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CEO was once annoyed with me while I worked IT (we handled facilities/security, too; was <100 employees) for testing how the camera worked for detecting human presence inside dev & design's room to unlock the double glass doors (for fire safety reasons, you must allow unrestricted exit). It acted like it was based on size of object in motion; if so many pixels were in motion from last frame, it triggers unlock without any other testing on if that object is a human.

It wasn't enough to just shove a folder through the gap of the doors; you had to ensure the folder opened up as it was falling, changing more of the pixels to get to the trigger threshold. It took me around 5 minutes to get it to consistently trigger. CEO was displeased dev & design team now knew how to bypass the door lock from the outside; he wasn't going to pay to fix it.

Maybe best to internalize Have It Your Way like BK's teams did.



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