One-page planning tool for a city or public-space surveillance build: the two defining loads (scale + privacy weight); the federation decisions (record-local, stream-on-demand, district autonomy, the ONVIF + IEC 62676 standards spine); the storage and bandwidth math at scale (the 1 Mbps = 10.8 GB/day rule, the petabyte-per-month reality, tiering and retention); the analytics-at-scale list (ANPR/traffic, crowd/flow, forensic search) with the edge-first rule; the biometric legal gate as a tick-box
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This checklist plans a city-scale surveillance build: federation decisions, the 1 Mbps equals 10.8 GB per day storage rule, analytics at scale with edge-first processing and the biometric legal gate. Our seven-volume handbook covers the full video stack; start with Volume 6 for detection, tracking and forensic search, then Volume 1 for encoding and Volume 7 for biometric regulation. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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