An Atlanta Area Logistics Site's Patrol Robot Reports Zero Incidents in Six Months

What the operation was up against

A logistics facility in the Atlanta area ran a large staff parking lot and building exterior that sit apart from the dock and trailer work. Vehicles stay parked through long shifts, and a lot like that carries the familiar exposures of a busy distribution campus: unauthorized entry, break-ins and damage to parked cars. Those concerns rarely announce themselves until someone is standing next to a dented door.

Guard coverage answers those concerns with presence and judgment. A staffed watch, however, has to be scheduled, relieved and funded across every hour the lot is open. Keeping a person walking the same rows overnight is hard to sustain, and the gaps tend to fall in the quietest hours.

The operator declined to share prior crime statistics for the site. The story here is therefore about what happened after the robot went live, not a measured drop from a known starting point.

How the patrol robot went into service

The facility assigned its patrol robot a narrow, defined beat: the employee personal vehicle lot, with coverage of the building exterior. Trucks, trailers and logistics operations stayed outside that beat, which kept the deployment easy to describe and easy to judge.

The autonomous patrol robot ran around the clock, so coverage did not depend on shift changes. The launch came in October 2017, and the six month reporting window that followed is the period this study covers.

• Define the beat: the employee personal vehicle lot and the building exterior
• Keep trucks, trailers and logistics operations outside the patrol zone
• Run patrols 24 hours a day with no shift changes
• Launch in October 2017 and track results for six months

What the six months showed

The operator reported zero on site security incidents over the first six months of operation. The company's own release placed that zero across the parking lot and the building exterior, the areas the robot patrolled.

A zero across half a year is a strong early signal, and it is the kind of result a site manager will want to see. It shows that no incidents were recorded in the robot's beat during that window. It does not prove the robot caused the outcome, because a before and after comparison needs a baseline, and the operator did not share one.

Read this as an early, dated result from one Atlanta area site, drawn from 2017 and 2018 reporting. Test it against your own loss history before drawing a conclusion.

What this means for a yard or lot operator

Service Robot Co. is a full service, OEM neutral commercial robot integrator for US businesses. We select the right robots across manufacturers, then finance, deploy, integrate, train and service every unit through a nationwide US engineer network, so one partner covers the whole lifecycle.

For a facility weighing a security patrol robot against guard coverage, the first step is a site assessment. We map the lot and the building exterior, set the patrol route and quote a fixed robot lease payment after that assessment, so the cost is known before a unit arrives. Our offer is a three year lease.

Round the clock patrols make service a planning question, since one unit out of action leaves a gap in the beat. Remote triage and on site dispatch through our engineer network are how a stopped robot is kept from becoming a stopped beat. Ask how overnight service coverage works before you sign.