Unattended all night, and worth forcing.
The self-service post is a cash machine outdoors, with nobody on site to notice.
attacks a year for every 100 self-service payment terminals in Italy, against 0.9 for every 100 bank ATMs. A forecourt terminal is hit twice as often as the machine in a bank wall, and it is the one with nobody beside it.
Ministero dell’Interno, Direzione Centrale Polizia Criminale, with OSSIF, unem and IP data · Rapporto Intersettoriale sulla Criminalità Predatoria
per 100 in Basilicata, where the rate peaks
fuel points in Italy, every one of them with a self-service terminal
taken in a single theft, with structural damage that often costs more than the cash
Rip-out, reader cutting, vehicle ramming. What makes the forecourt worth it is not the cash in the terminal but the shape of the place: isolated, open all night, nobody on site. One case in Asti reads like all the others, a column cut open with an angle grinder for €700 and a terminal to replace.
Same cameras. A different answer.
How it is handled today
Hundreds of alarms on movement, to open and read.
Motion on an open forecourt fires on every car, every set of headlights and every change in the weather. After a week of that, nobody opens it.
With Focoos
One alarm, already analysed.
The same cameras, read by a model that tells a customer refuelling from a person working the post with a tool. One event instead of a hundred, and it says why.
What Focoos wrote about this clip
A person wearing a balaclava uses a crowbar to force a fuel dispenser, trying to open it. No other people or additional tools are visible.
Real surveillance footage, and the model’s own sentence about it. The event types are the ones it raised.
What it watches for on this kind of site.
The usual list for this point of view. It is yours to change, camera by camera: the model is the same everywhere, and only the ticked boxes differ.
These are event types from the same twenty. Nothing is built for this market, which is why a site with a forecourt, a shop and a yard runs one model and not three systems.
On the cameras you already have.
Nothing on the forecourt changes. The device sits in the shop cabinet, reads the cameras that are already there, and keeps deciding even if the line goes down.
The brain: observes, understands and decides on-prem, on your own network.
Where your team settles the events, from every site you run.