Counting Metadata or Counting OSD?
ACTi's cameras can deliver counting data in two ways - either using a text-based metadata in parallel with the video stream, or embedding the live counting values onto the video overlay (OSD).
The benefits of the counting metadata is that the text-based counting numbers stored on the server side can later be used to generate counting reports by the time periods, whereas the OSD-based counting numbers are good for instant assessments by looking at the video, furthermore, such OSD-based counting display method does not require any special integration between the camera and the management server.
In fact, you could even use the camera alone, and simply observe the video stream with embedded counting using camera's own web interface.
