Scrap Yard Video Monitoring
in London
Metal yards in London sit on large industrial lots where a fence line can run out of sight of the road, and yards across Southwestern Ontario are no exception. Riowell guards watch London scrap and recycling yards live overnight, with the copper and non-ferrous bins, the scale and the fence named in the protocol as the zones that matter.
A scrap or recycling yard holds stock that can be sold the same night it is stolen, behind a long fence that nobody walks after the gate closes. Copper, brass, aluminium and catalytic converters sit in known places, and the people who want them usually know those places too. Riowell guards watch the fence line, the non-ferrous storage and the scale area live overnight, so someone cutting through the back fence is seen before they reach the bins.
What the London Police Service figures say
In 2025 Statistics Canada recorded 1,056 break-and-enters in the London Police Service area, all property types combined: 213.43 per 100,000 people, a change of −7.03% on the year before.
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0180-01 (2025)Copper theft is concentrated in Ontario: Bell reported 579 Ontario cases in the first half of 2026, more than half of its national total, with Hamilton among the hotspots.
Source: Bell, reported by Daily Commercial News (August 2026)
On scrap and recycling yards, the zones that matter
The fence line
Every section of the perimeter, including the back of the yard nobody can see from the road.
Non-ferrous storage
The bins and bays for copper, brass, aluminium and converters: the first place a thief goes.
The scale and the gate
Vehicles at the gate and on the scale after hours, when no load should be moving.
Equipment and the office
Loaders, the shear, and the office door where cash and records are kept.
The recorder on site keeps recording if the internet drops, which matters on yards at the end of a rural line. Each event a guard logs becomes a clip with its time and camera, and you see the same cameras and clips in your own app.
Written with you before monitoring starts
- Overnight, weekend and holiday hours, when the gate is shut.
- The non-ferrous zones, so a person near them is called immediately.
- Who is called first: the yard manager, then police when a theft is seen in progress.
Survey, install, then monitoring
- 01
Site survey
We walk your property, ideally once after dark, and look at each camera as a live view rather than a recording: what a guard could actually see and act on. We check the site's internet connection and where people really get in.
- 02
Install
Our own technicians install or adjust cameras where a view can't be acted on, fit the recorder that keeps recording on site, and set up your app. Where your existing cameras are up to it, we use them.
- 03
Monitoring starts
Your site, camera map and protocol go to the guards, and monitoring starts. We review the first week of events with you and tune the zones so your phone rings for things that matter.
Sites we survey in London and Southwestern Ontario
- Downtown London
- Old East Village
- White Oaks
- Hyde Park
- Westmount
- Argyle
- Industrial Road corridor
- Highbury & Hamilton Road
- Fanshawe Park area
- Byron
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Tell us about your site. We book a survey, tell you camera by camera what a guard can act on, and quote the monthly service in writing.
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