Object counting

Last modified: Tuesday September 19, 2023.

Knowing how many people or vehicles are in an area or have moved from one location to another can be helpful. Using the AI-powered object detection features of Alta Video, you can configure your deployments to provide basic and live object counts.

Basic object counting

You can enable basic object counts in the Video view and Map view tools. When enabled, each camera view displays the current number of people and vehicles detected by Alta Video video analytics.

Basic object counting in Video view

Live Counts tool

For more flexibility on how you set up object counting, use the Counts tool.

The Alta Video Counts tool

You can configure the Counts tool to show a live total of the Objects in view (people, vehicles, or both people and vehicles) as seen by the AI video analytics in one or more cameras. You can also configure Counts for Line crossing, to sum the number of people, vehicles, or both, that cross a line that you have defined on one or more cameras.

Download historic object count information

To carry out further analysis of the movements of people or vehicles on your sites, you can download the object count information from Alta Video.

Define the start and end dates and times for the data, and the time interval. This information is then made available as a comma separated variable (.csv) file, which you can view from most commonly available spreadsheet programs.

Object count data and camera disconnects

Offline Alta cameras continue to generate count data. The data is stored locally and sent to Alta Video when the camera reconnects. Any applicable Rules are triggered when the count data is processed.