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A technical step-by-step tutorial on building a local, zero-false-alarm CCTV surveillance system using Frigate NVR and Google Coral TPU hardware acceleration.
A camera plan starts with a sentence per position – what has to be provable there – and ends with a lens, a height and an angle. Between them sit two formulas and one measurement that decides whether the installation was worth it.
RTSP is standardised, the path after the host name is not. Six parts make up a stream address, two of them differ per manufacturer – and one ffprobe call separates a wrong path from a wrong password before either disappears into a recorder.
A Coral has 1000 milliseconds per second and spends about eight of them per detection. Everything else – camera count, detect fps, motion regions – is arithmetic that fits on one line.
Pixels per metre, not megapixels, decide whether a face can be identified. The same 8 MP camera identifies to 7.7 m on a 2.8 mm lens and to 32.9 m on a 12 mm – and the calculation takes one line.
A technical analysis of why modern surveillance deployments require Cat6 PoE cabling over legacy coax, combined with strict VLAN segmentation and WAN OUT drop rules for complete local UNVR/UNAS isolation.
When planning a CCTV system, whether for a small home or a sprawling commercial complex, the most critical decision comes before the cameras are even picked out. The backbone of the security infrastructure—the cabling—determines how flexible, scalable, and high-quality the system will be. For decades, traditional Coaxial (COAX) cables were the industry standard. However, the […]
Traditional Smart Home systems relied heavily on rigid, static rules: “if it’s past 10:00 PM, turn off the lights.” The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is completely changing the game. Today’s smart home is transitioning from a collection of remote-controlled gadgets into an autonomous ecosystem that learns user habits and proactively manages home security. Current […]
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