A one-page worksheet that walks the five-step estimating method from the article: (1) capture requirements per zone using the DORI scale (area, distance, goal — detection 25 / observation 63 / recognition 125 / identification 250 px/m); (2) tally the camera count and mix; (3) apply the four multipliers (resolution/bitrate, retention days and recording mode, analytics with the biometric legal-gate flag, deployment model on-prem CapEx vs cloud OpEx); (4) fill the cost-stack line items (cameras, ne
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Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This worksheet walks the five-step estimate: DORI requirements per zone, camera count, the four cost multipliers and the deployment model. Our seven-volume handbook covers the inputs: Volume 1 on resolution, codecs and bitrate, Volume 6 on analytics such as detection and recognition, and Volume 7 on real-time pipelines and the biometric rules that gate them. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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