Remote yard monitoring in Seattle

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Freight yards along the Duwamish and SODO

Seattle's industrial core follows the Duwamish Waterway south of downtown. The Northwest Seaport Alliance's Terminal 5, on the Duwamish, finished a Phase 2 modernization in 2024 that added 185 acres of cargo capacity along with six new cranes built for ultra-large vessels and on-dock rail for exports. The surrounding SODO district sits where the port, downtown Seattle's financial core and a cluster of manufacturing plants, warehouses and logistics companies meet, with I-5 and I-90 both reaching it within a few miles.

That concentration of trucks, trailers and warehouse inventory draws theft. Before dawn on August 17, 2026, a stolen truck was driven into the wall of a warehouse on 2nd Avenue South in SoDo, breaching the structure so several people could get inside and grab products before fleeing in a separate vehicle. Seattle-area vehicle theft has fallen sharply from its peak, but the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area still logged 12,684 stolen vehicles in 2025, enough to rank among the ten highest metro areas in the country. For a yard or warehouse along the Duwamish, an unwatched gate or loading door is the opening that kind of theft needs.

Sigma's agents keep an eye on every camera at a Seattle yard at once, day and night, 365 days a year. AI person and vehicle detection flags anyone moving through the yard after hours, an agent checks the live footage, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and calls police with video evidence. Agents can also run the gate for scheduled trucks and keep a log of what moves in and out.

Also covering Tukwila, Renton, Burien, SeaTac, Shoreline, Bellevue, Mercer Island, White Center.