Remote site monitoring in Cleveland

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Freight along the Cuyahoga and the Flats

The Port of Cleveland sits where the Cuyahoga River meets Lake Erie, with ten usable berths across an 80-acre general cargo terminal and on-dock connections to both CSX and Norfolk Southern; Cleveland Port Railroad switches cars between the two. From the port's gate on West 3rd Street, State Route 2 and I-90 are immediate, I-77 and I-71 are minutes away, and the Ohio Turnpike (I-80) is about 25 miles out. The surrounding Flats and the city's industrial valley hold truck terminals, warehouses and manufacturing yards that move freight to and from the docks and the rail lines.

A yard doesn't need to be near the port to be a target. In Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighbourhood, thieves drove up in a rented box truck on March 8, 2024, cut the lock off a gate in the 3400 block of Broadview Road and towed away a trailer parked inside. Cleveland police are still looking for tips on the case. An unwatched gate with nothing but a padlock is often all that stands between a yard's trailers and a truck like that one.

At a Cleveland site, every camera has a live agent watching it, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so a cut lock gets noticed within seconds instead of being found the next day. AI person and vehicle detection flags anyone near the fence or the trailers, an agent verifies it on live video and gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers, then calls police with video evidence. Drivers who are expected can be let in through Gate Operations instead, with every entry logged.

Also covering Brooklyn, Brook Park, Parma, Lakewood, Garfield Heights, Cuyahoga Heights, Independence, Brooklyn Heights.