How to monitor live camera feeds

A live wall answers what is happening now; it does not prove what was checked. This guide covers getting the wall right — layout, saved sets, filtering and full-screen review — and where virtual patrolling picks up the part a wall cannot do.

1

Pick a grid that matches how you actually watch

Choose a grid size for how many cameras should be on screen at once. More tiles is not better: past a certain density nobody is really watching any of them, which is the well-documented failure of the traditional monitoring wall. Fewer tiles on the cameras that matter beats a full grid nobody scans.

2

Save camera sets for the way shifts actually run

Group the cameras that get watched together into a set, "Night shift, perimeter", "Loading hours, docks", and mark one as the default so it loads when live streaming opens. A set is for watching; it is not the same thing as a patrol sequence, which is an ordered list of stops with checklists attached.

3

Filter rather than scroll once the fleet grows

Narrow the wall by site or camera name. This is the difference between a system that stays usable at 200 cameras and one that does not, the wall stops being something you scan and becomes something you query.

4

Open a single stream when something needs a proper look

Click any tile for a full-screen view, with PTZ control where the camera supports it. For a camera on a local network, PTZ is carried by the Camzify Connector along with the video.