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Retention Math That Doesn’t Lie: Bitrate, Motion, and the Storage Traps That Break Deployments Storage planning is where “looks good on paper” deployments go to die. Most retention misses aren’t caused by the NVR brand or the hard drives — they’re caused by assumptions: a default bitrate, a best-case scene, and forgetting overhead. Deploymen …

PoE Budget Planning for IP Camera Deployments PoE power planning is one of the most common hidden failure points in commercial surveillance deployments. On paper, everything looks fine: the switch has enough ports, cameras are PoE-capable, and video is online. Then night falls, IR turns on, heaters kick in, and a few cameras start resetting or dropping intermittently. It looks …