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unrepentant_serpent t1_j9afs6y wrote

Either two different systems or two different FOVs.

The cameras don’t look to be the same manufacturer; while normally one can use multiple different camera brands and models in the same system, many integrators tend to keep the same product lines in order to leverage volume purchasing, minimize the numbers of different vendors, minimize inventory, and to make it easier on the technicians.

Often times, there’s a requirement as to exactly how many pixels are required to be on target - compliance or regulatory, legality for enforcement and prosecution, etc. The first could be an overview and the second could be a specific area.

Or, it could be a building security/tenant situation.

Or maybe the last tech was too lazy to take down the old camera and didn’t wasn’t to cut a new ceiling tile, so he installed the new camera next to the defective camera.

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