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The Four-Week Pilot, Step by Step

About ten cameras, two weeks of shadow mode and alerts on exactly two concerns. Here is what happens in a COM8 Vision pilot, and what it is judged on.

COM8 Vision Team · ProductSep 1, 2026 · 5 min read
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The seven steps

From signing to review
  1. Discovery call

    Which cameras, which zones, who owns them

    45 minutes

  2. IT request

    Read-only recorder account, one switch port

    3 to 10 days

  3. Install

    Edge box online, cameras added and tested

    Half a day

  4. Zone workshop

    10 to 20 zones, each with an owner

    2 hours

  5. Shadow mode

    Events recorded, no alerts sent

    2 weeks

  6. Go live

    Alerts on for exactly two concerns

    End of week 2

  7. Review

    Blocked minutes, near misses, scorecards

    1 hour, week 4

About three weeks from signing to alerts going live.

Why shadow mode first

Alerts that are wrong on day one get muted on day two. Two weeks of shadow mode means the zones and thresholds are tuned on your own site before anyone receives a notification.

Why only two concerns

Usually blocked emergency exits and people too close to vehicles. Two concerns with owners who act on them beat twenty that nobody reads. The rest of the pack keeps recording events and feeding the score.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A read-only account on the recorder and one switch port for the edge box. No admin password, no port forwarding and no inbound connections.

  • Only the edge box, which we supply, or your own if it meets the spec. Your cameras and recorder stay as they are.

  • Alerts are switched on for more concerns, and the same zone playbook is taken to your other sites.

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