Field Notes
What we learn running detection on real factory floors — downtime, counting, and the unglamorous work of getting usable video out of industrial CCTV.
- Factory Floor
Can you run machine detection on old, bad-quality CCTV cameras
What actually happens when you point machine-stop detection at grainy, low-resolution factory cameras instead of new ones.
- Factory Floor
What OEE Software Really Costs a Small Manufacturer
A plain breakdown of what MES and OEE software actually costs beyond the subscription price, and what to ask before you sign.
- Factory Floor
What are the per-camera installation charges for AI monitoring
How Netra AI prices per-camera monitoring, what the charge covers, and why we won't quote a number before seeing your cameras.
- Factory Floor
Can I use my existing CCTV cameras instead of new sensors
Why most small manufacturing units don't need new sensors to get machine-stop and output alerts, and when a retrofit still makes sense.
- Engineering
How your phone can watch a camera in a factory 200km away
A plain walkthrough of P2P, CGNAT, and hole punching — the actual mechanism that lets an app reach a recorder on a network you don't control.
- Factory Floor
Your factory already has the cameras. It doesn't have the data.
Netra AI turns the CCTV cameras a factory already owns into machine-stop detection, production counting, attendance and fire alerts — with no new hardware, PLCs or sensors.
- Engineering
Why these notes exist
We run machine-stop and counting detection on real factory floors. This is where we write down what we learn doing it.