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Virtual patrolling

Virtual patrolling is a scheduled patrol round conducted through a site's cameras rather than on foot: each camera is a stop, each stop has a checklist, and a failed check notifies the assigned guard and is recorded in a report for the round. It replaces the routine walk, not the response.

A round is defined once as an ordered sequence of cameras with a list of conditions at each: is the gate closed, is the yard clear, is the shutter down. It then runs manually by an operator or automatically on a schedule set by frequency, hours and days in the site's own timezone.

Every item is marked compliant or not, with the frame it was judged on. A failing item captures a snapshot and messages the guard designated for that camera; it stays pending until it is fixed, which captures the after frame, or is held with a written reason. The report per round carries all of it and a compliance percentage.

An automated round also records, for every camera, a description of the scene, the people and objects present and any safety or security risk it sees, whether or not the checklist asked. That is what makes the report a record rather than a log.

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A guard tour system proves that a guard reached a checkpoint, usually by tapping a tag. A virtual patrol proves the condition at the checkpoint, with a frame per item, and needs nobody to walk it.

No. It runs on the cameras a site already has, as long as they stream RTSP, RTMP or HTTPS, directly or through the Camzify Connector.

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