The heat analysis group is used to group the resources (such as doors, fisheye cameras, people counting cameras) in certain region. By grouping these resources, you can know the dwell time of the people stayed in this region, how many persons stayed in this region, and average dwell time of each people. This function is mainly used to calculate and show the popularity of each stores in one shopping mall.

1. Click Logical View on the home page.
2. Choose one of the following methods to enter the area's resource group page.

   • Select one area and click to enter the editing area page.

     Figure 1. Enter Area Editing Page

   • Select Group tab on the left to display all the resource groups of different areas.

     Figure 2. Enter Resource Group Page
3. In the Heat Analysis field, click Add to add a heat analysis group.
   Figure 3. Add Heat Analysis Group
4. Create a name for the group.
5. In the Resource for Dwell Time Calculation field, click Add to select the cameras for calculating the dwell time of the people stayed in this region.
6. Optional: To calculate the average dwell time of each people, you need to add resources (including doors and cameras) to the group to calculate the number of people stayed in this region.
   Note:

   Average Dwell Time = Total Dwell Time/Number of People in This Region

   1. Set the switch Average Dwell Time to on.
   2. In the Resource for People Stayed Calculation field, click Add to select the doors and camera to the group for calculating the number of people stayed in this region.
   3. Set the entering or exiting direction of the card readers of the selected doors and the entering or exiting direction of the cameras.
      Note:

      Number of People Stayed in Region = Number of People Entered - Number of People Exited

      For doors, the access records on the entering card reader will be calculated as person entering this region while the access records on the exiting one will be calculated as person exiting this region.

      For cameras, the people crossing along the entering direction will be calculated as person entering this region while the people crossing along the exiting one will be calculated as person exiting this region.

7. Click Add.

   The heat analysis group is added in the table and you can view the resources in the group.