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iCatcher Help
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Configuring Object counting When the iCatcher Clump Engine (ICE) is enabled, objects can be counted as they cross parts of the image. A number of options are also available for exporting counter statistics on a schedule. Tripwires & CountersYou can add a "virtual tripwire" to an ICE feed. When a clump crosses this wire, a counter can be incremented or decremented. It is also possible to set Console to beep when this happens. Tripwires are configured on the Counting tab of the Feed Settings. New trip wires can be added, and existing ones reconfigured or deleted. Each trip wire can have a different colour and a horizontal or vertical orientation on the image. The size and position are set using percentages. To explain how this works, imagine an image 100 pixels across, with a tripwire with a position of 25%, and endpoints of 25% and 80%. This tripwire will appear a quarter of the way down the screen, and will start one quarter of the way from the left (25 pixels in) and continue to 4/5ths of the way across (80 pixels in, or 20 pixels from the right). Tripwires can count when an object touches/partially crosses the tripwire, or when it has fully crossed from one side to another. This can increment or decrement a counter as selected, and can be triggered on one direction or both. By default, when an object crosses a tripwire, it can not register a cross again if they change direction. If you tick "Allow counting of objects multiple times", they will be counted every time they cross. Exporting Counter DataCounter statistics can be exported at regular intervals for analysis at a later time. The time and schedule of the export can be configured, along with the file to which the data will be saved. The data is saved in a Comma Separated Values (CSV) format, which can be imported into a spreadsheet, or displayed as a chart by right-clicking on the counter in the main tree view and selecting Show counter Graph. There is also an option to reset the counters after the data has been exported. This can be used for example to create a daily report of visitors to an office. ActionsiCatcher can be configured to perform a sequence of actions when an object crosses a tripwire in the configured manner. The list of actions that can be configured in the same as those available with I/O devices. Please see the Actions help for more information. |