Topics included in this article:
- Camera Features
- Audio AI Analytics Features
- Bandwidth
- Enabling Enterprise Licenses
- Enabling Features
- Professional vs Enterprise Licenses
Camera Features
Color Search 
Color Search allows users to search historical footage for specific clothing and vehicle colors, making it easier to pinpoint specific people or vehicles without scrubbing through hours of footage.
This expedites searching for specific footage when you remember only a few key details. With Color Search and the other Rhombus search tools, such as Event Thumbnails and Region Search, you can find highly specific footage with only a few clicks.
To see how to enable this feature, scroll to the Enabling Features section below.
Face Recognition 
This feature allows the camera to detect faces that pass by its field of view. The success of this feature is heavily dependent on the camera mount and how much detail can be seen of a person. A general rule of thumb is that "if a face is not easily identifiable by a human, then it will not be recognized by the camera." Our facial recognition works by first identifying a human, taking a screenshot of the human, and then searching the cropped image for a face. To learn more about managing this feature, visit Managing Facial Recognition.
License Plate Recognition (LPR)
This feature enables cameras to recognize license plates as they pass through their field of view and log the plate into the console. Like Facial Recognition, License Plate Recognition heavily depends on the camera used and its mounting positioning. The general rule of thumb is that "if the vehicle is not easily distinguishable by a human, then it will not be recognized by the camera." LPR works similarly to Facial Recognition: the camera first identifies a vehicle, takes a screenshot of the vehicle, and then searches the cropped image for a license plate. To learn more about LPR, check out our other article, Managing License Plate Recognition.
People Counting 
This feature monitors how many people pass by a camera's field of view. Knowing how many people pass by is useful for situations like making sure a space is completely empty, tracking the number of employees coming into the office, and so on. To learn more about the different types of people counting, check out this article.
PPE Detection 
Lack of Personal Protection Equipment (masks and helmets), PPE for short, can be detected using Rhombus cameras as well. Like Face Recognition and LPR, the success of this feature is heavily reliant on camera model and placement. To learn more about PPE detection check out our PPE detection article.
Unusual Behavior Detection (beta) 
Rhombus cameras can also detect unusual behavior. To determine unusual behavior, a baseline for normal behavior must first be established. To create this baseline, our cameras will monitor a space for about a week to identify normal behavior within the given space. From then on, anything out of the ordinary will be labeled as unusual behavior. To learn more about setting up this feature, take a look at our configuration article.
Vehicle Counting 
The vehicle counting feature is useful for monitoring vehicle traffic. Like most other features, the success of this feature is dependent on camera model and placement. For example, the GIF in the LPR section above is an R500 aimed at our HQ south entry, so that the camera can easily pick up vehicle movement.
Above is an example of our Vehicle Counting chart. At the bottom of this chart are buttons that show or hide vehicle counting data pertaining to cameras with this feature enabled.
Visual Tamper Detection 
This feature is extremely useful for detecting when the camera has been visually tampered with, like when someone covers the dome with spray paint. The way this feature works is it will use the full view of the camera window as a reference and when it becomes "covered" the system will flag and mark the detection time. All of our Rhombus Cameras have the ability for visual tamper detection.
Included Cloud Archiving 
This feature comes with enterprise licensing and allows you to automatically back up 30 days of footage to the cloud.
Additional Cloud Archiving
This feature allows you to back up a certain number of days (30, 60, 90, 180, and beyond) and can be purchased independently from an enterprise license. To enable enterprise licenses, click the blue manage button (below), which is located at the top of the "License and Features" page. Then you will be able to assign the licenses to the cameras.
Timelapse 
This feature allows you to start creating a timelapse from a camera's recording. You can start this when the feature is enabled. Please see here for how to create one.
Audio AI Analytic Features
Having a designated audio device means you can process richer audio so that you can do more analytics! The A100 currently has 4 different audio capturing analytics and they are listed below.
Note: Please visit this article for a full walkthrough of the A100.
Loud Sound Detection 
The A100 can alert you based on whether a loud sound is heard or not. We use LUFS for this measurement and you can control how loud of a sound you are aiming to track with the slide bar (pictured below)
Tamper Detection 
A built-in accelerometer in the A100 can help notify you when it is being tampered with. The sensitivity of this sensor can be configured through Rhombus Support, so please reach out if you need it tuned!
Glass Break Detection 
The A100 is equipped to detect if glass is broken near it. If the sensor is placed 6-20 feet from windows, it can alert you if they are ever broken.
Smoke Alarm Detection 
The A100 can detect the same frequency emitted by smoke alarms, alerting you when they go off. Place the A100 within a 6-20 foot distance for this detection.
Carbon Monoxide Alarm Detection 
Like smoke alarms, the A100 can detect the same frequency emitted by carbon monoxide alarms. This allows you to notify the correct personnel when the alarm goes off. Place the A100 within a 6-20 foot distance for this detection.
Bandwidth
| Low | Medium | High |
Low means that not much bandwidth is being used for these features.
Medium means that the amount of bandwidth used is more noticeable than low features but less expensive than computationally intensive features.
High means that the feature is very computationally expensive and requires a lot of bandwidth to complete.
Below is the chart with Feature and Storage bandwidth usage:
These symbols are set based on how much bandwidth a feature "normally" uses. The amount of bandwidth used is variable and is dependent on the setup (camera placement, max bitrate, resolution, etc.). For example, if a camera has face recognition enabled and is placed in a low-traffic area, the amount of bandwidth that would be used will be low rather than medium, as noted in the above table. However, taking the same example, if you wanted to be alerted when an unknown face is captured, then a clip would be uploaded, and you would be notified every time an unidentified face was seen. This would increase the bandwidth used by the face recognition feature. To dive more into bandwidth, check out our Camera Bandwidth article.
Disclaimer
Your bandwidth usage may be exceeded when multiple high-bandwidth features are enabled in conjunction with cloud archiving. This section of our Camera Bandwidth article shows approximately how much bandwidth is used during streaming. If you are streaming 3 cameras with color search enabled and only have a 5 Mbps upload, that could eat up most of your bandwidth.
Enabling Enterprise Licenses
1. To enable Enterprise Licenses on multiple cameras at once, navigate to License & Features, and within the License Summary section, click on the blue "Manage" button seen below:
2. Once this popup appears, you can then select cameras to be applied for this license by location or one by one by clicking the checkboxes on the right side:
3. When done, click the "Assign" button to complete the enterprise assignment process.
Enabling Features
1. To get to the Licenses Page, navigate to "Settings," then click "Manage Features."
This will show a list of all the license types and how many are available to assign. To get to a license of a different device type, select the toggle across the top. Currently, "cameras" are selected.
When you click "Manage," you will then see a popup where you can enable features (pictured below).
2. To enable a feature, click the toggle button on the right, under the "Enabled" header, and hit "Save" at the bottom of the window.
3. From this view, you can also enable features in batches. To do this, select cameras with the same license assigned to them (Enterprise or Professional) via the checkboxes on the left side (below).
Once you do this you will see the "Batch Assign" button light up blue (below).
4. Click this button, and a popup modal will appear where you can choose to enable or disable features in a batch way:
Additionally, you can add features by going to Devices -> Camera of Interest -> Manage Features (bottom of camera feed page).
Here is an example of how to add color search to a camera:
Professional vs Enterprise Licenses
All cameras automatically have a Professional License applied to them upon purchase. Some features, however, are only accessible through the additional purchase of an Enterprise License.
For a full comparison of what's included with a Professional License vs an Enterprise License, please visit the Rhombus Website's Camera License Comparison chart.
If you have any questions about pricing or included features, please reach out to Rhombus Support or Sales.
Helpful Links
- Managing Facial Recognition
- Optics and Object Distances for Analytics
- Managing License Plate Recognition
- Camera Bandwidth
- People and Vehicle Counting
- Personal Protective Equipment Detection
- Configuring UBD (Unusual Behavior Detection)
Contact Support or Sales
Have more questions? Contact Rhombus Support at +1 (877) 746-6797 option 2 or support@rhombus.com.
Interested in learning more? Contact Rhombus Sales at +1 (877) 746-6797 option 1 or sales@rhombus.com.
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