Platform

The Lumeo platform can be thought of in 5 key layers:

Category	Capabilities	Documentation
Video ingestion and management	Process video on-premise, in Lumeo Cloud or in your cloud.	Gateway
	Ingest live streams from any camera	Camera & Streams
	Ingest recordings/clips using SMTP, FTP or API	Clip & File Processing Bulk Clip Processing Guide Universal Bridge
	Remote viewing, playback and video embedding	Shared Streams Output Streams
	Cloud-based setup and device management
Ready-to-use Analytics	Ready-to-use Analytics library with quickly deployable pre-built analytics	Quick Deploy Guide
	AI Model marketplace	AI Models
Custom Analytics Builder	Drag-n-drop pipeline editor for analytics and video processing	Pipeline
	Bring-your-own AI Models	AI Models
	Vast library of Rules, connectors and integrations	Node Reference
	Integrate with large vision models : ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more.	OpenAI GPT4 Lookup Anthropic Claude Lookup Google Gemini Lookup Nvidia NIM Lookup Generic Detector Generic Classifier
	Embed and extend with APIs and custom code	API
Multi-modal Dashboards	Customizable dashboards with live video, event recordings, data and more.	Dashboards
AI Search	Natural language free-form search for events, objects and scenes	Search

Getting Started

If you are a..	Start here..
End user	- Dashboards to view and manage dashboards
	- Search to search for recordings
Integrator / IT Administrator	- Gateway to setup a new Gateway
	- Lumeo-Ready Gateways to setup a Lumeo-ready appliance
	- Camera & Streams to setup your Cameras
	- Quick Deploy Guide to deploy pre-built analytics using your Cameras to a Gateway
	- Security & Network to review security & network settings, setup SSO & RBAC
Developer	- Getting Started Guide to build & deploy your first Pipeline
	- Clip & File Processing to process video clips using Pipelines
	- Node Reference to extend your Pipelines
	- Deployments to deploy your Pipelines
	- AI Models to use ready-to-use AI models & import your own
	- API to manage analytics using Lumeo API

Key Concepts

Your Lumeo account is organized as follows -

Your Lumeo Account
    |-> Organization
        |-> Applications (aka Workspaces)
            |-> Pipelines
            |-> Analytics Library (Solution templates & AI Models)
            |-> Gateways
            |-> Sources - Cameras, Streams, Files
            |-> Deployments
            |-> Dashboards
            |-> Search

Account : The Lumeo user account, tied to an email address.
- Organization : Organizations are the top level container within Lumeo. Organizations are owned by an Account and can have many Accounts with access to it. Organizations are not visible in the Console at the moment, but a unique one is automatically created for each Account as a part of the onboarding process.
- Application / Workspace : An Workspace is a container for a use-case, and contains Cameras, Gateways, Pipelines, etc. An Organization can contain multiple Workspaces, and a default Workspace is created when you sign up.
Gateway A Gateway is a compute device that can execute a Pipeline and process video from Streams, IP Cameras on the same network, or attached USB cameras.
Camera & Streams IP (Security) Cameras, and USB & CSI Cameras attached to Gateways. Lumeo lets you manage them centrally and process video from them. Cameras can be discovered and managed using any Gateway that can access those Cameras.
- Stream : A video stream originating from a Camera, NVR or another source, or an output stream generated by a Pipeline. For IP Cameras that you manage using Lumeo, Streams are automatically created and managed for you. You can also configure RTSP and HTTP input streams to use in a Pipeline. Output Streams can be embedded in your application or public website.
Pipeline: A flexible, cloud-managed, video pipeline that can route, process, store and transform video and images at the edge or in the cloud. A Pipeline is made up of one or more Nodes which can receive Video from Cameras & Streams, process it, and output files, Streams or metadata to your application. Pipelines run on a variety of edge devices (aka Gateways) with support for accelerated inferencing.
- Solution Templates : Solution templates are ready-to-use pipelines that you can replicate and then completely modify as per your needs. They provide a fast route to getting started with common use cases such as Overtime parking monitoring, Mask detection and blur, etc. and learning how Lumeo Pipelines work.
- AI Model Deep Neural Network models for vision use cases such as detecting people, vehicles, etc. AI Models are used in Pipelines to infer on video, and the inference output can be visualized on the stream or sent to your application using other Pipeline Nodes. Lumeo provides you with a set of curated Models for common use cases, or you can upload your own models in a variety of popular formats (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, etc.).
- Deployments : Deploying a Pipeline creates a Pipeline Deployment, which represents a stream of processing.
Lumeo Console : Lumeo's web based management and provisioning Console that lets you easily design, deploy and monitor your vision solution.

System Architecture

This diagram describes the architecture of a typical vision solution built using Lumeo. It consists of the following components:

an edge system (on-site cameras + on-site or Cloud Gateway running Lumeo) to access and process video
Lumeo's cloud services that let you provision and manage this solution via the Lumeo API
Lumeo Console which is a web based interface to design, deploy and monitor your vision solution.

Console

If you are just getting started, you should head over to the Lumeo Console, which enables you to easily design & deploy Pipelines, manage Gateways, Cameras and Streams, and view the output of your Pipelines from the web.

API

Lumeo is an API-first service, which means anything you can do with the Console, you can do via the API.