«Tasks» Section#
The «Tasks» section is intended for creating, deleting, and displaying pending tasks, and exporting search results.
The general view of the «Tasks» section (Figure 95). The description of the task table is provided in Table 54.
The Administrator can view and stop the tasks of any user.
Deleting a task is only available to the task author.
Table 54. Task Table Column Descriptions
| Name | Description | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Author | Task initiating user | CARS_Analytics user name |
| ID | Task ID | Unique task ID |
| Type | Task type | - Export to file |
| - Image search | ||
| - Get camera preview | ||
| - Unknown | ||
| Status | Task execution status | See Table 55 for status descriptions |
| Creation Date | Task creation date and time | MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS |
| Completion Date | Task completion date and time | MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS |
Table 55. Task Execution Statuses
| Status | Description |
|---|---|
 |
Task completed successfully |
 |
Task execution paused |
 |
Task canceled by the user during execution |
 |
An error occurred during execution |
Stopping a task can only be done while it is running. To do this, click the «Stop Task» button.
Restarting or resuming a stopped task is not possible.
Search and filtering of tasks are performed using the fields:
- Author – email address of the user who created the task;
- Type – task type:
- All;
- Image search;
- Export file;
- Get camera preview;
- Unknown
- Status – task execution status:
- All;
- Pending;
- Running;
- Completed;
- Interrupted;
- Canceled
Creating the «Export to File» Task#
The «Export to File» task can be created in the «Events» and «Incidents» sections after applying filters. The result of the task execution is a report in XLSX format containing information about events or incidents that meet the applied filters and settings.
Clicking on the «Export» button opens the export settings window (Figure 96).
The main settings include changing filtering options.
After selecting additional items, click the «Submit» button. The window will close, and a background task will be created.
Columns#
This setting determines which columns will be included in the file and in which order.
The columns are divided into two sections:
- Event Information – data about the event or incident;
- Vehicle – data about the vehicle involved in a specific event or incident.
All sections and subsections can be expanded using the icon 
, and collapsed using the icon 
. You can expand or collapse any section or subsection by clicking the arrow icon next to the section name.
Next to the name of each section (subsection) and value is a checkbox. When no value is selected within a section (subsection), the checkbox remains empty (Figure 97).
If at least one value from the section (subsection) is selected, the checkbox will change to 
, and the checkbox next to the value will change to 
. The same checkbox will appear when all values of the section (subsection) are selected (Figure 98).
To select or deselect all values in a section (subsection) at once, click the checkbox next to the section (subsection) name.
The available columns for selection are provided in Table 56.
Table 56. Available Columns for Selection
| Section | Subsection/Section value | Subsection value |
|---|---|---|
| Event information | Event ID | - |
| Track ID | - | |
| Frame ID | - | |
| Date | Date and time | |
| Date | ||
| Time | ||
| Month | ||
| Day | ||
| Camera | - | |
| Vehicle | Vehicle type | Vehicle type |
| Vehicle type (accuracy) | ||
| Brand-Model | Model | |
| Brand | ||
| Brand-Model (accuracy) | ||
| LP Country | LP Country | |
| LP Country (accuracy) | ||
| Color | Color | |
| Color (accuracy) | ||
| Color type | ||
| Color type (accuracy) | ||
| LP | LP | |
| LP (accuracy) | ||
| Emergency Service type | Emergency Service type | |
| Emergency Service type (accuracy) | ||
| Flashing lights presence | ||
| Flashing lights presence (accuracy) | ||
| Public transport | Public transport | |
| Public transport (accuracy) | ||
| Special transport | Special transport | |
| Special transport (accuracy) | ||
| Number of Axles | Number of Axles | |
| Number of Axles (accuracy) | ||
| Images | Front view | |
| LP image |
Viewing Task Execution Results#
To view the results of the following tasks, go to the «Tasks» section and click on the buttons in the corresponding rows of the completed tasks (Figure 99).
- Export to file task
– an XLSX file will be downloaded; - Image search task
– search results will be displayed.
The result of the «Get Camera Preview» task is the appearance of the camera preview image in the corresponding camera section.
«Export to File» Task Execution Result#
The result of executing the task is an XLSX file containing a table. The table includes columns added by the user when creating the task with the applied filters taken into account.
A description of all available table columns is provided in Table 57.
Example of the table with exported vehicle and LP events (Figure 100).
Table 57. Description of XLSX File Columns
| Column name | Description |
|---|---|
| Event ID | Event or Incident ID |
| Front View | Best shot frame of the vehicle |
| LP image | Best shot frame of LP |
| LP | LP attribute providing information about the LP symbols |
| LP (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of LP recognition |
| LP Country | LP attribute showing the country of the LP |
| LP Country (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of LP country attribute |
| Track ID | Track ID where the event or incident was detected |
| Frame ID | ID of the best vehicle frame used to extract vehicle and LP attributes |
| Date and Time | Date and time of event or incident registration |
| Date | Date of event or incident registration |
| Time | Time of event or incident registration |
| Month | Month number of event or incident registration |
| Day | Day of event or incident registration |
| Camera | Name of the camera that captured the event or incident |
| Vehicle Type | Vehicle attribute indicating the vehicle type |
| Vehicle Type (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of vehicle type attribute |
| Model | Vehicle attribute showing the recognized vehicle model |
| Brand | Vehicle attribute showing the recognized vehicle brand |
| Brand-Model (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of brand-model attribute |
| Color | Vehicle attribute indicating the color of the vehicle |
| Color (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of vehicle color attribute |
| Color Type | Vehicle attribute indicating the vehicle's color type |
| Color Type (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of color type attribute |
| Emergency Service Type | Vehicle attribute indicating affiliation with emergency services |
| Emergency Service Type (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of emergency service affiliation attribute |
| Flashing lights presence | Attribute indicating the presence of flashing lights on the vehicle |
| Flashing lights presence (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of flashing lights presence attribute |
| Public transport | Vehicle attribute indicating affiliation with public transport |
| Public transport (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of public transport affiliation attribute |
| Special transport | Vehicle attribute indicating affiliation with special transport |
| Special transport (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of special transport affiliation attribute |
| Number of Axles | Vehicle attribute providing information about the number of detected axles |
| Number of Axles (accuracy) | Accuracy rating of number of axles attribute |
«Image Search» Task Execution Result#
The result of the image search task is displayed on a separate page (Figure 101). The page contains a list of all the events found. If no matches are found, the table will be empty.
«Get Camera Preview» Task Execution Result#
Once the status of this task is set to «Completed», go to the «Cameras» section, select the corresponding camera, and you will see the preview added by the system.