Subscribe for video analytics and receive analytics data back

You can send video from cameras to be analyzed by analytics topics in your IVA applications and receive the results as analytics data back into your XProtect VMS.

You do this by selecting a camera and then defining which analytics topics you want to subscribe to. You can subscribe to several analytics topics for the video from the same camera.

How each manufacturer of the IVA application has chosen to integrate their solution with Milestone AI Bridge is different, so some of the following steps are examples:

  1. Select Site Navigation > Servers > Recording Servers.

  2. Select a camera and then the Processing server tab.

  3. Select an analytics topic that you want to subscribe to for having the selected camera's video analyzed.

  4. On the lower part of the Processing settings pane, draw the bounding box, arrow, line, or other graphical representation of the selected analytics topic.

  5. Example: Select Apply and the analytics topic starts analyzing the video.

  6. Example: To receive analytics data back to your XProtect VMS, select the check box in front of the analytics topic you just configured.

If you have subscribed to an analytics topic with the Metadata or Video analytics data types, an analytics camera is created in the camera group Processing Server Camera Group. This analytics camera represents the stream of analytics data sent from the IVA application. If you subscribe to two analytics topics on video from the same camera, two analytics cameras are created. The analytics cameras are given the same name as the original camera plus the suffix [objects] - metadata or [objects] - video.

If it is the first time you have subscribed to an analytics topic sending analytics events, a new Analytics Event node is added under Rules and Events in the Site Navigation. You can see the events created by the IVA application on this new node. You can use these analytics events in rules and alarms.