Remote yard monitoring in Woodland

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Warehouses and farm country along Interstate 5

Woodland sits a mile off Interstate 5 and nine miles from Sacramento International Airport, and the city has grown into one of the region's distribution hubs, with several national retailers' distribution centres based there, including a facility of more than 500,000 square feet. A food cannery and processing plant operates in the city, alongside concrete-product manufacturing and an agricultural seed research operation. The city approved a Pioneer Avenue industrial expansion in December 2024 that added four buildings totalling 87,200 square feet, on top of the warehouse space already built up around East Main Street and Beamer Street.

Because Woodland sits in heavily farmed Yolo County, the Sheriff's Office runs a dedicated Rural Crime Task Force: it says remote access points, unsecured equipment left in fields or yards, and exposed infrastructure make farm and yard property an easy target, and stolen equipment is often hard to trace once it is gone. Yolo County deputies have broken up equipment theft operations serving the Woodland area, recovering all-terrain vehicles, forklifts and trucks taken from local farms and yards, according to Ag Alert. A warehouse or construction yard holding machinery, fuel or tools overnight faces the same exposure the task force was built to address.

Sigma's live agents watch Woodland's warehouse and farm-adjacent yards on camera every night, weekend and holiday, the stretches when a distribution lot or equipment yard is least likely to have anyone around. AI person-and-vehicle detection flags movement for an agent to check on live video; if the person doesn't belong there, the agent uses the site's speakers to give a live, instant talk-down right away, and calls police if they stay instead of leaving, handing over the recorded clip and a short written account afterward. When a truck pulls up to a locked gate, the same agents check the driver's name against whatever list or schedule the client has given them, speak up through the gate speakers, and swing the gate open by remote, with the exact time of every arrival and departure logged automatically; inside the yard, they can also run visual, on-video seal checks, inspect for trailer or equipment damage, and file parking and yard reports. Monitoring runs remotely once the basics are in place - power, an internet connection and a gate, all supplied by the property - and from there, Sigma's technicians handle the install, or wire in cameras the site is already running.

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