Supported Types of Alarms

Currently, the system supports alarms for the following types of resources:

Camera

The video exception or the events detected in the monitoring area of the cameras, such as motion detection, video loss, line crossing, etc.

If the system is a Central System with Remote Site Management module, you can also set the alarm for the camera on Remote Site which has configured with alarm, so that you can receive alarms in the Central System when the alarm is triggered on devices added to Remote Sites.

Door

The alarm triggered at the doors (doors of access control devices and video intercom devices), such as access event, door status event, etc.

Elevator

The alarm triggered at the elevators, such as access event, elevator status event, etc.

Radar

The radar arming alarm and the alarm detected by the radars, such as auto-arming alarm, line crossing alarm, etc.

Alarm Input

The alarm triggered by the alarm inputs of the resources managed in the system, such as a smoke detector and zones of a security control panel.

Vehicle Features

The license plate matched event, mismatched event, and vehicle type matched event detected by the ANPR camera or UVSS.

Person

The alarm triggered by facial recognition camera or temperature screening cameras, such as face matched event, face mismatched event, rarely appeared event, abnormal skin-surface temperature, no mask event, etc.

UVSS

The alarm triggered by the UVSS device, including device getting online and offline.

Parking Lot

The alarm triggered by the resources in the parking lot, such as vehicle matched or mismatched which is detected at the entrance & exit.

Remote Site

The alarm triggered by the added Remote Site, including site getting offline.

Note:

Remote Site alarm is available for the system with Remote Site Management module (based on the license you purchased).

Device Exception

The alarm triggered by the exception of encoding device, access control device, video intercom device, elevator control device, security control device, dock station, decoding device, and network transmission device.

Resource Group

The resource group alarms, including person amount more/less than the threshold and its pre-alarm triggered in the people analysis group.

Server Exception

The alarms triggered by Recording Server, Streaming Server, DeepinMind Server, Security Audit Server, or HikCentral Professional Server.

User

The alarm triggered by system users, including user login and logout.

User-Defined Event

The alarm triggered by the configured user-defined event.

Generic Event

The alarm triggered by the configured generic event.

Dashboard of Configured Alarm Rules

On the Alarm page, HikCentral Professional provides a dashboard, displaying the number of configured alarm rules of each type of event sources, the number of disabled rules, as well as the number of abnormal ones.

You can click the numbers to quickly filter out the existing, disabled, or exceptional alarm rules of the corresponding event source types.

If you do not want to view the dashboard, click to fold it.