Stored goods
Packaging, pallets and stock in racking can let a small fire grow before anyone sees it, especially overnight.
Warehousing and logistics
AI monitoring for warehouses and logistics yards
Woodcock AI adds early smoke and fire detection, intrusion detection and yard monitoring to the CCTV your warehouse already has. A self-learning AI is fitted to your cameras, and every alert arrives with the clip, so your team can check what the camera saw in seconds and act.
The risks
What warehouses and logistics yards need to watch
Warehouses hold a lot of value in one building, often with long stretches where nobody is looking. Three areas come up on almost every site.
Battery charging areas
Charging points for trucks and other battery equipment are a common place to point a camera. See battery fires.
Out-of-hours yards
Trailers, loads and plant in a closed yard attract theft and trespass after the gates shut.
Smoke and fire
Smoke and fire across racking and yards
The AI watches each camera for visible smoke and flame, indoors and out. Smoke from a fire inside a stack or a charging area often shows on camera before heat reaches a ceiling detector, so seeing it early gives your team more time.
Racking views are checked camera by camera in the site assessment, because long aisles and high bays can hide smoke from some angles. Outdoors, the same detection covers trailer parks, stock yards and waste compactor areas. It supplements your fire alarm and sprinklers and does not replace them. More in the video smoke detection guide.
Real footage
Intrusion
Intrusion at gates and fences
Draw zones on the cameras that cover your gates, fences and yard, and set the hours they are armed. The AI tells people and vehicles apart from animals, weather and moving lights, so an alert means something is there. See intrusion detection.
After hours, the cameras that watched for smoke during the day keep watching the perimeter too.
Safety modules
Safety modules, where supported
Woodcock AI offers safety modules such as PPE detection, where supported, confirmed in your site assessment. What can be detected depends on your cameras and their views, so we confirm it per site rather than publish a list.
Alerts
App alerts, plus optional ARC and phone-call add-ons
Alerts go to the people you choose by app push notification, email or SMS. Each includes the clip and a plain-English description of what the camera saw.
Alerts to a monitoring centre (ARC) and phone-call alerts are available as optional add-ons.
Fitted to your cameras
Self-learning, per site
A self-learning AI is fitted to each site and learns what is normal for each camera, including normal vehicle and site activity in loading bays and yards. Every detection has a feedback button, and that feedback goes into retraining for your site.
It works with most existing IP CCTV, confirmed in the assessment. Video is processed on an edge server on site or in the Woodcock AI Cloud. See how it works.
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Warehouse and logistics questions
Short answers on fire, yards and alerts. More in the Woodcock AI FAQ.
Can AI CCTV detect fire in a warehouse?
Yes, where the camera can see it. Woodcock AI watches your existing cameras for visible smoke and flame across racking, bays and yards, and sends an alert with the clip so someone can check what the camera saw straight away.
Does it replace sprinklers or fire alarms?
No. It supplements your fire alarm, sprinklers and fire safety procedures. It adds early visual detection on cameras you already have, but it is not a certified fire alarm system and does not replace one.
Does it work in high-bay racking views?
It depends on the view. Long aisles and high racking can hide smoke from some angles, so each camera is checked in the free site assessment, which says what each view can cover before anything is set up.
Can it watch the yard at night?
Yes. Intrusion detection runs on the cameras covering gates, fences and the yard, in zones and schedules you set, so people and vehicles in a closed yard after hours raise an alert with the clip. Infrared cameras help at night.
Can it monitor battery charging areas?
Yes, where a camera covers the area. Charging areas for trucks and other battery equipment are a common place to point a camera for smoke and fire detection. Read more on lithium-ion battery fires.
Can alerts go to a monitoring centre?
Yes. Alerts go to your team by app push notification, email or SMS, each with the clip. Alerts to a monitoring centre (ARC) and phone-call alerts are available as optional add-ons.
Does it learn normal vehicle and site activity?
Yes. A self-learning AI is fitted to each site and learns what is normal for each camera, including normal vehicle and site activity in bays and yards. Every detection has a feedback button, and that feedback goes into retraining for your site.
How do I start?
Book a free site assessment. We review your cameras and recorder, the areas you want covered and the modules that suit your site, and confirm what is supported before anything is set up.
Next step
See what your warehouse cameras can cover
A free site assessment reviews your cameras, racking views, charging areas and yard, and confirms what is supported before anything is set up.
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Keep exploring
Skip hire yardsSkip fires and night yardsLithium-ion battery firesWhere they start and what cameras seeVideo smoke detectionThe guide to smoke detection on CCTVIntrusion detectionZones, schedules and night yardsPPE detectionSafety modules, where supportedVideo AI vs thermalHow the options compareIndustrial sitesFactories, plants and yards