Onsights Telemetry With Wasabi

Onsights Telemetry delivers identification and behavior tracking for thousands of shoppers at once, following each customer throughout their full visit. The platform works with cameras already installed on-site, eliminating the need for additional equipment. With integrated dashboards and analytics, it delivers insights into key shopper behavior questions, and its AI-driven system meets both CCPA and GDPR compliance standards.

Requirements

• Wasabi Surveillance Cloud (WSC)accouny

  • WSC bucket (see Creating a Bucket)

  • Wasabi Access & Secret Key with read-only permissions (see Creating a User Account and Access Key)

• Video Management System (Milestone, Genetec)

• Onsights Version 1.0

  • Onsights Telemetry License (contact Onsights.io for a demo/quote)

Reference Architecture Diagram

Configuring the Onboarding Video Source

1. Log in to your Onsights Dashboard.

2. Start the onboarding process with the Facility Wizard.

3. Complete the Facility Details and Floor Plan steps of the wizard.

4. In a later step, you will be asked for the Video Source. Click ADD CONNECTION.

   

5. Fill the modal configuration form.

   • VMS—Select the video management system you use.

   • Transport—Select Storage.

   • Backend—Select Wasabi.

   • Bucket—Input the name of the bucket with your archived videos.

   • Prefix—(optional) The folder path inside your Wasabi bucket where WSC uploads your VMS recordings. This is the same value you configured as the destination/target folder in WSC. Enter only the prefix itself. Do not include the bucket name or any folders created automatically by your VMS. These are detected automatically.

   • Endpoint URL—Your bucket endpoint URL. For more information, see Service URLs for Wasabi’s Storage Regions.

   • Authentication—Select Client Credentials.

   • Client ID—The preconfigured Wasabi Access Key Id.

   • Client Secret—The preconfigured Wasabi Secret Access Key.

6. Click Add to submit the form.

   

   As a Facility Manager you can:

   • Update VMS Connection

   • Ingest videos to system

7. Log in to your Onsights dashboard.

8. Navigate to the Administration Panel.

   

Configuring the VMS Connection Update

1. In Facility Settings, navigate to VMS Connection.

2. Click Update Connection.

   

3. You will see a modal popup where you can update connection details.

   This configuration example discusses the use of Wasabi's us-east-2 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in Service URLs for Wasabi's Storage Regions.

   

Configuring Video Ingest

1. Navigate to Video Files.

2. Click Ingest Videos.

   

3. Input the following information.

   • Date—The day of recorded video you wish to process.

   • Cameras—You can select from the onboarded and active cameras.

   • Time Window—By default, the facility’s opening hours are populated.