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Visual Equipment Monitoring: Leaks, Fire and Changes a Camera Can See
Many machine failures show themselves well before they stop anything, as oil pooling under a gearbox, a drip from a hydraulic fitting that slowly ...
October 27, 2026
Investigating a Quality Escape With Plant Footage: From Complaint to Root Cause
A quality escape is usually found by someone outside the plant. A distributor opens a case and sees the wrong label, or a customer's incoming ...
October 27, 2026
Blocked Exits, Spills and Moved Cameras: Catching What Changed on the Plant Floor
The hazards that turn up most often on an exit route inspection are rarely exotic. A pallet gets staged in front of a fire door because the lane ...
October 27, 2026
Predictive Maintenance With Video AI: What Cameras See Before a Machine Fails
A predictive maintenance program is built on instruments: vibration probes on the bearings, thermal surveys of the panels, motor current signatures, ...
October 26, 2026
Quality Control in Manufacturing: Inspection, Defects and the Evidence Behind Every Hold
Quality control in manufacturing is four jobs that most plants treat as one: inspecting what was made, preventing the defect upstream, tracing a ...
October 26, 2026
What Is a Real-Time Crime Center? A Guide for Cities and Counties
Somewhere in the last two years, someone probably asked your department whether it should have a real-time crime center. Maybe a council member saw ...
September 28, 2026
Staffing a Real-Time Crime Center When Software Does the Watching
Most chiefs who hear a pitch for a real-time crime center ask the same question before any other, which is whether they will have to hire a room full ...
September 28, 2026
RTCC, EOC or Situational Awareness Center: What Each Room Is For
Walk into a real-time crime center, then into a city's emergency operations center, and you will see much the same thing: a wall of screens, a map, ...
September 28, 2026
Real-Time Crime Centers for Small Agencies: Run Your Own or Share One
A police chief in a town of twelve thousand people, with a department of twenty officers, has usually assumed that a real-time crime center belongs ...
September 28, 2026
Planning a Real-Time Crime Center for a Town of 20,000
Chiefs and city managers who read about real-time crime centers usually reach the same point, which is wanting to see what one would look like for a ...
September 28, 2026
Community Camera Registries: What a City Takes On
Most cities are surrounded by far more private cameras than they will ever own, on doorbells, shopfronts, apartment lobbies, parking garages and ...
September 28, 2026
Budgeting a Real-Time Crime Center Past the Grant Period
When a real-time crime center closes, or goes dark on the night shift, the cause is rarely that the technology stopped working, and much more often ...
September 28, 2026
Getting Camera Alerts to 911 Dispatch When the Center Is Short-Staffed
When a city adds camera analytics, the easiest mistake is to put one more monitor on a telecommunicator's console, and it tends to sour the 911 ...
September 28, 2026
Running a Camera Analytics Pilot for a City: What to Measure and What to Report to Council
Every vendor that sells camera analytics to a city will offer a demonstration, and almost every demonstration uses the vendor's own footage, chosen ...
September 28, 2026
Finding Every Recording a Person Appears In
Some investigations open with the answer already in hand. There is a name, and there is a photograph, taken from a previous incident, a personnel ...
September 18, 2026
What Analysis Can Still Do With an Incident Already Recorded
A person came to attention on one of your cameras today, and the next question is whether they have been here before. That same camera was running in ...
September 18, 2026
How an Incident on Camera Becomes Known
A camera estate runs unwatched. That is arithmetic rather than a failure of discipline, because a site with a few hundred cameras rarely has more ...
September 18, 2026
Cross-Camera Tracking: From a Detection to an Identity
An investigation often starts with footage of a person nobody can name. The view is clear enough to work from. No photograph of them sits on file, no ...
September 18, 2026