I was trying to find something similar in the function viewer but I came up a bit short. Is there a way that I could so to speak query a sector of the map and see if an AI commander has units active in that area while they are virtualized? I don't need to know the exact positions or details of the units, just simply if they're active in a given sector.

I'm running some local tests using getNearProfiles:

EDIT: stumbled upon a snippet on the wiki: http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Script_Snippets

EDIT2: I tried using 'entity', or following the example as such:

((count ([getposATL thisTrigger, 50, ["WEST","entity"]] call ALIVE_fnc_getNearProfiles)) > 0);

But it's only returning an empty array.

prs = [getPos player, 500, ["WEST","vehicle"]] call ALIVE_fnc_getNearProfiles; 
diag_log prs;

[
	[
		"#CBA_HASH#",
		[
			"debug",
			"active",
			"position",
			"side",
			"profileID",
			"type",
			"objectType",
			"vehicleAssignments",
			"entitiesInCommandOf",
			"entitiesInCargoOf",
			"vehicle",
			"vehicleClass",
			"direction",
			"fuel",
			"ammo",
			"engineOn",
			"damage",
			"canMove",
			"canFire",
			"needReload",
			"despawnPosition",
			"hasSimulated",
			"spawnType",
			"faction",
			"_rev",
			"_id",
			"busy",
			"cargo",
			"slingload",
			"slung",
			"debugMarkers",
			"locked"
		],
		[
			true,
			true,
			[3613.4,8560.11,0.0459595],
			"WEST",
			"BLU_F-vehicle_14",
			"vehicle",
			"Car",
			[
				"#CBA_HASH#",
				["BLU_F-entity_8"],
				[
					[
						"BLU_F-vehicle_14",
						"BLU_F-entity_8",
						[
							[0],
							[],
							[],
							[],
							[1,2,3],
							[]
						]
					]
				],
				any
			],
			["BLU_F-entity_8"],
			[],
			vehicle_17,
			"B_MRAP_01_F",
			0,
			1,
			[],
			false,
			[],
			true,
			true,
			0,
			[0,0],
			false,
			[],
			"BLU_F",
			"",
			"",
			false,
			[],
			[],
			[],
			["ALiVE_PROFILEVEHICLE_BLU_F-vehicle_14"],
			true
		],
		any
	]
]

Is it listed anywhere though which categories I can use? I tried using just WEST alone but it returns nothing.