as Starred or toggle their Read/Unread status, click the corresponding icon on the Event's row.

Counters

Counters are designed with third-party solutions in mind, however, their output can be accessed within IRIS+ Essential as well, in the Events screen.

Before you start

Once every Camera is registered and Counters are created in the Solutions screen, everything is set for viewing their output here.

  • Click the Events/Data button at the top right corner of the Events screen.

  • Select the counter from the drop-down list on the upper left corner of the Events screen.

Multi Object Counter

Recent data

The rectangle(s) show you the last, median and maximum number of detections that occurred in the last aggregation interval, of each object type associated with the Counter. They are a good way to read the Counter's data at a glance.

Counter chart and table

Consulting the line chart gives you a bird's eye view of the observed area's detection trends for the last 200 observations.

Below, a table view is also available, showing the following data in an object-by-object basis: the first and last detections, as well as the median, average, minimum and maximum number of detections within each aggregation interval.

Aggregation frequency

The aggregation frequency for the Counter determines the time interval between each counting. It is 5 seconds by default, and can be adjusted in the Solutions screen. This setting applies to all three views as well as to the downloadable .csv file.

Info

The last 200 detections will be shown at all times, regardless of the time interval set - which means the time covered by the Recent data, chart and table views can range from a few minutes to several hours, depending on the interval set.

You can download the Counter's data is .csv format, by clicking the Download as csv button in the top right of the chart. You can set a time interval here, for up to three days.

Traffic Counting

Recent data

The rectangles show the number of entered and exited objects detected as well as those of remaining inside of the specified area, that occurred in the last aggregation interval, of each object type associated with the Traffic Counting. They are a good way to read its data at a glance.

Event & video retention

IRIS+ Essential is able to store event data (containing the videos attached to the events) up to the point where the space allocated for it has filled up.

Each camera gets 1/10th of all storage space pre-allocated; 500GB / 10 = about 50GB per camera. Once this limit is reached, the oldest videos will be deleted to free up space for new events. This is done so that storage space gets allocated equally among all cameras. Video retention time is therefore about 72 hours worth of footage for a single camera on a Jetson device, with the camera set to the recommended 1,5Mbps bitrate. Otherwise, the lower the bitrate, the more data can be stored.

Event entries under the Events view get deleted two days after the corresponding video has been deleted.

Troubleshooting

  • I am not receiving any events from my Solutions.
    • Check your Solution settings and try changing the Sensitivity of the detector to Medium or High.
  • I am receiving false detections from my Solutions.
    • Check your Solution settings and try lowering the Sensitivity of the detector. You may also draw Regions of Interest to exclude areas/only include certain ones to run the detections on. Additionally, you may set a custom object size to limit the detections to objects of certain size range.