: Continuous surveillance can make guests, household members, and neighbors feel uneasy.

Effective surveillance should focus on entry points while respecting the "reasonable expectation of privacy" for both residents and neighbors.

The first strange event was a notification at 2:17 AM. “Motion detected: Front Porch.” Sam, bleary-eyed, pulled up the feed. Nothing. Just the rain-slicked concrete, the faint glow of the streetlamp, a moth dancing in the infrared. He dismissed it as a spiderweb.