In-Camera Analytics of Third-Party Cameras Supported by DW Spectrum IPVMS

What In-Camera Analytics Does DW Spectrum® IPVMS Support?

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Affected Roles: Administrator, Owner

Related Digital Watchdog VMS Apps: DW Spectrum® IPVMS

Software Version: DW Spectrum® IPVMS v4.1 and up

Last Edit: March 22, 2021

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In-Camera Analytics

Other than the flexible integration of third-party analytics through a Generic Event, DW Spectrum® IPVMS also offers in-camera analytics integration for some third-party cameras.

This article will list some of the integrated third-party manufacturers and the associated in-camera analytics that are supported with DW Spectrum® IPVMS.

**NOTE: Not all camera models will support the in-camera analytics that are listed below.

**NOTE: In-camera analytics must be configured within the camera’s GUI (web client) before configuring DW Spectrum® IPVMS to alert for analytic Event Rules.

Supported/Affected Devices:

DW Blackjack® Server Series
MEGApix® IP Camera Series (Non-IVA/IVA+™)

Digital Watchdog Analytics

The Digital Watchdog Analytic Events integration was based on the DW API (v4.0). While the Digital Watchdog MEGApix® IVA/IVA+™ IP cameras are specifically designed for analytics through DW Spectrum® IPVMS, some of the older MEGApix® camera models do offer some limited analytics support.

Known Supported Devices

DWC-MVT4Wi28
DWC-MVT4Wi36
DWC-MVT4Wi6
DWC-MBT4Wi28
DWC-MBT4Wi36
DWC-MVT4WiA
DWC-MTT4Wi28
DWC-MTT4Wi36
DWC-MTT4Wi6
DWC-MTT4WiA

Known Supported Events

Motion Detection
Perimeter Intrusion Detection
Line Crossing Detection
Scene Change Detection
Video Blur Detection
Abnormal color Detection

Known Supported Devices (Group 2)

DWC-MB94Wi28T
DWC-MB94Wi36T
DWC-MV94Wi28T
DWC-MV94Wi36T
DWC-MV94WiAT
DWC-MT94Wi28T
DWC-MT94Wi36T
DWC-MT94WiAT

Known Supported Events (Group 2)

Motion Detection
Perimeter Intrusion Detection
Line Crossing Detection
Scene Change Detection
Video Blur Detection
Abnormal Color Detection

Known Digital Watchdog Analytics Notes

These features work on a specific port. To determine the port value, the DW Spectrum® Server sends a GetPortConfig request to the camera. In the received XML attribute, longPolling will have the required value.

AXIS Cameras

All built-in events and most events from applications that are found in the AXIS Application gallery will be supported by DW Spectrum® IPVMS.

Supported AXIS Events

An event will likely be supported if it meets the following conditions:

The capability description passed from the camera must contain at least one of the three following options (also referred to as “topics”)
1. “tns1:VideoSource” – usually contains built-in basic events such as Camera Tampering, Global Scene Change, Day-to-Night Vision, etc.)
2. “tns1:RuleEngine” – usually contains intellectual events such as Cross-line Detection, Area Entrance, etc.)
3. “tnsaxis:CameraApplicationPlatform” – usually contains events from external applications
An event must not be marked as internal (i.e. it may not contain “flag: xinternal_data” in its description)

These conditions are met by most ACAP applications, but it is wise to verify this before deployment.

Known AXIS Integration

When an event is triggered on the camera’s side, the camera will try to initiate the connection to the DW Spectrum® Server.

To make this happen, the DW Spectrum® Server provides the camera with a URL in the form of “<server_IP>:<listening port>” which is used later by the camera as an end-point.

By default, it is expected that analytics will not work for cameras that are manually added to the Server over a public network (Internet). A solution to address this limitation is being looked into.

Bosch Cameras

The following analytic features have been tested and confirmed to work with most Bosch cameras that support in-camera analytics and use their firmware v6.50 or newer.

Supported Bosch Events by DW Spectrum® IPVMS

Excessive brightness
Insufficient brightness
Perimeter intrusion detection
Object abandoned/leaving detection
Object loitering detection
Object stopped detection
Object direction detection
Motion detection
Object detection
Scene tampering detection

Dahua Cameras

The Dahua integration was based on the Dahua API of HTTP Protocol Specification v2.71 of 2019-06-03.

Supported Dahua Events by DW Spectrum® IPVMS

The following in-camera analytics were tested with Dahua firmware v2.622.0000000.31.R, Build Date 2018-08-13:

Object detection
Video blur detection
Scene tampering detection

Known Supported Events by DW Spectrum® IPVMS (from v4.1+)

The following in-camera analytics were tested with Dahua IPC-HDW5442TM firmware version v2.800.00000000.80R, build date 2019-09-02:

Motion detection
Scene tampering detection
Video blur detection
Object abandoned/leaving detection
Object loitering detection
Perimeter intrusion detection
Object removed detection
Line crossing

**NOTE: The supported event list can be extended by using a special JSON file placed near the Dahua plugin. This is for Dahua specifically.

Hanwha Cameras

The Hanwha Analytics Events integration was based on the Hanwha SUNAPI (version 2.5.4).

Supported Hanwha Events

Scene tampering detection
Object tracking
Line crossing
Perimeter intrusion detection
Object loitering detection

Supported Hanwha Devices

The Hanwha ROI models that support the listed events were using Hanwha firmware v1.41 or higher.

PNV-A9081R
PNO-A9081R

Hikvision Cameras

The Hikvision Smart Events integration was based on the Hikvision IP Surveillance API (i.e. ISAPI) user guide (version 2.6).

Known Events

Object loitering detection
Perimeter intrusion detection
Object stopped detection
Line crossing detection
Scene tampering detection
Motion detection
Object abandoned/left detection
Object removed detection

Known Hikvision Smart Events Integration Notes

Regular "Smart Events" are pulled from the camera over persistent HTTP connections initiated by DW Server and not all cameras support all events, the actual supported event list might vary per camera model.

The Hikvision Smart Events integration was made with the Hikvision IP Surveillance API (ISAPI) user guide (version 2.6).

The following events are known:

Any license plate value
A license plate in "Black list"/"White list" (preconfigured on camera)
Vehicle detected

Provision Cameras

The following models with firmware v5.0 or newer are known to be working with the mentioned in-camera analytics with DW Spectrum® IPVMS.

BX-341IPE
I4-340IPE-36, I4-340IPE-:VF, I6-340IPE-MVF
DAI-340IPE-28, DAI-340IPE-MVF
DI-340IPE-28, DI-340IPE-MVF
DMA-340IPE-28

The following analytics features are known and supposed to work on all list Provision cameras that have the in-camera analytics.

Motion detection
Perimeter intrusion detection
Line crossing detection
Scene tampering detection

Vivotek Cameras

The Vivotek Smart Events integration was based on the Smart VCA API (version 1.4 of 2020-05-13).