Coverage has diminishing returns. Past a certain density, additional capture points add storage cost and review burden without changing what the project can decide. Recognising that point is one of the more profitable disciplines a digital construction lead can practise.
Symptoms of saturation
- New capture points solve no workflow that was not already solved.
- Reviewers spend more time skipping than watching.
- Storage and bandwidth costs grow faster than retrieval value.
- Investments in interpretation, action, or command would do more.
When the symptoms appear, the answer is not more cameras; it is better records of what the cameras already produce. A modest investment in indexing and workflows usually returns more than the equivalent investment in additional capture.
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