Intrusion
A person between the rows after closing.
A forecourt is a shop with no walls
Every other retailer locks the stock inside at night. A dealership parks it outdoors, under lights, next to a road, and hopes. The lighting that makes the forecourt look good after dark is the same lighting that lets someone work on a catalytic converter without a torch.
What actually happens
The pattern on these sites
Converters and wheels go first, because they take minutes and need no keys. Whole vehicles go second, usually with a relay attack on a keyless fob from outside the showroom wall. Both are quiet, both happen between one and four in the morning, and both look like nothing on a recorder until someone reviews it two days later.
The forecourt is the detection zone and the pavement outside it is not. After closing, any person between the rows is the event worth having. Someone lying down beside a vehicle is the one nobody wants to miss.
Where the noise comes fromHeadlights sweeping the lot from the road, the reflections they throw off windscreens and wet tarmac, and pedestrians on the pavement. A zone that stops at the property line removes most of it, and classification removes the rest.
Detection
What to switch on here, and why
Loitering
Someone on the forecourt edge working out which car.
Vehicles
A van that parks and waits rather than passing.
People counting
Daytime footfall, from the same cameras.
Monitoring
It reaches your central station, not a separate app
Events map to the zone and area your platform already expects, with the clip attached, so an operator verifies before a keyholder is called out. MDIX integrates with Immix, Bold Manitou and Stages.
Questions
The things people ask on the first call
How do we stop headlights from the road triggering alerts all night?
Detection zones are polygons, not rectangles, so the zone follows the forecourt boundary and stops at the pavement. Combined with classifying what is actually in frame, passing traffic and its headlight sweep do not produce events.
Can it tell someone crouching by a wheel from someone walking past?
Both are detected as a person, and the difference is the rule. A person inside the forecourt zone after hours raises an intrusion event, and a person who stays in one place raises a loitering event, which is the one that usually matters on a forecourt.
We already use the cameras for daytime sales analytics. Does this replace that?
No, it runs alongside. People counting works from the same cameras during opening hours, and the security rules are scheduled to be active only after close, so one camera does both jobs without one interfering with the other.
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