For campus security offices and wardens. Bring night-time gatherings and after-hours entries to a guard while they are happening, keep a record of vehicles at the gates, and review a reported incident across cameras in one place.
- 1Hostel entrance · Entries during restricted hours
- 2Grounds · People counts at night
- 3Labs and stores · After-hours zone entry
- 4Parking · Plate reads and night-time exits
The problems we start from
Who it is for
- Chief security officer
- Hostel wardens
- Proctor and student-welfare office
- Estate and transport office
Night incidents are found the next morning
Hostel approaches, grounds and parking are recorded, but nobody is watching at two in the morning.
Gate records are inconsistent
Vehicles in and out are logged by hand, if they are logged at all.
Reviewing an incident takes days
A reported incident means pulling footage camera by camera.
One workflow, step by step
Review a reported incident
Scenario. A theft is reported from a hostel block at about ten past two in the afternoon.
Start from the place and the time
Open the events for that block's cameras around the reported time.
Open the sightings
Each sighting has a camera, a time and, where a frame was captured, a still. The surrounding video is on your recorder.
Look for the same person elsewhere
Group look-alike sightings on neighbouring cameras. They are candidates to compare, grouped by clothing and overall appearance.
Check access at that hour
Read the entries that the zone rules at the block entrance and the gates raised in the same window.
Check for crowding
Alerts from count rules show whether the people in view of a nearby camera passed its threshold at the time.
Record the assessment
Today a finding is recorded in the product only as a note on an alert. A review that starts from a report has no alert of its own, so the assessment goes in your own case file, and it says what the footage shows, not who is responsible.
Measures
Four measures, each with a definition.
Defined so that two people would compute the same number. None is a result: the values come from your pilot.
- Incident review time
- From opening a reported incident to the reviewer's first written assessment.
- Measured from: Timed by hand in the pilot; the audit log gives the time of a plate, scene or route search.
- Access exceptions
- Zone entries at a hostel or block entrance during restricted hours, per entrance per week.
- Measured from: Events on the entrance rules.
- Crowd thresholds
- How often, and at what hours, the people count in a camera's view passed its threshold.
- Measured from: Events on the count rules.
- Coverage health
- The share of cameras online, and the cameras that were offline for more than an hour.
- Measured from: Camera health in Insights.
Events of interest
Events for gates, hostels and shared spaces.
Each says what it needs and where it stops. The rules you set on a camera raise these events, and the alerts that go with them.
After-hours presence
A person or vehicle is in an area during the hours it should be empty.
- When
- Zone entry inside a scheduled window.
- Limit
- The schedule follows the clock, so authorised late work raises it unless that camera is excepted.
Restricted-area access
A person enters a room, floor or yard at a time when entry is restricted.
- When
- A person enters the zone outside the permitted hours.
- Limit
- The rule knows the time, not the person: it cannot tell an authorised entry from an unauthorised one.
Line crossing
A person or vehicle crosses a line you draw, in the direction you choose.
- When
- A followed object crosses the line one way, the other way, or either way.
- Limit
- An object that is only partly in view near the line can be counted as crossing, or missed. A crossing inside the rule's repeat limit is not recorded.
Crowd gathering
More people are in a camera's view at once than the number you set.
- When
- The count of people in the camera's view reaches the threshold.
- Limit
- A count of people the camera can see, not a calibrated density and not a count inside a drawn zone. People hidden behind others are not counted.
Loitering
A person stays in an area longer than the time you set.
- When
- Time inside the zone passes the limit.
- Limit
- If a person is lost and found again, the timer can restart, so long stays may be reported late.
Item left behind
A bag, case or stopped vehicle stays still beyond the time you set.
- When
- A backpack, handbag, suitcase or vehicle stays still past the limit.
- Limit
- Only the detected item types are covered, anywhere in the camera's view. A bag beside its seated owner can be reported.
Occupancy threshold
The number of people or vehicles in a camera's view reaches the capacity you set.
- When
- The count of the chosen object type reaches the threshold.
- Limit
- It counts what one camera can see, so a space covered by several cameras needs a rule on each.
Plate on watchlist
A plate that is read matches an entry on your organisation's watchlist.
- When
- A plate read matches a watched plate exactly, with commonly confused characters treated as the same, or within one character.
- Limit
- A plate that cannot be read cannot be matched. A near match must be compared by a person before anyone acts.
Use cases
What a campus security office uses it for.
What the current release does for this kind of site.
Hostel and block entry outside hours
An entry to a zone at the entrance during restricted hours, linked to the sighting's still
Gathering at night
An alert when the people in view pass a threshold
Unattended bag
A bag left still in a hall or library beyond a set time
Vehicle record at the gates
Plates read where legible, with the camera and the time
Incident trace-back
Look-alike sightings grouped as candidates across cameras
Visible hazard candidates
A person on the ground, fire or smoke, read from a still
What it needs
- Zones drawn at each gate and hostel entrance, with their restricted hours
- Count thresholds for the cameras that view the grounds and approaches you choose
- A written purpose and review process agreed with the institution
- Named roles for wardens and the security office, each scoped to their own cameras
Pilot objective
On two gates and one hostel block, show that after-hours entries and night-time gatherings reach the security office while they are happening, and measure how many a reviewer judges real.
Read the pilot guideBoundaries
- No attendance and no student face enrolment. Face search is not offered in the current release.
- No behaviour score for any person. An event describes what a camera saw at a time and a place.
- A look-alike match is a candidate. It is not grounds for a disciplinary finding without the source footage and a human review.
- An access rule knows the time, not the person: it cannot tell an authorised late entry from an unauthorised one.
- Alerts appear in the dashboard and on the event stream. They are not sent to a phone or by email.
Capabilities used
The same platform. Different rules.
Each site gets its own cameras, modules and rules. Nothing is custom-built; everything is configured.
Explore campus and hostel safety workflows.
Choose two gates and a hostel block. We will show after-hours entries, gathering thresholds and an incident review on footage from them.