How to: Add generic sensors to Alta Aware

Last modified: Monday September 04, 2023.

By integrating your generic sensors with Alta Aware, you have all the tools and features to monitor the parameters from the sensors.

Considerations for generic sensor integration

The process to add sensors to your Aware deployment might vary from the one described here. It depends on the type of sensor, its capabilities, and its API features.

  • Integration requires that Aware receives webhooks containing correctly formatted data. These webhooks could be sent directly from the sensor, or by an application that queries sensors and then sends the data to Aware.
  • Configuring the sensor or application to send webhooks is outside the scope of these documents. Please refer to the sensor or application documentation.

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that you can access the sensor system.
  • Understand the sensor or application documentation for integrating the sensor into other systems.
  • Make sure that the sensor or application can send the required webhooks to Aware.

Task — Add a generic sensor to Alta Aware

The exact steps required to add information from the generic sensor integration into Aware will vary depending on the sensor and the integration.

  1. Choose Tools Open a tool > Devices Devices.
  2. Select Sensors.
  3. Click Add devices Add sensors.
  4. Select Generic.
  5. Enter the Sensor name.
  6. Select a Device group.
  7. Select any required Labels. The sensor might inherit some labels from the device group and site.
  8. Enter the Disconnect timeout in seconds.
  9. Choose Next.
  10. Define how many sources the sensor has:
    1. Enter a name for each source.
    2. Associate any required cameras with each source.
    3. To add another source, click Add source.
    4. Choose Next.
  11. Define the channels for each source:
    1. Enter an ID for each channel.
    2. Select a type each channel:
      1. This is the measurement of a single physical property.
      2. Each source can only have one of each channel type.
    3. To add more channels, click Add devices .
    4. Choose Done.
  12. Copy the Webhook URL.
  13. Use this Webhook URL to configure your generic sensor management system to send messages to Aware.
  14. Click OK.