Most retail cameras don't know what they're looking at
Most retail cameras don't know what they're looking at
A mid-sized UK supermarket has 64 cameras and lost £1.4M last year. The footage existed. Nobody watched it, and the cameras understood nothing.
*A field walk through the problem, and why throwing more cameras at it stopped working around 2010.*
A mid-sized UK supermarket has 64 cameras on the shop floor. Last year it lost a little over £1.4M to shrinkage. 💷 The footage is all there, on a DVR in a back room, taped over every 30 days. Nobody has watched most of it. The £1.4M did not walk out past blind cameras. It walked out past cameras that saw everything and understood nothing.
## Cameras are everywhere. None of them think.
Walk into that back room. The DVR hums. Sixty-four little tiles, all updating in real time, watched by prec
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