Remote yard monitoring in Edmundston

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On the Trans-Canada Highway at the Maine border

Edmundston sits on the four-lane divided Trans-Canada Highway (Route 2) at Canada's border crossing with Madawaska, Maine. A new international bridge opened in June 2024 after an $86.5 million construction contract, and on August 1, 2024, officials lifted a five-ton weight limit that had stood on the crossing for seven years, letting loaded trucks cross directly instead of detouring about 30 minutes to Fort Kent or Van Buren; the Canada Border Services Agency calls Edmundston one of Canada's busiest land crossings. The city's economy still runs on forestry: pulped slurry from the Twin Rivers mill crosses under the river through a dedicated line to a paper mill on the Maine side, a cross-border link residents describe as a single operation.

In January 2025, Saint-Léonard RCMP sought the public's help after an enclosed utility trailer was stolen from a business on Chief Joanna Boulevard on the Madawaska Maliseet reserve, about 1.6 kilometres from downtown Edmundston. Mill yards and lots along the border crossing hold trailers and equipment that can sit overnight between shipments, which is when they're most exposed.

Sigma doesn't stop watching once the mill whistle blows. Every camera on an Edmundston yard stays live around the clock, nights, weekends and holidays included, with AI flagging any person or vehicle that shows up after the site empties out. An agent confirms what's on screen, gives a live, instant talk-down through the speakers and loops in police or your contacts, and a written report with video follows. Gate Operations and Yard Operations extend that to driver checks and trailer or equipment inspections.

Also covering Saint-André, Sainte-Anne-de-Madawaska, Saint-Léonard, Baker-Brook, Clair, Lac Baker, Madawaska, Maine.