Yard and warehouse monitoring in Gardena, California

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Gardena's freeway interchange and the Vermont-Western corridor

Gardena has long called itself the Freeway City, sitting where Interstate 110, Interstate 405, State Route 91 and Interstate 105 come together in the South Bay. Vermont Avenue, Western Avenue and Rosecrans Avenue carry much of the city's industrial traffic, zoned under the city's M-1 rules for warehousing, distribution, manufacturing and contractor yards. Nissin Foods runs its US headquarters and a manufacturing plant in Gardena, and UPS operates a facility that ranked among the city's top employers with close to 800 workers in 2020 data, alongside the wholesale auto-parts distributors based in the city.

That freight draws thieves who target what moves through a yard rather than what's parked in it. In February 2025, Los Angeles Port Police and LAPD's Commercial Crimes Unit traced a months-long investigation to a facility in Gardena, where they recovered 24 chassis, worth about $600,000, that had allegedly been taken from container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles, refaced and resold as new. In September 2026, a traffic stop on a Gardena street led detectives to a search warrant that turned up more than $500,000 in clothing, footwear and other merchandise believed tied to cargo and train thefts.

Sigma watches Gardena the way it watches ports and distribution hubs elsewhere: live agents on every camera, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When AI person and vehicle detection picks up movement among the chassis or trailers after hours, the agent watching confirms it on camera, delivers a live, instant talk-down over the site's speakers, and escalates to police if that doesn't end it. Yard Operations adds damage inspections, visual seal checks on video and parking reports, so you know what moved through the gate and what condition it was in.

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