A one-page worksheet to price the three cloud meters for your own fleet: the upload-bandwidth (uplink) the site must sustain, the compute choice (per-minute API vs rented GPU) and the camera-count where the API stops making sense, the storage and egress lines, and the cross-border / biometric legal gate (GDPR Chapter V, EU-US DPF, EU AI Act, BIPA) to clear before sending video up.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This worksheet prices cloud video analytics for your fleet: site uplink, per-minute API versus rented GPU and its crossover, storage and egress, plus the cross-border and biometric legal gate. Our seven-volume handbook covers the full video stack; start with Volume 7 for AI serving, cost and regulation, then Volume 6 for detection and tracking and Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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