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Camera analytics that turn footage into an event list

Footage is not information. Twelve hours of an empty yard and one arrival at 01:47 are the same twelve hours until something reads them. Camera analytics software is the thing that reads them, and hands back a list you can scan in seconds.
Run it on a clip
  • One row per event
  • Timestamps you can jump to
  • Your footage stays on your machine

Interior, after hours

Fixed camera, low light, two subjects

00:00.0

Clip

Decoded in your browser. Your video is never uploaded.

6

Sets the luma delta threshold and the smallest region that counts.

0.4s

Kills the one frame flicker that no operator wants paged about.

Exclude zone

Put it over the road, the tree, the neighbour's window. Events inside it stop alerting.

The frame an event was found on shows up here.

00 00:00.0

Nothing selected yet

Hover a row in the event table to preview its frame, click it to hold the frame and jump the clip there.

Length
0.0s
Confidence
0%
Area
0.0%

0

Motion events found

0

Dropped by zone

0

Dropped, too short

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Alerts you would get

# Start Length Class Conf. Area

Reading the clip. Events appear here as they are found.

01 The morning after, twice

The same incident, reviewed two ways.

Without analytics

Scrub, guess, scrub again

  1. Somebody reports a unit was opened overnight.
  2. You open the recorder and pick a camera.
  3. You scrub at eight times speed from 22:00 and watch an empty aisle.
  4. You miss it, go back, and watch it again at four times.
  5. Forty minutes later you find 01:47, and now you need the gate camera for the same window.
  6. You repeat the whole process on camera two.

With an event timeline

Read seven rows, open one

Time Class Duration and description
22:14 vehicle 3.1s, passes on the road behind the fence
01:47 vehicle 18.4s, enters the gate and stops
01:49 person 44.2s, walks from the vehicle to a unit door
02:31 person 51.0s, returns carrying an item
04:10 animal 2.7s, crosses the aisle

A worked example of the output shape, written to show what a night looks like once events are classified. It is not a customer's footage and not a measured result.

02 What the timeline is made of

Four parts, and each one answers a different question.

This is the same object the demo produces on the homepage, described rather than drawn, because it is the thing you would actually be buying.

The scrubber

A tick under the video at every event position, coloured by class. One glance says how the night was distributed: a cluster at 02:00 reads differently from an even scatter across eight hours.

The event table

One row per event, dense on purpose. Start time, duration, class, confidence, motion area and a one line description. Sparse tables look like a mockup, dense ones look like software.

The bounding boxes

Drawn on the frame as each event window comes up, so you can see what the detector actually locked onto rather than trusting a label.

The summary strip

Events found, dropped by zone, dropped by duration, kept. The dropped counts are the argument: they are the alerts that would have reached your phone and now do not.

Every figure in it is measured rather than styled: timings come from frame indices, motion area from the changed region, confidence from the model itself. Nothing is rounded up to look better.

03 Four things camera analytics does not mean here

This category oversells, so here is the boundary in advance.

Not identity

No face recognition, no face templates, no re identification of the same person across cameras or across days. The timeline says a person was there. Who it was is your call, made with your access log.

Not counting people for marketing

No footfall dashboards, no dwell time heat maps, no queue analytics. Those are a different product with different privacy consequences, and building them would compromise the sentence above.

Not prediction

Nothing here scores behaviour as suspicious or predicts intent. A model that infers intent from posture is a model that will be wrong about a person, and there is no version of that we want to ship.

Not a recorder

We hold events, not footage. Your video stays where it is now, on your recorder or your machine, and retention of the video remains your policy and your storage.

The full version of these commitments, in the wording a security review expects, is on the enterprise security camera systems page.

04 Where it fits in a working week

Three moments, and only one of them is an emergency.

Overnight

Person and vehicle events reach a phone. Animal and other motion stay in the timeline where they belong. If nothing happened, nothing arrives, which is the whole point.

The morning check

Two minutes reading last night as a list. Most mornings this ends with nothing to do, and knowing that quickly is worth as much as catching something.

After an incident

Filter to the window, read the sequence, export the clips that matter. What used to be an hour of scrubbing is a couple of minutes, and the timestamps are precise enough to hand to somebody else.

The four verticals this is used on, and the specific noise each one fights, are on the video analytics platform use cases hub.

05 Asked about camera analytics

Four practical questions.

01

Do you store our video?

No. We hold events and their metadata, not footage. In the demo the video is decoded in your browser and never uploaded at all, and only small cropped keyframes of detected events are sent for classification.

02

How long are events kept?

Seven days on Watch, thirty on Operate, ninety on Multi-Site, and a custom retention policy on Enterprise. Every tier and its retention is on the pricing page.

03

Can I export the timeline?

Yes. Events are data, not pictures of data, so a filtered timeline can be exported for an insurer, a landlord or a police report with the timestamps intact.

04

What does confidence actually mean?

It is the model's own value for that classification, shown exactly as it came back. A low number is displayed as a low number rather than being hidden, because an analytics product that only shows you its confident answers is not an analytics product.

Turn one night of footage into one screen of rows.

The demo does it on a bundled clip or on your own, in your browser. When you want it running on your cameras, one email address starts it.