Remote yard monitoring in Fort McMurray

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Along Highway 63 and Mackenzie Boulevard

Fort McMurray sits at the end of Highway 63, the lone all-weather highway into the city, which Alberta's own traffic counts put at more than 34,800 vehicles a day past Hospital Street and over 55,100 at the Athabasca River crossing. CN bought the Athabasca Northern Railway in December 2007 for $25 million and put another $135 million into upgrading the line over the next three years, and it later spent roughly $10 million on a petroleum coke transload operation here that CN calls its logistics gateway to the oil sands. Trucking and oilfield service companies cluster along Mackenzie Boulevard and Draper Road, where tractors, trailers and heavy equipment sit on open yards between jobs.

The same yards are a target. Wood Buffalo RCMP said more than $50,000 in copper tubing was stolen from a business in the Gregoire area on January 12, 2025, after two suspects in balaclavas fled in a car; a search days later recovered the tubing and led to an arrest. The detachment reported a turnaround in 2026, with break and enters down 40 percent and motor vehicle thefts down 27 percent from a year earlier, but a trucking or equipment yard still holds the kind of copper, wiring and idle machinery that keeps drawing attention.

Sigma's agents watch every camera on a Fort McMurray yard live, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including the long shift changes of hauling season. AI person and vehicle detection flags anyone on site after the crews leave, an agent verifies it on live video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and escalates to police and your contacts, with video clips and a written report to follow. Yard Operations adds truck and trailer damage inspections and parking reports for units parked along Mackenzie Boulevard or Draper Road.

Also covering Anzac, Draper, Saprae Creek, Gregoire Lake Estates, Fort McKay, Conklin, Janvier, Fort Chipewyan.