You can deploy the KiwiVision™ video analytics plugin in Security Center by following a sequence of steps.
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| Understand prerequisites and key issues before deploying | ||
| 1 | Learn about what you can do with KiwiVision™ video analytics. | |
| 2 | Before updating or installing KiwiVision™ video analytics, read the release notes to learn about the new features, resolved issues, known issues, and limitations. | |
| 3 | Learn about the different components and how they connect. | |
| 4 | Ensure that your servers meet the recommended system requirements for video analytics, and are running a compatible version of Security Center. | |
| Prepare Security Center | ||
| 5 | Ensure that the cameras that you want to apply video analytics do the following:
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| 6 | Verify that your Security Center license has a valid certificate for KiwiVision™ video analytics. Go to the Config Tool homepage, click , and confirm that KiwiVision Video Analytics is in the list. |
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| Deploy KiwiVision™ video analytics | ||
| 7 | If you are not already using the version of Security Center that KiwiVision™ video analytics is bundled with, install and upgrade as required. | |
| 8 | Grant users the privileges that they need to use KiwiVision™ video analytics. The following privileges are specific to the
KiwiVision™
Security video analytics module:
The following privileges are specific to the
KiwiVision
People Counter module:
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| 9 | In Config Tool, create the KiwiVision™ Manager. | |
| 10 | In Config Tool, create the KiwiVision™ Analyzer. NOTE: For multi-server
setups, create a KiwiVision Analyzer role on each server that will
perform video analytics, and make sure that the Analyzer roles can access
the KiwiVision Manager database.
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| 11 | In Config Tool, schedule regular database backups and cleanups for the KiwiVision Manager role. | |
| 12 | (Optional) Enable GPU support on the KiwiVision Analyzer roles. NOTE: GPU
support is only available for the Tailgating detection and people
counting scenarios.
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| 13 | (Optional) On the Properties page of the KiwiVision
Manager role, modify the settings for usage data collection. NOTE: These
options were configured when you installed KiwiVision™ video analytics separately from Security Center, or when you installed Security Center
that includes the bundled version of KiwiVision™ video analytics.
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| 14 | (Optional) Create event-to-actions to notify you when the KiwiVision Manager and KiwiVision Analyzer roles are in warning states. The event-to-action can be configured using the Entity warning event in the When field. | |
| Create and configure analytics scenarios | ||
| 15 | Choose the scenario type best suited to your needs, and add it to your camera. | |
| 16 | Configure the scenario as required. | For intrusion detection analytics:
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| 17 | (Optional) To apply the same analytics configuration to multiple cameras, save the configuration as a KiwiVision settings file. | |
| Configure Security Center for monitoring video analytics | ||
| 18 | Enable the events related to your analytics scenarios, so that you can receive the events in the Monitoring task in real time. | |
| 19 | (Optional) Configure people counting dashboard widgets so that you can visualize people counting statistics in Security Desk. |
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| 20 | Configure investigation tasks so that you can generate reports on events triggered from the KiwiVision™ video analytics modules. | |