Mining supply yard and site monitoring in Timmins

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Where Highway 101 meets Highway 655

Mining drives the Timmins economy and the yards around it. The region has more than 10 operating mining sites and accounts for over half of Ontario's $10 billion annual mining value, with 3,120 people working directly in mining as of the 2021 census. Highway 655 runs north from Highway 101 as the main truck route toward the Kidd Creek mine area, and the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation has put more than $5 million into local projects, including new facilities, trucks and trailers for local trucking companies that haul for the mining industry. Ontario Northland Railway also runs freight service through Timmins, connecting the city's industry to Toronto and Cochrane.

Shops and yards along that corridor have been hit before. In November 2022, suspects broke into a Highway 101 West industrial fabrication company's worksite twice in two days, taking more than $30,000 in computers, industrial supplies and tools, plus a company vehicle worth another $30,000. Timmins Police Service charged two people in the case. For a fabrication shop, equipment dealer or trucking yard in Timmins, unlocked buildings and parked vehicles are what thieves come back for once they know a site is unwatched overnight.

Sigma covers a Timmins yard the same way, around the clock. Cameras with AI person and vehicle detection flag anyone at the fence or among the equipment after hours, an agent checks the live video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and calls Timmins police if the person doesn't leave. Yard checks add parking reports and damage inspections for trucks moving aggregate or supplies to the mine sites.

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