Creating occupancy threshold alerts using Office Manager - Security Center Office Manager 3.0

Using the Alerts Manager plugin, you can create alerts to be notified when the occupancy of an area passes a threshold. You can create and configure alerts for your office space using the Alerts Manager plugin.

1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Plugins task.
2. Select the Alerts Manager plugin role from the entity browser, and click the Alert to actions tab.
3. Click , and configure the basic alert properties:
   1. In the Name field, enter a name for the alert.
   2. In the When occurs field, select the Access granted event.
   3. Click , and filter for the area you want to monitor.
   4. Click Create and close.
4. In the Correlation conditions field, configure the alert to check for the cardholder's first access granted event of the day:
   1. click , and select Access granted occurrence.
   2. Set the Event occurrence count to Equal to 1, and click Create and close.
   3. Select the Access granted occurrence condition again, click , and configure the conditions:

      Areas

      Enable the Area access granted condition.

      Cardholders

      Enable the Cardholder access granted condition.

      Event time range

      Enable the Access granted date condition, set the Time is field to 0h00, and the Time window field to Within next and 23h00.

      Click Create and close.
5. In the Correlation conditions field, configure the alert to compare the attendance count to the occupancy threshold:
   1. Click , select Cardholder attendance count, and configure the conditions:

      Area

      Enable the Area access granted option.

      Date

      Enable the Access granted date option,

      Time

      Enter 12h00.

      Time window

      Select Within next 23h59.

      Count

      Set the area threshold as needed. (For example: Greater than 200.)

   2. Click Create and close.
6. In the Execute actions field, click , and configure the action that occurs when the occupancy threshold is passed:
   • Create incident: Enter an incident title, description, and set the timestamp.
   • Add bookmark: Select the camera entity to create a bookmark on, and enter a message, and set the timestamp.
   • Trigger alarm: Select the alarm to trigger, the source of the alarm, and enter an alarm message.
   • Trigger custom event: Select the custom event to trigger, the source of the custom event, and enter a custom event message.
   When your alert-to-action is finished, it should look like this: