What you are trying to see
Customers expect you to know who was in a corridor. You need that without watching every hour of an empty hallway. The useful path is short: the gate or front door, the office counter, the lift or stair, and each corridor long enough to see which unit door a person stopped at.
A camera inside a customer's unit is not the product. The corridor camera should see doors and people in the corridor, not through a vent into someone's stored property.
What we install
- Gate and driveway. The arrival, close enough for a plate where the lane is tight and straight. A wide shot of the whole yard is the one that fails this.
- Office. The counter and the door, for key handovers and after-hours access to the building.
- Corridors and lifts. One camera per corridor, placed so unit doors are distinguishable. Long corridors often need a second camera halfway, because a single lens at the end turns every door into the same rectangle.
- External units. Drive-up rows need the aisle between them, lit, not only a camera on the office looking across the site.
What the AI layer watches for
- After-hours alerts on the gate, the office and corridors outside the access hours you set. The email carries the frame.
- Line crossing at the gate and at corridor entries, so a visit becomes an event on the timeline with a short clip.
- People and vehicle counts at the gate, which tells you how busy a Sunday afternoon was without watching it.
The system does not know whose unit was opened, and it does not replace your access control. It shows the picture that matches a time your gate log already has. People still decide what to do with it.
Constraints to plan for
Corridors are dim, reflective and full of roller doors that all look alike. Lighting and camera height matter more than megapixels. External aisles collect dust and weather. Ask any installer for licence and insurance details, including ours.