Some of the biggest retailers, brands, and offices use our units to keep their property safe.
If you’ve ever felt uneasy while walking through a parking lot, you are definitely not alone. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, parking lots are the third most common place where crimes occur. The good news is, security and surveillance solutions have come a long way during the past couple of decades, and it’s easier than ever before to protect your parking lots.
In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into parking lot security trends and explain how LVT Units can increase safety in your lot.
Parking lots are common targets for illicit activities. Ensuring the safety of both vehicles and individuals in parking areas is paramount—it will save you from financial nightmares and have a huge impact on the way people perceive your organization.
The landscape of parking lot security is evolving rapidly. Here are four significant trends you need to know before you decide on a solution for your lot.
Prevention is the first line of defense in any security strategy. Deterrents play a crucial role in discouraging criminal activities in parking lots—no criminal wants to be caught. Adequate lighting, signage indicating security measures, and the presence of security personnel or visible security units can cause potential wrongdoers to think twice about breaking the law on your lot. Also, consider setting up physical barriers like gates, as this can restrict unauthorized access and reduce the likelihood of incidents.
Security analytics tools provide you with a comprehensive overview of everything that happens in your lot. Organizing and analyzing your footage allows you to uncover trends, predict patterns, and make adjustments to your security strategy as necessary. For example, you might discover that specific areas in your lot experience higher rates of crime or accidents. Based on that information, you can implement additional safety measures in those zones.
Traditional security teams still serve an important purpose, but modern parking lot security hinges on advanced technology. Intrusion detection and instant notifications allow for swift responses to unauthorized access. Low-light visibility enhances surveillance in dim conditions. Remote monitoring makes it possible for you to keep an eye on your lot from anywhere you have access to the internet. Many security solutions nowadays even have self-healing capabilities to ensure optimal up-time.
AI, once the stuff of science fiction, has firmly rooted itself in the security landscape. Security cameras do more than just observe—they analyze, anticipate, and act. Thanks to AI, modern security units can discern normalcy from potential threats with precision, which leads to fewer false alarms and less time wasted. Think of AI as your super-powered friend that sends you automated alerts any time someone or something has crossed a boundary into off-limits territory.
Some of the biggest brands in the world use LVT’s surveillance solutions to reduce parking lot incidents by up to 70%. Now, you may be wondering how a mobile surveillance trailer can have such an impact on parking lot safety. If you have a parking lot that has issues with loitering, for example, you can use LVT Units to set up loitering sensors and pre-recorded audio messages or alarms. If the alarms are triggered, you can choose to dispatch law enforcement or enable two-way speakers and warn the criminals yourself. And the best part is, you don’t need to have someone monitoring your cameras 24/7—our units will alert you when issues arise.
Another common parking lot crime is vandalism, which can be very costly for business owners. The price of replacements, repairs, and cleaning costs can be crippling, and pursuing legal action can be almost impossible if you didn’t capture the crime on camera. That’s where our live video recording solutions come in. If there is an incident in your parking lot, not only will you be made aware of it in real time, but you will also have recorded footage that may help you find and prosecute criminals after the fact.
Ensuring that your customers and employees feel safe while in your parking lot can enable sales and even enhance the way people perceive your brand. If your parking lot is known to be a high crime area, people are more likely to actively avoid it, which results in fewer customers for your business. Adding a surveillance unit to your parking lot will help people feel safer as they walk from their cars to your building. One large retailer who partners with LVT has noticed that female customers and employees actually prefer parking next to our surveillance trailers when possible because it makes them feel safer.
There is a reason that some of the biggest brands in the world use LVT Units to protect their parking lots. The mere presence of a LVT Unit will help protect your employees and customers and keep criminals out of your parking lots. If you are ready to take your security efforts to the next level and make your parking lots a safer place to be, it’s time to add our technology to your security toolbox.
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