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Live Monitor Overview

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📺 Live Face Viewing

Live Monitor

A real-time wall of face detections from every camera on your site. Red / yellow / green overlays give the operator the same visual feedback the customer sees at a Face Verify kiosk — so security staff know instantly whether to step in.

What Live Monitor Does​

Live Monitor is the Identities app's operator view of everything happening in front of your cameras right now. As each face is detected and matched on the server, a card animates into the grid with the person's photo, name, tags, custom fields, and a timestamp.

When a detection carries an EventClassification attribute (set by your rules engine — typically Node-RED), Live Monitor colors the card using a matching Event Theme. That same classification drives the color a customer sees at the Face Verify kiosk, so both sides of the transaction see the same signal.

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Live Monitor grid showing green, yellow, and red themed detections side-by-side
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The Operator Side of Red / Green Light​

The kiosk keeps customer-facing messages friendly — "Welcome" or "Please check in with security" — without ever showing why. Live Monitor is where staff see the full picture, so they can respond appropriately without the customer knowing the underlying classification.

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Green
Customer was welcomed at the kiosk. Operator sees a green card confirming the greeting was issued — no action needed.
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Yellow
A soft check-in was requested. Operator sees a heads-up that someone will be walking up to the security podium — typically a new visitor or routine check-in.
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Red
A firmer check-in was issued. Operator sees a prominent red card with the underlying reason (watch list, denied, etc.) — enough context to intervene before the customer proceeds, without that reason ever being visible to the customer.

Combined with a Face Verify kiosk, this gives a complete loop: the customer sees one color on the kiosk, and the operator sees the same color on Live Monitor — everyone has the same awareness at the same moment.

Getting There​

Menu path: Main → Live Monitor (requires Live Monitoring → Live Monitor Viewer).

Key Capabilities​

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Filter What You See
Filter detections by detector (camera), identity collection, tags, and which custom fields to display on cards.
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Event Themes
Color, Icon Alert, and Festive themes tied to EventClassification values give each situation a distinctive look.
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Pause / Play
Operators can pause the feed to review a detection, then resume — queued detections animate in when play resumes.
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Quick Edit & Tag
Open the Person Editor from any card. Quick-action tag buttons let you label a detection in one click.
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Kiosk Mode
Hide menus, lock down controls, and deploy Live Monitor as a full-screen operator dashboard — restored from an encrypted URL.
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Settings Persist
Your filters, themes, and layout are saved in the browser and come back automatically the next time you load the page.

Configuration Guides​

Last updated on by Travis Whidden