What goes wrong in a market
Fresh markets, produce wholesalers and weekend market halls share the same blind spots. Stalls block each other. A wide camera at the end of the aisle sees colour and movement and almost never a hand on a till. Loading happens before the public arrives, often in the dark, at a roller door the day staff never watch.
Cash is still common. So is a cold room or a locked cage of high-value stock that sits behind the floor. After close, the building is a large shell with several ways in.
What we install
We walk the hall in trading hours and again when it is empty, because the two pictures are different.
- Aisles and stalls. A camera along each main aisle, mounted high enough that a stack of crates does not fill the frame by mid-morning. One camera per stall is rarely the answer; one camera that sees the stall front and the walkway usually is.
- Cash and the office. The drawer, the safe and the door of the office, close enough to see a handover. This is not face recognition. It is a clear view of the counter.
- Loading and the cool room. The dock or the truck lane, the cool-room door, and the cage if you have one. These are the frames you will actually search.
- Recorder and remote view. Sized to the camera count and how many days you want to keep. Live viewing uses a local restream so extra viewers do not load the recorder. Installation sets out the steps.
What the AI layer watches for
Footage stays on your recorder. Analysis runs on our own server.
- After-hours alerts. If a person appears outside the hours you set, or on a day the market is closed, the people you nominate get an email with the frame attached. A cooldown stops one event becoming a string of emails.
- Door and line events. A line across the loading door, the cool-room door or the office, so those crossings land on a timeline you can search.
- People counts. Counts per camera over the trading day, useful when you are comparing a Saturday market with a quiet Tuesday wholesale morning.
- Stock movement checks. Where goods leave a cage or a cool room, a movement can be cross-checked against your records and flagged when it does not match. A person still decides.
The system flags and alerts. It does not identify people, and it does not stop a theft. It cuts a long day of vision down to the moments worth opening. AI analytics lists each part.
Constraints to plan for
Open-sided halls blow dust onto domes. A turret or bullet with a hood stays cleaner than a bubble. Early starts mean the loading camera must work in low light, which is a lighting question as much as a camera question. In several states, installing security equipment is a licensed activity. Ask any installer for their licence and insurance details, including ours.