Q & A

Understanding ORTUS AI and its Core Capabilities

Q: What is ORTUS AI?

A: ORTUS AI offers a powerful suite of Vision AI solutions designed to analyze traffic flows and visitor activity across diverse environments, providing real-time insights and enhancing operational efficiency and security.

Q: What kind of problems does ORTUS AI solve for businesses?

A: ORTUS AI solves critical problems by providing real-time insights into traffic flow and visitor activity, enhancing security, improving operational efficiency, and enabling data-driven decision-making across various industries like retail, transportation, manufacturing, and public spaces.

Q: What is ORTUS Live, and what are its main components?

A: ORTUS Live is the core "engine" of our Vision AI platform, designed for real-time analysis of traffic flows and visitor activity within user-defined zones. Its main components include the ORTUS Live Sensor (for CCTV data extraction), ORTUS Live Engine (for raw data processing), ORTUS Live Hub (for data gathering and storage), and ORTUS Live Web Services (for the user interface).

Q: How does ORTUS AI integrate with existing camera infrastructure?

A: ORTUS AI offers Professional Services that connect to specified CCTV cameras via RTSP, ensuring universal integration for industries with existing CCTV infrastructure. It also supports ONVIF camera discovery for simplified deployment.

Q: What kind of real-time data and insights can I expect from ORTUS AI LIVE?

A: ORTUS AI LIVE provides rich metadata for each camera, live database updates for real-time dashboards (sub-second latency), and visualizations of live occupancy and dwell time for quick decision-making.

Specific Modules and Features

Q: Does ORTUS AI offer facial recognition, age, and gender recognition capabilities?

A: Yes, through our OrtuFiQ module, ORTUS AI provides advanced facial recognition for access control, identification, detection, and searching for persons of interest. It also includes capabilities for age and gender recognition to provide deeper insights into visitor demographics and enhance security management.

Q: What is X.ZONE, and what can it do for spatial analysis?

A: X.ZONE provides advanced spatial analysis capabilities, including digital floor maps, bi-directional monitoring, and custom zone designs. It enables granular traffic and behavior analysis through flexible configurations of exclusion zones, zones of interest, activity zones, and crossing lines, with robust people and vehicle detection and tracking.

Q: How does ORTUS Cheqit ensure camera performance?

A: ORTUS Cheqit is dedicated software for monitoring and reporting the health of connected cameras. It tracks critical metrics such as uptime, connectivity, focus, lighting, obstruction, orientation, resolution, and framerate, ensuring optimal performance and proactive issue detection.

Q: Can ORTUS AI help with privacy compliance?

A: Yes, ORTUS AI is designed with "privacy by design," meaning no sensitive or uniquely identifiable information is collected or stored. Diagnostic video streams are not recorded and can be disabled. Furthermore, it includes flexible privacy controls system-wide, per account, per site, or per sensor.

Q: Does ORTUS AI offer heatmaps for visual traffic analysis?

A: Yes, ORTUS AI offers traffic and dwell heatmaps for visual traffic analysis, which are ideal for retail, museums, and commercial spaces.

Q: How does ORTUS AI analyze traffic flow patterns?

A: ORTUS AI can aggregate traffic trajectories for detailed flow analysis, which is ideal for understanding movement patterns in retail, transportation hubs, and for urban planning. This includes cross-zone traffic analysis and enhanced multi-sensor deployment/management.

Q: What reporting and data export capabilities does ORTUS AI offer?

A: ORTUS AI supports comprehensive data analysis and reporting through fullscreen view support for charts, CSV data export, an API-first design for flexible data export and custom UIs, full data export via Excel, and the creation of flexible, rich static reports based on Excel templates, with scheduled and on-demand generation and distribution.

Q: How does ORTUS AI help with quick diagnostics and verification of camera setup?

A: ORTUS AI provides camera snapshots and streaming in the dashboards and via MJPEG, enabling quick diagnostics, verification, and optimization of sensor setup for security and operations teams. It also utilizes blurred and long exposure background images as a privacy-preserving alternative to diagnostic video streams.

Q: How does ORTUS AI continuously improve its analytical accuracy?

A: ORTUS AI continuously improves accuracy and reliability through new detection models and tracking algorithms, leading to more precise insights, fewer false positives, and better-informed decision-making.

Deployment, Scalability, and Support

Q: What are the hardware requirements for deploying ORTUS AI?

A: ORTUS AI recommends a minmium of recent Intel Core-i5 CPU or better (with 2 cores per camera), 8GB RAM or more (4GB for OS + ~500MB per camera), and an SSD with 1GB for OS/applications and 1TB+ for data. It also supports optional video decoding/encoding hardware acceleration for better performance.

Q: Can ORTUS AI be deployed on-premise or offline?

A: Yes, ORTUS AI is designed to support off-line and on-premise deployments, which is essential for high-security, regulated industries and sites with remote or limited connectivity.

Q: How scalable is the ORTUS AI platform?

A: ORTUS AI features a high-performance real-time database scalable from a single machine to a private or public cloud. It also has a flexible architecture allowing for centralized and fully distributed/federated deployments.

Q: What kind of professional services does ORTUS AI provide for deployment and integration?

A: Our Professional Services offer extensive support for ORTUS AI platform deployment, security, and integration. This includes initial camera connections, system compatibility recommendations, secure credential management, flexible account and license management, and improved APIs for seamless integrations with various VMS, access control systems, and POS/ERP platforms.

Q: How does ORTUS AI ensure data security?

A: ORTUS AI includes enhanced security for its Web UI and inter-component communications. It also incorporates secrets management, Single Sign-On integration with providers like Okta and Microsoft AD, granular user authorization (RBAC), and alignment with SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001 processes/compliance roadmap.

Q: How does ORTUS AI manage sensitive credentials like RTSP, SMTP, and API keys?

A: ORTUS AI incorporates secrets management, utilizing a key vault to securely store RTSP, SMTP, and API credentials and keys, thereby enhancing the cybersecurity posture for all industries, especially high-security and regulated ones.

Q: How does ORTUS AI facilitate user and license management for large organizations?

A: ORTUS AI offers flexible account management within the Web UI and enhanced license management, including offline and online activation, and support for concurrent sensors/users caps, making it ideal for large enterprises and service providers to efficiently control user access and manage licensing.

Q: How does ORTUS AI ensure continuous operation during system updates?

A: ORTUS AI supports automated zero-downtime/rolling updates, ensuring continuous operation and minimized disruption in mission-critical environments.

Q: What kind of system health monitoring does ORTUS AI provide?

A: ORTUS AI offers comprehensive system health monitoring directly in the UI and via email, along with database housekeeping tools, to ensure continuous and effective operation.

Key Benefits and Applications

Q: Which industries specifically benefit from ORTUS AI's features?

A: ORTUS AI provides benefits across a wide range of industries including Critical Infrastructure, Transportation, Retail, Manufacturing, Public Spaces, Security and Law Enforcement, Research and Development, Customs and Border Control, and Civil Protection.

Q: How can ORTUS AI assist during civil emergencies?

A: For civil protection, ORTUS AI can connect to existing cameras to monitor real-time crowd and swimmer density (e.g., between swimming flags on public beaches). During civil emergencies like flooding or fires, it can monitor dangerous areas to support rescue operations and evacuation efforts.

Q: How does ORTUS AI help businesses with compliance and auditing?

A: ORTUS AI supports granular user authorization (RBAC) and enhanced logging and auditing, including support for logging servers. This is essential for ensuring secure, compliant, and efficient user access management with clear audit trails, aligning with standards like SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001.

Q: Can ORTUS AI integrate with existing Video Management Systems (VMS)?

A: Yes, ORTUS AI is designed to integrate with popular VMS platforms like Milestone and Genetec, enabling sensor discovery and connection, and facilitating video extraction for alerts.

Q: How does ORTUS AI help optimize operational efficiency in manufacturing and industrial settings?

A: In manufacturing, ORTUS AI can integrate existing cameras for safety monitoring, unauthorized access detection, and operational efficiency within varied environments, including agricultural and industrial processing plants and commercial greenhouses. It can also analyze worker and equipment movement in dangerous zones for safety compliance and process optimization.

Q: Can ORTUS AI help me calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO) for deployment?

A: Yes, ORTUS AI provides a sizing/TCO calculator to assist all industries in accurately planning budgets, allocating resources, and justifying their investment by clearly quantifying the total cost of ownership across single or multiple sites.

Q: How can ORTUS AI optimize staffing and resource allocation in public spaces?

A: ORTUS AI can optimize staffing and resource allocation in public spaces by providing live occupancy and dwell time visualization in dashboards, along with granular data on occupancy, visits, entries, exits, and cross-zone traffic. This helps operations managers track and compare current people counts against historical data or planned capacities, facilitating dynamic resource allocation and crowd management.