Smart Search
With Smart Search, you can search recordings for specific actions and behavior such as general movement, missing/foreign objects, and camera occlusion. Once you have set up search criteria, Smart Search will search through the specified recordings and automatically identify any matching recordings, allowing you to view them.
Note:
- Smart Search is only supported on Synology Surveillance Station Client (desktop client). Surveillance Station web player, Local Display for NVR models, and VisualStation do no support this feature.
To set up search criteria:
- Under Source, select a recording to search through by selecting a server, camera, and date.
- Under Settings, select one of the following search types:
- Motion Detection: Search for movement in the specified areas.
- Missing Object: Search for missing objects in the specified areas.
- Foreign Object: Search for foreign objects in the specified areas.
- Camera Occlusion: Search for times when the camera lens is covered and unable to effectively perform surveillance.
- Focus Lost: Search for times when the camera focus is lost and unable to effectively perform surveillance.
- No-Idle Zone: Search for times when anyone or anything enters the restricted zone and lingers longer than the specified dwell time.
- Under Settings, select a sensitivity level. A higher sensitivity level will yield more search results but may also yield more false alarms.
- Under Settings, select an object size. An object size of 1x represents one one-hundredth of the search zone size. Click and drag to reposition the yellow rectangle to the area you want to search. The yellow rectangle should be smaller than the object you want to search for. This option is only available for Foreign Object.
- Under Settings, select a dwell time. This option is only available for No-Idle Zone.
- Under Detection Zone, use any of the following options to set up a detection zone for searching. These options are only available for Motion Detection, Missing Object, and Foreign Object.
- Click Add and then select cells on the grid to add cells to the detection zone.
- Click Delete and then select cells on the grid to delete cells from the detection zone.
- Click Select All to add all cells to the detection zone.
- Click Clear All to delete all cells from the detection zone.
To use advanced search settings:
- Click
to open the advanced search settings window.
- Use any of the following options to define your search criteria:
- Specify the end time for search: Search from the timeline pointer time to the specified end time.
- Specify search interval: Select All Frames to perform a frame-by-frame search. Select an integer time interval to search using the specified interval.
Note:
- Increasing the time interval will improve search time. However, it will also decrease search accuracy.
- Specify recording mode(s): Only search recordings using the specified mode(s).
- Assigned Time Slot: Only search recordings from the specified times.
To search recordings:
- Set up search criteria using the information above.
- Click
to start searching. You can click
to pause searching. While paused, you can change search criteria. Changing search criteria will not clear the results list.
- Click
or
to move the timeline pointer backward or forward one hour. Once Smart Search finishes searching the selected day's recordings, it will continue searching recordings that are more recent until reaching the specified end time or current time.
To view recording search results:
- Click
to expand Result List.
- Double-click a recording, or click
on a recording to play it in Recording Player.