Acres of rolling iron.One trailer in and it drives away.
Rental yards and heavy-equipment dealers stack six and seven figures of skid steers, mini-excavators, generators, and aerial lifts on open ground overnight, every night. It's built to move — that's the business — which makes it built to steal. VDS covers the whole yard from an elevated mast, reads every plate at the gate, and puts a live SOC operator on every after-hours movement, so a trailer backing up to a machine gets a response before it clears the fence.
Exposed sites.
High-value targets with no one watching.
Minimal staffing, sprawling ground, and valuable assets in the open — the conditions that turn a site into a soft target the moment everyone goes home.
High-value machine theft
Skid steers, mini-excavators, generators, aerial lifts, and attachments loaded onto a trailer and gone in minutes from a yard with no one on site overnight.
Diesel and fuel theft
Bulk tanks and machine fuel cells siphoned overnight — a recurring loss that rarely gets caught because no one's watching the tank line after close.
GPS and telematics-defeated loss
Professional crews know which units carry trackers and disable or remove them before towing a machine off the lot, turning a tracked asset into an untraceable one.
After-hours yard breach and fraud
Fence-cutting and after-hours entry, plus fraudulent rentals and no-return units that walk out the front gate looking like a legitimate transaction.
Drop the trailer.
The SOC takes it from here.
Solar-autonomous surveillance with AI analytics and live SOC operators. No power, no internet, no guards required.
Every row of iron.
One elevated view.
The MSU mast puts camera coverage over the entire yard — return rows, staging lanes, the back fence line — from a single position. AI classifies people and vehicles and flags after-hours movement near equipment before a machine is loaded.
- Elevated coverage across the full yard footprint
- AI human and vehicle classification
- After-hours movement alerts near staged equipment
- Zero-light performance across the whole lot
// STEP 01Every vehicle.
Every plate, every time.
License plate recognition at the gate ties every inbound and outbound vehicle to a plate and a timestamp — the record you need when a trailer that came in empty leaves loaded, or a rental doesn't come back.
- Automatic plate capture at every gate, day and night
- Entry/exit log tied to time and plate
- Hotlist alerts for flagged vehicles
- Evidence packages for law enforcement and insurance
// STEP 02No night watchman.
A live operator instead.
Every alert routes to a live SOC operator who verifies it, delivers a real-time audio warning through the on-unit speaker, and escalates to law enforcement with footage and plate data — deterrence that scales across every yard without adding headcount.
- Live operator verification on every alert
- Real-time voice-down warnings through the speaker
- Escalation to law enforcement with footage and LPR
- Monthly incident and access reporting
// STEP 03No grid power.
No fixed install lag.
Solar and 4G/5G cellular mean coverage isn't tied to conduit runs or panel capacity — a unit deploys to a new lay-down area, an overflow lot, or a satellite yard in under 20 minutes and relocates the moment the risk moves.
- Solar-autonomous — no grid power required
- 4G/5G cellular backhaul, no hardwired internet
- Deploys to overflow and satellite yards in minutes
- Relocatable as inventory and seasons shift
// STEP 04Every asset on site.
One platform.
The MSU adapts to how a rental yard actually operates. Here are the scenarios operators and dealers deploy for most often.
Return & staging rows
Rows of returned and staged equipment sitting closest to the gate — the fastest-moving, highest-turnover ground in the yard.
Overflow & satellite lots
Seasonal overflow yards and secondary lots that never got permanent cameras because the footprint changes year to year.
Fuel tank & fill line
Bulk diesel tanks and the machine fill line, watched overnight for siphoning that otherwise goes unnoticed until the next fill-up.
Gate & rental counter
The one chokepoint every vehicle and rental transaction passes through, tied to a plate and a timestamp.
Perimeter fence line
Back and side fence lines where crews cut through to bypass the gate and load equipment out of sight.
Heavy-equipment dealer lots
New and used inventory lots carrying the highest per-unit value in the business, where a single theft is a six-figure loss.
Real operators.
Real numbers.
Every metric below comes from a real VDS equipment rental customer. Names protected per agreement.
We used to write off a machine or two every quarter and just call it the cost of doing business. Since the trailer went up we've had zero completed thefts — a couple of attempts, both stopped cold by the audio warning before anything left the yard.
// MSU-A · FLAGSHIPLPR + SOC · EQUIPMENT RENTALThe Mobile Surveillance Unit.
Built to watch a working yard.
Lot-wide coverage, gate LPR, and 24/7 SOC monitoring from a single solar-autonomous trailer — deployed over the return rows, the fuel line, and the fence line your fixed cameras never reached.
From assessment
to covered.
Most rental yards and dealers go from initial conversation to a live trailer on the lot inside 7 business days.
Yard assessment
We review your yard layout, gate and return lanes, fuel storage, and prior loss history. Fast quote turnaround.
Sensor configuration
Camera presets, LPR capture at the gate, detection zones across staging and return rows, and alert rules tuned to your inventory mix.
Delivery & commissioning
Trailer delivered, mast raised, cameras and LPR calibrated. SOC monitoring begins immediately. No trenching or grid tie-in required.
Monitoring & reporting
Monthly incident, access, and vehicle-log reporting, delivered automatically. Trailer relocated as inventory, seasons, or satellite yards shift.
Cover your whole yard before the next machine walks.
Tell us your yard layout, inventory value, and biggest loss driver — we'll quote the deployment — fast.