Configuring hotlists - Cloudrunner

To identify and investigate vehicles of interest in the Vehicle Search report, you must create hotlists.

1. Log on to the Cloudrunner portal.
2. Click Configuration > Hotlists > All hotlists.
   The hotlists that are already configured in your system are displayed.
3. Click Add ().
4. In the General section, enter the following information:

   Name

   Name of hotlist, for example, City Vehicles.

   Color

   Color associated with the hotlist. Used to easily identify if the ALPR read matched against a hotlist in the Vehicle Search report.

   Active

   Deactivate this option if you do not want an ALPR read to be matched against the selected hotlist.

   
5. If the hotlist file is located on your local drive, select My computer in List location and configure the following information in Import List section:
   

   Select the file to upload (Optional)

   Enter or browse to the path where the file is stored.

   Unrestricted

   Activate this option if the access to the hotlist should be restricted to only privileged users.

   NOTE: While all users cannot access the restricted hotlist, they can view the name of the restricted hotlist when a hit is generated against it.

   Template

   Select a template from the drop-down. To create a custom template, see Configuring a custom template.

   Filtering

   Select the required category from the drop-down menu.

   NOTE: The Filtering menu is displayed only if the selected template has a Category based column.

6. If the hotlist file is located on an SFTP server, select External source in List location and configure the following information in Import List section:
   

   Connection

   Select the connection type.

   Server address (URL)

   Enter the path of the destination file on the third-party server. For example, https://ptms.windows.net/Hotlists/Stolen_Platelist.txt

   Unrestricted

   Activate this option if the access to the hotlist should be restricted to only privileged users.

   NOTE: While all users cannot access the restricted hotlist, they can view the name of the restricted hotlist when a hit is generated against it.

   Template

   Select a template from the drop-down menu. If the plate list is an NCIC, select NCIC template from the drop-down.

   Username

   Enter the authorized username.

   Password

   Enter the authorized password.

   Filter

   Select the required category from the drop-down menu.

   NOTE: The Filtering menu is displayed only if the selected template has a Category based column.

   

   NOTE: If you select Custom filter, specify the required Filtering tag.

   

   Import recurrence

   Select the frequency at which the hotlist is imported from the external source:

   NOTE: If the source file is shared with existing hotlists, the import recurrence is modified for all hotlists.

   Specific time

   Use this option if you have specific times in a day at which the hotlist is updated. With this option, you can configure up to five recurrences. To remove an occurrence, click .

   Time interval

   Use this option to set a time interval at which the list is loaded.

   NOTE: The time interval is always computed from the last import. If you click the import now button on the hotlist list, the interval computation resets to that timestamp.

   None

   No recurrence is set.

   Test connection

   Click to test the connection.

   NOTE: This setting only verifies the connection and does not download the hotlist file.

   Force immediate import upon saving

   Deactivate this setting if you do not want to upload the hotlist immediately.

7. Select the Matching criteria in the Advanced settings section to generate a hit:
   • Plate number and state (default): If both plate number and plate state in a read need to be matched.
   • Plate number: If only the plate number in a read needs to be matched.
8. Select the Plate number matching type in the Advanced settings section to generate a hit:
   • Exact match: When all the characters in the plate read are identical to a record in the hotlist.
   • Near match: When the plate read almost matches a record in the hotlist with up to one visually similar character. Visually similar characters include: 2-Z, 8-B, 1-I, 5-S, and 0-O-D-Q. For example, if the ABC123 is in the hotlist, and a camera reads plate number A8C123, a hit is raised.
9. Click Create.
   When you import the plate list file from My computer, a pop-up dialog window displays the progress of the upload.

   IMPORTANT: If you click Cancel before the upload is complete, an empty hotlist is created.
10. Click Hotlists to view all the hotlists in your system.
    The status of the modified hotlist is displayed as In progress while the system is validating the data. The change in status depends on the number of records in the hotlist that need to be validated. To view the updated status, refresh the page.
    The following list describes the different statuses of a hotlist:

    In progress

    The system is validating the text file uploaded to the system.

    Ready

    The values in the text file are valid.

    Warning

    Some of the values in the text file are either incomplete or invalid.

    NOTE: The system automatically removes any invalid entries found in the file.

    Error

    All the values in the text file are either incomplete or invalid.

    NOTE: For more information on plate list text files, see About hotlists.