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Security camera analytics for parking lots and multi-tenant property

Property is the one site on this list where surveillance done carelessly is a legal problem before it is a security problem. That is why the no biometrics rule is the first thing on this page, not the last.
  • Categories only, never identities
  • Works on the cameras in the lobby today
  • A DPA from the Operate tier

Interior, after hours

Fixed camera, low light, two subjects

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Sets the luma delta threshold and the smallest region that counts.

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Kills the one frame flicker that no operator wants paged about.

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Put it over the road, the tree, the neighbour's window. Events inside it stop alerting.

The frame an event was found on shows up here.

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Hover a row in the event table to preview its frame, click it to hold the frame and jump the clip there.

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Reading the clip. Events appear here as they are found.

01 Before anything else, the exposure

Residents and tenants are not a watch list, and this software could not treat them as one.

There is no face template, no face matching, no gait analysis and no re-identification of a person across cameras or across days. The system stores no biometric identifier, so there is nothing to compare against and nothing to leak. For a landlord, an HOA or a managing agent that is the difference between a camera policy your counsel signs and a notice period from your insurer.

What you get instead is a category, a time and a duration. A person was in the parking structure at 04:12 for ninety seconds. That is enough to act on, and it is not enough to build a profile of anybody who lives in your building.

The full position on enterprise security camera systems

Somebody was in the bin store at 02:40 yes
A package was left, and later removed yes
A vehicle entered level 3 outside permitted hours yes
That was the resident from unit 14 no
That is the same person as last Thursday no
Alert me when this specific face appears no
02 The four places anything happens

A building's incidents cluster in four spots, and three of them are cameras you already have.

01

The lobby and the parcel shelf

Package theft is the single most reported incident in multi-tenant property and the hardest to review, because the footage is eight hours of an empty lobby with two seconds that matter.

A package class plus a person class means the timeline shows a parcel arriving and a person leaving with it, as two rows, with times. Review stops being a scrub and starts being a filter.

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The parking structure

Concrete, poor light, engine noise, and every car that turns around because it took a wrong turn. Motion detection here is close to useless on its own.

Exclude the through lane, alert on person overnight and on vehicle only on levels that should be empty. Duration does the rest: a car passing through is four seconds, a car parked in a fire lane is not.

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Entrances outside permitted hours

Every door has a legitimate stream of people through it during the day and should have none at 04:00. The camera cannot tell those two situations apart, but a schedule can.

Schedules and escalation on Multi-Site, with a per site scope so a caretaker for one building does not see the estate.

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The bin store and the service yard

Fly tipping, unauthorised access and the fire door that keeps getting propped. Low value individually, expensive across a year, and impossible to prove without a timeline.

Person class with a long minimum duration. Somebody walking past is not an event, somebody there for two minutes is.

03 What a portfolio costs

Priced per camera, so a small block and an estate are the same conversation.

Three buildings, 26 cameras

Lobbies, parcel shelves, two parking levels, bin stores, service yards

Multi-Site, 60 cameras included $499 a month
Billed annually $399 a month, $4,788 a year
Per camera at 26 cameras $19.19
Per camera if you grow into all 60 $8.32
SSO, per site scoping, 1 year audit log Included

The third row is deliberately unflattering: a tier bought at a third of its camera count is not good value per camera, and Operate at three sites and 15 cameras may be the honest answer for a smaller portfolio. Both are on the pricing page.

What to tell residents

Most jurisdictions require signage where surveillance operates, and every jurisdiction rewards being straightforward about it. Three sentences usually cover it, and all three are true here:

  • Cameras in common areas record continuously, as they already did.
  • Software categorises what moved as a person, a vehicle, an animal or a package, so staff review fewer clips.
  • No facial recognition is used and no biometric data is collected or stored.

Retention, deletion and the data processing agreement are on the security page, and what we collect from you as a visitor to this website is in the privacy policy.

04 Asked by managing agents and HOA boards

Four questions specific to residential and mixed use property.

01

Is this legal in a residential building?

Camera law is local and we are not your lawyers, so take this to counsel. What we can tell you is the fact that changes the answer most often: this product collects no biometric identifiers, which is the trigger for the strictest statutes in Illinois, Texas and Washington. Signage and a written camera policy are normally the rest of the requirement.

02

Can a board member get access without seeing everything?

Yes, from Multi-Site up. Roles and per site scoping mean a caretaker for one building sees one building, and every view, zone change and export is in the audit log.

03

How long is footage kept?

Your recorder keeps the footage, on the schedule you already set. What this adds is the event history: 7 days on Watch, 30 on Operate, 90 on Multi-Site, and a custom retention policy on Enterprise, with configurable deletion.

04

Does it detect a package specifically?

Package is one of the five classes, alongside person, vehicle, animal and other motion. It is the class most requested in residential property and the one most likely to need a second camera angle to be reliable, because a parcel behind a desk is a parcel the model cannot see.

Start with the lobby and the parcel shelf.

One email address, one 6 digit code, and your console opens. Pick the tier that matches your camera count and pay by card.