EyeOutBlog · August 22, 2026
Camera placement on a job site
Where to aim trailer and cube cameras so you get identify-able faces and plates — not 80 TB of sky and mud.
Most “the cameras missed it” tickets are placement, not resolution. A 4K imager pointed at the horizon still gives you a 40-pixel person.
Height and angle
- Too high — great overview, useless faces. Use one overview head and separate identification heads at 2.5–4 m on the approaches.
- Too low — vandal bait. If it must be low, it must be obvious and replaceable.
- Against the sun — morning east gates wash out all winter. Bias the money cameras north/south or plan IR and headlights.
The 3 m / 15 m rule of thumb
For a person you may need to identify later, you want them large in the frame at the point they must pass (gate, container alley, copper pile). Fifteen metres of parking lot “coverage” is a wide shot. Put a head on the choke point; let the PTZ or a second fixed cam do the yard.
Plates need even tighter: distance, angle, and shutter. Do not promise plates from a skyline cam.
Trailers and cubes
A mobile unit is only as good as where the wheels sit. Block it so:
- The mast sees the approach, not the neighbour’s roof
- The solar face is not in its own shadow
- Service techs can reach the enclosure without a scissor lift
When the job moves, the GPS baseline and authorized location should move with it — or you will get “unauthorized move” noise. That is a process issue, not a camera issue.
What the VMS will not tell you
NVR motion is not a security program. Decide which platform events become an EyeOut alarm (alarm events) so night-time tumbleweed does not page the same person as a trailer leaving the pad.