Remote warehouse monitoring in Kent

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Inside the Kent Valley's warehouse canyons

Kent anchors the Kent Valley, which the Kent Chamber of Commerce describes as the second-largest industrial park on the West Coast and the fifth-largest in the country, behind just the New York/New Jersey and Los Angeles areas as a distribution and warehouse market. The valley sits on I-5 and five state highways within reach of the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma, and its manufacturing base runs to 21,584 workers, including 10,528 in transportation equipment alone; motor freight trucking and warehousing employ another 3,359 people. Boeing Space & Defense and REI both have operations in Kent, alongside warehouse buildings that commonly run from 50,000 to more than 500,000 square feet.

That density of warehouses, with their generators, forklifts and loaded trailers, is a target. On Christmas Day 2024, someone used a powered hacksaw and bolt cutters to strip heavy-gauge copper cable from a generator at a Kent warehouse that manufactures plastic cutlery for restaurants; once damage, new security costs and six days of halted production were added up, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office put the business's loss at about $90,000, while the thief collected $113.40 for the copper at a recycling yard. Charges weren't filed until mid-2026, long after the loss had already hit the business.

Around the clock, 365 days a year, Sigma assigns a live agent to every camera in a Kent Valley warehouse. When AI detection flags movement after hours, the agent reviews the footage, delivers a live, instant talk-down over the site's speakers and brings in police if the person doesn't leave. Yard Operations adds truck and trailer logs and visual seal checks on video for loads moving through the valley's distribution centres.

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