Every camera you own is recording. None of them is watching. That is why a break-in is found the next morning, why the car that circled three times first was never flagged, and why the one clip that mattered was written over on Tuesday.
Vantage watches all of them, all night. It follows one vehicle across every camera you have, brings you the handful of things worth your attention, and shows you the picture it is talking about.
True of every deployment, on day one, with the cameras already on the wall. What differs between the two products is further down — and it is not a detail.
A bakkie at the back gate at 02:14 and the same bakkie out front three nights running is one thread — not three clips in three folders for somebody to join up by hand at the end of the week.
Every alert arrives with the frame it came from. When the picture is gone it tells you that too — because an alert you cannot check is just somebody’s word.
It tells you a person was among the parked cars at an hour this camera is usually empty. It does not tell you what they were there for. That is your call — and software that guesses it is software you stop believing by the third time it is wrong.
Nothing dispatches itself. Nothing escalates because software felt strongly. A match goes in front of somebody and what happens next is theirs — which is what makes it stand up afterwards.
What a deployment may do differs by law and by design. Rather than average them into one comfortable sentence, each has its own page and its own promises. Pick the one that is yours.
For an authority running cameras across a city or an airport, with a control room, officers in the field, and obligations that come with both.
What it does for an authorityFor a household or a complex with cameras already up, a committee that has to answer for them, and residents who did not sign up to be studied.
What it does for a homeKeeping them apart is the point, not an inconvenience. A capability that is lawful and reviewed for an authority is not one a household may have, and a page that sold both at once would have to be vague about which. These pages are not vague, and each claim on them is checked against the code that makes it true.