Occupancy Alarm Dashboard
The Occupancy Alarm Dashboard is used to monitor how many people are within one or more physical spaces. When too many people enter one of the areas, notification emails and/or SMS messages are sent to specified recipients.
The dashboard relies on SAFR's direction of travel feature, so the camera(s) that your Occupancy Alarm Dashboard uses should be positioned such that people are either moving directly away, directly towards, directly to the left, or directly to the right of the camera. See the Desktop Client Camera Preferences documentation for additional information about the direction of travel feature.
In addition, the following preferences must be set for the dashboard to work:
- Every participating camera must be using a Operator Mode that can generate events.
- Events must be enabled in the Desktop Client's Events Preferences menu.
- Face detection and person detection must be enabled in the Desktop Client's Detection Preferences menu. If person detection isn't enabled, then anybody whose face can't be seen (e.g. only the back of their head is visible) won't be counted.
- Monitored Areas: Specifies the monitored areas to be included in this dashboard. You'll need to define one or more Occupancy Monitoring Areas by using the Occupancy Areas Editor on the Web Console's Reports Page.
- Send email notification on alarm: Enables sending email notifications when alarms trigger. Note that you first need to configure an email service on the Status Page of the Web Console.
- Email recipient: The list of email recipients.
- Send SMS notification on alarm: Enables sending SMS message notifications when alarms trigger. Note that you first need to configure SMS notifications on the Status Page of the Web Console.
- SMS recipient: The list of SMS recipients.
- Min time between notifications per monitored area: Specifies the minimum amount of time that must pass before the Occupancy Alarm Dashboard will send another notification from the same monitored area. Note that this applies to both red and yellow alerts. For example, if you set this parameter to 60 minutes, and an occupancy monitoring area reaches the yellow alert occupancy level, the dashboard won't send out another alert of any type (yellow or red) for that monitoring area for 60 minutes.
- Sort Order: Specifies the criteria by which the occupancy areas are sorted. There are 3 options:
- Highest occupancy first: The areas with the greatest number of people appear at the top of the dashboard.
- Alarm Sources - as configured: The areas will be listed in the same order that they appear in the Monitored Areas parameter above.
- Alphabetical by name: The occupancy areas are sorted based on the alphebetization of their names.
- Colors: Specifies which color scheme will be used for the dashboard. There are two options: Dark Theme and Light Theme.
- Refresh Interval: Specifies how frequently the data on the dashboard is refreshed. If "0" is entered, the dashboard won't work. If you want a very quick refresh time, enter a very small non-zero number such as 0.1.
Below is a sample Occupancy Alarm Dashboard.