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Why your cameras send too many alerts
Trees, headlights and cats. How a system learns to stay quiet until something really happens.
If your phone buzzes every night, you stop reading the messages. That is the moment a security system stops working, even if every camera is online.
Motion is not an event
Plain motion detection reacts to leaves, rain, shadows and car lights. A useful alert says who or what crossed which line, and when.
Draw lines, not boxes
We draw virtual boundaries on each camera: a fence line, a door, the edge of a terrace. Walking near the line is fine. Crossing it at night is an alarm.
Every alert comes with a frame
A message with the place name and a still frame takes two seconds to judge. Most owners end up with two or three alerts a week, and they read every one.
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