People & Vehicle Detection
Enable motion event alerts for your cameras
Motion events are used to alert users when motion, people, or vehicles are detected in the camera’s field of view. Motion alerts can be customized to trigger during specific times of the day and on specific days of the week. This provides actionable information to administrators without requiring active monitoring.
You need Site Admin permissions for the site a camera is in to configure motion alerts.
Configure motion alerts
Create Alert > Events
On the Command homepage, left navigation, click Alerts .
At the top, click New Alert.
On Select Event, choose Camera > People and Vehicle Detection.
On Cameras:
Choose to receive alerts from Sites or Individual Cameras.
Click Done to continue.
On Motion Type:
Choose to receive alerts from People, Vehicles, People and vehicles, or All Motion.
Click Done to continue.
On Motion Areas:
Choose Set up (x) Cameras to configure the motion areas on the cameras individually.
Choose Full-frame Motion Area to select the entire camera frame.
Click Done and continue with the alert notification schedule.
Create Alert > Notification Schedule
On Notification Schedule, specify the days and times for the alerts to send notifications. Alerts generate 24/7 by default.
Click Done and continue with the alert notification.
Create Alert > Notification
On Notification, add users individually or assign the alert to a group.
Select the dropdown menu next to a user or group to choose their notification method(s). Recipients can be notified via push, SMS, messaging platform alerts, or email notifications.
Any recipient added to this alert will see it appear under the Shared Alerts section of their Alerts page.
(Optional) By default, you will be an alert recipient. Select the dropdown menu and click Delete to remove yourself.
Click Done and continue with the alert's optional settings, or finish the alert.
Optional settings
Create Alert > Operations
Toggle on Route to Operations to create a ticket from the alert.
(Optional) Select Ticket Instructions to add information to the ticket and click Done.
Click Done and continue to finish the alert.
Create Alert > Device Action
In addition to notifying individuals, you can configure your horn speaker to play when an alert is triggered. These alerts can be text-to-speech or an uploaded MP3 file.
On Device Action, select the horn speaker(s) you want to play your message.
Select your notification preference (Text to Speech or Audio File).
a. For Text to Speech, enter a message up to 200 characters. b. For Audio File, drag and drop the file or click choose a file to upload your audio clip.
Click Done and continue to finish the alert.
Finish the alert
In the bottom right of the configuration window, click Next.
Enter a descriptive name for the alert.
Click Done to complete the setup.
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