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AI CCTV custom alerts

Some situations are easier to describe than to select from a menu. Supported AI CCTV platforms let you write an alert condition, such as a forklift entering a pedestrian area. The system then looks for that condition in the configured camera views.

Illustration of a written forklift rule triggering a zone-entry notification
AI-generated illustration of plain-language alerts. The scene and overlays explain the concept; they are not a PGAK screenshot or measured result.

How it works

Create supported alerts using a written description of the condition you want to monitor.

Where it could help your business

Evaluate alerts for missing safety equipment at an industrial site.

Keep each rule specific. Name the object, action and area you care about, then test examples that should and should not trigger it. Agree who receives the alert and what they should do; a notification without a response process adds little value.

What your camera setup needs

Platform-specific capability. Each rule needs a site trial to measure missed and false alerts.

Will any written instruction work as an alert?

No. Supported concepts and processing capacity differ between platforms. A written rule must be tested on representative footage before it is used operationally.

Check it on your own site

Bring a camera model list and explain the event you want to find or detect. We can use that to scope a compatibility assessment. Ask for a written proposal naming the supported functions, processing hardware, licences and pilot checks before agreeing to an installation.

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Custom text alerts: estimate it for your site

Use your own measurements. The result is the staff time released, shown separately from any cash, using the formula below. It runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.

Fields start empty. A blank is “not entered”, not zero; type 0 where 0 is true.

Money (optional)

Salary plus benefits and overheads, per working hour. Needed only if you enter a realisation above 0%.

0% unless you can name the mechanism — overtime that stops, a post not refilled, a contract reduced.

Only from your own records. May be negative.

Licences, support, connectivity. Enter 0 if there is none.

Hardware, installation, commissioning. Enter 0 if there is none.

Enter every amount on the same basis — all including GST or all excluding it. Nothing here adds or removes tax. Values are nominal rupees, not discounted.

Result

Enter your own figures, or load the worked example, to see the result.

How it is calculated

hours = events × (old − new) ÷ 60 − rule maintenance hours

Worked example (illustrative inputs)

300 events; 2 old; 0.5 new; 2 maintenance.

staff time released: 5.5 hours a month.

Formula version 1.0.0. The full standalone tool: false alarm cost.

What this does not tell you

  • Hours released are capacity, not cash. They become cash only through a mechanism you state — overtime that stops, a post that is not refilled — entered as the realisation fraction.
  • The 'after' values are your assumptions or pilot measurements. PGAK publishes no effectiveness figure for this feature.

Evidence status: Supplier/integration or marketed capability; PGAK availability and site performance require verification.

Request a site-specific assessment with these assumptions

Your result stays on this page either way. If you want it checked against your cameras and quotation, leave a number; mention the figures on the call. Nothing you typed into the calculator is sent with this form.

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