As the moth flew out of frame, the status returned to IDLE . Elias felt a strange sense of companionship with the machine. It was doing exactly what it was built to do—waiting for a sign of life in the dark, even if there was no one left to read the logs.

He looked at the URL again. It was a raw IP address, a series of numbers that pointed to a physical server humming in a rack somewhere in the Midwest. The camera was a relic, a "zombie" device left powered on long after the business it protected had folded. It was a ghost guarding a tomb of empty boxes.

Traditional CCTV systems display cameras separately. In , the system stitches or arranges multiple video feeds into a single logical frame. This can be achieved through:

: A search operator that restricts results to URLs containing the specified text.

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