Warehouse video surveillance that watches the dock for you

A warehouse camera sees more legitimate motion in one shift than a storage site sees in a month. The problem is not too little detection, it is that all of it is real.

See pricing for 60 cameras

Works with your existing warehouse camera system
Different rules per shift
Categories only, no identities

Interior, after hours

Fixed camera, low light, two subjects

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Sensitivity 6

Sets the luma delta threshold and the smallest region that counts.

Minimum duration 0.4s

Kills the one frame flicker that no operator wants paged about.

Exclude zone

Put it over the road, the tree, the neighbour's window. Events inside it stop alerting.

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01 The same camera, three different jobs

Normal at 10:00 and normal at 03:00 are not the same picture.

Day shift

Forklifts, pickers, dock doors open, trailers coupling and uncoupling. Motion is continuous and almost all of it is the business running.

Alert on nothing except a person in a restricted aisle or a vehicle in a pedestrian lane. Everything else goes to the timeline.

Between shifts

The building is briefly empty but the yard is not. Cleaners, a late trailer, a maintenance contractor.

Alert on person in the yard and on any vehicle movement, because at this hour every one of them should have been scheduled.

Overnight

Nothing should move except weather and the occasional animal, and the site is at its most exposed.

Alert on person and vehicle immediately, escalate if nobody acknowledges, and keep the dock doors under their own rule.

Schedules and escalation are on the Multi-Site tier and above. What every tier gives you is the thing that makes schedules worth having: an event that already knows whether it was a person or a forklift.

02 What sets a warehouse camera off

Six sources of motion, and the setting that removes each one.

Forklifts on a fixed route

A vehicle class filter that is off during shift hours, plus an exclude zone over the aisle they always cross. The forklift is still in the timeline, it is just not an alert.

Pallet wrap and shrink film catching light

Classified as other motion. A minimum duration of one second removes almost all of it before the class is even needed.

Dock doors and roller shutters

A zone on the door itself, with a separate rule if you want to know that a door stood open at 03:00, which is usually the event that matters.

High bay lighting cycling on sensors

Absorbed by the adaptive background model. A whole frame brightness step is not motion, and the detector is built to know that.

Trailers parked and repositioned in the yard

Vehicle class, plus a schedule. During the day it is logistics. At 02:00 it is the alert you wanted.

Birds inside the roof space

Classified as animal. Most operations managers route animal to the timeline and to nobody.

Each of these is a zone, a duration and a class filter, which is the entire configuration surface. The rest is written up on the AI video analytics software features page, and you can practise all three in the demo.

03 Which cameras to connect first

Do not start with 200 cameras. Start with the five that would have caught last year's incident.

Yard gate. Every vehicle that will ever matter passes it, and it is the one camera where a vehicle class filter earns its keep on its own.
Dock face, wide. One camera across the doors rather than one per door. You are looking for a door open when nothing is scheduled.
The high value aisle. Whatever is small, portable and expensive. Person class, all hours.
Pedestrian and forklift crossing point. This is the one that is about safety rather than theft, and it is usually the one that gets budget approved.
The blind side of the building. The elevation with no windows, no lighting and no reason for anyone to be there.

Five cameras fits inside Watch at $49 a month. If it earns its place in a fortnight, Operate takes you to 15 and Multi-Site to 60.

A 60 camera distribution centre

The arithmetic, with your own numbers to check it against

Multi-Site, 60 cameras included $499 a month

Billed annually $399 a month, $4,788 a year

Per camera, per month $8.32

SSO, custom roles, 1 year audit log Included

At an enterprise anchor of about $100 a camera Roughly $72,000 a year

The last row is that market's published per camera positioning, not a quote we have seen. It is there because it is the number you will be comparing against, and pretending otherwise would not help you.

04 Asked by operations and facilities managers

Four questions specific to a warehouse.

Can it tell a forklift from a van?

Both come back as vehicle. If the distinction matters operationally, custom classes are available from the Operate tier and are trained on your own footage. For most sites the useful split is not forklift against van, it is vehicle against person, and that is available on every tier.

Will it slow down our network?

It reads the camera sub stream, which your camera is already producing, and the video itself does not leave your network. What leaves is a few small still crops per event. A quiet overnight camera can send nothing for hours.

Do we have to replace the NVR?

No. The recorder keeps recording exactly as it does now. This runs alongside it and reads the same streams, which is the entire premise of the product.

Our IT team will want SSO and an audit log.

SAML and OIDC single sign on plus a one year audit log are on Multi-Site. Roles and a 30 day audit log start on Operate. The full answer, including retention and the DPA, is on the enterprise security camera systems page.

05 Read next

Start with the yard gate and the dock face.

One email address, one 6 digit code, and your console opens. Pick the tier that matches your camera count and pay by card.

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