Remote site monitoring in Elkhart

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Where the Robert Young rail yards meet the RV plants

Elkhart has been known as the RV Capital of the World since 1949, and more than 80 percent of global recreational-vehicle production is still built in the region, in plants run by Forest River, Keystone, Thor Motor Coach and other manufacturers. Freight moves through the city on the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/90), which crosses Elkhart at exits 92 and 96, on U.S. 20's St. Joseph Valley Parkway bypass to the south, and on U.S. 33 and State Road 19. Norfolk Southern's Robert Young Rail Yards, the second-largest freight classification yards in the world, sort railcars for plants and suppliers across the city.

RV manufacturers keep finished units, chassis and parts outdoors, and that draws thieves after the precious metals in vehicle exhaust systems. Elkhart police said a theft of 58 catalytic converters from a specialty-vehicle manufacturer's lot in July 2024 was the city's seventh such incident of the year, bringing the total to 128 stolen catalytic converters in Elkhart in 2024 alone. Every cut converter is a vehicle off the line and a repair bill, on top of whatever else goes missing from an unwatched yard overnight.

An RV plant's yard is exactly the kind of site Sigma was built for. Agents don't wait for an alarm: AI flags movement anywhere in the lot the instant it happens, day or night, 365 days a year, and a live agent is already looking at the camera before deciding whether a talk-down or a call to police is needed. The result is a written report and video clip waiting for you the next morning, instead of a missing unit and no record of how it happened.

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