The KiwiVision™ Security video analytics and KiwiVision™ People Counter modules are unified with Security Center through the KiwiVision™ Manager and KiwiVision™ Analyzer.
After you create and configure the KiwiVision Manager and KiwiVision Analyzer roles,
you can apply video analytics to cameras by creating and configuring analytics scenarios in
Config Tool. When an intrusion or object is detected, events are generated and stored in
the KiwiVision Manager database. You can monitor and generate reports on these events using
Security Desk.
The following diagram shows a setup where the Directory server hosts the Archiver role, KiwiVision Manager role, and the respective databases of each role. Two KiwiVision Analyzer roles are hosted on two other servers, which connect to the server that hosts the KiwiVision Manager role; in this example, the Directory server.
Components of the KiwiVision™ video analytics plugin
A KiwiVision™ video analytics plugin setup is composed of the following components:
- KiwiVision Manager role
- The KiwiVision Manager role manages and distributes the video analytics
requests to the available KiwiVision Analyzer roles. It also stores the events
generated by these Analyzer roles, and handles the report requests sent from
Security Desk.
- You can only have one instance of a KiwiVision Manager role per system.
- Analytics configurations are stored in the Directory database.
- If the KiwiVision Manager role becomes unavailable, the analyzers keep tracking any active analytic assignments and processing continues, but none of the analytics are dispatched until the KiwiVision Manager role is restarted.
- The database can be hosted on remote servers.IMPORTANT: If Manager and the Analyzer roles are not on the same machine, the database and SQL servers must be configured to accept connections from Analyzer roles on remote servers. This ensures that analytics events are saved. For more information, see Configuring the KiwiVision Manager role database for distributed KiwiVision Analyzer roles.
- KiwiVision Analyzer role
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The KiwiVision™
Analyzer role performs video analytics processing for assigned cameras.
NOTE: One KiwiVision Analyzer role must be running on each server where analytics are performed. You can have multiple distributed instances of KiwiVision Analyzer roles and you can also configure how many analytics configurations each KiwiVision Analyzer role can process.