Remote Video Monitoring for Warehouses & Truck Yards

You know the stretch of your yard nobody sees after the last shift leaves. Loaded trailers sit in a row along the back fence all night. The dock doors face a dark lot. On a long weekend, the whole place can go three days without anyone walking it, and if you run a satellite yard across town, it may not get a visit until Monday. That's when trailers get opened and fuel goes missing. Our remote video monitoring puts trained people on your cameras during those hours, so somebody is actually looking while it happens instead of you finding it on a recording the next morning.

What our operators actually watch for in a yard

We've been in business for over a decade, and our own staff do the monitoring from our own monitoring facility. Nobody else handles your cameras. You can have us on 24/7, or just nights and weekends if that's when your site sits empty.

At a warehouse or truck yard, the calls tend to come from the same places. Someone cuts through the back fence by the trailer row and starts working on a seal. A box truck backs up to dock 4 at 2 a.m. on a Sunday when nothing is scheduled. A pickup parks next to the fuel tank, or next to the yard tractor that has a full tank. A car sits idling outside the guard shack longer than it should.

So we watch the camera views you pick, review video alerts as they come in, and run virtual guard tours on a schedule you set. That might be a sweep of the yard every hour after close, or a look at the dock doors at shift change.

What happens when we see something

Before we start, we sit down with you and write a response plan. Who gets called first, who gets called if they don't pick up, and when the authorities should be contacted. Then when something comes up, it goes like this:

• We spot it. An alert fires, or an operator catches it on a live view or a scheduled tour.
• We check it. Is that a thief, or the late driver you told us about? The operator looks before anyone gets a call at 3 a.m.
• We talk to them. If your site has speakers with two-way audio, the operator can tell the person they're on camera and need to leave.
• We call your people. We follow your plan: your contacts, and the authorities where your plan says to.
• We write it up. You get an incident report with the time, the location and what we saw, plus clips or snapshots where they're available.

We can also keep arrival and departure records for your staff, which is handy when you want to know who actually opened the building on Saturday.

Gates, dock doors and long fence lines

You probably already have cameras. We work with a lot of existing systems, and we'll check yours for compatibility before you commit to anything. If they work, you keep them.

If there are gaps, we can fill them. Here in Houston we do camera installation for the dark corners, like the far end of the trailer row or the doors on the back side of the building. At the gate, license plate recognition gives you a record of every truck that comes in and out. And on a big yard where the back fence is too far to trench cable to, wireless links can carry the video from those poles back to your recorder.

One building or a dozen yards

Some customers have us on one distribution center. Others have several warehouses and a couple of drop yards in different cities. We monitor businesses across the USA, and each site gets its own response plan and schedule, since a busy DC and an empty overflow lot don't need the same coverage. More of our work for this industry is on our warehouse and distribution page.

Start with a free assessment

We don't publish prices, because no two sites are the same. The quote depends on how many cameras you want watched, which hours, and what the response plan looks like. The easiest way to get a real number is to book a free assessment. We'll look at your cameras, walk through your layout and talk about where your yard is exposed after hours.