A perimeter is only as good as whoever watches it.
At three in the morning, nobody does. A fenced site, a storage yard and the top deck of a car park all have the same problem.
of construction companies suffered at least one theft in the past year, and almost half suffered vandalism.
BauWatch, Construction Crime Index 2024
of thefts are copper, the most stolen material of all
tools and portable equipment
the yearly weight of site crime across Europe
One in five companies in that survey sees theft every month or every week. The site is already filmed; what is missing is somebody watching at the hour it happens.
Two kinds of open ground
The same problem at different hours: ground nobody is watching, with something worth taking left on it.
The yard
A fence, a gate, and material worth more than the machines around it. What goes over that fence at three in the morning is on camera and seen by nobody.
The car park
The same open ground, with somebody else’s property parked on it. England and Wales counted 53,369 cases of vehicle interference in the year to March 2024, and a catalytic converter comes off a car in under a minute.
Police recorded crime, England and Wales, year to March 2024, as reported by Car.co.uk; National Police Chiefs' Council on the time it takes.
Same cameras. A different answer.
How it is handled today
Hundreds of alarms on movement, to open and read.
A fence, a recorder and a patrol that passes twice a night. The footage is looked at the morning after, when the copper is already gone.
With Focoos
One alarm, already analysed.
The event is raised while the person is still climbing the fence, or still bent over the wheel of somebody else’s car. Cut the line to the outside and it keeps watching.
What Focoos wrote about this clip
A person wearing a beanie, black shirt and blue gloves is attempting to force open a heavy metal door, using their body weight and both hands. They are also carrying a large backpack.
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 the fence line, the material store and the car park next to them run one model and not three systems. On the car park the ticked boxes shift: an angle grinder under a car is an unusual object in hand, and the car itself is damage to a vehicle.
On the cameras you already have.
On the cameras already pointed at the fence line and down the parking rows. Nothing new to cable, and no port opened towards the outside.
The brain: observes, understands and decides on-prem, on your own network.
Where your team settles the events, from every site you run.