View available IVA applications and their analytics topics

Each IVA application often offers several analytics topicsClosed A feature in an IVA application that analyzes video for objects in a certain way. An example: an IVA application for traffic analytics has analytics topics for vehicles moving in the wrong direction, speeding vehicles, the entering or exiting of vehicles into or from an area, and free parking spaces.–that is, more ways of analyzing video from the XProtect VMS for objectsClosed In connection with video analytics, an object is anything that IVA applications look for in the video. Typical examples are persons and vehicles. But it could also be smaller personal belongings like hats, coats, and luggage and the characteristics or behaviors of these, or a combination of all these. Examples: white cars, luggage left unattended, speeding vehicles, or vehicles moving in the wrong direction.. Your XProtect VMS can receive analytics data from each analytics topic.

To get an overview of the analytics topics available in your IVA applications:

  1. Select Site Navigation > Servers > Processing Servers.

  2. Select one of the nodes under Processing Servers. Each node represents a processing serverClosed One server or a cluster of servers that processes some kind of data. In connection with Milestone AI Bridge, the processing server hosts Milestone AI Bridge and the IVA applications. Typically, the video analysis happens on the processing server..

  3. In the Processing Server Information pane, you can see all IVA applications on the selected processing server.

  4. In the list of registered applications, select an IVA application.

  5. Under Topics, you find a list of the analytics topics belonging to the selected IVA application.

  6. Repeat with all processing servers, IVA applications, and analytics topics to get a complete overview.