After consulting with industry professionals, it was determined that material & tool theft, damage done to structures and equipment, and fire are the greatest security related concerns expressed across low, mid, and high-rise construction developments. Not only do these problems increase projects costs, they also create negative brand perception when project completion dates are delayed.
According to Aviva Canada, roughly $46 million of equipment is stolen on construction sites annually, with only 20% of the total losses being recouped after the incident. This is a clear indicator that better security solutions are desperately needed.
We have engineered these construction site security solutions…
building the foundation from the ground up.
How do we provide Construction Site Security?
Our live remote video monitoring service reduces the risk of theft and damage on site by synergizing the near limitless potential of technology and the intuitive recognition of a human operator. Our security units are equipped with high-resolution stationary cameras, and a PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera that are used together by our operators to acquire court quality evidence when securing a location. Stationary cameras provide an exceptional fixed view of a location, while offering detections of individuals on site. When required, PTZ cameras are utilized by operators to pan, tilt, or zoom into the site to capture close up video evidence.
When suspicious or criminal activity is detected, our monitoring operators activate the communications speaker on a security unit to directly speak out to the individual on site. The trespasser is warned that if they do not leave the premises immediately, police will be dispatched.
Live engagement with individuals on site is an effective tool when deterring unwanted or criminal activity from your location such as material theft and vandalism.
Our professional logistics and service teams conduct site surveys of your property and will then strategically place our security units to cover the specific risk areas that are present on your location. These areas of concerns may include material laydown areas, entryways, gates, site trailers, heavy machinery, and vehicles.
Why are we the premier Construction Site Security solution?
Construction sites that require remote security monitoring normally do not have immediate access to hardwired internet on site, meaning the installation of traditional security cameras used by most companies is impossible. When hardwired installations are possible, the overall quality of video feeds transmitted into a monitoring center often suffer due to bandwidth limitations.
Our team of expert hardware and software engineers circumvented the use of hardwired internet by developing and patenting a proprietary communications platform that operates on the cellular LTE+ infrastructure. Our platform offers incredible benefits such as connectivity stability, and industry leading download and upload network speeds. These benefits ensure the highest resolution and sharpest quality camera streams are fed live into our very own, and Canada’s first UL Certified Monitoring Center.
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.
Making full use of our cellular based communications platform, our team meticulously engineered the first modular, self-contained suite of security units on the market. Our security units operate autonomously and feature independent communications onboard, which ensures that if any hardware or power loss issues occur on one individual unit, it would not diminish the integrity and security capabilities of the other units on site.
Weighing approximately 15 pounds, our video monitoring units are extremely lightweight but exceptionally durable. Due to their modular nature, our security units offer flexible mounting solutions from power poles, light posts, tripods, and on structure walls and building corners. We have also engineered our units to utilize the lowest power consumption on the market, making our solar devices a viable solution when shore power is not immediately available on construction sites.
Our suite of construction site security units feature standard hardware rollouts including a PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera, high resolution stationary cameras used for situational awareness, a strobe light, and a live communications speaker utilized by live monitoring operators for real time engagement with individuals on site.
With the construction industry in mind, we have led the remote video monitoring industry in Canada by obtaining CSA Inspection & SPE-1000 Compliance on our video security units, and utilizing NEMA 4X rated enclosures. This ensures that all safety and electrical standards are met on every location, while protecting them from dust, debris, and the elements, such as rain, sleet, snow and ice. Once our video security units are installed, they are live to monitoring through the nation’s largest private MPLS network to our monitoring center. Equipped with proprietary and custom artificial intelligence driven analytics, our monitoring operators utilize the aforementioned combination of security peripherals to deter crime. Our advanced approach to security monitoring allows us to identify and differentiate between security and potential health and safety risks commonly seen after hours on site, such as unguided site tours by new homebuyers. Our operators communicate the risks of unguided tours and communicate proper visiting hours and procedures to safely inspect and visit their new homes.
Investigations & Video Review
Our remote video monitoring services provide many benefits to the construction industry even when outside of monitoring hours. As construction sites are often viewed as organized chaos, we understand that the need for high-resolution images and videos throughout daily site operation times. For this reason, our security units are recording 24/7 and feature an industry leading onboard storage rating of a minimum of 21 days.
To facilitate the request for video evidence of incidences that have taken place outside of monitoring hours, we have developed a dedicated Investigations & Video Review department.
Damaged equipment or vehicles on site, the arrival and departure time of particular trades or services, and health and safety accidents or infractions are among the most frequent incidences our construction clients request video evidence for. Our team facilitates these requests by conducting in-depth video review of the occurrence and provide our clients with high-resolution photos, videos, and professional reports based on the findings of the investigation.
The synergy of remote video monitoring & wireless intrusion detection for Construction Site Security.
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 sight, and within a 4 kilometer diameter range from the unit location.
Due to financial and logistical constraints, construction sites may lack the ability to provide infrastructure across the entirety of the property at the onset of the project. Seasonal storage changes, such as the placement of assets indoors during winter can unintentionally remove them from camera view. Mounting points for our video security units, such as lighting posts, temporary power poles or other suitable mounting options are not always available in the most effective locations at the start of your project. These are some of the reasons why gaps in video security coverage can occur.
These gaps in video coverage can leave valuable assets, such as equipment, tools, site trailers, and sea-cans vulnerable to theft when outside of camera view. We have bolstered our remote video monitoring service by engineering and integrating an additional layer of security: syncroDetect.
syncroDetect provides coverage to vulnerable areas of your construction site through the use of wireless alarms and sensors. These peripherals can be equipped to areas that are prone to theft and damage, such as site-trailers, sea-cans, and tools stored in these locations. Our sensors instantly alert our operators of any unwanted intrusion on your site, with wireless door & window contact sensors and motion detectors.
When an alarm signal enters our monitoring center, our operators will respond rapidly; contacting law enforcement, and/or your own designated contacts, when required. All alarm and sensor communications are transmitted over the nation’s largest private MPLS network, ensuring your information is completely private and protected from public internet traffic. In order to effectively cover spanning construction developments over long project timelines, our wireless sensors are capable of transmitting signals within ranges of up to 2 kilometers (line of sight), and are equipped with batteries averaging a lifespan of up to 8 years (under normal operating conditions).
When syncroDetect is deployed with our live remote video monitoring service, the highest level of remote security provisioning is achieved. Together, they provide total security coverage of your construction site, and the assets within it.
This is construction site security made simple.
Our proprietary remote video monitoring platform functions on the full transparency and sharing of real-time information with our clients. Recognizing the need and importance of sharing critical information with clients, our team of software engineers developed the world’s first security information reporting platform: syncroReports.
syncroReports is a powerful security and project management tool that stores critical security information for all sites within one unified location. All observations made throughout monitoring hours are carefully logged and audited by our monitoring operators, in real-time.
Key security metrics such as the number of crimes deterred, police calls made, and voice commands issued are available at your fingertips and across all of your devices. Project management metrics such as workers arriving and departing the site, gates left open, and deliverables on site are also available, among many others.
How's that for transparency?
Site entryways and gates are critical areas to secure, and monitor due to the large amounts of vehicular traffic typically present on construction sites. Trades, utilities, third party services, and even suspicious vehicles all access active construction sites via roadways and gates. Until now, there has been no system to intelligently track and database the license plates of those who arrive and depart the site. In conjunction with our proprietary neural net and artificial intelligence systems, we have developed our own license plate reading and tracking system, syncroPlates.
Track the arrival and departure of staff, arrival of expected deliveries, or suspicious vehicles with our searchable plate database. syncroPlates provides unhindered access to your personal license plate database. Composed of license plates captured across all of your locations, syncroPlates is an incredible tool to track the arrival and departure of workers, deliverables, and suspicious vehicles across your locations. Full and partial plate number recognition allows for specific searches when identifying who and when of the arrivals on your site.
Using our license plate reader cameras, syncroPlates intelligently captures the alphanumerical values of a license plate and stores them within our database, which is Canada’s largest civilian plate database. Once a plate has been captured, a log report is generated containing a high-resolution photo of the vehicle on site, as well as date and time stamps of their arrival. Personal whitelisting and global blacklisting of license plates is also possible, ensuring your site is protected from any suspicious vehicle that has been identified across the entire network of Caliber secured sites.
We are the only company able to offer this solution for construction sites.
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 on your property, based on customizable activity and action filters you choose. These alerts arrive via your choice of email and/or SMS messages.
Be notified the second a trespasser is detected, workers arrive or depart your site, or when a voice command is issued by our monitoring operators without ever second guessing what is occurring on your property. Intuitive day and time filters also ensure you have access to critical security information at your fingertips, exactly when you requested it.
In conjunction with syncroPlates, syncroAlerts automatically informs clients when a blacklisted or suspicious vehicle previously identified by our monitoring operators arrives on your location. Criminals will often target multiple construction sites when committing theft, including sites across multiple cities. We have engineered a solution for this multi-site targeting as well.
Our engineering team has scaled syncroPlates and syncroAlerts to offer blanket protection by providing warning of the arrival of a suspicious vehicle, regardless of which Caliber monitored site the plate was identified on.
Alerts exactly when you requested them.
Our Line of Construction Site 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.
Our Additional Services for Construction Sites:
Health & Safety Monitoring
