Remote site monitoring in Fort Saskatchewan

Local and live

Beside Alberta's Industrial Heartland on Highway 15 and 21

Fort Saskatchewan sits inside Alberta's Industrial Heartland, which the province calls the largest hydrocarbon processing region in Canada, reached from Highway 15 and Highway 21 and served by both CN and CPKC rail. Dow's Fort Saskatchewan site, on 700 acres the company acquired in 1959 and opened as a plant in 1961, is now anchoring an $11.6 billion expansion called Path2Zero, and the Heartland as a whole counts more than 40 companies and over $50 billion invested, according to the city's own economic development office. The CN Scotford rail terminal sits about 3.6 kilometres from the city, and contractors serving Dow, Sherritt International, Nutrien, Shell and the other Heartland plants keep equipment, pipe and materials on laydown yards around the edges of the plant sites.

Plant sites and the contractors around them draw thieves after dark. In June 2026, someone cut through a perimeter fence at an oil and gas plant in Lamont County, a rural area the Fort Saskatchewan RCMP detachment also covers, and drove off in a vehicle that was later found burned on a rural road; an Edmonton man was charged in August 2026 after the fence-cutting led investigators to him. For contractors and trucking yards near the Heartland, that kind of cut-fence entry is the risk: equipment, pipe and vehicles sitting on an open lot overnight.

Sigma's agents watch every camera on a Fort Saskatchewan yard live, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including the shutdowns and turnarounds when a laydown yard is at its fullest. AI person and vehicle detection flags anyone who gets through a fence or gate after hours, 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. Gate Operations checks each driver against your schedules before opening the gate, and Yard Operations adds truck and trailer damage inspections and parking reports.

Also covering Bruderheim, Redwater, Gibbons, Josephburg, Lamont, Strathcona County, Sherwood Park, Edmonton.