Distribution & Logistics: How to Get Better Access Control at Entry Gates

Updated on March 31, 2024.

Due to uptick in urban crime, often targeting parking lots with vandalism, theft and illegal encampments, gaining better access control across remote—and sometimes numerous—entry gates, is often the biggest security challenge facing companies in the Distribution & Logistics industry sector.

Thankfully, new solutions by innovative security leaders like GardaWorld are targeting many of these pain points with amplified power and efficiency. Hybrid Security combines AI-powered technology features with the skill and expertise of manned guards to provide effective protection, fuller visibility and coverage, and important efficiencies to help optimize inbound and outbound cargo monitoring. Let’s take a closer look at these security challenges—and how Hybrid Security can help.

What are the biggest security challenges facing distribution and logistics industry sector?

Access control at entry gates.
Logistics management of inbound and outbound traffic (trucks, tractor trailers, products, etc.).
Limited line of sight leaves businesses vulnerable to organized cargo crime and gate/fence breaches.
Inefficiencies with tedious and error-prone tasks, like documenting cargo container IDs, license plates, checking seals and cargo, checking on product quality (e.g., rodents and bugs infesting pet food). 
High recurring costs.

How Hybrid Security can help?

From license plate detection to inbound/outbound traffic monitoring, Hybrid Security provides an effective solution, strategically supplementing traditional manned guard duties with AI-powered Smart Gate Access technology for enhanced efficiency through automation.
As part of your Hybrid Security solution, Mobile Surveillance Units (MSUs) placed in strategic areas across company premises can play an instrumental role in expanding a guard’s direct line of sight, providing amplified protection and visibility across all assets, including trailers, cargo containers and product placed in dark corners of the premises.
Through Hybrid Security, many of the more tedious, repetitive tasks traditionally carried out by manned guards can be supplemented by technology, ultimately reducing the cost of manned guard hours for better cost-efficiency —and added value to security services at which humans excel.