It's 2 a.m. on a Sunday. A pickup with an empty trailer is idling by your back gate, and the nearest person who cares is asleep twenty miles away. A skid steer or a mini excavator doesn't take long to load, and light towers and generators are even easier. By the time your branch opens Monday, there's an empty spot on the line and a police report to file. Our remote video monitoring puts trained people on your cameras during the hours your yard's on its own, so someone's actually watching while it happens instead of scrubbing footage the next morning.

What we watch for in a rental yard

We've been in business for over a decade, and our own staff do the monitoring from our own monitoring facility. You pick the schedule: 24/7, or just the hours that worry you, like nights, Sundays and holidays when the branch is closed. During those hours we'll watch the camera views you choose and review video alerts as they come in. We also run scheduled virtual guard tours.

In a rental yard, that usually means:

The ready line. Skid steers, mini excavators and track loaders that'd fit on a trailer in minutes.
Light towers and generators. They're small, they're worth a lot, and they're usually parked close to the fence.
Fuel and batteries. Someone draining a tank or pulling batteries off machines doesn't need to steal the machine itself.
The back fence line. On a big gravel yard, the far fence is the part nobody sees from the office.
After-hours drop-offs. A customer leaves a machine at the gate at 9 p.m., and the video shows when it arrived and what it looked like.
Early pickups. Contractors who show up before your counter staff do.

That time-stamped video also settles who's right about a dent on a returned excavator.

How we handle an incident

Every site gets a response plan we agree on with you before monitoring starts. When something happens, here's how it usually goes.

1. We spot it

An alert comes in, or an operator sees movement on a live view or during a guard tour.

2. We check what it is

Not every alert is a thief. It might be your own driver, a customer returning a machine, or a stray dog.

3. We talk to them

Where your cameras have two-way audio, we can give a verbal warning over the speaker. Hearing "you in the gray pickup, you're on camera" changes a lot of people's plans.

4. We call your people

We contact the designated contacts on your plan, and the authorities when your plan calls for it. You decide who gets called and in what order.

5. You get a report

We'll write up an incident report with the time, location and what we saw, plus clips or snapshots where they're available. It's the first thing your insurance adjuster and your regional manager are going to ask for.

Gates, plates and big gravel yards

We work with a lot of existing camera systems, so you may not need new hardware, but we'll check compatibility first. If there are gaps, we can add cameras. At the gate, license plate recognition keeps a record of the vehicles coming and going, which helps when you're piecing together who was there. For yards where the back fence is far from the building and there's no easy way to pull cable, wireless and solar links can get cameras out to the far corners.

We're based in Houston, where we also install cameras, but we monitor businesses across the USA.

One branch or several

If you run more than one location, we can monitor them together. Each branch can have its own schedule and its own contact list, since the store that's open Saturdays doesn't need the same hours as the one that's closed all weekend. If you also run job sites, our construction site monitoring works the same way. Still weighing it against a guard in a truck? Read our take on video monitoring vs security guards.

Get a free assessment of your yard

Pricing depends on how many cameras you've got, how many branches and what hours you want covered, so we quote each yard on its own. Tell us about your layout, your gates and the nights that worry you, and we'll put together a plan and a custom quote. Request a free assessment and we'll take it from there.

Remote Video Monitoring for Equipment Rental Yards