How to Use Environmental and Attribute Sensor Types in Intel® SceneScape#

This guide provides step-by-step instructions to integrate and use environmental and attribute sensor types in Intel® SceneScape. By completing this guide, you will:

  • Understand the differences between environmental and attribute sensors.

  • Learn how to configure and publish sensor data to Intel® SceneScape.

  • Verify that sensor data is properly associated with tracked scene objects.

This task is important for enhancing your scene graph with real-world sensor data, enabling deeper insights from environmental context and object-specific attributes. If you’re new to Scene Graphs or Intel® SceneScape, see Integrating Cameras and Sensors.

Prerequisites#

Before you begin, ensure the following:

If you’re new to these concepts, see:

Steps to Integrate Environmental and Attribute Sensors#

1. Understand Sensor Types#

Environmental Sensors measure a property (e.g., temperature) for all objects within a defined measurement zone. Attribute Sensors detect a property (e.g., badge ID) for a specific object and persist that value even after the object leaves the measurement area.

2. Configure and Use an Environmental Sensor#

Create the Sensor#

  1. Log in to Intel® SceneScape.

  2. Click on a scene.

  3. Click on Sensors at the bottom of the scene.

  4. Click New Sensor to create a sensor.

  5. In the New Sensor form, fill out Sensor ID, Name and Scene fields.

  6. Update the Type of Sensor to environmental.

  7. Click Add New Sensor to save.

Modify the Sensor#

  1. Click on Sensors at the bottom of the scene.

  2. You will see the created sensor. Then click on the manage button.

  3. In the Manage Sensor view, you can update attributes like Measurement area (Entire Scene, Circle or Custom region), Name, Sensor id, Scene, Singleton type, Color Range, etc. For more details on how to use the Color Range, refer to How to visualize regions.

  4. Cick on Save Sensor to persist the modified sensor.

Publish Environmental Sensor Readings#

From a third party application, publish sensor data to the topic scenescape/data/sensor/<sensorName>

Notes:

Verify the Results#

Check the scene graph for objects within the sensor region:

Sensor JSON Data Example

Expected Results:

  • All tracked objects within the region are tagged with the temperature value in their scene graph updates.

3. Configure and Use an Attribute Sensor#

Step 1: Create the Sensor#

Create the Sensor#

  1. Log in to Intel® SceneScape.

  2. Click on a scene.

  3. Click on Sensors at the bottom of the scene.

  4. Click New Sensor to create a sensor.

  5. In the New Sensor form, fill out Sensor ID, Name and Scene fields.

  6. Update the Type of Sensor to attribute.

  7. Click Add New Sensor to save.

Refer to Modify the Sensor on how to modify the attribute sensor.

Step 2: Publish Attribute Sensor Readings#

From a third party application, publish sensor data to the topic scenescape/data/sensor/<sensorName>

Notes:

Step 3: Verify the Results#

Check updates for the target object:

Sensor JSON Data Example

Expected Results:

  • The object receives and retains the badge ID even after leaving the sensor zone.

Supporting Resources#