Milestone Analytics 2.2 - Manual (Page 5)

Milestone XProtect Analytics 2.2; User’s Manual
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Product Overview
Milestone XProtect Analytics provides an intelligent yet highly intuitive solution for video content
analysis tasks such as license plate recognition (LPR), perimeter protection, left objects detection,
etc. XProtect Analytics works in tight integration with Microsoft
® Windows ® components as well as
a range of different Milestone products.
XProtect Smart Client is the client application used for viewing video combined with analytics
data wherever you require.
Depending on which video content analysis plugins are used with your organization’s XProtect
Analytics solution, you can work with:
 License plate recognition (LPR)
 Perimeter protection
 Detection of persons, vehicles, etc. moving in unauthorized patterns or directions
 Unattended objects detection
 Loitering detection
 Tailgating detection
 Crowd formation detection
 People counting
 Detection of illegally parked vehicles
 Detection of removed items
 Advanced video motion detection (VMD)
 Countless other purposes (thanks to the XProtect Analytics Generic VA plugin, which allows
third-party video content analysis applications to supply data for XProtect Analytics)
XProtect Analytics lets you easily combine video content analysis alerts with Milestone surveillance
system features, such as recording, activation of outputs, etc. XProtect Analytics is therefore highly
interesting in areas such as retail, transportation, education, industry, government, etc.
Basic Data Flow
In an XProtect Analytics solution, video and analytics data basically flows between the products in
the following way:
Cameras send raw video streams to the surveillance system.
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The video streams are passed on to an analytics component on the surveillance system, which
processes the video streams in one or more steps: 1) Image analysis, for example for license plate