Platform Configuration

Platform configuration shapes how Gaard scores video, how long it keeps data, and how annotated results look. This guide walks through each panel and what its settings control.

Prerequisites

• An Administrator account. Platform settings live under Settings → Platform and are only visible to administrators.

Each panel is under Settings → Platform → Settings. Change a value, then select the panel’s Save button to apply it: for example Save Threshold Settings.

Threshold

The Threshold panel controls the two boundaries that turn a raw intrusion score into a risk level.

• Enabled: turn threshold tuning on or off.
• Range: a dual slider from 0.00 to 1.00. Low marks the boundary below which a result is considered safe; High marks the boundary above which a result is a clear intrusion. Scores between the two are danger.

This panel is the configuration surface behind Gaard’s risk model. For how scores become safe, danger, and intrusion, see Risk, labels, and scores.

Retention

The Retention panel controls how long classified data is kept.

• Enabled: when on, Gaard automatically deletes classified data older than the configured duration.
• Keep data for: a duration string such as 720h, 30d, or 6m. Days, months, and years are supported.

When retention is disabled, data is kept for at most 30 days. For the data-protection context, see Data Retention & GDPR.

Classify

The Classify panel tunes how the classifier scores video.

• Enabled: turn classification on or off.
• Intrusion labels: labels treated as intrusions during scoring.
• Excluded labels: labels removed from the classifier output entirely.
• Classification sample rate: classify 1 in N videos and return a mock result for the rest. Leave it empty to classify every video.

Caution

Use the Classification sample rate only on test environments. On a production flow it means most videos are not actually classified.

Annotation

The Annotation panel controls the appearance of annotated (highlight) videos and images.

• Enabled: turn annotation output on or off.
• Draw grid overlay: overlay a reference grid on annotated frames.
• Show all bounding boxes: when off, only the labels that triggered the alert are drawn.
• Bounding box thickness (px): line thickness of detection boxes, from 1 to 5.
• Frame border thickness (px): line thickness of the risk-colored frame border, from 1 to 5.
• Rendered labels: the set of labels drawn on annotated frames (for example person, vehicle, intrusion).

Save a change

Every panel follows the same pattern:

1. Open Settings → Platform → Settings and choose the panel.

2. Adjust the settings.

3. Select the panel’s Save button. A confirmation appears when the update succeeds.

Next steps

Flows Group classification traffic and configuration.

Risk, labels, and scores How scores become risk levels.

Data Retention & GDPR Retention and erasure obligations.