More screens isn't more insight
It's tempting to treat a command centre as a wall of video feeds. In practice, operators can meaningfully watch only a handful of things at once — the rest is noise unless something turns it into an alert.
Incidents, not footage
The useful pattern is: sensors and cameras detect something notable (a stopped vehicle, a flood sensor threshold, an access breach), the system raises an incident, and an operator dispatches a response. The video feed supports the incident — it isn't the product.
Design around dispatch, not display
A command centre earns its budget when it shortens the time from "something happened" to "someone is handling it." That means incident workflow, role-based dashboards and clear escalation paths matter more than screen count.