Retail Solutions
Securing Retail Spaces with Intelligent Video Monitoring
Retail businesses across the United States face growing challenges. Big box retail locations in urban areas are often becoming hotspots for theft, vandalism, and other nefarious activities. These spaces also attract loitering, aggressive panhandling, and unauthorized encampments, further complicating security efforts. Maintaining a safe and clean perimeter for employees, vendors, and customers is essential to the success of retail operations.
Savvy criminals are finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities, such as accessing rooftops to steal valuable materials like copper from air conditioning units or using Mission Impossible-style tactics to break into businesses like jewelry stores through the ceiling.
As these threats persist, retailers require more comprehensive and intelligent solutions to prevent these growing risks. This is where Netwatch shines, combining the latest in AI-powered video monitoring with expert intervention, delivering unparalleled protection to ensure your business, assets, and people stay secure.
Retail Solution
Common Challenges Facing Big Box Retail Stores
Aggressive panhandling and harassment of customers
Illicit activities in alleyways and behind buildings
Extensive loitering and unauthorized encampments
Unsafe dumpster diving and unrestricted access to sensitive areas
Graffiti, vandalism, and other property damage
Why Traditional Security Options Fall Short
The two most common security options retailers have turned to—passive video surveillance systems and on-site security guards—are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of today’s evolving threats.
Traditional video security solutions, such as video surveillance and video verification, only respond to criminal activity; they do not prevent it. With these systems, you also risk law enforcement being dispatched, whether or not the threat is valid. This could potentially lead to expensive false alarm fees and even affect future law enforcement responses to real incidents.
On-site guards and drive-by patrol services, while helpful, are more costly than ever and present additional challenges. Guards can only be in one place at a time, and they often observe and report rather than intervene. Paying thousands of dollars per month for guard services that can only respond to incidents, rather than prevent them, isn’t the best solution.
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Empowering a Safer Environment with AI
When it comes to retail security, the most effective solution is Netwatch’s AI-powered video monitoring.
AI-powered video monitoring is not like traditional monitoring. With our advanced AI technology, it’s possible to intervene before a crime happens, preventing it from ever occurring. This proactive approach sets us apart from traditional systems, which are reactive—meaning action is only taken during or after a crime has already taken place. The financial impact of theft, vandalism, violence, and other criminal activities can devastate retail businesses, making proactive intervention essential.
With the myriad of threats to retail businesses, using traditional video surveillance only to create a record of an incident or notify authorities of what turns out to be a false alarm is no longer good enough. AI-powered video monitoring identifies suspicious activity or unwanted behavior the moment it’s detected and deters the intruders with live, personalized audio warnings and immediate calls to law enforcement.
Our intelligent detection solution provides 24/7, 365-day security coverage, reducing the need for hiring security guards, potentially saving you 70-80% annually.
With over 125,000 crimes prevented to date, Netwatch’s AI-powered video monitoring is the proven solution to protect your retail business.
How it Works
Monitor. Intervene. Report.
Netwatch enlists the expertise of highly trained intervention specialists who are skilled in detecting, analyzing, and addressing potential threats as they unfold in real time. This allows for immediate action to de-escalate situations or minimize harm to people, property, and assets
Netwatch maintains best-in-class AI-powered video monitoring Communication Centers, based in the United States, with geo-diversity to ensure continuous, uninterrupted vigilance over your property. These highly advanced centers are designed to maintain full redundancy, providing 24/7 monitoring that guarantees your business is always secure.
Our Communication Monitoring Centers utilize cutting-edge surveillance and communication technologies, incorporating the latest advancements in AI-driven analytics to deliver the highest levels of proactive situational awareness. This allows us to detect and respond to threats before they escalate into serious incidents.
Netwatch specializes in securing commercially managed properties. By understanding the specific security challenges and unique requirements of your business, our AI-powered video monitoring transcends traditional security services to deliver a solution tailored to your needs.
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