Investigate in seconds, act in one click

When Hanwha AI cameras feed WAVE, every detected object arrives as searchable metadata — object type plus attributes (see what the camera extracts). WAVE's objects tab and advanced search then let you:

• Filter by object type — person, vehicle, bicycle…
• Filter by attributes — clothing color, vehicle type, vehicle color, speed
• Browse a thumbnail gallery of detections in a time window (each a BestShot)
• Click a result to jump straight to the recording at that moment

No metadata from AI cameras? The client still includes Smart Motion Search — outline a region on recorded video and replay every motion event inside it.

With LPR cameras feeding the system, every vehicle is a record: the plate image plus the plate text from the analysis function. In WAVE, finding a vehicle is a text search — type part of a plate, get matching events with snapshots and video.

Full setup details, camera models, and speed classes are on the License Plate Recognition page.

WAVE lets you link cameras together in the layout. Draw a hotspot region on one camera — say, the gate on a wide panoramic view — and clicking it "teleports" the view to the camera that watches that spot. Operators navigate a whole property from one wide image, zooming into detail views with one click.

It's the software-side version of a fixed-camera-to-PTZ workflow: wide awareness on the wall, detail a click away. (Automatic hardware PTZ follow — where the PTZ physically steers itself to a fixed camera's detection — is a camera/pairing feature; see multi-sensor + PTZ teamwork and camera-side tracking analytics.)

A soft trigger (manual event button) is a button in the WAVE client that fires a configured action when an operator clicks it. Actions can include camera outputs, alarm triggers, HTTP calls to third-party systems, and more.

The classic example: a button on the parking-lot layout that remotely opens the barrier gate while the operator watches the car on live video. No separate gate app, no radio call — the video window is the control panel.

Triggers combine with the full event engine — triggers & actions — and with NVR features via WAVE for recording actions.

Hanwha appliance NVRs — and other supported recorders — don't sit beside WAVE; they're managed inside it. From the WAVE client you can:

• Control recorder settings — recording schedules and archive configuration without leaving the VMS
• Reach NVR archives — multiple archive connections per channel for playback of recorder-stored video
• See NVR events in the same event stream as everything else
• Monitor recorder health — disk status and telemetry alongside cameras

One console for the whole system — the operator never learns "NVR menus" at all. Recorders are covered in depth on the NVRs & appliances page.