In Part 1, I explained that I had several security cameras running in my home lab. I wanted to be able to view the live video feeds from several TV’s that we have setup throughout the house. I decided to use AppleTV devices and the App called CCTV Viewer. This is easy enough to setup using the App interface or the built-in web interface that comes with the App. But what if I need to deploy this at scale? What if I needed to deploy this solution across 100s or 1000s of locations. I would need a way to build a standardized configuration and deploy it at scale. The Answer…
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Where to place your Security Cameras
How to figure out the best distance, height and angle for the job. First, we need to ask ourselves a few questions. What are we trying to accomplish? What problem are we trying to solve. Are we looking for higher detail for better identification and recognition? Are we more interested in analytics like detecting objects such as people or vehicles? And, does it need to be an either / or scenario? Let’s dive in… What is pixel density and why does it matter? In short it is the number of pixels used for a given object within the field of view. Pixel density combines the sensor size, pixel count, focal…