Writing about video analytics, cameras and false alerts
- Real prices, checked
- Useful if you never buy
- No sponsored placements
exacqVision SSA and license pricing: what an exacq license costs per camera
Professional and Enterprise camera licenses at US reseller prices, what the yearly SSA adds, what a lapsed renewal costs, and the five year total for fifteen cameras.
Lumana pricing in 2026: what Lumana security costs per camera
The annual per feed licence model, what the Core appliance adds, and the five questions that move a quote.
Verkada cost in 2026: camera cost, licence cost and the five year total
Published camera MSRP, what the licence adds on top, and the full arithmetic for a fifteen camera site over five years.
Best video analytics software in 2026, compared honestly
Eight products, what each one really costs, which cameras each one accepts, and the two places we lose.
Video analytics tools: what they detect and what they cost
Five classes of tool, from the detection built into your recorder to a full enterprise platform, priced side by side.
Open source video analytics and the cost nobody prices in
Frigate and ZoneMinder are genuinely good. Here is the hardware, the hours and the compliance gap that come with a licence of zero.
Free motion detection software, and where it breaks
What the free tier of every tool gives you, and the exact camera count and lighting condition where it stops being enough.
Motion detection software for a webcam, done properly
A working setup for a USB webcam: placement, exposure, sensitivity, minimum duration and the zone that removes most false triggers.
Arlo camera false triggers, and every other cause of false alerts
Passive infrared heat on the battery cameras, then IR bloom, headlights, rain on the dome, spider webs and auto exposure. The physics behind an alert storm, and what fixes each one.
Three rules, and the third one costs us traffic.
This is a young product with no customers to quote, so the only credibility available to us is being right about things a reader can check.
Prices are the vendor's own published ones
Where a product publishes a price, we quote it and link the reasoning. Where it does not, we say quote only rather than inventing a number, and Spot AI is the clearest example.
We name where we lose
Frigate detects on a continuous live stream today and this build does not. A comparison that never concedes anything is an advertisement wearing a comparison's clothes.
No sponsored placements, ever
Nobody has paid to appear in a list here, and no link on this blog is an affiliate link. If that ever changes, it will be labelled on the page it changes on.
The product pages the posts keep pointing at
Artificial intelligence video surveillance
The four stages, and the line the model does not cross.
Video analytics software price
Published in full, per camera, no sales call.
Motion detection software
Classified detection against the pixel change your recorder does.
Camera analytics
Hours of footage turned into a readable event list.
Enterprise security camera systems
SSO, roles, retention, a DPA, and no biometrics.
Video analytics platform use cases
Four industries and the noise specific to each.
Reading is cheaper than a pilot. Running it is cheaper still.
The demo does the whole detection loop in your browser, on your own clip if you want. When you are ready for your own cameras, one email address starts it.