Deploying a Low-Latency Surveillance Pipeline: An Architecture Guide
Analyst reviewing AI-powered video surveillance footage of a retail store with object and person detection events listed on screen.

Deploying a Low-Latency Surveillance Pipeline: An Architecture Guide

"Real-time" is one of those phrases that gets used loosely, and in a video analytics pipeline it hid …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Choosing a GPU for Real-Time Video Analytics
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Choosing a GPU for Real-Time Video Analytics

Capacity planning tells you how many GPUs a deployment needs. This is the other half of the question …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
GPU Capacity Planning for Real-Time AI Video Analytics
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GPU Capacity Planning for Real-Time AI Video Analytics

Ask a vendor how many cameras their AI runs on one GPU and you will usually get a single confident n …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
On-prem vs Cloud for Real-Time AI Video Analytics
Cloud-based AI video analytics dashboard with retail security camera feed and server racks.

On-prem vs Cloud for Real-Time AI Video Analytics

For most software written this decade, the cloud is the default and running your own hardware needs …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Camera Edge Processing vs Server-Based Processing: The Real Trade-offs
Camera edge processing vs server-based processing: the real trade-offs

Camera Edge Processing vs Server-Based Processing: The Real Trade-offs

There are two honest places to run AI on a video feed, and the choice between them shapes almost eve …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Camera-Agnostic AI Video Analytics: Add AI to the Cameras You Already Own
Camera-agnostic AI video analytics: a white bullet security camera monitoring a city street with blurred traffic in the background.

Camera-Agnostic AI Video Analytics: Add AI to the Cameras You Already Own

The most consequential decision in a central video analytics system is one that rarely makes it into …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Network and Bandwidth Design for Large Camera Fleets
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Network and Bandwidth Design for Large Camera Fleets

The GPU gets all the attention in a real-time video analytics deployment, and the network quietly ru …

Farooq Khan July 15, 2026
Pulling Live Streams From Your VMS into AI: Integration Patterns That Work
Control room operator monitoring AI-powered video surveillance and multiple live security camera streams on large displays.

Pulling Live Streams From Your VMS into AI: Integration Patterns That Work

Adding AI to an existing camera estate comes down to one unglamorous problem: getting a copy of the …

Farooq Khan July 14, 2026
Scaling Live Surveillance to Thousands of Cameras: What Actually Breaks
Security operator monitoring multiple surveillance camera feeds on control room screens.

Scaling Live Surveillance to Thousands of Cameras: What Actually Breaks

Scaling a real-time video analytics deployment is not one smooth curve where everything simply gets …

Farooq Khan July 14, 2026
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