Remote Alerting and Remote Search

This section covers an additional but very useful functionality which is a possibility of pulling face recognition events, matching with records on the local server, from remote facial recognition systems. This functionality has a large scope of possible applications. One course is tracking offenders’ location and routes and detecting alleged accomplices. Another one is finding missing people. The results are especially great if applied to Public and Transport Safety systems with thousands of cameras.

The remote alerting is disabled by default, so if you haven’t configured it yet, click here for instructions.

In this section:

Turn On/Off Remote Alerts for Individuals

To turn on/off remote alerts for a specific individual, do the following:

1. Navigate to Record Index.

2. Open the individual’s record.

3. Click three dots → Turn on remote alerts to enable remote alerting.

   

4. In the case you are turning on remote alerts, specify the reason for that. Click Turn on remote alerts.

   

5. Click three dots → Turn off remote alerts to disable remote alerting.

   

View Remote Alerts

You can view alerts from remote facial recognition systems on the Remote Alerting tab on the navigation bar. When a new event occurs an audio alert is triggered, and after the event is acknowledged the alert stops. You also can navigate to remote monitoring events by clicking the bell on a top panel, then Show events. You can turn off the alert sound by clicking Mute.

Do the following:

1. Navigate to the Remote Alerting tab.

   

2. Filter the alerts by date and time and a record name by clicking More filter, if needed.

3. Click the face to navigate to the sidebar of matched event.

   

4. Click the text bar of the thumbnail to navigate to the face record.

5. Click Acknowledge to acknowledge the event.

Search Individuals in Remote Systems

To search an individual in remote systems, do the following:

1. Navigate to Record Index.

2. Open the individual’s record.

3. Click three dots → Remote search.

   

4. Specify the search conditions, such as search reason, the confidence threshold, date and time of the individual’s appearance, and the maximum number of search results. Click Done.

   

5. The search results will be shown on the Remote Search tab.

   

6. If you click the left part with information of the event, you will navigate to the puppet events.

   

   The following information is available on the results of searching:

   • puppet event date

   • puppet camera name

   • puppet name

   • event’s ID

   • thumbnail of face event

   • record that was turned on remote alerts

   • the match probability

   You can filter search results by date and time, a record name and a user who initiated the search.

Daily Search

Daily search allows the puppeteer to receive scheduled events from the puppet with the matching of the records.

To use this functionality, see integration with remote facial recognition systems and do the following:

1. Enable daily search in the /opt/findface-cibr/configs/findface-multi-legacy/findface-multi-legacy.py configuration file of the puppeteer.

2. Enable 'DAILY' parameters and specify the time for matching the events with the records that were received from the puppeteer in the configuration file of the puppet.

3. Navigate to the Watch list tab and check Collect location data for the watch list of your interest. For all records included in this list, all connected puppets return location data of objects of interest for the last 24 hours daily according to a set schedule, and if the flag is unchecked the puppets stop daily monitoring of the records in this list.

4. The results will be shown on the Location Data tab of the individual’s record.