Where a venue actually needs a picture
The till, the pass, the cool room and the rear door are where cash and stock move. The front door is where a problem enters or leaves. A camera over every table creates a record you will rarely search, and it makes staff and guests uncomfortable for little benefit.
Late trade changes the plan. A cafe that closes at three has a simple after-hours window. A pub that trades past midnight needs the alley, the bottle shop if there is one, and the door staff already watch, recorded rather than relied on memory.
What we install
- Counter and till. Hands, the drawer and the customer side of the counter.
- Entries. The front door at a height that shows who came in, and the rear door the public does not use.
- Back of house. Cool room, dry store, keg area and the bin lane. These are the stock-loss frames.
- The approach outside. The footpath immediately at your door if that is where incidents happen, kept tight so the camera is not a view up the street into other people's premises.
Audio is a separate and stricter question. We do not add it by default. Signage and telling staff matter. This is general information, not legal advice, and the rules differ by state.
What the AI layer watches for
- After-hours alerts when a person is in the venue, the lane or at the rear door outside the hours you set. Email, frame attached, cooldown included.
- Door and cool-room events on a timeline, with a short clip, so a missing carton is a search rather than an evening of video.
- People counts at the entry, which a venue can compare with trading hours. Counts are not a booking system and they are not a face list.
- Stock movement in the store or cool room, flagged against your records where you want that check.
It does not watch for intoxication, identify patrons, or promise a safer room. It gives a person a shorter list of moments to look at. How it works follows one of those moments.