Remote yard monitoring in Lethbridge

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On the Highway 4 trade corridor to Coutts

Lethbridge anchors the north end of the Highway 4 trade corridor. Highway 4 runs 103 kilometres from the Coutts crossing, Alberta's busiest border crossing, where it meets Interstate 15, and becomes 43 Street on the city's east side, while the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) carries east-west traffic toward Medicine Hat and British Columbia. Economic Development Lethbridge's Canada's Western Gateway initiative counts more than 200 trade and logistics companies and about 3,000 transport and logistics jobs in the corridor, with Class I rail links to CPKC and CN. The Canadian Pacific rail yards moved from downtown to Kipp, just west of the city, in 1983, and the city's Sherring Business and Industrial Park offers about 350 acres of serviced industrial land.

Property crime in Lethbridge fell sharply in 2024 but has not gone away. Between January and September 2025, the Lethbridge Police Service counted 10,365 criminal violations, 10.7 per cent more than a year earlier, even as vehicle thefts dropped 23.8 per cent to 173. In November 2025, an investigation that began when officers noticed the gate of a storage compound on 10 Street North standing ajar recovered about $85,000 in stolen property, including power tools linked to five break-ins. Outside the city, RCMP announced charges in June 2026 against three people over copper wire stolen from irrigation and industrial sites in Lethbridge County, the MD of Taber and Newell County, with damage from one incident estimated at more than $96,000. Tools, wire, trailers and farm machinery left on open lots are what a yard owner here stands to lose.

For trucking and agricultural yards along the corridor, the exposure is greatest after the last shift leaves. Sigma's agents keep live eyes on every camera through the night, on weekends and on holidays. AI person and vehicle detection picks up movement, an agent confirms it on video and gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers, and police and your contacts are called, with video clips and a written report to follow. Gate Operations lets agents check each arriving driver against your pickup lists and open the gate remotely, and Yard Operations adds trailer damage inspections and visual seal checks on video.

Also covering Kipp, Coaldale, Picture Butte, Diamond City, Stirling, Raymond, Magrath, Taber.