One-page decision reference: on-camera, edge-server, and cloud analytics compared across latency, bandwidth, cost shape, privacy, and capability, with the 40-camera bandwidth and cloud-GPU worked example and the order to resolve the decision in.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This guide compares on-camera, edge-server and cloud analytics on latency, bandwidth, cost, privacy and capability, with a 40-camera worked example. Our seven-volume handbook covers the stack behind video surveillance; start with Volume 6 on deployment topologies, detection and tracking, then Volume 7 for serving and cost per stream-hour and Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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