Remote yard and site monitoring in Kokomo

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Where the Stellantis plants meet US 31

Kokomo's economy still runs on vehicle manufacturing. Stellantis operates the Kokomo Transmission Plant (3,583 employees), the Kokomo Casting Plant (1,281 employees), Indiana Transmission Plants I and II (2,439 employees) and, since 2022, the Kokomo Engine Plant, alongside suppliers BorgWarner, GM Components Holdings and Haynes International. StarPlus Energy, a joint venture between Stellantis and Samsung SDI, is building two battery plants beside the Kokomo Engine Plant in a project now topping $5.7 billion combined and expected to add 2,800 jobs; the earlier of the two plants is built for an annual capacity of 33 gigawatt-hours. US 31 carries freight through the city north toward South Bend and south toward Indianapolis.

Where thousands of workers and suppliers converge on a few plants, vehicles parked in the open become an easy target. Kokomo police investigated close to 30 catalytic converter thefts in a single 24-hour stretch in October 2022, hitting restaurants, car dealerships, a church bus and vehicles parked on city streets, before an arrest tied the spree to a suspect later found in Detroit. Plant yards, supplier lots and contractor sites around Kokomo face the same after-hours exposure on a larger scale: parked vehicles, equipment and materials left unattended once a shift ends.

A Kokomo plant yard or jobsite is watched the same way, with an agent on every camera around the clock, every day of the year. When AI flags movement near parked vehicles or equipment after hours, the agent checks the video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the speakers, and escalates to police with footage already in hand. Suppliers and contractors can be let through a monitored gate, with every vehicle logged on the way in and out.

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