Remote yard monitoring in Halifax and Dartmouth

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From the harbour container terminals to Burnside

Container freight reaches Nova Scotia through two harbour terminals, PSA Halifax's Atlantic Hub at the south end of the city and Fairview Cove at the north end. The Port of Halifax handled 502,000 TEU and 8.6 million metric tonnes of cargo in 2025, including 106 calls by vessels larger than 12,000 TEU. CN's Halifax intermodal terminal on Africville Road is open 24 hours a day, and a CA$105 million inter-terminal rail project aims to cut the number of trucks moving containers through downtown. Across the harbour in Dartmouth, the Burnside business and industrial park covers about 3,400 acres on the northeast shore of Bedford Basin, next to Highways 107, 111 and 118, with the Atlantic Gateway Logistics Park inside its boundary.

Property crime in the municipality is mixed. The joint semi-annual report from Halifax Regional Police and the RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment shows overall property crime down 5 per cent from July to December 2025, but motor vehicle thefts rose to 266 and thefts from vehicles jumped 26 per cent to 1,202, with the largest increase in the East Division, which covers Dartmouth. Building sites are hit too: in 2025 thieves got into a fenced construction site in Lower Sackville, climbed onto the roof and stripped copper tubing from several heating, ventilation and air conditioning units, damage the RCMP put at about $500,000. Loaded trailers, parked tractors and rooftop equipment are what a yard or site owner here stands to lose.

For a Burnside distribution centre or a trailer drop near the container terminals, Sigma's agents watch every camera live around the clock, all year. AI person and vehicle detection flags movement, the agent confirms it on video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and escalates to police, fire services or your contacts, with video clips and a written report to follow. Gate Operations lets agents see each truck arrive, speak to the driver through the gate speakers, check them against your pickup lists and open the gate remotely, and Yard Operations adds trailer damage inspections and visual seal checks on video.

Also covering Dartmouth, Bedford, Lower Sackville, Cole Harbour, Tantallon, Beechville, Goffs, Elmsdale.