About AI Live Insight
A security camera is only as useful as your ability to act on what it sees. AI Live Insight connects your live IP cameras to the portal, runs AI object detection on every feed, and tells you the moment a person, vehicle, or weapon appears. Instead of scrubbing through hours of footage after the fact, you respond to events as they happen, and it all lives in the Library alongside the rest of your evidence.
What Happens on a Live Camera
Point AI Live Insight at a camera and three things happen at once: the feed streams to the portal in near real time, the surveillance service analyzes each frame for the objects you chose, and any match becomes an alert with a short recording attached. You don't wire these up one by one. Add the camera, pick what matters, and the rest runs on its own:
- Live video appears on a grid you can watch at a glance.
- An alert fires the instant a detection matches your settings.
- A clip of the moment is recorded and saved to a folder you choose.
- Recent footage stays seekable, so you can rewind to a detection on the timeline.
Where to Find It
Surveillance lives under Library in the left navigation. Open the Surveillance group and you'll find two places to work:
- Operator Dashboard is your live wall. It shows camera health and open alerts, and updates on its own as things change.
- Cameras is where you add cameras, sort them into folders, and open one for a closer look.
The Words You'll See
A handful of terms come up throughout surveillance. Here's what each one means.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Camera stream | A live IP camera feed added to the portal over RTSP. |
| Detection | An object the AI recognizes in a live feed, such as a person or vehicle. |
| Event | A single continuous detection of one object, from the moment it appears until it leaves the frame. |
| Alert | A detection that matches a camera's alert settings by class, severity, and confidence. |
| Recording | Event-driven video captured around alerts and stored in the Library. |
From Camera to Alert
Here's the path a single detection travels, end to end. It starts with setup: you turn on the Surveillance app and pick a folder for recordings, then add a camera and choose what to detect and how serious each detection is.
From there, the camera does the work. Once it goes live, the surveillance service analyzes the stream frame by frame, and the instant a detection matches your settings, it raises an alert and captures a clip. You catch it on the Operator Dashboard and review the footage in the player. That's the whole loop, so once a camera is set up, it runs continuously, and you only come back to it when an alert asks for your attention.
Note: Live surveillance runs on a dedicated surveillance service, separate from the VIDIZMO indexing service that processes uploaded content. The two run independently.