Fast investigations using schedules

Carter Maslan
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Sep 3, 2020

Camio is most often used for its real-time video search and alerts in GSOC triage and investigations. Sometimes, only the general time of day is known at the start of an investigation. For example, in COVID-19 contact tracing, you might look for the people that shared the same room 12pm-1pm over the last 10 days. If you could browse that same 1-hour time period across all days quickly, then you could also notify the right people quickly. The Camio schedule: search operator enables you to browse quick summaries by constraining searches to a schedule.

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Same time, different days

Browsing the same times across multiple days is fast with the schedule: search operator. For example, to see everyone who shared a lunch room between 12pm and 1pm over the past ten days, use this query:

people 10 days ago schedule: 12pm to 1pm

As you scroll through the results, you’ll see only the events that happened in that particular 1-hour period from 12pm to 1pm each day.

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The schedule: operators also supports days of the week. For example, to constrain that same investigation to Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, just add those days to the end of the schedule.

people 10 days ago schedule: 12pm to 1pm monday wednesday friday

Multiple Schedules

You can also add multiple schedules. For example, to see people only after business hours on a weekday or anytime over the weekend, just add a comma before the next schedule.

people 2 weeks ago schedule: 6pm to 8am weekdays, 12am to 12am weekends

NOTE: the schedule: operator must be at the end of your query unless you terminate it with a semicolon. For example, if you were modifying the first query above to include only those people in the color red, then the query would be:

people 10 days ago schedule: 5pm to 6pm weekdays; red

Auto-upload Query Filters

You can use schedules in auto-upload query filters too. Support for schedules in exports, and timelapses is coming soon. The schedule: operator was originally created to support Remote Video Monitoring companies that need to upload automatically to the cloud only during nighttime monitoring hours and weekends. Learn more about schedules and their use in side-by-side comparisons of Camio to alternatives.