Alta Video rule types

Last modified: Monday October 23, 2023.

Alta Video provides the tools for your to configure Security rules and System rules. Security rules are designed to respond to what your Alta Video analytics detects based on its analysis of your video and audio feeds and your system integrations. System rules are based on the state of your deployment, and reports issues with the system or with your cameras.

Security rules

You can define Security rules to inform you of detections for:

• Access Control
• Anomaly
• Appearance
• Counts
• Line crossing
• Loitering
• Point-of-sale
• Sensor
• Sound

For each of the available types of rule, you define the criteria to create the notifications you are most interested in.

System rules

System rules provide you with feedback on your Alta Video deployment, your Alta Cloud Connectors, or your cameras. System rules are categorized as either:

• Camera issues, or
• System issues

For Camera issues, Alta Video can notify you of connection failures to any camera, or, for Avigilon Alta or Avigilon Ava cameras, can notify you of specific issues, such as SD card failure, Analytics failure, whether the top cover of the camera has been removed (depending on exact camera model), if the camera has entered recovery mode, or if the camera is not storing video.

If your deployment includes one or more Alta Cloud Connectors, System rules can notify you of connection issues to your Cloud Connectors, disk failures, missing disks, or disk space issues. For deployments that include integrations with external systems, System issues can notify you of connection issues to the external systems.