Time to Set-up Analytics

One area of the ARTECO product that always gets high praise especially from folks who have a lot of experience with various video analytics products is the ease of use in setting up individual applications.  This is one area of ARTECO-LOGIC that has not changed much in the last five years simply because we really like the way it was thought through and designed.  Basically if you have ever worked with any Microsoft Draw type application you should be able to intuitively understand how to create the zones.  It is a point-to-point design tools that allows you to shape the zone however you want it to look just clicking where ever you want a point to be created.  Your basic set-up for Violated Area can be completed and loaded in less than a minute.  When you turn on the zone you have default settings for the analytics already included.  I have seen some of our more experienced Dealer techs set 8 channel systems up with walk-testing in about 20 minutes.  It really is pretty amazing to see when you consider how much time people say they are spending on competitive systems and often time never are able to get the analytics to work correctly. 

Here is an older video screen capture we use in training presentations to help people understand the concept of what makes a good zone.  You can see it is still the “Blue Version” which pertains to the color of the Arteco logo in the top right.  I really like this video because it clearly demonstrates the creating from scratch, loading and enabling a zone in under a minute.  

At the end of the video, the Violated Area zone is active with default settings for the false alarm filters (short-event filter and min/max % of area primarily).  Defaults settings on these filters work really well for about 85-90% of outdoor applications.  In fact, we argue that the new buzz in video analytics right now, "Self-Learning" is actually as effective as (and not much different) as a few key default settings on false alarm filters.  I will get into this more on a future post because it is a worthy topic.   

If you ever want any help or a refresher on analytics set-up please give us a call.  We have monthly web-based training for technical and user/operator for FREE!  We will be happy to sign you up.