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IP Camera Analytics and Detection Setup Guide v1

admin — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:37:22 +0000

IP Camera Analytics and Detection Setup Guide v1, IP camera analytics and detection refers to the use of software and algorithms to analyze the video footage captured by IP cameras. This goes beyond just recording what happens. It allows the camera to identify and interpret specific events within the video.

Here’s a breakdown of the concept:

• IP Cameras: These are digital cameras that transmit video footage over a network rather than storing it locally.

IP Camera Analytics and Detection Setup Guide v1, Analytics: IP cameras can be equipped with built-in analytics or work in conjunction with video management software to analyze the video. This analysis can detect things like motion, objects entering or leaving specific areas, or even recognize specific objects or people.

Detection: When the analytics software identifies a pre-programmed event, it can trigger an alarm, send a notification, or record the video footage for further review.

There are different levels of sophistication in IP camera analytics and detection. Here are some examples:

• Basic Motion Detection: This is a common feature where the camera detects changes in pixels, which typically means movement.

• Object Detection: More advanced analytics can distinguish between different types of objects, such as people, vehicles, or packages.

• Line Crossing Detection: This can be used to identify someone entering a restricted area or a vehicle crossing a stop line.

• Missing Object Detection: This can be useful for situations where there should always be an object present, such as a product on a store shelf.

IP camera analytics and detection can be a valuable tool for security and surveillance applications. It can help to reduce false alarms, improve efficiency, and provide more actionable insights from video footage.

People Analytics

Learn how to use Verkada People Analytics to filter people by specific attributes

Updated over a week ago

The Verkada People Analytics feature uses powerful edge-based camera capabilities to detect people, faces, and filter results based on clothing color, apparent sex, and the presence of backpacks.

Note: See User Guide for People Analytics for best practice guidelines.

Enable the People History feature

All Verkada cameras perform people detection (as outlined above) out of the box. However, to enable more complex analytics, such as the ability to search for faces or for people by clothing color, you must enable the People History feature.

Required. To begin, you need to enable the feature globally on your org and then on the individual cameras.

Enable People Analytics Globally

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Admin.

2.Under Privacy & Security, click Feature Manager.

3.Under People Analytics, toggle on People History, Person Attributes, and Face Detection.

Enable People Analytics on individual cameras

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Click Settings > Analytics.

3.Under Analytics, toggle on People History and other analytics features that you may need. You can only toggle on (enable) Person Attributes, Face Detection, Occupancy Trends) when People History is enabled.

View Person History

When enabled, a Person History can be seen on individual cameras and across all cameras in your organization.

IP Camera Analytics and Detection Setup Guide v1

View Person History for an individual camera

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select a camera > People (you won’t see this option if High Resolution Image Capture is disabled).

3.(Optional) Use the search bar to see and apply the available filters.

4.(Optional) Select Upload Photo to search for a specific person on the camera.

View Person History across all cameras

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select People.

You should be able to see all detected people across all cameras.

3.Use the search bar to see and apply the available filters (you can also use Ctrl+K or Cmd+K to open the search menu).

Use Face Search

When enabled, a Face Search can be seen across all cameras in your organization and on the Verkada Command mobile app.

Use Face Search across all cameras

The Face Search feature is enabled, by default, when you toggle on High Resolution Image Capture. You can search a face across all cameras in your organization.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select People > Profiles.

You should be able to see all detected faces across all cameras.

3.Use the search bar to see and apply the available filters (you can also use Ctrl+K or Cmd+K to open the search menu).

Use Face Search on the Command mobile app

See Face Search on Mobile Apps to perform a face search on the Command mobile app.

Bulk enable People History on the Devices page

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Devices.

2.Hover over the green dot to the left of each camera’s thumbnail and check the box for the cameras you want to change location.

3.At the top, click Edit Settings and select Analytics.

4.Enable People History and other analytics features, as necessary.

5.Click Next > Apply > Done to apply the settings.

People and Face Search on Mobile Apps

Learn how to use people and faces on Verkada mobile apps

Updated over a week ago

Access People History search

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select the camera where you want to search people history.

3.At the top right of the live feed, click the Hamburger icon (3 bars).

4.Select People History to see all people sightings for this camera.

5.(Optional) You can also filter results by a date range or the person’s appearance

Access a Face Search

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select the camera where you want to search face history.

3.At the top right of the live feed, click the Hamburger icon (3 bars).

4.Select Face Search to see all faces detected on this camera.

5.Select the face you want to view or select Upload Photo to upload a picture of a person’s face to search.

6.Once you select a face, you can see all the times this camera has detected the face or select the Three Camera icon to see all the cameras in the org that have detected the face.

7.(Optional) You can also filter results by a date range or the person’s appearance.

License Plate Recognition Overview & FAQ

Learn the License Plate Recognition functionality and use cases

Updated over a week ago

Specially-placed cameras are designed to capture license plate images and provide users with a readable and searchable list of license plate numbers. These license plate captures can be linked to live or recorded video from a nearby camera for complete context surrounding vehicle events.

Verkada’s License Plate Recognition (LPR) allows real-time license plate monitoring and logging for later reference. Learn how to configure LPR for your cameras.

Notes:

1.LPR mode is only available on the Bullet series cameras; however, any Verkada camera can be used as the optional context camera.

2.After you enable and configure LPR mode on a camera, it can take up to 5 minutes for results to populate.

Key features

Investigate License Plates of Interest

You can use LPR to quickly search for all historical appearances of a license plate, making it easier to complete investigations for suspect vehicles.

Receive License Plates of Interest alerts

With Verkada’s LPR solution, you can receive License Plate of Interest alerts when a specific license plate is detected at any of your locations. You can also send these notifications to third-party applications through the Verkada Webhooks API.

Export results via API integrations

Verkada’s LPR results can be systematically exported to third party systems leveraging our API integrations. This allows customers to run custom business reports or integrate with other critical parts of their security infrastructure.

FAQ

Will Gen 1 Bullet cameras provide the same level of LPR performance as the current, Gen 2 models?

Is it possible to use cameras in LPR mode for video security beyond LPR mode?

Is it necessary to use a Bullet camera as the context camera in a dual-camera LPR setup?

What is the function of a context camera and when is it necessary to use one?

When is it necessary to use an external IR illuminator for capturing license plates and what model should I choose?

What is the camera’s behavior in the event of an internet outage?

Is it possible to integrate a Verkada LPR camera into an external system, such as a tolling system?

What types of license plates are incompatible with Verkada’s LPR technology?

Why is my camera feed too dark at night?

Enable Vehicle Analytics

Vehicle analytics uses powerful edge-based capabilities to detect vehicles and filter results based on vehicle color and body type.

How it Works

Vehicle analytics leverages the cameras’ powerful onboard processing capabilities to detect the presence of, and analyze the properties of vehicles as they appear in the frame. As vehicles are detected, high-resolution images are taken and analyzed for vehicle objects. Selected images are then sent to Verkada’s cloud-based Command platform, where users can filter historical clips for vehicles and search for specific vehicles by time, date, body type, and color.

All Verkada cameras perform vehicle detection (as outlined above) out of the box. However, to enable more complex analytics, such as the ability to search for vehicles by color and body type, vehicle analytics must be turned on.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select a camera.

3.Select Settings> Analytics.

4.Toggle on Vehicle History.

Bulk enable People History from the Devices Page

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Devices.

2.Select the checkbox of any camera you would like to configure analytics on.

3.In the top right, select Edit Settings.

4.Select Analytics.

1.Set Vehicle History and other analytics features you want to ON.

2.Click Next > Apply > Done to apply the settings.

Vehicle analytics for an individual camera

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select a camera.

3.Select Vehicles (You will not see this button if Vehicle Analytics is not enabled).

4.Use the search bar to see and apply the available filters.

Vehicle analytics across all cameras

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.In the left navigation, select Vehicles.

3.All detected vehicles across all cameras will be displayed.

4.Use the search bar to see and apply the available filters.

People and Vehicle Motion Search

Learn now to search paths of people and vehicles with advanced motion search

Updated yesterday

Verkada’s people and vehicle search features use advanced computer vision functionality to identify people and vehicles within the camera’s field of view and quickly find relevant events.

The Verkada Command UI enables instant video replay previews and trajectory viewing. Trajectory analysis features offers possibilities for searching events, reduces the number of missed detections, improves the detection distance, and reduces duplicates.

View people and vehicles over a timeline

Required. You must have Site Viewer and Site Admin access to view the Motion tab under the camera feed. Learn more about Roles and Permissions for Cameras.

You can view people and vehicles detected by a Verkada camera within historical footage.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select a camera to view its feed.

3.At the top, click Motion.

4.To the right, click Show Pathsto toggle on/off the feature.

5.(Optional) Make a selection on the video player grid to search for motion in the area.

6.(Optional) Use the People, Vehicle, and Date filters for more granular searches

7.Hovering over a thumbnail with the people or vehicle filters selected gives a count of the people/vehicles in the frame with an option to archive the clip. By hovering over the previews, you can see tracks for the individual.

8.Click the thumbnail to be taken to the exact time in the recorded footage.

Note: People and/or vehicles will only be available if these objects were detected in the camera frame.

View people trajectories (paths)

The people trajectories feature visualizes the paths of people moving through the scene to show the trajectories of each detected person.

Trajectories drastically improve the motion event recall and enable the cameras to recognize people and vehicles at a further distance. For a detailed breakdown of the detection ranges of each model, see the People Analytics Guide.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select a camera to view its feed.

3.At the top, click Motion.

4.(Optional) Make a selection on the video player grid to search for motion in the area.

5.Select the People or Vehicle filter to see the trajectories.

Compatible cameras

The following table outlines which camera models support Motion Events, which models support Motion Trajectories, and where the motion model is running. Newer camera models have the capability to run the motion detection model on the camera, whereas D-series cameras still rely on the Verkada Cloud to run the model.

People and Vehicle History Search

Learn how to use the Search page to view all people and vehicles in your organization

Updated over a week ago

You can use the People and Vehicle search pages to:

• View all people and vehicles detected by every camera in your organization (org).

• Quickly and easily determine where and when a particular person or vehicle was last seen.

• Find new faces that have been seen.

• Configure notifications when specific people or vehicles are sighted.

Search for people

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras > People > All.

You should see all the people sighted on cameras in your org.

2.(Optional) Select a thumbnail to play a clip from the camera where this person was sighted.

Each thumbnail image includes a timestamp and the camera name.

3.At the top left, find the search bar. You can filter for options, such as camera, site, date, and so on to narrow your search.

See also how to search for people using our mobile apps.

Search for People of Interest

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras > People > People of Interest.

2.Select a person to open that person’s profile page and show thumbnail images for all the instances where that person was last sighted. Each thumbnail image includes a timestamp and the camera name.

3.(Optional) To view the corresponding video footage, simply select the thumbnail image that is of interest. If the face spotted was not this person, on the thumbnail, click the Kebab icon (three dots) and select Not This Person.

4.(Optional) You can use the search bar to filter options to narrow your search.

Set People of Interest notifications

To receive alerts for People of Interest, you need to set up alert based on your events.

IMPORTANT

People of Interest replaced Profiles on June 8, 2023. Profiles created before this date that were not set as People of Interest are not automatically send People of Interest alerts.

To set up notifications when a particular face is detected:

1.Select the profile.

2.At the top left corner, click the Kebab icon (three dots).

3.Select Add to event.

Create People of Interest

You can manually create a People of Interest group by uploading an image of a person’s face.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras > People > People of Interest.

2.At the top right, click Person of Interest.

3.On the Add Person of Interest dialog, upload a photo that clearly shows the face of only one person (close up). The image should be in JPG or PNG format and should be less than 15 MB in size.

If you upload a picture that resembles an existing Person of Interest, then Command may suggest a profile to add the image to. If the picture you are uploading is of an existing profile, you can select it to add this picture as a reference photo. If not, select create a new one to continue creating a new profile.

Merge People of Interest

Sometimes duplicate People of Interest are accidentally created. If this happens, you can merge the duplicate People of Interest profiles.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras > People > People of Interest.

2.At the top of each face, use the checkboxes to select the Person of Interest you want to merge.

3.Click Merge.

The profiles should merge and you will be prompted to view the new profile for that person.

Create a new tag to People of Interest

You can create and add tags to People of Interest to group similar profiles together.

Type the desired name and at the bottom of the tag list, click Add Tags.

Add a tag to a user’s profile

Select the profile and select the plus (+) icon (adjacent to the Tags button). If the tag you want to add is already in the list, you can select it from the list.

Filter a tag name

1.On the People of Interest page, click Tag (from the search menu) to filter by tag name.

2.Select the desired tag. This should show all associated profiles.

Remove a person of interest

1.Select a person.

2.At the top, click the Kebab icon (three dots) and select Remove this person.

To learn more about how individual faces are identified, see People Analytics.

Search for vehicles

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras > Vehicles > All Vehicles.

You should see all vehicles sighted on cameras in your org.

2.Select a camera thumbnail (where the vehicle was sighted) to play a clip.

3.At the top left, use the search bar to filter options, such as camera, site, date, and so on to narrow your search.

Search all license plates

If you have Verkada License Plate Recognition (LPR) cameras installed, you can use the All License Plates and License Plates of Interest tabs.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras > Vehicles.

2.At the top, click All License Plates or License Plates of Interest.

◦ If you click All License Plates, you can view all the license plates detected in your org and how often they were detected. By clicking a license plate, you can see all recent sightings of this plate.

◦ If you click License Plates of Interest, you can receive alerts whenever this plate is detected. You can also view all license plates that have been marked for notifications and filter out all other plates.

Example: All License Plates

Example: License Plates of Interest

Enable Occupancy Trends

The Occupancy Trends feature provides organizations with an estimate of the foot traffic at critical locations within their facilities. These estimates can provide valuable insights for optimizing staffing, adjusting hours of operation, and or tracking the

performance of marketing and promotional activities.

Note: This feature is available on the CB52, CB62, CM42, CD32, CD42, CD52, and CD62 models.

Installation guidelines

Required. To use this feature, People Analytics must be enabled. To do so, follow the steps in the People Analytics guide.

For best performance, we recommend these installation guidelines during the installation of a camera where Occupancy Trends will be enabled:

• Choose a one-directional path. Occupancy Trends works best in locations, such as doors and hallways.

• Install the camera 8–12 ft (2.4–3.7m) away from the digital line.

• Position cameras no more than 40–60˚ vertically from the location of the digital line.

• Minimize occlusions and constructions between the camera and the line.

• Ensure good illumination and visibility on both sides of the line. Users must be visible on both sides of the line for at least one second.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

2.Select a camera and go to the camera’s Settings page.

3.Scroll down to the Analytics section and toggle on Occupancy Trends.

4.Return to the camera’s main page and select the Analytics tab (displayed below the camera’s live feed).

5.Click Add lines to open the wizard.

6.Click and drag the camera view to draw a line across the screen. You can draw multiple lines, though data from all lines are aggregated.

7.Click one of the dropdown menus (displayed near the arrow heads) to change how users crossing in that direction are counted. The Ignore option indicates that users crossing this direction are not counted by the Occupancy Trends feature.

8.After you set up the lines for the camera’s view, click Save.

View Occupancy Trend estimates

1.After enabling Occupancy Trends and establishing your line, you can view results by returning to the device’s Analytics tab. This tab presents all the estimated In and Out counts for your selected period of time. You can hover your mouse over individual bars to see the numeric count for that period.

2.Select the time filter dropdown to increase the range of time covered by the Occupancy Trends graph, up to a maximum of 365 days.

3.Select the period of time filter dropdown to choose the period of time that each column in the graph represents.

Export Occupancy Trends results

You can export Occupancy Trends results as a .csv file.

1.Go to the Analytics tab.

2.At the top right, click Downloadto automatically download your occupancy trends results.

View Live Motion on Floor Plans

Learn how you can view live motion on your floor plan in real-time

Updated over a week ago

Verkada’s motion display feature offers two ways to see live motion on your site’s floor plans in real-time.

Set up motion detection

With motion detection, the camera’s field of view pulses when motion is seen. This happens in real-time.

1.In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Floorplans.

2.Select the building and floor plan you want to monitor.

3.On Floorplans, at the bottom right, click Motion Detection.

Example: Selected Floor Plan

Detect People Count

Learn how to detect the number of people in your camera frame

Updated over a week ago

When you scrub through a Verkada camera’s historical video clips:

• Green bounding boxes appear over all detected people.

• The scrubber displays a number that indicates the number of people detected in the frame.

• The blue lines (that appear as you scrub through a clip) indicate which parts of the clip contain the most people activity.

GANZ CORTROL VMS Setup Guide

admin — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 11:43:01 +0000

GANZ CORTROL VMS Setup Guide, CORTROL Global provides a unified Video Management System (VMS) for enterprise networks of any size. By uniting the actionable intelligence in a central security command center, CORTROL Global delivers situational awareness, proactively optimizing incident management for large-scale security installations.

CORTROL Global is one of the market’s most comprehensive enterprise-level VMS solutions, featuring interactive maps linked to alarms, an exceptional event and action manager, analytics tools, video wall support, and proactive components. In addition, the edge recording ensures your data safety by synchronizing with IP storage devices, archive replication, advanced system health monitoring, and failover, which reduces the disruption of your video surveillance recordings to zero. All this, plus various customization possibilities and Ganz’s excellent technical support.

With CORTROL Global, you can optimize the command center’s video wall. Create custom configurations or force users to specific video walls. For example, create “Area Focused” video walls to review footage quickly.

Highly secure encrypted camera and client communication
Powerful event and action manager
Real-time geolocation / map / mobile tracking
Multiple access control integrations, including Feenics Keep , Keri^®Systems Doors.net , Gallagher Command Center , NAPCO Continental , and more
Cloud, VM Environments supported
Powerful FR, LPR, AI, and UICC modules
Intuitive configuration and deployment features will have your network up and running quickly and simply.
Advanced features: event & action manager, powerful analytics: FR, LPR, VCA, 64-bit core, integrations/API maps & mobile streaming
Supports 15, 000+ models of network cameras and network video servers from over 190+ manufacturers

Full HD and UHD Resolution
Stream up to 4k and 8k resolution.

Advanced Event and Action Manager
Specify the desired outcome of your video surveillance system’s operation. Determine how the software reacts to any event caught on camera and how it turns events into an automated process. For example, send emails, activate DI/DO, interact with any other software, or bring the operator’s attention to a camera that requires immediate action. This functionality can be used for a single event or a set of sequenced circumstances to eliminate false alarms and improve the efficiency of your surveillance system.

Multiple Integrations
CORTROL is engineered to unify Video Surveillance, Access Control, Video Analytics, IoT Sensors (vaping sensors, bullying, and gunshot detectors ), license plate recognition , deep cloud learning , intercom communications, biometrics, and other IP Systems to provide real-time situational awareness. Go to the integration section>>

CORTROL Video Analytics (CVA)
Advanced computational neural network engine provides AI analytics to any camera in your system. For example, create Zones/Lines to alert on perimeter intrusion, loitering, and AI Classification of persons, vehicles, and animals. Become efficient with the information you see. Take advantage of the full potential of your video surveillance system with video content analysis. Improve the functionality of your surveillance while analyzing large amounts of data to determine a specific pattern in a particular task.

Smarter Business Security
CORTROL connects video, locks, card readers, or door contacts via Cloud, delivering versatility to smart business security – all at a very economical cost. CORTROL Global is engineered for medium and large enterprise business space.

Maps
Maps provide a complete examination of the entire installation of cameras, delivering immediate visual verification. All the alerts are integrated with the maps and can be set up to be viewed on the overview as well — you can specify the location of the alarm event immediately.

Web Access
Get permanent access to live streaming and archive video through your web browser.

Information Channels
Streaming branding, informational or urgent announcements

Alarm Acknowledgement
Make sure that no event skips the attention of the operator. An operator must confirm all alarms, automatically generating a bookmark towards the event in the archive. By requiring the operator to record actions in a journal, there is a tracking of performed actions towards each event.

Integrations and API
CORTROL offers customizable integration with other software systems in the form of a software development kit (SDK), CORTROL RESTful API.

Mobile Applications
You can use your mobile device to access live and archived streams. Use PTZ presets, control 2-way audio, or the mobile phone camera to stream video and audio directly to the server.

Live Streaming
The streaming server can make a live cast of videos on a website or YouTube.

Edge Recording
You can synchronize all your data with IP device storage. With this feature, if the network connection with any camera is lost, the camera still records your data. It is fully transferred to your server as soon as the network connection is re-established.

GANZ CORTROL VMS Setup Guide

Ganz CORTROL VMS Client Setup Guide

admin — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:41:23 +0000

Ganz CORTROL VMS Client Setup Guide, GANZ ® CORTROL VMS is the Core Command Center of your security installation. CORTROL unifies Video Surveillance, Access Control, Video Analytics, IoT Sensors ( vape detectors, bullying, and gunshot detectors ), License Plate Recognition (LPR), intercom communications, biometrics , and other IP Systems to provide real-time situational awareness. With intelligent network systems in critical areas, incidents are quickly detected and prevented. Thus, emergency response times are shortened.

Main window

The main window displays content provided by the server, which depend upon the selected tab. Please see the corresponding sections of this document for detailed information about each mode.

The Ganz CORTROL Client application window title displays window name, display number, and computer station name.

Upper right corner – window controls

From this panel, the Ganz CORTROL Client application window can be:

Opened in full screen mode
Minimized to taskbar
Maximized/restored to default size
Closed

To enter full screen, F11 can also be used; to exit full screen mode, press Escape or F11 on the keyboard.

Ganz CORTROL VMS Client Setup Guide

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Upper panel – tabs

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The upper panel contains tabs that allow you to quickly switch between main software functionality. The following tabs may be available, depending on the software version:

Live: real-time video
Playback: recorded video
Sequence Explorer: recorded video analysis
Smart Search: recording motion video analysis
Alerts: generated alerts
Library: exported video and snapshots

Upper panel – server connections

* Connection (1 servers)

The Connection button opens server connection setup window and displays the number of currently configured servers.

Upper right: main menu

File Edit View Help

This section contains the main application menu items.

File; Exit: close the Ganz CORTROL Client Application
Edit; Settings: application settings
View: operation modes

o Always on top

o Exclusivity Mode

o Locked application

Help; About: about Ganz CORTROL Client

Server Connections

If you wish to connect to a remote server, follow the steps below.

Select the Connection section in the upper panel to bring up the dialog box.

Select a server by clicking it in the item list and click Connect to connect with the selected server. Server resources will automatically appear in the left-hand panel.

Click Disconnect in this same dialog box to log out from the selected server.

Video Channels

Each video displayed in live view is placed into a ‘slot’, a part of the layout, called viewport.

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Lower-left: Stream details

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Enabled items are highlighted yellow:

Upper-left: general viewport controls

o X: close the stream and free the viewport

o Lock: unlocked/locked (Unlocked video in can be replaced by other cameras)

o Camera name: Name given the camera

Upper-right: Current time on the server from which the device originates

o Recording status: X = not recording, yellow arrow = recording

o Motion detector status: running = motion present, standing still = no motion

o Video codec of the stream: H.264, MJPEG

o Picture resolution: XVGA, 2.8MP

o Stream frame rate: xFPS

o Stream bitrate: xKb/s, xMb/s

Lower-right: Controls

o Instant playback: Playback of currently select time, (Default, last five minutes)

o PTZ toggle: PTZ HUD and bottom panel ON/OFF

o DPTZ toggle: Toggle digital PTZ control

o Motion grid: ON/OFF

o Substream: Auto/main/substream

o Incoming audio: ON/OFF

o Audio OUT: Press and hold the microphone to speak

o Aspect ratio: Auto/stretch to fill viewport/original

o Notification panel toggle: Toggle display of device centric notification panel

o Bookmark: Bookmark current selection of time for later retrieval, review

o Snapshot: Export snapshot of current image to library

Bottom: PTZ controls

PRESETS * TOURS *

HUD

Presets Tours: Listing presets, with option to initiate tour
HUD (Heads Up Display): ON/OFF (Centre: PTZ HUD controls) o Pan and tilt arrows

o Zoom slider

o Iris slide (If camera supported)

o Focus slider (If camera supported)

Instant Playback

The following overlay controls are available in the instant playback mode:

Camera Center: Play/Pause

o Drag to the center of the line to pause drag right to go fast forward o Drag left to rewind fast

o Release from dragging to continue normal playback

• Bottom right: Controls C

o Place: Click to play

o Clock icon: Specify time, date/hours/minutes

o Bookmark: Bookmark current selection of time for later retrieval, review

o Snapshot: Snapshot of current image, saved automatically

o Archive: Export loaded footage displayed in timeline

Bottom: Navigation

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o Left/Right <> arrows: Adjust loaded video time boundaries (Default, last five minutes) ■ Drag right to go forward in time drag left to go backwards in time

o Vertical yellow line: Indicates current playback moment, ■ Drag it anywhere or click to move along the timeline

Playback (Archive) Mode

For security reasons, it has been made impossible to erase recordings from individual channels and/or time periods. Recordings

Select Playback tab to switch to archive playback mode. Your current layout will be used, and recorded video streams will be displayed for channels with enabled recording.

Layouts: Double-click your desired layout to load it
Layout templates: Double-click your desired layout template to load it
Channels:

o Double-click or drag and drop the channels of your choice to fill the viewports

o First empty viewports are filled; then non-locked channels are replaced one by one)

o Each channel can be expanded to access recordings of its main or secondary stream.

o All footage having no associated active channels will be available under Orphan archive tracks.

The following viewport overlay controls are available in the playback mode, upon selection of a viewport:

Upper left:

o X: close the stream and free the viewport

o Lock: unlocked/locked (Unlocked video in this viewport can be replaced by other cameras)

o Camera name: Name given the camera

Lower-right: Controls

o DPTZ toggle: Toggle digital PTZ control

o Aspect ratio: Auto/stretch to fill viewport/original

o Motion grid: ON/OFF

Playback timeline

Right below the video stream, the Timeline is displayed:

Time intervals: Show the timeline scale;

o Click and drag left/right to move the timeline

The video footage outline is shown twice:

o Upper timeline: Contents of currently selected stream, with corresponding channel name

o Lower timeline: Content summary for all channels currently present in the viewport layout

White line: Indicates recorded video data
Cyan line: (A little bit wider than the white line) indicates recorded motion data
Blue line: (A little bit wider than the cyan line) indicates recorded incoming audio data
Yellow vertical line: Denotes current playback position

Playback Navigation controls

The playback navigation controls are located at the bottom of the window:

Timestamps: Timeline start and stop
Left/Right <> arrows: Adjust the loaded footage time boundaries (Default, last five minutes) o Drag right to go forward in time drag left to go backwards in time

Motion Search:

Left/Right <> arrows move forward or back to next recorded motion

Playback Navigation:

o Use the Play/Pause button to start playback

o Use the <> arrows near the Play button to go one frame back/forward

o -/+ steps: click to go back/forward with a step of 5 seconds, 1 minute, 1 hour or 24 hours o |< >| arrows: go to the very beginning/very end of the footage

Playback speed:

o Drag the blob to adjust playback speed from +/-0.5x to +/-32x

o The Pause button duplicates the main pause control

Clock icon: Specify time, date/hours/minutes
Bookmark: Create bookmark for later retrieval, review
Snapshot: Snapshot of current image, saved automatically
Multi-Snapshot: Snapshot of all channels currently present in the viewport layout
Archive: Export loaded footage displayed in timeline

o Option of multi-channel, or single channel archive export

Related settings

Additional administrative tools

Bitlocker settings

Device Manager

System into

CORTROL Prerequisites

There are a few requirements for the system the GANZ CORTROL Client will run on.

The ports for remote connections should be enabled through the firewalls (default ports are 60554 for the GANZ CORTROL Client)

The Bit version of Windows, 32-Bit vs. 64-Bit on the PC/Server should be confirmed.

For Windows 7: To confirm your Windows bit version, go to Control Panel > System and confirm System type as 32-Bit or 64-Bit.

For Windows 10: To confirm your Windows bit version, go to “Settings > System and confirm System type as 32-Bit or 64-Bit.

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CORTROL Client Installer

The CORTROL Client Installer can be found at Ganz Security/Software includes both the CORTROL Management Console, and the CORTROL Client installer.

From the link please select and download either CORTROL Console 32bit or 64bit, depending on the Windows OS bit version of the host server.

For convenience, links to the 32Bit, and 64Bit versions of the CORTROL Console are provided below.

Note: For most browsers, any downloaded files can be found in the Windows Download folder.

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Client Installation

Navigate to the Microsoft Windows download folder.
Double click on the CORTROL Client installer, to begin the installation process.
Select the installation language and click Next.
Accept the terms of agreement and click Next.
Accept default installation location and click Next. (Change location destination if required.)
Select the needed application language and click Next.
Once installation is complete, click Finish.

Client Configuration

To launch the CORTROL Client interface, double click on its desktop icon. H

The Client will require configuration, to connect to the CORTROL Global Demo Server.

Select “Disconnect”, as no server is currently configured.
Select “Connection” located in the top right corner.

Select the “Local Server” listed under “Connections, and then select “Edit”
Leave the default “Server title”
For the “IP address and port” enter: 173.42.78.61 – Leave the default port at 60554.
Enter “demo” all lower case for the “Username”
Enter “2468” for the password.
Select “Remember Password” and then click on “Save”.
Select the “Local Server” listed under “Connections” and then click on “Connect”.
Click on the “X” to close / exit, “Connections”

The “Demo” user have been giving no restriction on functionality within the GANZ CORTROL Client.

Please reference the CORTROL Client Manual for navigation, and usage.

Using the Meraki Vision Portal

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Introduction

Using the Meraki Vision Portal, Meraki Vision is a camera-viewing portal designed for core physical security use cases. It allows you to easily navigate between cameras to view video, conduct motion search, and share footage.

You can navigate to the portal by going to vision.meraki.com and using Dashboard credentials to sign in.

You will also find links to the portal on the Meraki dashboard.

It will not include any functionality related to camera settings, configuration, troubleshooting, or camera analytics, which will all still be on the Meraki dashboard. Additionally, all existing camera viewing functionality on the Dashboard (video player, video wall, exports page) will remain for now.

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Key Improvements

Here’s a list of some key improvements on the Vision portal as compared to the Meraki dashboard.

Everything at your fingertips
- Powerful search options
- Collapsible navigation pane
- Integrated map view for camera navigation
Faster, cleaner, and more intuitive viewing experience
- New time-picker with 24-hour option and time zone view
- Related tags and video walls list
- Two motion search experiences: quick and advanced
Easier and more powerful export experience
- Custom export filename
- Video wall exports (export from multiple cameras simultaneously)
- Export previews
A more complete video wall experience
- Create MULTI NETWORK VIDEO WALLS (NEW)
- Video Wall creation flow (NEW)
- Full bitrate stream
- No idle timeout in full-screen view
- Digital zoom and dewarp on an individual camera

Tour of the Interface

How-Tos

Find something across networks

Use the org-wide search to type in any string
It will search for matches across your cameras, video walls, and exports across all networks in the organization
- It uses “fuzzy search,” which might accommodate any misspelling like “entrnce” vs. “entrance”

Find a camera in a network

Cameras page > Navigation pane (map)

You can use the global search to find the right camera, but if you’re already on a single network, you can use the Cameras page → Navigation pane.

From here you can use the mini-map to find the right camera based on its location
- The blue dot refers to the selected camera, and red dots are cameras that are offline
Expand this for a larger view, and to switch between floor plans
Collapse this if you don’t have any placements or don’t need this; your setting will be remembered on your device

Note: You can configure placement and FoV on the Meraki dashboard. Read more here.

Cameras page > Navigation pane (search and list)

On top of the global search or the mini-map, you can use the search input or the list view below the mini-map.

Type in a string that corresponds to a camera name or tag
- Check which tags are associated with a camera by looking at the tag icon next to the camera name
Or, use the thumbnails to select the correct camera
- Green dots correspond to cameras online, red dots are cameras that are offline

Find a video wall in a network

Scroll through the list of video walls on the navigation pane.

Note: Video wall order and configuration are still managed through the Meraki dashboard.

Watch live video

You can watch live video through either the cameras or video wall video player page.

On each page, click “NOW” on the video timeline to go to live video.
On the video wall page, you can also edit and start a video wall rotation to flip through live video on many video walls one after another.
- You can generate a link that will start a video wall rotation and enter theater mode without user intervention by appending the following at the end of the URL: “&autostart=true&fullPage=true”
Use the audio on/off button on the video timeline to listen to audio (if enabled)
Hit “Theater” or “Fullscreen” on the video timeline if needed
- Org idle timeout is ignored if this is done on the video wall
Click and zoom into any of the cameras on the video wall

Note: As of March 2022, Firefox has been noted as having the most performant live viewing experience.

Note: Video wall order and configuration are still managed through the Meraki dashboard.

Find and play historical video

Cameras and video wall page → Video timeline

The video timeline on both the cameras and video wall page can help you navigate to historical video.

Use the time-picker to type in a date and time using natural language processing, or click the date and time using the calendar and clock
Browse through the timeline by clicking the arrows and changing the zoom level
The timeline also provides options to go backwards and forward by one frame or ten seconds
The timeline also provides a way to play back by 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, and 4x
Use the audio on/off button on the video timeline to listen to audio (if enabled)

Cameras and video wall page → Motion search

Motion search on the video actions page can help you find historical video.

The drawer version by default will search the entire camera’s field of view for a default time period (based on your currently selected time period on the timeline)
- For live, this is backwards 50% of the timeline zoom until current time
- For historical, this is backwards and forwards by 50% of the timeline zoom
You can narrow down the search criteria by selecting a smaller region on the video player itself

Choose “Advanced Search” for a larger, more focused motion search experience with a larger grid view and more filters.

The motion search results are provided in the form of motion recap images. These represent an entire motion event in a single frame.

Once you click on a result you can play it back
From here, you can download the motion recap image
You can also directly export the entire event

If you have Event Search enabled (via the Meraki Early Access page) you will be directed onto a different tab on the Vision Portal!

Retrieve and share footage

There are many options to retrieve footage

The screenshot button on the video timeline grabs a single frame from what you’re viewing
Export allows you to rename the export, select a duration, and save a video file to share later
- View and share these exports from that same drawer, or on the network-wide exports page
- From the network-wide exports page, you can also combine exports into a single file
- You can also delete exports, or get the checksum to verify integrity
Share allows you to share a link to the video you are watching with another Meraki Vision portal user

Create Video Walls

You can create video walls for Single and Multi-Network Video Walls

Find more information here

Miscellaneous

Go back to the Meraki dashboard using the Meraki logo on the bottom-left
Get help (link to documentation) and an FYI on keyboard shortcuts on the top-right
Give us feedback on the top-right
Log out on the top-right
For any other features, use the Meraki dashboard

Managing permissions to the interface

Permissions are managed on the dashboard like before. All users will be provided access to both the dashboard.meraki.com and the vision.meraki.com experience. There is no way to prevent users from using the dashboard experience and only using Meraki Vision. Read the full article on camera permissions.

SSO login from the IdP provider is possible. Read this article for more info.

How to use the interface on a browser

You can use the Meraki Vision portal just like any other website, by going to vision.meraki.com and logging in with your Meraki dashboard credentials. There are links to the interface from the dashboard as well. Note: permissions are still managed on the dashboard like before.

How to use the interface as an app

There are links to the interface from the dashboard as well, however, as a PWA you can also download the app by clicking on the button to the right of the address bar. From there, you can add the app to your dock or desktop to open for next time.

Provide feedback

Use the “Feedback” button on the top-right corner to send Meraki your thoughts on the interface.