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Industry Alerts

Get alerted when specific events take place within your organization.

Enable Industry Alerts to receive near real-time notifications for specific events involving a person or vehicle. In Verkada Command, these events are classified and organized by common industry use cases.

You need Site Admin permissions for the site a camera is in to configure motion alerts.

Configure Industry Alerts

Create Alert > Cameras

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On the Command homepage, left navigation, click Alerts.

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At the top left, click New Alert.

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On Select Event, choose Camera > AI-Powered Alert.

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On Cameras:

a. Choose to receive alerts from Sites or Individual Cameras. b. Click Done to continue.

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On AI Powered Alert:

a. Select a pre-configured common industry use case, or b. Choose Custom to create your own industry use case.

c. Click Done to continue with the alert recipients.

Create Alert > Recipients

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On Recipients, add users individually or assign the alert to a group.

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Select the dropdown menu next to a user or group to choose their notification method(s). Recipients can be notified via push, SMS, or email notifications.

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(Optional) By default, you will be an alert recipient. Select the dropdown menu and click Delete to remove yourself.

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Click Done and continue with the alert notification schedule.

Any recipient added to this alert will see it appear under the Shared Alerts section of their Alerts page.

Create Alert > Notification Schedule

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On Notification Schedule, specify the days and times for the alerts to send notifications. Alerts generate 24/7 by default.

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Click Done and continue to finish the alert.

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Click Done and continue to device actions or finish the alert.

Create Alert > Device Action

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On Device Action, select the horn speaker(s) you want to play your message.

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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.

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Click Done and continue with finish the alert.

Finish the alert

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In the bottom right of the configuration window, click Next.

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Enter a descriptive name for the alert.

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Click Done to complete the setup.

Need more help? Contact Verkada Support.

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