Stop Buying Megapixels: How to Actually Engineer Camera Coverage
Posted by Terry Wilson on Feb 13, 2026
Stop Buying Megapixels: How to Actually Engineer Camera Coverage
Most surveillance systems do not fail because of hardware defects. They fail because of design mistakes.
The most common one?
Buying cameras based on megapixels instead of coverage geometry.
A 12MP camera mounted at the wrong height with the wrong lens is worse than a 4MP camera engineered correctly. Resolution al
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