Remote yard monitoring in Joliet

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Where I-55 meets I-80 among the rail yards

Joliet sits at the crossroads of I-55 and I-80, with ten interchanges linking those interstates to state routes inside the city, and I-57 and I-355 close by. The city counts five Class I railroads with rail access, four of which move freight: BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian National and CSX. Union Pacific's 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal, built for roughly $370 million and opened in 2010, can handle up to 500,000 trailers and containers a year, and a barge terminal on the Des Plaines River adds another way freight moves through the city. All of that keeps a constant flow of trailers and chassis staged in yards around Joliet.

That flow is a target. On June 30, 2025, two semitrailers loaded with dog food and treats, worth about $615,000, were stolen from a warehouse in the 4100 block of Rock Creek Boulevard in Joliet. The Tri-County Auto Theft Task Force, working with Joliet police, Gurnee police and the Will County Sheriff's Office, later recovered more than 95 percent of the load and about $750,000 in stolen property overall from a liquidation store in Gurnee. A separate trailer of retail goods was taken from a Joliet freight-forwarding facility that December, so a loaded trailer sitting in a yard overnight is a real target here, not just a risk on paper.

A Joliet yard's cameras are watched live around the clock by Sigma's agents, so a trailer parked overnight isn't just recording into a hard drive nobody checks. AI person and vehicle detection flags anyone moving through the yard after hours, an agent verifies it on live video and gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers, and police are called with video evidence when needed. Yard Operations adds truck and trailer logs, damage inspections and visual seal checks on video for loads moving in and out.

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