Yard and site monitoring in Greater Sudbury

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Where Highway 17 meets Highway 69, Ontario's mining supply hub

Greater Sudbury sits where the Trans-Canada Highway 17 meets Highway 69, which links south to Highway 400 and Toronto, at the city's Southwest and Southeast Bypasses. Canadian National's predecessor reached the area in 1905 and Canadian Pacific followed in 1908 with a direct line to Toronto through Romford Junction, so both railways still serve the city today. Mining supply and services is the sector that fills the yards here: Invest Sudbury counts more than 300 mining supply firms employing over 14,000 people and generating about $4 billion a year in exports, supplying nine operating mines, two mills, two smelters and a nickel refinery around the city.

That much equipment sitting outdoors or on loading docks draws thieves. Greater Sudbury Police's BEAR Unit charged a 44-year-old man in September 2026 after a string of thefts targeting commercial HVAC units for their copper between August 31 and September 20, hitting businesses along Notre Dame Avenue, the Sudbury District Library, the Sudbury Curling Club and a medical office, with damage estimated between $400,000 and $445,000. For a mining supply yard or equipment dealer, the exposure is the same: compressors, machinery and metal stock left outside after the gates close for the night.

Sigma gives a Sudbury yard a live night shift without putting a guard on the property. Cameras with AI person and vehicle detection watch the fence line and the equipment rows, and when something moves after hours an agent checks the live video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and calls police if the person stays. Yard Operations adds parking reports and truck and trailer damage inspections for sites that also handle trucking between mine sites.

Also covering Copper Cliff, Coniston, Lively, Chelmsford, Valley East, Garson, Wahnapitae, Capreol.