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Manufacturing facility — 32 cameras, 90-day retention
Problem. A manufacturing facility with 32 cameras at 5MP H.265 needs 90-day continuous retention for safety-incident review and process audit.
Answer. 32 × 5MP × H.265 × 20 fps × 90 days lands around 50–70 TB of usable storage — typically a 12-bay NAS or two 8-bay units with RAID 6.
02 / In depth
How this preset reads — the engineering view.
Industrial CCTV retention is process-audit driven before it is security driven. 90 days covers a typical batch / quality investigation window and the longest typical injury-claim filing window across most Indian state jurisdictions.
This preset assumes 32 cameras at 5MP H.265, 20 fps and continuous recording (not motion-triggered — industrial processes need continuous frames for proper audit). The calculator returns the storage envelope; the real BOQ accounts for RAID 6 (recommended for arrays > 24 TB to handle dual-disk failure during rebuild).
Network: 32 cameras at this profile push roughly 80–120 Mbps aggregate to the NVR — the switch and the storage NIC need to comfortably absorb that with overhead. Plan for a dedicated CCTV VLAN.
Engineering notes: in factories with welding / strong EMI, IP-rated cameras and shielded patch cables are mandatory, neither of which the calculator surfaces. AMC is also non-negotiable at this storage scale — drive replacement is a when-not-if.
What this preset deliberately does not solve
- Continuous recording (not motion-triggered) is the industrial norm — 2× the motion-only storage.
- RAID 6 is recommended above 24 TB array size to survive dual-disk failure during rebuild.
- AMC + drive replacement budget is a separate, mandatory TCO line.
How this preset differs from its siblings
The retail sibling preset uses motion-triggered recording and a 30-day retention window — both acceptable for loss-prevention where the evidence requirement is incident-level. This preset's distinguishing constraint is continuous recording (industrial process audit needs every frame, not just movement events) and a 90-day retention window that aligns with batch/quality investigation cycles and Indian state injury-claim filing windows. The result is a storage envelope an order of magnitude larger — and a network and RAID architecture conversation that the retail preset doesn't need.
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