SAFR Digifort Integration Guide
Integrated SAFR Digifort is only available on Windows.
Integrating SAFR's facial recognition and analysis capabilities into Digifort enables you to use SAFR's video feed information overlays within Digifort camera video feeds, thus making it much easier to quickly and accurately separate unknown people from authorized people from known threats. You'll also have immediate access to additional infomation such as age, gender, sentiment, name, company, known associates, or any other configurable information you want to create.
Integrating the two systems also allows SAFR's information about individuals to trigger Digifort alerts and other actions within the Digifort system. Digifort's metadata within bookmarks are enriched with SAFR's additional information, allowing you to more easily find relevant bookmarks.
This page discusses how to install and configure SAFR and Digifort so that the two systems are properly integrated. The SAFR Digifort Operation Guide discusses how to operate the integrated systems.
A typical deployment requires the following:
- A machine running Digifort Server and Digifort Administration Client.
- A machine running the Digifort Surveillance Client at monitoring locations.
- One or more machines running the SAFR Desktop Client to process videos.
- If you're doing a SAFR local deployment, you'll also need a machine running SAFR Server. SAFR Server can run on the same machine as one of the Desktop Clients, provided the host machine meets the system requirements.
Cameras are connected to Digifort. The SAFR Desktop Client can connect to Digifort to perform analysis of the video. Depending on the number of cameras you need, one or more machines can run SAFR Desktop, each processing multiple video feeds. The Desktop Client processes the video and returns information to Digifort to generate events. The Desktop Client is also used to perform various management activities. This could be run on the same system as Digifort Server.
Digifort has the following requirements:
- Each machine running Digifort must meet the following requirements:
- The Digifort version must be 7.2.1 or later.
- The machine must be running Windows 10 or later.
- .Net Framework 4.6.2 or later must be installed.
- Each camera connected to Digifort requires a Digifort license.
Note: Digifort licenses must be acquired before attempting to discover and add cameras.
SAFR has the following requirements:
- Each camera running SAFR must have a SAFR license.
- Each machine running the SAFR Desktop Client must meet the following requirements:
- The Desktop Client must be version 1.4.162 or later.
- The system requirements described here.
- Local SAFR deployments require at least one machine running SAFR Platform 1.4.157 or later.
- Each machine running SAFR Platform must meet the system requirements described here.
Download and install Digifort by doing the following:
- Turn off Windows Defender and Firewalls. (Digifort requires that both these features be disabled.)
- Download the latest Digifort installer package from Digifort and install the full package.
- Open the Digifort Administration Client and add a new server. Log in with the default username admin and set a password in the Users tab. As an administrator, you can create additional user accounts if needed.
- To connect cameras to Digifort, do the following:
- Go to Recording Servers in the Digifort Administration Client.
- Click Camera from the Add Button.
- Complete the dialog shown in the following graphic to add Camera manufacturer, model, IP Address, and other information as needed.
Note: Digifort allows you to add mobile cameras as well as using the Digifort Mobile Camera Pro App. In the Add Camera dialog, select Digifort as the manufacturer and Mobile Camera Pro as the make.
- You may need to update the Video Compression, Image Resolution, Frame Rate, or Image Rotation, as shown below:
- You may need to update the Image Rotation or Profile Description on the Media Profile settings page, as shown below:
- Navigate to Alerts and Events > Global Events to add events as needed. You can configure the event actions there too, when needed.
Configure the Digifort Surveillance Client by doing the following:
- Start Digifort Serveillance Client.
- Go to Setting > Servers > Add.
- Restart Digifort Serveillance Client.
- Select the IP camera from the list.
Important: Digifort licenses must be acquired prior to attempting to discover and add cameras.
Start the Digifort Serveillance Client.
Select the IP camera from the Cameras list.
- From the SAFR Download Portal, download and install either SAFR Platform or SAFR Desktop, depending on your deployment type. Make sure to select the Digifort VMS extension install option.
- After installing SAFR, you'll be prompted for the Digifort Credentials as shown in the following dialog:
- Enter the information for the Digifort user created previously to connect to Digifort server, and click OK.
Note: During the Digifort login and authentication process, you may be prompted to enter your SAFR account credentials as well as to log into any automatically detected cameras.
- After SAFR finishes installing, open the SAFR Desktop Client.
- From the Tools menu, select Preferences, and click the Digifort tab.
- Enter the following information.
- Digifort User Id: User created previously in Configure Digifort.
- Digifort User Password: Password created for the SAFR user.
- Digifort Server Address: IP address of server running Digifort.
- Media Gateway Port: Set to 554 unless configured otherwise in Digifort.
- Click OK.
To verify successful connection to the Digifort system, open the Preferences > Camera tab. Cameras connected to the Digifort system should be visible. All cameras connected to the Digifort system have a Digifort prefix in their names.