Virtual Guarding
Virtual Guarding That Helps Stop Crime in Real Time
Virtual guarding combines security cameras, analytic technology, advanced sensing devices, and trained intervention specialists to detect suspicious activity and respond in real time. Instead of only recording an incident, the system helps identify threats as they develop, issue live audio warnings, and support video-verified police dispatch when needed.
InVision Systems designs virtual guarding solutions for commercial, industrial, and residential properties across Chicago, the Chicago suburbs, Southeast Wisconsin, and Northwest Indiana. Each system is customized to the site, whether you need to protect outdoor inventory, parking lots, construction sites, warehouses, or other vulnerable areas.
Want to know whether virtual guarding fits your property? Contact InVision Systems for a free on-site consultation.
- Stops crime in progress
- Detect threats in real-time
- Live audio intervention
- Dispatch police with video verification
- Provide real-time updates and images to responding authorities
- Can cost less than maintaining a dedicated physical guard presence
- Ideal for securing outdoor inventory
Prevent and intercept crime in progress – protect your employees, customers and property.
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How Virtual Guarding Works
Our Virtual Guarding system uses security cameras with analytic technology and advanced sensing devices combined with a remote command center to monitor your property 24/7. With live video verification there are virtually no false alarms resulting in priority response by local authorities.
Live video is being analyzed by intervention specialists to detect real-time threats. Using live audio, the intruder is informed they’re being observed and monitored. The trespasser is then notified that if they don’t evacuate the premises authorities will be directed to their location….STOPPING CRIME IN PROGRESS at your site!
Once authorities have been dispatched, they are provided with real-time updates and images of trespassers pinpointing their location.
This interactive remote guarding system is not only cost effective, but it can prevent crime and vandalism while creating an overall safer environment at your home or business.
Essentially, your Virtual Guarding system is an automated sensing device whose only role is detection and alert, security guards are no longer needed to watch multiple TV screens. Your Virtual Guarding is all-inclusive – WATCHING, DETECTING, DEFINING, and NOTIFYING!
Benefits of Virtual Guarding vs. Other Security Means
Virtual Guarding vs. Security Cameras
Camera records crime which has already occurred. Virtual Guarding prevents and interrupts crimes as they occur.
Virtual Guarding vs. Security Guards
Virtual Guarding is a fraction of the cost of a Security Guard.
Security Guards can only be present at one location at a time. Virtual Guarding can be in multiple locations at the same time.
Virtual Guarding can support consistent remote monitoring across the configured coverage area.
Virtual Guarding Best Serves:
- Owners of failed burglar alarm systems
- Outdoor landscaping facilities
- Properties currently relying on on-site guards
- Outdoor storage facilities
- Any outdoor inventory
- Remote parking lots
- Construction sites
- Car dealerships
- Lumberyards
- Warehouses
- Factories
- Farms
- Parks
Virtual Guarding Use Cases by Industry
Car Dealerships
Dealerships can use virtual guarding to watch vehicle inventory, service-lot access points, and other outdoor areas after business hours. Live audio intervention can warn trespassers away, while video verification helps document an active event for an appropriate response.
Warehouses and Distribution Centers
Warehouses and distribution centers often need coverage around loading docks, perimeter fencing, employee entrances, and stored inventory. A customized system can combine cameras, analytics, and remote intervention to help security teams focus on activity that needs attention.
Construction Sites
Construction sites may hold valuable equipment and materials before a project is occupied. Virtual guarding can monitor temporary perimeters and access points, use human-detection analytics to identify activity, and provide live voice warnings when configured with a speaker system.
Multi-Family Properties
Apartment and multi-family communities can use virtual guarding for parking areas, building entrances, package zones, and other shared spaces. InVision Systems can review the property layout, existing cameras, lighting, and privacy considerations to design coverage around the community’s priorities.
We can help you prevent crime in real time. This technology may be a cost-effective way to improve protection for your Chicagoland property and other service areas.
We can help you prevent crime in real time. This technology can be a cost-effective solution for improving protection at your Chicagoland property. Contact InVision Systems for a free on-site consultation.
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Virtual Guarding FAQs
What is virtual guarding?
Virtual guarding combines security cameras, sensing devices, analytics, trained intervention specialists, and live audio communication to help detect and respond to threats remotely. Unlike recording-only surveillance, it is designed to support intervention while an event is developing.
How does virtual guarding compare with a physical security guard?
Virtual guarding and physical guards serve different security needs. A virtual guarding system can monitor camera views across multiple areas or locations at the same time, while a physical guard provides an on-site presence. Pricing depends on the site, equipment, monitoring requirements, and coverage plan, so InVision Systems recommends a property assessment before comparing options.
What happens when a threat is detected?
Analytics or sensing devices can alert intervention specialists to activity that needs review. When a live threat is confirmed, the specialist may use the speaker system for a voice warning and support video-verified dispatch when appropriate. The exact response process is customized to the property and its established response plan.
Can virtual guarding use my existing security cameras?
Often, yes. InVision Systems can review existing cameras and related equipment to determine whether their placement, image quality, night visibility, network connection, and analytics support a virtual guarding design. Some properties may need additional cameras, lighting, speakers, or sensing devices.
Does virtual guarding use AI human detection?
A virtual guarding design can use AI-based human-detection analytics to help distinguish people and other motion and focus attention on activity that matches the property’s security rules. The exact analytics and configuration depend on the cameras, site conditions, and protection goals.
Do I need speakers for live audio intervention?
A speaker system is needed when the solution will use live voice warnings. InVision Systems can assess whether existing equipment can support audio or whether speakers should be added at selected entrances, parking areas, perimeters, or other vulnerable locations.
How quickly can a virtual guarding team respond?
Virtual guarding is built for real-time detection and intervention, but response timing depends on the event, camera coverage, network performance, site configuration, and the local authority process. During the consultation, InVision Systems can explain the proposed detection, verification, audio-warning, and escalation workflow for your property.
Is virtual guarding suitable for multi-family properties?
Yes. It can be designed for shared areas such as parking lots, building entrances, package areas, and perimeter zones. The system should be planned around the community layout, lighting, resident privacy, existing cameras, and the property’s response priorities.