Deep North Video Analytics is a leading-edge platform that performs real-time and batch processing of images that are captured by cameras that are typically located in the ceiling of a retail environment. The Deep North platform ingests the images and feeds them directly into the memory of GPU cards that are installed in a Dell PowerEdge or Dell VxRail node. Each camera stream is analyzed frame by frame, and then the Deep North inferencing algorithms produce specific metadata. This metadata is then sent to the Deep North Analytics Cloud and converted into a dashboard that provides valuable information to the store owner.
The Deep North software is deployed on premises using Docker containers and the Ubuntu 20.0.4 operating system.
The Deep North Analytics Cloud platform is comprised of several different features, as detailed in the following sections.
Dashboard
The main dashboard page shown in the following figure shows the top five zones visited in a store, the cumulative number of pedestrian visits, the pedestrian queue count, and the max pedestrian queue wait time.
![Example of Deep North customer dashboard main page](/static/media/9198938f-8c47-5a0e-82d9-6db6a62cd3f7/DAM-737a7bc8-71cd-44ba-9c4e-d28d62d7cb60/out/dn-dashbd-main=GUID-661E60A4-6844-4329-ACC0-E063C00DFF22=1=en-us=Low.png)
The box at the upper left displays real-time entries and real-time occupancy, which are cumulative from the start of the day. The values are zero in the example figure, as there was no real-time video stream available at the time of screen capture.
Analysis
The analysis page provides further analytics. Information is generated either on a daily, hourly, or monthly basis, and can be filtered by the day of the week or by entrance, zone, or checkout. Subsections of the analysis page include deeper zonal analysis, checkout analysis, and demographic analysis.
![Example of zonal analysis](/static/media/9198938f-8c47-5a0e-82d9-6db6a62cd3f7/DAM-737a7bc8-71cd-44ba-9c4e-d28d62d7cb60/out/zonal-anlsys=GUID-7D3783A2-DE25-431D-98DE-0571E46B6DE6=1=en-us=Low.png)
![Example of demographics analysis](/static/media/9198938f-8c47-5a0e-82d9-6db6a62cd3f7/DAM-737a7bc8-71cd-44ba-9c4e-d28d62d7cb60/out/demog-anlsys=GUID-DDD79B62-1FF5-4532-9228-885F472C5A0A=1=en-us=Low.png)
Reports
The reports page of the platform allows the customer to run daily reports by selecting the requested date. This generates a web-based daily analytics report and is downloadable as a .pdf file.
![Example of a daily report](/static/media/9198938f-8c47-5a0e-82d9-6db6a62cd3f7/DAM-737a7bc8-71cd-44ba-9c4e-d28d62d7cb60/out/dn-daily-report=GUID-AB0ED0E4-B3D4-430D-BCD4-79BA6539D7F4=1=en-us=Low.png)
Protocols in use
The various networking protocols in use by the on-premises Deep North software are essential for the platform to function. See Protocols for details.