Aimetis Symphony

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Aimetis Symphony

• Gold ADP Application Workshop

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This is

• Company Overview
• Founded 2003
• Ownership
• Private, 50 owned by institutional funds
• Business
• Network video management analytics software
  services
• Offices
• Waterloo, Canada (HQ) Shanghai, China
  Frankfurt, Germany
• 450 Certified Resellers in 100 countries
• Support for 40 IP camera manufacturers
• Key Verticals
• Education, Government, Retail, Transportation

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Aimetis Products - Symphony

• Single product, three license versions to choose
  from
• Symphony Standard IP Video Recording
• Symphony Professional IP Video Integrated
  Alarm Management
• Symphony Enterprise Video analytics
• License Strategy
• Mix match different licenses on same server
• One Camera. One License.
• Unrestricted camera replacement (license tied to
  MAC address of server not cameras)
• Easy upgrades simple license purchase
• Projects
• Munich Airport (2000 cameras) Novi Sad, Serbia
  (1000 cameras) ICA Supermarket, etc.

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Aimetis Products

• Other products
• Aimetis People Counter
• Running on Axis Camera Application Platform
• Aimetis SDK
• Enables solution providers to customize
  solutions, ensure system interoperability and
  centralize event management across multiple
  systems, including
• Access Control
• Intrusion Detection
• ATM
• Building Management

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System Architecture

• Web Client http//SERVERNAME50000
• PDA Client Windows Mobile, winCE

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Symphony Architecture
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Server Data Organization

• Configuration information stored in MS SQL Server
  Express

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Server Core Services
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Server Farm

• Distribute the work load of camera processing
  across several servers
• Server Failover / Redundancy
• Fail over camera processing from a down server
  to a redundant server
• Devices, users, rules and alarms tied to the
  farm not the server
• All live and redundant servers run the same
  software services, share a license file and can
  potentially run the processing of any camera
• Configuration data redundancy

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Main View
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Live View / Playback

• Live playback mode integrated in main view
• Overlay
• Tracking boxes, tracking paths, time, camera
  messages, etc.
• Multiview
• Can display up to 25 cameras simultaneously
• gt1 multiviews can be opened
• Carousel
• Loop through multiple cameras across multiple
  servers in a single view, pausing on each camera
  for a defined period of time.

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PTZ

• Mechanical PTZ
• Camera Tour
• Digital PTZ
• Digital Tracking(Digitally zoom in on hot spots)
• Support for Axis Joysticks

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Analytics

• Differenciate between foreground movement
  environmental change
• Process video and produce metadata used by search
  engine or rule engine
• More than one analytic can be enabled per camera

• Applications
• Motion Tracking, Object Classification, People /
  Vehicle Counting, Virtual Fence, Alarm zone(s) /
  restricted areas, Left/Removed Object, Wrong
  Direction, Loitering, Dwell Time, Occupancy,
  Auto-PTZ Tracking, Automatic License Plate
  Recognition

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Analytics Three Key factors

• 1. Selecting the right engine for different
  environment

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Analytics Three Key factors

• 2. Camera placement image quality

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Analytics Three Key factors

• 3. Proper configurations
• Typical configuration
• Analysis FPS Can be set lower than the record
  frame rate
• Capture resolution
• Analysis resolution
• Motion mask
• Perspective(Camera position)
• used to help with object classification
• configured once per camera
• More than one analytic can be enabled per camera
• One motion mask perspective per
  analytic/preset(for PTZ cameras)

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Analytics

• Hardware requirements
• Depending on
• Type of analytics running
• Number of analytics running
• Image size frame rate
• Typically 12 cameras can be analyzed on a single
  Intel Core2 Duo

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Event Management

• Rules
• Uses meta-data created by video engine
• Allows combination of sub-events
• Events must occur in sequence/within a specified
  time period
• Typical configurations
• Alarm mask(zone), actions, alarm schedule
• Many alarm masks can be set per analytic
• More than one Rule can be enabled per analytic
• Special Actions
• Enable another rule
• PTZ Auto-tracking
• Launch external program on the server (no GUI)
• OPC

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Video Search

• Event-driven Video Search
• Pinpoint specific events by setting search
  parameters such as
• Search by time, location, activity
• Review and export qualifying snippets of video
• Export as .aira file (together with Symphony
  Player)
• Export as MPEG files
• Recurring Search

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Reporting

• On-demand business intelligence reports

Report Format Summery
Object Counts Across a line Textual Object counts across a user definable line per camera
Object Counts Textual Object counts across many cameras
Heat Map Graphical Overlays traffic patterns on image
Object Satistics Graphical Compares object traffic and dwell time
Alarm Counts Textual Summarizes alarm totals
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Demo Session

• A typical use cases
• Add a camera
• Configure analytics
• Configure rules
• Search
• Report

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Resources

• Application Video Samples
• http//aimetis.com/Symphony/sample-video.aspx
• Documentations
• Downloadable from Aimetis Xnet (http//www.aimetis
  .com/xnet/)

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Gold ADP Application Validation

• Why we are doing it
• Ensuring Gold ADP applications have early support
  for our new products
• Ensuring Gold ADP applications work well with our
  products
• Ensuring Gold ADP applications support our market
  driving functions
• How we are doing it
• Test tool QACE
• Wireshark
• Scripts
• Validation results
• Validation reports
• API coverage report

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Questions Answers
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