Camera intelligence · Feature guide

AI auto tracking PTZ camera

A PTZ camera can physically pan, tilt and zoom. With supported AI auto tracking, it can follow a selected person or vehicle through its viewing area. This can help an operator keep a moving subject in view across an open industrial yard.

Illustration of a motorised PTZ camera following a truck in an Indian industrial yard
AI-generated illustration of ai ptz auto-tracking. The scene and overlays explain the concept; they are not a PGAK screenshot or measured result.

How it works

A compatible motorised camera pans, tilts and zooms to follow a selected object.

Where it could help your business

Follow movement through an open construction yard.

Plan what watches the rest of the yard while the PTZ follows one target. Test how tracking behaves when the subject passes behind an obstruction, when two objects cross and when tracking ends. Fixed overview cameras may still be useful alongside it.

What your camera setup needs

Requires a supported PTZ camera. A fixed camera cannot gain motorised tracking through software.

Can software make a fixed camera auto-track like a PTZ?

Software can crop or follow an object within a fixed image, but it cannot add physical pan, tilt or optical zoom to a camera without those mechanisms.

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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PTZ tracking: 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.

Time spent re-finding a subject the moving camera lost.

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.

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Result

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

How it is calculated

hours = sessions × (old − new − recovery) ÷ 60

Worked example (illustrative inputs)

60 sessions; 10 old; 3 new; 2 recovery.

staff time released: 5 hours a month.

Formula version 1.0.0.

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.

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