Intrusion
Anyone inside the compound line after hours.
Security cameras that know the difference between a fox and a flatbed
A construction site is the hardest kind of place to secure, because the thing you are securing changes every week. The perimeter moves, the compound moves, the plant moves, and the site that was a slab in March is three storeys by June. Fixed alarms do not follow that. Cameras do, if something is watching them.
What actually happens
The pattern on these sites
Theft on site is rarely opportunistic. Plant, generators and fuel go on a Friday night or over a bank holiday, usually onto a flatbed, usually by people who have seen the site in daylight first. Copper and cable go in smaller amounts more often. By the time a site manager arrives on Monday, the footage exists and nobody was watching it.
Between six in the evening and six in the morning the site should be empty. That makes the rule simple and the detection reliable: any person inside the compound, any vehicle that is not a delivery, and anything approaching the fuel bowser or the plant park.
Where the noise comes fromSites generate nuisance alerts from exactly three things: security lighting swinging in the wind, sheeting and debris netting moving on the scaffold, and wildlife. All three are motion. None of them is a person, which is the distinction pixel-based motion detection cannot make and classification can.
Detection
What to switch on here, and why
Vehicles
A flatbed reversing towards the plant park at 2am.
Loitering
Someone watching the gate before they use it.
Stationary objects
Plant that was there at dusk and is not there at midnight.
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
The site layout changes every few weeks. Do detection zones have to be redrawn?
Zones are drawn per camera on the camera image, so they only need changing when a camera moves or the compound boundary moves. That is a few minutes of work, not a re-commission, and it can be done from the dashboard without a site visit.
Will it alert on foxes, rain and moving debris netting?
No. Detection classifies what it sees rather than reacting to pixel change, so an animal, blowing sheeting and a swinging floodlight are not people and do not raise an intrusion event. This is the main practical difference from the motion detection built into most recorders.
We have no power or network in the compound yet. Does that matter?
The appliance needs power and a network link at the site, which on early phase sites usually means the cabin. If the internet link drops, detection and recording continue locally and events sync when it returns, which matters on sites where the connection is a mobile router.
Can our monitoring station handle the signals?
If they run Immix, Bold Manitou or Stages, yes. Events arrive on the zone and area already mapped for that site, with the clip attached, so the operator verifies before they call the keyholder out at three in the morning.
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