Car park and yard camera monitoring that keeps its own log

A yard generates questions all day. Did the 6am delivery show up? How long was bay 3 blocked? Which van spent the afternoon parked across the fire exit? The gate camera saw everything, but the answer is buried in hours of footage nobody has time to scrub, so most questions just go unanswered.

What Svid watches for in a car park or yard

The yard checks come from the Store, each priced from your own usage, and any of them can be run across a whole folder of cameras in one action. Two watch frames as they arrive; two read whole videos and write reports:

• Vehicle Log keeps a running record of vehicles by description and what they did: a white box van arriving at the gate, a flatbed leaving loaded, a car parked in the loading bay for forty minutes. Descriptions and activity, deliberately not number plates.
• Parking Violation flags vehicles where they shouldn't be (the fire exit, the disabled bay, the loading zone) while there's still time to do something about it.
• Loading Dock Activity Log turns dock cameras into an operations record: arrivals, departures, how long each bay was occupied, and the gaps when nothing moved.
• Equipment Utilisation Report writes up how long the forklift or the hired telehandler actually ran, which settles plant-hire disputes with timestamps rather than recollections.

Finding the one vehicle that matters

Everything the cameras see is searchable in plain English, with results in seconds. Footage lives in a Library of nesting folders (yard/gate, yard/docks, live and recorded together), and the search bar reads the folder you're in, subfolders included, so “the white van at the gate around 6am” typed at the top of the yard covers every camera at once. The barrier scrape and the missing pallet stop meaning an evening of scrubbing.

Alerts land in one filterable tab, by email, or as JSON webhooks into the yard system or spreadsheet pipeline you already run, and one event fires one alert (a check re-firing within two minutes is logged as the same event continuing). The Daily Summary check writes a close-of-day picture of gate and dock activity.

What it costs and getting started

The price is based on your own usage, floored at $9 a month, worked out from your own answers at signup (cameras, hours a day, watch level) and discounted for motion gating. That discount suits yards: a gate that's dead overnight costs far less than one that's busy all day. The whole derivation sits on screen before you pay, and the Store prices each check as the extra it would add at your usage, with the report checks starting at a $3 floor.

Create an account at app.svid.ai, answer the four onboarding questions, and point it at the gate and dock RTSP feeds from your existing recorder, or upload last week's exports first, since live and recorded are the same to Svid. No proprietary hardware, and nothing at the gate changes.

Does it read number plates?

No, and that's deliberate. Vehicles are logged by description and activity (a silver estate at the gate at 7:40, a box van on bay 2 for an hour), which answers the operational questions without taking on the privacy exposure that plate matching brings.

Can it tell me whether a delivery arrived and how long it stayed?

Yes. The Loading Dock Activity Log records arrivals, departures and how long each bay was occupied, and the Daily Summary check puts the whole day's gate and dock picture in one place, delivered by email if you want it.

Can I search for a specific vehicle after the fact?

Yes, by describing it in plain English: “the white van at the gate around 6am”. Results come back in seconds, from live feeds or from footage exported after the event.

Does it work with the gate and dock cameras we already have?

Yes. Svid reads RTSP feeds from your existing recorder, uploaded files or video URLs. There's no proprietary hardware, and the cameras stay exactly as they are.

What does it cost for a small yard?

The minimum is $9 a month, and above that the price is based on your own usage for your cameras and hours, shown with its full derivation at signup before you pay. Each check is priced in the Store from your own usage; the report checks start at a $3 a month floor.