Person / vehicle alerts

How to setup person / vehicle detection for your Edge Controller based system.

Overview

The Edge Controller can handle object detection and camera alerts in two different ways:

• Object detection using the Edge Controller's built in AI processor

• Camera based object detection

The AI built into the Edge Controller, whilst extremely powerful, is still a beta feature and is not recommended for production use yet. We are working on it as fast as possible and hope to make it generally available soon.

We therefore recommend that you set up motion detection or object detection directly on the cameras, and forward the alerts to a filtering service such as Calipsa or DeepAlert. This requires no integration with the Edge Controller.

If you want to try out Giraffe's objection detection, read on...

Giraffe AI configuration options

Object detection is enabled / disabled on a per camera basis with the Enabled toggle. If it is disabled, no object detection will be performed on the images.

Upload Video Clip determines whether the Edge Controller will attempt to upload a video clip to go along with the snapshots of the event. In order to upload a video clip, recording must be enabled for the camera.

Special considerations if cloud filtering is enabled

If cloud filtering is enabled for a camera, there are some special considerations.

Event classification reported by Edge Controller was entirely wrong

• if the Edge Controller reports a person event, but the cloud filtering only detects a moving vehicle, the event will be reclassified as a vehicle event and notifications will only be sent if vehicle notifications are enabled.

• if the Edge Controller reports a vehicle event, but the cloud filtering only detects a person, the event will be reclassified as a person event and notifications will only be sent if person notifications are enabled.

Event classification reported by Edge Controller was partially wrong

• if the Edge Controller reports a person event, but the cloud filtering detects both a person and a moving vehicle in the scene, the event will not be reclassified, but if vehicle notifications are enabled, we will still notify.

• if the Edge Controller reports a vehicle event, but the cloud filtering detects both a moving vehicle and a person in the scene, the event will not be reclassified, but if person notifications are enabled, we will still notify.

This can be confusing, because it may appear that you are receiving person notifications when you have not requested them. However, despite them being primarily classified as a person notification, they do in fact also contain a moving vehicle.

The same applies if you are receiving vehicle notifications when you have only requested person. The notifications will also contain a person perhaps hidden in the background, that the Edge Controller missed but cloud filtering detected.