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Analytic Metadata Best Practices

With Artificial Intelligence being used more often users may notice a spike in the analytic metadata being processed and stored.  Here are our recommendations to manage this increase.

Update exacqVision Server/Client Software

  • Ensure you are running the latest version of both exacqVision Server and Client software.  
  • Search “updating” in the exacqVision Client User Manual, available Here for information on updating.

Adjust Camera Settings

  • Access Analytics from the camera’s configuration GUI page
  • Only those analytic types required by the customer should be enabled
  • The goal is to keep this setting as minimal as possible, while still achieving the customers goals.

Reduce DB retention period

  • Reduce ‘Maximum Days to Keep Bounding Box Metadata’ available in exacqVision Server/Client 23.09 and higher. See: Maximum Days to Keep Bounding Box Metadata Explained
  • Reduce the ‘Maximum Days to Keep Logged Events’
  • These settings decide when older items should be removed or “Purged” from the Database (eventPI), the lower the value, the less storage needed. 
  • It is recommended to set this value as low as possible and adjust based on available storage when data is processing
  • Customer retention requirements must also be considered.

Disable Analytics

  • Each camera is different, but if the user does not have enough storage for 24 hours of analytics, or if analytics are not needed, currently the best option is to disable the analytics completely. 
  • Within the exacqVision Client software, go to Configuration → Server → Configure System → Add IP Cameras → Camera Recording → Analytics Camera → Analytics tab – Uncheck “Record analytic data”

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