Remote Monitoring in Crisis: Keeping Eyes on Your Property When You Can't Be There

You never know when an earthquake will hit, a fire will catch, or a flood will sweep through town. Natural disasters and other emergencies happen in an instant, and can leave your property vulnerable to all kinds of damage and crime. When an emergency arises, chances are that you won’t have the time or resources to tend to your property in person. 

Once disaster unfolds, you need the visibility and control to assess the state of your site and protect it from further destruction, no matter where you are—and you need it ASAP. Remote monitoring, a feature offered by today’s leading security providers including LiveView Technologies (LVT), allows you to be in multiple places at once and mitigate damage in real time, from anywhere. This priceless, instant situational awareness could preserve your business against catastrophic loss. 

Emergency Security: Essential Preparedness for Unpredictable Times

Emergencies come in all shapes and sizes, and inflict varying levels of devastation. Depending on where you’re located, your property may be at risk of being impacted by natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, severe thunderstorms, or snowstorms), or human-caused destruction (e.g., power outages, arson, looting, terrorism). 

Emergency preparedness can cover a myriad of protocols and supplies, but one crucial element to this process is far too often overlooked: your security system. When a crisis is actively occurring, it’s often dangerous—or even impossible—to check on or care for your property. If you do not prepare ahead of time, it may be too late to prevent the revenue loss and danger to your property and staff that can accompany these events. 

The key is to invest in a security system that offers remote monitoring, so you can assess emergencies and ensure the safety of your assets and staff, from anywhere you happen to be when calamity strikes.

Real-Life Scenarios 

Every crisis is unique and will pose its own specific set of risks to your business. Whether you’re dealing with a natural disaster or a human-caused crisis, or with the logistical disruptions and security breaches that stem therefrom, you must prepare by installing a security system with remote monitoring capabilities. 

Natural Disasters 

Sometimes our greatest threats come from our environment itself, and different natural disasters will necessitate different courses of action from you, as a business owner. 

During and after a flood, you’ll need to watch water levels and keep a close eye on vulnerable points in your infrastructure. A wildfire will require you to monitor your property for the approach of the fire, remain informed on the fire’s spread, containment, and pattern, assess damage, and ensure the safety of your crew. In a severe storm, you’ll need to watch for wind damage and signs of flooding, check on personnel, and determine the safety of your site when the weather has subsided. 

Logistical Disruptions

Remote monitoring doesn’t only aid in ensuring safety. This innovative tool can be used to maintain your business’s operations, even on remote or complex sites and during emergencies. You can coordinate your teams from a distance and ensure that essential processes continue, even when a crisis hits and you can’t be there in person.

Security Breaches 

Unfortunately, some individuals choose to take advantage of businesses during crises, committing crimes while the area is in upheaval, utilities are out, and security safeguards are down. Remote monitoring provides you with consistent, reliable protection, even when infrastructure fails.

Remote Monitoring: Your Best Tool In Crisis Response 

With the workday only composing a fraction of each 24-hour day, and with the various demands on your time, there’s a good chance that you may not be on-site when a crisis occurs. You can preempt the damage that follows disasters by utilizing mobile surveillance trailers equipped with remote monitoring capabilities. 

Remote monitoring refers to your ability, as a property owner or manager, to view your security camera feeds remotely. Especially when mounted on portable surveillance trailers, cameras that enable remote monitoring can make a world of difference in perilous situations. 

Assess the Damage 

Choose a security system that allows you to log in and view your cameras’ live feeds from anywhere. Install high-resolution cameras that capture every detail, even in low-light and nighttime conditions. These features will prove invaluable in any emergency, as they’ll provide you with immediate situational awareness so you can make informed decisions, alert authorities and staff, and effectively coordinate response efforts. 

Protect What’s Yours 

Remote monitoring—and a cutting-edge surveillance system that enables it—is one of the best tools at your fingertips for ensuring safety during a crisis, investigating incidents after the fact, and maintaining critical operations while you respond to emergencies. Recorded footage can aid in filing insurance claims, prosecuting offenders, and locating and repairing damage. 

Keep Eyes Where You Need Them

No matter where you are, you have to be able to monitor your site whenever it’s needed. Place cameras in your property’s most vulnerable locations and utilize remote monitoring to get the visuals you need, at the very moment you need them. 

Mobile Surveillance Trailers: The LVT Solution 

Mobile surveillance trailers from LiveView Technologies offer everything you need in times of both peace and crisis, including:

• Constant live monitoring
• Remote access and control
• Rapidly deployed units
• Solar power and rechargeable batteries
• Cellular connectivity 
• Durable
• Weather-resistant
• Low-light visibility
• High-resolution footage
• Pan-tilt-zoom capabilities 
• Motion detection 
• AI-powered analytics
• Real-time alerts
• Flexible, mobile security camera trailers
• Intuitive software

LVT is ready to bring remote monitoring—and the essential visibility it provides—to your business, to help protect it against everything from petty vandalism to large-scale catastrophes. Whether you need a temporary surveillance unit or a full set of cameras, LiveView Technologies is perfectly suited to protect disaster-prone sites. The benefits of an LVT security unit and its remote monitoring feature include:

• Increased peace of mind
• Scalable and flexible security 
• Quicker risk mitigation and decision-making
• Safer environment for staff and emergency responders
• Reduced need to visit dangerous, disaster-affected areas in person 
• Safety for employees and first responders 
• Avoiding unnecessary travel to dangerous locations

Stay Prepared with LVT

Disastrous events are stressful enough as it is. Ensuring that your security is effective and manageable ahead of time takes so much off of your plate in the event of an emergency, so you can stay situationally aware, present, and ready to move forward. 

Experience deeper peace of mind with mobile surveillance trailers that allow you to stay in control, even in chaotic situations. LiveView Technologies is committed to providing security solutions that empower you to stay abreast of what’s going on, fix problems quickly, protect your business, and maintain your operations. LVT’s rapid deployment trailers, complete with real-time remote monitoring and control, are the perfect finishing touch for your crisis-response plan. 

‍Schedule a demo today, and discover what real, comprehensive emergency preparedness could look like for your business.