From four cameras and constant false alarms to full coverage
Four cameras, dozens of daily false alarms, and a family that had stopped opening the app. We rebuilt the coverage around real approach paths — with one fewer camera.
The challenge
Four cameras had been installed over three years, each added after a scare and aimed wherever the mount fit. The result was dozens of daily false alerts — passing cars, next door’s driveway, a tree that moved in wind.
- The rear corner, the most likely approach, was completely dark.
- Two cameras covered the same photogenic front angle.
- Nobody in the family had opened the app in weeks.
The plan
The assessment started from what they already owned, not a shopping list.
- Re-aimed two cameras onto the walkway and driveway approaches.
- Retired one redundant front-facing camera entirely.
- Added a single floodlight camera at the rear corner.
- Rebuilt every motion zone to exclude the street and the tree line.
The result
False alerts dropped by 92% in the first month, and every entry point now sits inside a verified coverage cone.
The family reads their alerts again — because an alert finally means something. Total new hardware: one camera.
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