New and Improved Alerts for Line Crossing, Loitering, and People of Interest

One of the key benefits of Verkada is the ability to surface the events that customers care about with proactive alerts. From crowd detection to Person of Interest sightings, Verkada alerts allow organizations to detect unusual activity across all their sites without actively monitoring every camera feed.

Today, we are excited to share three updates that make Verkada alerts even more powerful:

• Line-crossing and loitering alerts

• Linking People of Interest to License Plates of Interest

• Real-time Person of Interest alerts on live feeds

Line-crossing and loitering alerts

Line-crossing and loitering alerts provide added control over motion alerts, allowing organizations to detect specific activities that warrant attention.

Now customers can trigger an alert if a person or vehicle crosses a digital line in the direction they specify, such as when someone trespasses or breaks a fence line. Line-crossing alerts help screen out non-critical activity like someone passing through the parking lot but not approaching the building. 

Another option is to trigger an alert if a person or vehicle is loitering on the property. If someone is just passing by, nothing will happen. But if they remain in a pre-selected region beyond a user-specified time threshold, that will trigger an alert. This is a great feature for banks, for example, who would expect after-hours use of ATMs but want to be notified if a person appears to be sleeping in the ATM vestibule.

Like other alert types, line-crossing and loitering alerts can be scheduled for specific times of the day and days of the week, such as after hours on weekdays and all day during weekends. Users can set up these alerts from the Alerts page in Command.

Linking People of Interest to License Plates of Interest

A person of interest (POI) is often associated with a license plate of interest (LPOI), and we recently added the ability to link the two. Today, we’re taking this integration a step further. Now when customers receive an LPOI alert it will display the associated POI, and vice versa. 

This additional context can help expedite investigations and improve response time. For example, from an LPOI alert staff can quickly pull up sightings of the associated POI to see if they entered the building.

Real-time POI alerts

In addition to enriching POI alerts with license plate information, we’re introducing an even faster way for customers to receive these alerts when monitoring live camera feeds. Now when users monitor a single camera feed, Verkada will flag any POI appearances on that camera nearly instantly. From there, users can also leverage Shortcuts, our new feature for tracking moving subjects across cameras, to maintain visual contact with the POI throughout their premises.

Ready to learn more?

All of these alerts enhancements will be available to customers on February 22nd. In addition to expanding our functionality around alerts, we’re also making it easier to create and manage them. Learn more about our new alert creation flow here. To see these features in action, be sure to view our launch event.