Hi guys, Mike from CCTV Camera Pros here. We've been having some trouble lately with people
illegally dumping garbage and furniture behind our plaza. You could see a couple nights ago, someone
dumped a chest of drawers and some furniture there, and that costs the HOA here money.
So, I'm going to use... we have a Viewtron, a surveillance system, set up for the plaza,
and a couple of months back, I set up a license plate recognition camera,
and a couple of overview cameras on a pole back here. And one of those overview cameras faces
north in the direction of this dumpster. Normally I have that overview camera, and by the way, that
view camera is a Viewtron AI security camera. So it can detect vehicles and people using object
detection. Normally I have it just detecting vehicles when they're coming through this area.
I'm going to reconfigure that camera and I'm going to put an intrusion detection zone around the
dumpster to detect humans or cars. And then I'm going to set up an after hours recording schedule
so that whenever people or vehicles are detected around that dumpster, it's going to trigger the AI
recording, and that's a nice easy event to be able to go back on the NVR, and playback recording and
see what happened. In addition, if the vehicles that are doing this dumping come through the
license plate detection zone, hopefully we can get a license plate and make a report to the police on
who it is that's illegally dumping back here in back of our plaza. So follow with me,
I'm going to set up the NVR first and I'm going to run through a test to make sure it all works.
And then I'm going to keep an eye on things and check back each night, and when and if
we capture something useful, I'll post a new video then, but let's get it all set up for now.
Here's the live view on the Viewtron NVR, and that camera in the upper left is the overview
camera that we're going to configure with the intrusion detection zone around the dumpster.
To do that, I select settings from the main menu, and then I'm going to select this people
vehicle detection under the AI event section. Next, I'm going to select that overview camera.
And then I'm going to select intrusion detection for the type of AI event that I'm going to
configure. I'm going to check this enable check box. And then, by the way I'm using the mouse
that's connected directly to the NVR. Using the mouse, I'm going to just click and draw a
box around the dumpster area. That's my intrusion zone. And if I click on this detection target tab,
I'm going to leave human and motor vehicle and non-motor vehicle all checked. And then on the
trigger mode, I'm going to check off snapshot. After I'm done I'm going to click apply.
And then I'm going to go into the record settings just to show you right now I have the NVR set
to record 24 hours a day, seven days a week, continuous and AI recording. For my initial test,
I want to just leave it recording basically around the clock and around the clock AI,
just for this initial test I'm going to do. So I'm back on the live security camera view,
and I'm just going to leave it in the four camera mode as I run through this test. In a minute,
you'll see me come in from the north in the upper left-hand corner. The overview camera
you'll see me drive up to the dumpster, and I'm just going to try to trigger that intrusion zone.
It already detected me, I guess I got close enough already, but I'm going to pull up here,
and it should also detect me when I get out of the car as a human object.
And if you watch the target detection zone on the right, you can see in real time as the AI software
on the NVR is detecting objects according to the rules that we set up. So around that dumpster
it's object detection for vehicle and humans. So now when I drive southbound here and come
around the corner, the camera in the upper right, that's the license plate recognition camera. So,
that should capture my plate as I go through. Yep. There's the LPR detection there. And so that was
good. It detected me as object by the dumpster, my car as a car object by dumpster and the license
plate recognition. So next let's play back that event. Okay, so let's just pretend for a minute
I'm coming in the next morning and I want check to see what events occurred around that dumpster.
I'm going to select intelligent analytics from the main menu, and then on the intelligent analytics
screen for this test, I'm just selecting today, and I'm going to select that overview camera.
And then I'm going to change the event type to human body intrusion.
Press okay, and then click on this search button. That's going to query the event database
for all the events that occurred according to those parameters.
So the latest event was my test. So I'm going to go ahead. There was two snapshots from that
event. I'm going to check the earlier one and click playback. So the NVR goes into record
mode and immediately jumps to that event on the recorded playback. And you see, it goes to the
exact point where I was intruding on that dumpster area. I'm going to switch the playback now to the
multi-camera view, in a minute go into the single camera view of the LPR camera. So you can see how
the license plate was captured good and clear. And as I come through, I'm going to pause this here
and I'll zoom in so you can see just how clear this Viewtron LPR camera captures plates.
The last thing I want to do is set up the actual recording schedule. Because remember,
I only want that AI object detection on the dumpster after hours. So now that the test is
done, I'm going to switch the recording mode from auto to customization. That allows me to select
specific recording types and schedules on a per camera basis. So, I'm going to leave everything
on timed record. I want everything to record 24 by seven, and I want the license plate recognition
camera to do the license plate recognition 24 by seven. But for that overview camera,
I want to set up a custom schedule, so I'm going to go into schedule management. And by default on
these Viewtron NVRs, there's three schedules set up. 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Weekdays 24 hours, and then weekends 24 hours. I'm going to click add to make a custom schedule.
And I'm going to name this schedule after hours. And basically what I'm going to do is just set
a time schedule when no one is here at the warehouse. So basically 24 hours a day on Saturday
and Sunday. On the weekends no one's here, so we'll leave it on all day. And then for weekdays,
basically around 6:00 or 6:30 in the evening, when we leave, up until I'll do 6:00 AM or 7:00 AM
when people start showing up at the office. We're not here this early, but our neighbors are here,
and generally there's no one doing any dumping once morning light is up. So,
I'll set all the weekdays basically to that timeframe, and we'll see how it goes. After I
click okay, I can apply that schedule to the AI recording of the overview camera. After I click
apply and close the record setting screen, I'm brought back to the live security camera view.
Okay. So now that I have that AI camera on that after hours schedule, we'll see if I detect any
cars or people intruding on that area around the dumpster. Real quick, that's the Viewtron LPR
camera down low mounted on our pole. And those are the two overview cameras that I use with
this system. The one on the right is facing to the north. That's the one that's keeping an eye on the
dumpster right now with that intrusion zone. If you have any questions about any of this,
how to set up the license plate reader camera, if you have questions about the Viewtron AI security
cameras, the whole system how it works together, we're using it wirelessly on this pole. That's a
whole other video that I made that I'll link to. That whole setup right there is communicating
over wireless bridge back to our warehouse. Anyways, I make a lot of videos with this system.
If you want to see more demo videos on the LPR camera and/or the Viewtron AI security cameras,
you can go to www.CCTVcamerapros.com/ai. Thank you for watching.