Precious metals are one of the largest sources of profit for the recycling industry and the act of metal theft can reduce profits. Criminals that breach recycling facilities will often visit landfills, recycling bays, sea cans, and laydown areas in order to access scrap metals.
Although copper wire is the most sought-after metal due to its rising value over the last several years, metals such as aluminum, brass, platinum, and bronze are other targeted metals that are stolen from recycling facilities. Once these metals are successfully removed from a facility, criminals will sell the metals back to other recycling facilities, who are unknowingly rewarding them for their criminal activity.
Health and safety risks are another concern in the event trespassers gain access to recycling facilities. Recycling facilities that are unmanned after-hours will experience trespassers that will rummage.
By sifting through recycling bays, storage containers, and machinery, there is an inherent risk of being crushed by objects weighing hundreds to thousands of pounds. Early detection of suspicious and criminal activity is integral to not only reducing monetary losses experienced by metal theft, but it also aids in the prevention of injury and loss of life on site.
Our advanced live remote video monitoring services are the solution to the ever-present security problems faced by recycling facilities.
Avoid Recycled Methods of Remote Video Monitoring.
The recycling industry requires an innovative approach to monitoring that does not fall victim to the same pitfalls and recycled “solutions” traditional security companies offer. Security companies will often identify problematic areas of a location, install hardwired cameras to cover them, and will then transmit video feeds into a monitoring center.
These wired internet connections not only suffer from slow network speeds that reduce image quality and drastically reduces monitoring effectiveness, they also create a single point of failure in the security system.
In the event that internet connectivity is lost due to severed cabling, inclement weather, or internet provider issues, the integrity of the entire security system will be compromised.
This is our Innovative Approach.
We are the only security company on the market that has engineered a proprietary communications platform and innovative security units. Our team of engineers have developed and patented a communications platform that operates on the cellular LTE+ infrastructure.
Unlike its hardwired counterpart, our platform does not require wired internet lines in order to secure recycling facilities, and offers network transmission speeds that are significantly faster than what is supplied by standard internet connections on site.
These speeds provide the bandwidth required to stream high-resolution video into our UL Certified Monitoring Center, without a loss in image quality. Our video streams are transmitted through the largest private MPLS network in the country. This ensures your information and video streams are private and separated from regular public internet traffic. These full-resolution video streams are essential to capturing court quality evidence of suspicious or criminal activity in recycling facilities.
In conjunction with our proprietary artificial intelligence analytics, our monitoring operators detect the presence of unwanted or criminal activity by utilizing the stationary cameras installed on our units. These high-resolution cameras provide a fixed view of vulnerable locations, and aid in the early detection of trespassers or unwanted individuals.
Our operators take control of the PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras onboard our units to follow individuals around the location by panning and tilting, and will zoom in to acquire identifiable features of the suspect, such as their facial features, clothing worn, and even their ethnicity.
Once video evidence of suspicious or criminal activity is secured, our operators will speak directly to the individual on site with the live communications speaker on our units; speaking to the individual on site, describing their appearance, and calling out the trespasser’s specific actions in real-time. Not only does this provide an exceptional tool to deter metal theft from the facility, voice commands issued by operators can also advise the public of the operating hours of the facility in order to deter unauthorized dumping. In addition to the above, all Caliber security units are equipped with a blue LED strobe light that is used as a visual deterrent, making it known that there are security units present to a trespasser on site.
Compared to reactionary services that will detect an individual after an incident has taken place, our proactive approach to remote video monitoring can deter criminal activity before it happens.
Security that is Engineered for Recycling Facilities.
Recycling facilities require a flexible security system that can cover a variety of areas that are vulnerable to metal theft. Rather than deploying the same hardwired camera systems that all security companies offer, our team has engineered a suite of proprietary wireless video security units that completely circumvent the potential of loss of connectivity due to the shortfalls of wired internet.
Our units are standard equipped with one ultra high-resolution PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) camera which allows our monitoring technicians to conduct live video patrols, actively surveil the site, and zoom in to capture specific data for court quality evidence. This camera utilizes Diffuse Infrared technology which allows for excellent image quality at night.
All our units come with a minimum of 2 high-resolution Diffuse Infrared Cameras that utilize state-of-the-art night-vision technology, providing excellent ‘near daylight’ image quality during night hours.
Our remotely triggered strobes are used to deter intruders, and let trespassers know there are surveillance cameras on site. They also assist law enforcement in identifying the specific location that is being trespassed.
Our team has engineered a customized VoIP protocol that runs independent from monitoring within our infrastructure. This makes our live communications & deterrence speaker system incredibly clear and reliable.
Our internal expansion port allows for the efficient integration of additional security peripherals, ranging from thermal cameras to plate readers. This allows us to design application specific security solutions to meet the most stringent site requirements.
Our unit ships standard with 2TB of video recording capacity, providing a minimum of 21 days of video storage; optional expandable harddrive storage of up to 12TB of capacity, providing up to 18 weeks of video storage.
Designed to be the security industry’s most modular and flexible system available, our security units were developed by our team of engineers to mount to practically any surface and be live to monitoring within minutes. Weighing approximately 15 pounds and made of durable materials, our Pole Units can be mounted on to weigh-in stations, recycling bay structures, power and light poles, and tripods without unnecessarily long installation times.
Furthermore, our Mobile Units can be deployed immediately on a location that does not have any viable mounting solution on site. The power draw on our security units is also lightweight. Consuming less than 60 watts of power, our units are able to be equipped with optional solar kits in the instance power is not immediately available on the location.
Our security units are standard equipped with a high-resolution PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera, fixed stationary cameras, a blue LED strobe light, and a live communications speaker. Optional license plate reader cameras can be strategically placed on site to capture the arrival and departure of all vehicular traffic on the facility. For poorly lit locations, we offer thermal camera solutions to detect criminal activity even when in complete darkness.
Our Wireless Intrusion Alarm System.
syncroDetect is equipped with wireless alarms and sensors capable of detecting the disturbance of the assets in your recycling facility. Our wireless Door & Window Contacts and Motion Detection Sensors identify any intrusion attempts or motion made within their vicinity. syncroDetect devices can be placed anywhere on your property and are capable of making detections up to 2 kilometers away (within line of sight).
With battery life of up to 5 years on the core system and up to 8 years on peripherals, syncroDetect guarantees long term protection of your assets and property. Upon detection of a security threat with this system, our monitoring operators immediately contact law enforcement, and your own designated contacts.
syncroDetect operates on our proprietary, wireless cellular LTE+ communications platform. Due to its wireless nature, damaged or severed internet cable lines on site will never disrupt the system’s alarm and sensor communications.
Our high-visibility power indicator LED provides you with the peace of mind that the syncroDetect system is operational, and actively safeguarding your assets kept outside of camera view.
SyncroDetect enclosures are NEMA 4X rated, ensuring consistent and continuous uptime in any environment. Our enclosures are corrosion resistant and provide protection to internal components from dust and debris, as well as environmental factors, including rain, sleet, snow, and ice.
syncroDetect combines the proven reliability of video security monitoring with the utility of an array of intrusion alarm sensors; providing an additional, exceptional layer of asset protection to our remote video monitoring service. Once our sensors detect intrusion, our monitoring operators are alerted of the incident and contact law enforcement without delay.
Backed by an IP66 water and dustproof rating, and operating temperature ranges as low as -40C to as high as 66C, our wireless Door & Window contact sensors are engineered to perform in all weather conditions, providing all seasons security coverage of your assets.
Two-way 128-bit AES encryption protects the integrity of the communications powering our range of wireless alarms and sensors, preventing interference or unauthorized access to the asset or property. Our alarms and sensors operate on our private MPLS network, a closed-loop system that is completely separate from public internet traffic, free from the threat of external tampering or communications hijacking.
Offering additional security coverage to locations over distances once thought impossible, syncroDetect secures assets from ranges up to 2 kilometer away in line of site, and within a 4 kilometer diameter range from the unit location.
This wireless alarm system seamlessly integrates into our proprietary communications platform, with all communication between syncroDetect devices transmitting through Canada’s largest private MPLS network. This network ensures completely privatized network communications, while negating the risk of device tampering or hacking.
Combined, our remote video monitoring service and syncroDetect provide complete protection to your assets, facility, and data. This is total security coverage.
We hold the necessary certifications that ensure service uptime.
Our 3rd party Inspected & Electrical Safety Compliant, and NEMA 4X rated video security units meet all electrical and safety requirements when installed in recycling facilities, while also ensuring their operation is never compromised due to inclement weather or heavy dust present on location.
High-resolution video feeds from our security units are transmitted to our state-of-the-art Remote Video Monitoring Center, over Canada’s largest private MPLS network. When required by your insurance provider, or through industry-related specifications, we can provide UL Certified® remote video monitoring services to protect your property.
To protect the assets within your recycling facility, every second of security counts.
Investigations & Video Review
The safeguarding of recycling facilities and their assets goes beyond the standard monitoring hours of our security services. We engineered our security units to collect court quality evidence outside of monitoring hours by integrating internal storage solutions that facilitate 24/7 video recording.
Our units boast an industry-leading minimum of 21 days of video storage that is accessible by our Investigations & Video Review team.
To facilitate the investigation of instances that occur outside of monitoring hours, such as theft, vandalism, unauthorized dumping, and weigh-in evasion, our team will conduct a thorough review of all video footage of the instance.
Once video evidence of the incident is reviewed, our team creates highly informative reports that not only includes high-resolution photos and videos of the incident, but also contains an event summary that details the timeline of events of the incident.
This is Recycling Facility Security made simple.
The transparency and communication of a security company is important to consider when protecting your recycling facility and its assets.
Our remote video monitoring service provides the most in-depth communication of all security related events that take place in your facility. We provide our clients with highly informative reports of all activity on site through the world’s first security information reporting platform, syncroReports.
Compared to offerings on the market that will provide a report of an incident after it has taken place, we developed this system to serve as one unified location to receive critical site-specific security information in real-time. All observations made by our monitoring operators are carefully logged, audited, and are made available for review in syncroReports.
Key security metrics that include number of police calls made, crimes deterred, and voice commands are available across all of your devices. All live camera feeds are also available to view within syncroReports.
How's that for transparency?
The entrances of recycling facilities are controlled by weigh-in stations that experience high vehicular traffic on a daily basis. License plate reader cameras are available to be mounted to these locations in order to control and surveil what vehicles are arriving on site. While other security companies claim to offer a license plate reading system, our team developed a proprietary system that intelligently captures and stores the license plates of all inbound and outbound vehicular traffic: syncroPlates.
Housing Canada’s largest civilian license plate database, syncroPlates provides the recycling industry with searchable, site-specific license plate databases of their locations.
syncroPlates utilizes our license plate reader cameras and works in tandem with our proprietary neural net to capture the alphanumerical values of a license plate, convert them into time, date and location metadata, and provide high-resolution photos of every vehicle that enters the property.
Once a plate is stored in syncroPlates, the ability to whitelist or blacklist any vehicle from entering the facility is provided to authorized syncroReports users. Previously flagged suspicious vehicles, or those confirmed to have been involved with criminal activity are also blacklisted across all Caliber security equipped locations. In the event any blacklisted vehicle arrives on site, you are notified immediately of their presence through our customizable alert system, syncroAlerts.
Not only is syncroPlates a powerful resource when safeguarding assets, it also provides daily operations benefits to the recycling industry. Tracking the arrival of vehicles to specific recycling bays and weigh-in stations allow site personnel to identify parties responsible for incorrect material drop off. syncroPlates also tracks the arrival and departure of individuals who avoid paying dumping fees at weigh-in stations when accessing the recycling facility other than through the main entrance.
We are the only company able to offer this solution for Recycling Facilities.
syncroReports also features another industry first, developed by our dedicated software engineers. syncroAlerts is a proprietary module that provides real-time reporting of incidences occurring at your recycling facility. These alerts arrive via your choice of email and/or SMS messages.
syncroAlerts offers customizable alerts that can be filtered by activity and action filters including, but not limited to, trespasser on site, unauthorized dumping, suspicious activity, police called, workers on site, and gates left open. Time and day filters that are customizable for every user allow authorized personnel to choose when they want to receive specific security information, on their own schedule.
Alerts arrive in real time, as you requested them.
Our Line of Security Devices
Pole Unit
A fully modular unit that is customizable and adaptable to meet even the most stringent requirements, our Pole Unit can be mounted virtually anywhere and be live to monitoring within minutes.
Solar Unit
No power on site? Consuming less power than a traditional remote application, our Solar Unit is the industry’s most viable and reliable solution when access to shore power is unavailable.
syncroDetect
Seamlessly integrated into our premier remote video monitoring service, syncroDetect provides long range, wireless alarm protection of your assets kept in areas where video coverage may be difficult.
Mobile Unit
Ideal for temporary use and designed specifically with remote or undeveloped properties in mind, our Mobile Unit requires no existing infrastructure or installation, and is live to our monitoring center in minutes.