Arm and Disarm AI Security Camera Systems
IPIO is an app that is part of a system that enables the remote ability to arm and disarm AI Security Camera Systems. The app shows the current state and a log of who and when armed or disarmed the system.

Turn anything on or off
While IPIO is primarily designed to control Security Camera Systems it is not limited to do so. It can be used to switch any electrical system on or off. It is a Universal Remote Switch.

Informative labelled logs
The buttons on the app can be labelled to reflect what is being controlled and monitored. This in turn allows informative logs to be written, for example:
Front Door Unlocked by Joe Smith at 10.30
Or
CCTV Armed by Jill Jackson at 08:00

True information and managed uncertainty
The IPIO app features button controls that have three states: On, Ghost, Off
The switch happens very quickly so often you don’t see the Ghost. But there is a Ghost and it is important that it should be.
When the user switches a button it goes into the ‘Ghost State’ until the system responds ‘Switch Done’. Then, only then, will the app show the button in the new state. This true information is the difference that makes the difference. It is the feedback that helps the user to have confidence that the action that the app controls in the remote location has actually occurred.

IPIO app showing: Disarmed (labelled as Open), Armed, the Ghost state and a sensor input.

EyeSpyFX are excited to announce that Camect AI systems are now integrated with the IPIO system of devices and mobile apps.

Camect make AI security camera hubs that feature world beating video analytics. Accuracy of detection events is close to 99%.

Camect AI detection hub

IPIO can be used to arm/disarm the video analytics on a whole system basis using just one IPIO switch or on a per zone basis using up to four IPIO switches. Multiple cameras can be armed or disarmed per zone.

Normally IPIO units communicate with AI video analytics camera systems using wired IO, but with this integration the need for IO connections is negated. IPIO units can now be connected directly to Camect hubs using a software integration. This software integration reduces the install time and overall system complexity.

• Easy, fast install – no IO wires required
• Two levels of user preferences
• Super accurate detections with app based arm and disarm control
• Multi camera zone arm/disarm
• Input and schedule based rules
• Full log system
• Instant event notifications

Arm Camect AI systems camera zone by zone

Event logs in Security Camera and Access Control Systems are notoriously hard to read. There are too many events, the individual logs are poorly phrased and badly parsed, you need to wade through lots of data that has no real information value to find the item you are looking for. Looking through logs on a mobile device is even more difficult as the length of the line is longer than the width of the screen. There are lots of good technical reasons why event logs are complex and the difficulty in reading it all is to some extent unavoidable. In the IPIO app we have tackled this problem and come up a with a design that makes the complexity a little easier to read.

Organised per day and collapsible
We decided that a day was the right unit to look at logs in. There are reasons when you need to look at logs over a week, but they are more extreme and we decided against including the UI overhead of that option. Each day can be easily expanded and collapsed.

The logs follow the naming preferences the user has set
Every system has the default names it gives to entities such as cameras, doors, sensors, buttons. In many event log systems these names carry through to the logs. This has the advantage of being always true in a system sense but the disadvantage of being difficult to interpret.
For example: Node1 UnSet by UserID AX456.
We decided against that and use the User named buttons and actions.
For example: Kitchen Camera, On, by Joe.

Colour coded
We use colour in a way that increases legibility. Green indicates armed, red indicates disarmed, blue indicates a sensor reset and white indicates a trigger event.

Short
Our log entries are as short as possible. We cannot always manage to get the whole event log into just one line and need to carriage return but we try and keep the event log both meaningful and as short as possible.

Time of day is parsed as stand out feature
We use time as the main index within the day view. Event times are parsed out and made clear and stand alone.

These careful design considerations make IPIO logs easy and fast to read, improving the experience for the user and also helping the process of enabling the user to use the data as information that people can base action on.

IPIO Event Logs

IPIO is a universal I/O device and corresponding mobile app. By “universal” we mean that it can be used to monitor and switch any electronic/electrical device. Our expertise is in the Security Industry and typically IPIO is used to switch CCTV systems, Alarm systems, PIR systems, door and gate locks, security lights, audio warnings, etc. However, it could be used to switch a washing machine. Although none of our customers have used IPIO to control a washing machine many have found interesting and surprising uses for IPIO. To support “universality” the labels on each output button are editable. Button names and action status can be changed to suit the device under control.

Labels on buttons
The default label on a button is “Output (1234), Armed/Disarmed”. This can be changed to give more meaningful notations (Settings/Name/On Status/Off Status). The notations are also reflected in the event logs and app notifications.