AI Bridge v1.6.0 Release - New "zone" Field

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The latest AI Bridge release (v1.6.0) states the following in the release notes:

  • New zone field added. Use it to ensure the best performance in large VMS installations with hundreds of recording servers and multiple processing servers.

Can someone please elaborate more on the purpose of this field, as well as how to make use of it? Maybe with an example?

Thanks in advance.

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Imagine a setup with e.g. 10.000 cameras and maybe 80 Recording Servers. With a system like this, the cameras will most likely be distributed across a rather large geographical area. Likewise, the Recording Servers will typically also be grouped together in small data centers (e.g. 10 in each) that are placed close to the cameras that they manage. When setting up a Processing Server (using the AI Bridge), it will often make sense to make a similar grouping. One Processing Server will not be enough to do analytics on all the cameras, but maybe one or two in each group of Recording Servers would be good enough.

The zone concept is to tell the AI Bridge which Recording Servers it should concern itself with. So, the zone is basically just a list of Recording Servers and only cameras managed by those Recording Servers will be accessible through the AI Bridge.

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Makes sense. Thanks for answering, John!