Camera Placement Strategy: Common Blind Spots Most Sites Miss

Side and rear entrances that get less attention than the main entrance during initial camera planning, stairwells and fire exits (often overlooked because they're not the primary flow of foot traffic), and the immediate area directly beneath a camera — a point often left uncovered because the camera's own field of view doesn't naturally extend straight down.

Camera counts are often driven by budget or a general sense of coverage, rather than a systematic walkthrough checking every approach and exit point specifically. A site can have a seemingly generous number of cameras and still have real gaps, because placement wasn't planned against the site's actual layout and realistic intrusion paths.

Walking the actual property, identifying every possible entry and exit point (including ones not intended for regular use, like a service gate or a low boundary wall), and checking camera coverage against each one systematically — this is worth doing as an explicit exercise rather than assuming existing camera placement is adequate.