Configure Camera image health monitoring

Last modified: Tuesday July 02, 2024.

You can configure AI-powered video analytics to monitor significant changes to a camera view over time, for example, if a camera moves.

Using two reference images from footage recorded by a camera, Aware checks twice per day for major changes between the current camera view and the reference images. You can create camera rules to notify you of any detected changes. See Create rules for Camera issues.

Task — Configure image health monitoring

  1. Choose Tools Open a tool > Devices Devices.
  2. Select the required camera.
  3. From Settings, click Edit settings.
  4. Open the Video tab.
  5. Click Image health references.
  6. Set or update the reference images. Alta Video automatically chooses two references image from different times from recorded camera footage.
    1. If the camera has only been recently added to Alta Video, automatic references might not have been selected. Click Set reference to manually choose the images.
    2. Click Update reference to manually choose new reference images from recorded camera footage.
    3. Choose images from different times of the day for best results.
    4. Pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras have image health turned off by default. If you enable image health for a PTZ camera, using the PTZ controls changes the camera view and triggers a false image health warning. Only use image health on a PTZ camera if you do not use its PTZ controls.
    5. If a camera moves, you might not be able to return it to the exact position used in the existing reference images. In this case, manually set new reference images.
  7. Click Done.