Warehouse and yard monitoring in El Centro

Local and live

Along I-8 and Highway 111, 10 miles from the border

El Centro is the seat of Imperial County and sits on Interstate 8, which runs from San Diego to Yuma, Arizona; State Routes 86 and 111 run north toward Brawley and the Salton Sea, with 111 continuing south to the border crossing at Calexico, less than 20 miles away. Agriculture is the county's largest industry, accounting for about 48 percent of local employment, and the farmland around El Centro backs it up: Imperial County's gross agricultural value reached $2.6 billion in 2023, up 2.3 percent on the year, across 578,659 harvested acres, with vegetable and melon crops alone worth $1.2 billion.

That much farm production means tractors, implements and irrigation equipment sitting in fields and yards around the city, and thieves target it. On May 10, 2026, Imperial County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 31-year-old Holtville man after he was found with stolen property during a third theft from a business on McConnell Road, following two earlier incidents in which about 450 sprinkler heads, worth roughly $3,100, had already been stripped from the same property. A farm equipment yard without someone watching it is an easy return trip for the same thieves.

Equipment left in an El Centro field or yard overnight is watched the same way as a loading dock: live agents on every camera, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with AI person and vehicle detection flagging anyone near the machinery or the fence line. Once an agent confirms it on video, a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers is the next step, followed by a call to police if the person stays. Yard Operations tracks what's parked where, with damage inspections, visual seal checks on video and parking reports for the equipment and trailers moving through.

Also covering Imperial, Heber, Holtville, Seeley, Brawley, Calexico, Westmorland, Calipatria.