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English translation: camera sweeps / vrtual patrols

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French term or phrase:rondes des caméras
English translation:camera sweeps / vrtual patrols
Entered by: Conor McAuley

09:45 May 31, 2021
French to English translations [PRO]
COVID-19 - Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng
French term or phrase: rondes des caméras
Les éléments essentiels, c'est la surveillance de l'installation par
le biais des rondes des caméras.
Some type of surveillance camera, I thought it might be dome cameras, but there is also caméra dôme.
Brendan McNally
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:56
camera sweeps
Explanation:
A CCTV camera goes from left to right and back again, this is presumably a sweep.

Security guards go on physical patrols of buildings.

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Monitor estate grounds and block communal areas by keeping to a programme of estate / block patrols and CCTV sweeps, Monitor use of controlled access ..."


Possibly the term refers to the security guard being in a control room looking at various CCTV cameras in a given sequence -- in that case it's a "virtual" patrol.
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Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 11:56
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Summary of answers provided
2 +4camera sweeps
Conor McAuley
3camera patrols
Saeed Najmi
3camera rounds
Tony M


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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
camera sweeps


Explanation:
A CCTV camera goes from left to right and back again, this is presumably a sweep.

Security guards go on physical patrols of buildings.

"Job description - LG Jobshttps://www.lgjobs.com › download
DOC
Monitor estate grounds and block communal areas by keeping to a programme of estate / block patrols and CCTV sweeps, Monitor use of controlled access ..."


Possibly the term refers to the security guard being in a control room looking at various CCTV cameras in a given sequence -- in that case it's a "virtual" patrol.

Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 11:56
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 2

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: I like "virtual patrols" too.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks very much Phil!
agree  SafeTex: Yes, I was going to say this and then saw you got there first
9 hrs
  -> Thanks SafeTex!
agree  Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
23 hrs
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agree  Sanjin Grandić: nice
2 days 11 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
camera patrols


Explanation:
camera patrols instead of police patrols


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Saeed Najmi
Morocco
Local time: 10:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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camera rounds


Explanation:
Note a couple of subtleties here:

Do remember, too, that it is '...DES caméras' — "going the rounds of the cameras" — not just any old cameras in general.

We wouldn't normally use the term 'ronde' to convey the notion of a 'system' or 'circuit' or 'network' of (e.g.)surveillance cameras

Nor would we frequently use 'ronde' to describe the 'arc' made by a camera as it scans across a scene.

So I don't think these sit well at either a macro or micro level.

Do note, however, that it could mean a physical round — checking that the cameras are present and working; however, that it much easier to do from the comfort of your chair at the other end of a long cable. Aside from hazardous environments not suitable for visiting by humans, generally cameras are of greatest use when monitored remotely.

So my hunch would be more along the lines of "regularly looking round all the camera screens in the control room" apart from just idly scanning across them to see if there's any suspect activity, in large set ups it may also be necessary to use to some kind of switching system to swicth images between them, as might be the case with very many cameras and not enough screens to meaningfully survey.



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Note added at 4 hrs (2021-05-31 14:34:12 GMT)
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So I should have come back to where I started, to say maybe we need to look at is 'rounds of the cameras'.

Tony M
France
Local time: 11:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2116
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