Intrusion
A person on foot between the parked rows.
The gate opens at three in the morning, and that is normal
A logistics yard is the awkward case. It is not empty at night, it is busiest at night, and the vehicles moving through it are supposed to be there. Any system whose rule is "movement after hours" is useless here within a week, because the operators stop reading it.
What actually happens
The pattern on these sites
Fuel is siphoned from parked tractors. Trailer curtains are slashed to see what is inside, usually on the row furthest from the office. Occasionally a whole unit leaves. The common thread is that all of it happens among legitimate activity, which is exactly what makes it hard to see and easy to explain away.
The useful zones are not the gate, they are the parked rows, the fuel point and the trailer park. A driver walking to the office is normal. A person on foot between parked trailers at the far end of the yard is not, whatever time it is.
Where the noise comes fromLegitimate vehicle movement, reversing lights, headlights across the yard, and drivers walking to facilities. This is the sector where separating people from vehicles matters most, because vehicles are the background and people on foot in the wrong zone are the event.
Detection
What to switch on here, and why
Vehicles
Something that is not a unit entering the trailer park.
Loitering
Time spent at the fuel point without a fill.
Stationary objects
A trailer that moved when nothing was scheduled.
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
Our yard is busy overnight. Will we be buried in alerts?
Not if the rules are built around zones rather than hours. Vehicle movement through the gate and the loading bays can be excluded entirely while a person on foot in the trailer park raises an event. Filtering happens before the signal is sent, so it never reaches the operator queue.
Can we treat different parts of the yard differently?
Yes. Zones are per camera and rules are per zone, each with its own schedule across the week by hour. The fuel point can be armed permanently while the loading bays are only armed on Sundays.
How much bandwidth does this need across a yard with 40 cameras?
Detection runs on site without continuous cloud streaming. Events, snapshots and short clips can go to the cloud. Live viewing also uses bandwidth when requested, so usage depends on event volume and viewing activity.
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