Sens-Cam AI

Managing urban mobility today requires solutions capable of providing useful information to address real safety problems. In this context comes Sens-Cam AI, Spark’s smart camera that combines vision, analytics, and automation in a single device.

The Power of AI

By leveraging its onboard Neural Network, Sens-Cam AI detects pedestrians and different vehicles.

The device is used in numerous urban mobility and video surveillance applications, such as counting vehicles on a road, identifying people or vehicles in restricted areas, detecting illegal turns or unauthorized access, and monitoring queues or prolonged stops.

In addition to its AI-powered analytics capabilities, Sens-Cam also provides traditional video functions such as video streaming and recording, even in 4K, combining security and business intelligence in a single device.

Vehicle Classification on Sens-Cam AI

Sens-Cam AI as a Virtual Inductive Loop

Inductive Loop

Sens-Cam AI can also operate as a virtual inductive loop. In this mode, the device replaces traditional in-ground physical sensors , such as standard inductance loops, by detecting the passage of vehicles or pedestrians through a detection zone configured via software.

In this way, Sens-Cam AI generates a digital event that can trigger panels, lights, barriers, traffic lights, or other external devices, further simplifying the infrastructure and increasing the system’s flexibility.

Application Examples

• Variable Message Signs: Sens-Cam AI activates a message on a roadside display when a vehicle approaches. Warnings such as “Slow Down”, “Pedestrian Crossing”, or “Heavy Traffic” are shown only when needed, improving both safety and communication.

• Smart Lighting: Sens-Cam AI automatically switches on lights or illuminated signals when pedestrians or vehicles are detected. On pedestrian crossings, cycle paths, or low-traffic roads, lighting is activated only when necessary, resulting in significant energy savings.

• Weigh-in-Motion (WIM): Sens-Cam AI acts as an entry sensor for vehicle dynamic weighing, replacing physical loops embedded in the road surface. The result is a simpler, less invasive, and more cost-effective system to install and maintain.

• Traffic Light Management: Sens-Cam AI detects the presence of vehicles at intersections and provides real-time data to the traffic light control system. This enables adaptive management of the red/green phases, improving traffic flow and reducing waiting times.

• Safety in Sensitive Areas: Sens-Cam AI detects the passage of vehicles and people, triggering lights, alarms, or safety procedures according to predefined rules. A reliable solution for managing gates, yards, or loading areas where continuous monitoring is essential.

  

  Virtual Inductive Loop on Sens-Cam AI

The Advantages of the Virtual Inductive Loop

Using Sens-Cam AI in virtual inductive loop mode means simplifying the system architecture while expanding the amount of available information: no need to cut the asphalt or lay cables, fast installation and minimal maintenance, intuitively configurable detection zones, quickly adjustable use cases, and a single product capable of performing multiple tasks.

The ability to replace a traditional inductive loop makes Sens-Cam AI an even more flexible and innovative solution, fully aligned with the needs of smart cities and connected infrastructures.

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Sens-Cam AI by Spark

AI at its Core

Sens-Cam AI is manufactured in Italy and designed for advanced security projects, smart city needs, and business intelligence applications. It’s not just an IP camera but a powerful AI device able to process and return metadata along with images.

This device incorporates an onboard neural network accelerator that supports advanced applications based on embedded AI available in 3 sets:

• People & Vehicle: Audio Detection, Human/Vehicle Detection & Classification, Intrusion, Loitering, Tripwire, People Density, In/Out Count, and Heatmap.
• Face & Mask: Audio detection, Face Detection, Mask Detection.
• ANPR (coming soon): Audio Detection, Human/Vehicle Detection & Classification, and License Plate Recognition.

These functionalities run directly on the camera, and there are other AI apps available upon request.

Beyond AI: A Robust Feature Set

Sens-Cam AI is as powerful as it’s versatile. The device can be mounted both horizontally and vertically, ensuring the best perspective for vision. It’s equipped with a sunshield for protection against sunlight and rain, making it suitable for outdoor use. Moreover, it features a microSD slot for recording on the device, an IR illuminator with modulated light output, and heat sinks for improved heat dissipation. It also comes with an internal microphone and fixed optics for optimal vision.

Sens-Cam AI is available in two models: 2MP and 4K, both compatible with ONVIF profiles S and T. The device supports a range of video compression formats, including H265, H.264 high/main/basic, and MJPEG.

User-friendly Interface

Sens-Cam AI offers a simplified user interface for configuring analytics, events, recordings, and alarms. It supports multistreaming, creating and storing video streams at different resolutions, and transmitting independent streams. The device ensures operation 24/7, abiding by security-by-default principles, and enables efficient real-time streaming of metadata via HTTP.

Integration with ARGO Software

Sens-Cam AI integrates natively with ARGO, Spark’s software for comprehensive management of video streams, events, and alarms. ARGO software can acquire metadata from Sens-Cam AI and organize them into tables and charts. The software is designed to help you get the most out of Sens-Cam AI’s advanced capabilities. Sens-Cam can also integrate with third-party software.

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Traditionally, heatmaps are created using server-based systems, but thanks to the new Sens-Cam AI camera, heatmaps can also be generated directly from the device, exploiting the power of embedded artificial intelligence. Sens-Cam AI automatically distinguishes the elements in the scene, including people and their movements, using its neural network accelerator to process and provide the user with images and information such as the heatmap.

Embedded AI-based solutions are less expensive and more scalable. For example, Sens-Cam AI can process heatmaps, control accesses and count people, combining security and business intelligence purposes in a single device. It offers valuable metadata that can support the decision process.

For example, heatmaps allows shops and shopping centers to identify areas where customers spend more time. They help also in other contexts, such as airports, stations, offices, and wherever it is interesting to understand how people move.

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ARGO analytics dashboard

With the latest release, ARGO platform supports Sens-Cam AI, the intelligent camera made by Spark, for data analysis. Using ARGO is now possible to acquire metadata from Sens-Cam AI – such as the number of vehicles and type – and to organize them in tables and graphs, with a special dashboard that can be easily customized.

Furthermore, ARGO 2022.2 integrates the heatmaps generated by Sens-Cam AI, which are now shown on the dashboard.

The latest version of ARGO includes an update of the ANPR module to show the license plate number in real-time on the map. Finally, the software now allows the two-way audio on supported devices.

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Several companies are developing intelligent devices, and Sens-Cam AI is the Italian option. This camera is made in Reggio Emilia by Spark and uses Artificial Intelligence to process and return data along with images and videos.

Camera features

With DPControl and Bridge 129, Spark forms TTM Technology, a group that gathers different vision expertise for security purposes, industrial applications, smart city projects, and more in general for business intelligence.

Sens-Cam AI is the latest result of TTM’s research and development department and brings some interesting and distinguishing features. This device is equipped with a powerful neural network accelerator to detect and classify the different components of the scene. Sens-Cam AI is available in both indoor and outdoor versions. It supports horizontal (landscape) and vertical (corridor) installation to suit different contexts like shopping centers, stations, streets, parking lots, and many other.

Applications

Vehicle classification and counting on both carriageways. Various AI packs are available for Sens-Cam AI.

A single device fits many applications, from perimeter protection – for example, to detect people or vehicles – to access control – like opening gates according to customized rules, even with license plate recognition thanks to a specific Sens-Cam AI ANPR module.

Several AI apps are designed for retail, such as people counting, people density, and heatmaps (maps of the areas most frequented by people). Furthermore, Sens-Cam AI is used in traffic control projects, e.g. to detect pedestrians, unauthorized vehicles, to classify vehicles and collect statistics.

A standalone device

Since everything takes place onboard of the camera, Sens-Cam AI doesn’t require any server or cloud system and doesn’t burden the network bandwidth and infrastructure. This device is officially ONVIF compliant and sends metadata in real-time via HTTP, triggering automatic responses according to the user’s needs. Using ARGO software – the video management system developed by Spark – it is possible to store and export the information acquired by Sens-Cam AI and aggregate data in tables and graphs.

TTM Technology engineers keep training Sens-Cam AI neural network. They develop new applications making the camera a tailored and growing smart platform.

Sens-Cam AI supports both horizontal (landscape) and vertical (corridor) installation

From Secsolution Magazine n.22 – Agosto 2022

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Sens-Cam AI is the perfect merge of security and business intelligence devices, providing both images and behavioral analytics with its advanced neural network accelerator on-board.

At CES 2022, Sens-Cam AI was set up live for visitors to experience firsthand the powerful embedded AI. The device supports many features at the same time, such as people and vehicle detection, counting, density, intrusion, tripwire, loitering, and even heat maps, an advanced graphical representation of people flow.

The most welcomed Sens-Cam AI feature at the exhibition has been face mask detection, which enables automatic spotting and alarm triggering of people not wearing a face mask, making this solution perfect for shops, stations, airports, and any area where masks are required to protect people from Covid-19 and other diseases.

AI Mask Detection on Sens-Cam

Sens-Cam AI provides real-time metadata describing scenes and events via HTTP/HTTPS streaming push. As a result, it allows high privacy protection because metadata are transmitted independently from the video streaming. Metadata can be stored and managed by third-party software, allowing statistics and quick events retrieval. Sens-Cam AI is also ONVIF compliant for better NVR integration.

Security measures may change over time, as well as business intelligence needs, and Sens-Cam AI can support different uses. Spark also provides customized solutions, allowing new AI applications to be added to Sens-Cam AI on request and help in solving complex problems.

Cover picture: Consumer Technology Association

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Thanks to a dedicated neural network accelerator, Sens-Cam runs advanced AI-based applications, acquiring information on the scene in real-time, in addition to observing and performing all the functions of an IP camera.

Sens-Cam AI supports people and vehicle classification, object counting, movement detection and tracking, and can generate advanced statistics such as heat maps, a density visualization of people and vehicles over time.

Sens-Cam AI, also with embedded Wi-Fi

Sens-Cam AI fits different contexts, like shopping centers, parking lots, stations, and wherever data have become more important than images. In a store, for instance, Sens-Cam AI can perform surveillance functions and calculate crowd density in real time, providing the total number of daily visitors.

Based on the collected data, it’s possible to make smarter decisions. Predictions can help businesses to provide better service for customers, better user experience, and improve cost efficiency, to name just a few potential benefits.

Sens-Cam AI at Sicurezza Milano 2021

Through the web interface, it’s possible to manage settings, notifications, and event actions, such as sending emails and recording videos, with high privacy protection. Sens-Cam AI provides easy access to video and metadata via cable or wi-fi (new Wi-Fi 6, also known as 802.11ax) making it easy to integrate with third-party systems and software. Furthermore, Sens-Cam AI is ONVIF compliant (profiles S and T).

The design is elegant and supports several installation modes, horizontally and vertically, according to the angle required for the final application.

All AI applications are embedded, without requiring any server and infrastructure costs. New applications can be added to Sens-Cam AI on demand, like the face mask detection showed at CES 2022.

Sens-Cam is made in Italy and introduces Spark’s new AI camera series.

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Spark will participate with DPControl and Bridge 129 as TTM Technology, offering complete and customized solutions for security needs, smart city projects, and business intelligence applications.

Sens-Cam AI

Sens-Cam AI

At Sicurezza 2021, Spark will introduce Sens-Cam AI, a brand-new device designed to be both a security camera and a business intelligence device. More precisely, Sens-Cam AI can extract metadata from the scene along with videos to support better decisions.

Milesight

Spark is the main partner in Italy of Milesight, one of the most innovative manufacturers of CCTV systems. At Sicurezza 2021, Spark will present the new Milesight AI series and the cutting-edge Milesight AI LPR Radar camera.

ARGO Software

Argo, Spark’s software suite, now supports all Milesight cameras, including those for license plate recognition. The new Argo ANPR feature will also be the preview of Spark in Milano.

Core Technology

At Sicurezza 2021, managers, designers, system integrators, and distributors will also see all TTM’s made-in-Italy core technologies for custom solutions, such as DPControl‘s Daxpy VPU platforms and neural networks.

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