Even under the best circumstances, third-party logistics (3PL) facilities are complex, fast-moving environments.
Each day is already long and demanding. You don’t have extra time or energy to spend responding to a string of false security alarms, hunting down missing operational data, or pulling your personnel away from core tasks to handle routine ones.
Ensuring consistent coverage of the day-to-day operations at your warehouse, distribution center, or other facility requires speed, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness. It demands a proactive posture.
3PL security solutions from Asylon are one way of improving efficiency in warehouse security and operations at sites nationwide.
They are proven force multipliers that dramatically enhance what facilities and their people can do.
The Limits of Traditional Warehouse Security Systems
Consistent physical security is only one challenge facing today’s 3PL facilities, but it’s a key one.
If your facility isn’t secure, its property and people obviously run an unacceptable risk of harm. Additionally, its vulnerability to supply chain disruptions, loss of valuable inventory, and compromise of sensitive information all increase.
Conventional logistics facility security solutions rely exclusively on human guards. But even the most dedicated guards aren’t immune to fatigue that can diminish attentiveness and response time. They can get sick. They need breaks. They need time off to stay at their peak.
What’s more, at any given moment, human guards can monitor only a limited area. So they may miss key information about or entirely overlook activities outside their immediate field of view. And stress, distraction, miscommunication, and subjective biases can all cause them to make mistakes.
For these reasons, a 100% human security force provides inconsistent coverage. Add in the extreme turnover rate among guards and the high cost of recruiting and retaining them, and you can see why the old model struggles to meet a modern industrial warehouse’s security demands.
But automated, robotic 3PL security solutions can change everything.
How Warehouse Security Automation Helps Redefine 3PL Excellence
By integrating aerial and ground-based automated systems from Asylon, 3PL facilities can become dynamic, self-optimizing environments.
Guardian™ Aerial Drones
Guardian™ aerial drones add a critical third dimension to warehouse and distribution center security.
Acting as your 24/7 “eye in the sky,” their high-resolution electro-optical and thermal sensors are a major upgrade over relying on fixed CCTV cameras and foot patrols. Indeed, each Guardian drone offers coverage equivalent to 200 fixed cameras.
Aerial drones detect anomalies or unauthorized access in real time. They livestream each perimeter patrol to the cloud, letting security personnel monitor them from anywhere.
And when drones trigger an alert based on parameters you define, your team can assess the threat remotely and safely, then make a faster and more informed response without putting human guards at risk.
DroneDog™ Ground Security Robots
Guardian drones can work in tandem with our DroneDog™ ground security robots.
Built on Boston Dynamics’ Spot® platform and using Asylon’s proprietary PupPack security payload, DroneDog can respond to alerts from a drone, as well as follow preprogrammed patrol routes.
They easily adapt to changes in visibility, weather, and terrain. They can immediately approach and survey high-risk situations—a suspicious package, say, or an anomaly in a low-light or inaccessible space—capturing critical information your team needs.
Their on-board, real-time analytics let them identify potential threats human guards might miss, and which facility managers can consider when making decisions about improving security protocols. And they can operate continuously without fatigue, reducing the need for additional staffing or overtime pay.
How Robotic Security Solutions Benefit Your 3PL Center
By integrating robotic 3PL security solutions with human experience and expertise, warehouses, distribution centers, and similar facilities are discovering they can enhance operations, streamline workflows, and reduce costs.
The mere presence of advanced robotic security systems can deter potential wrongdoers. Knowing a facility is equipped with sophisticated surveillance technology may discourage attempts at theft or vandalism. As a result, your facility is spared not only dangerous incidents themselves but also the financial costs associated with them.
Consistent automated patrols ensure uninterrupted surveillance. Guards who take vacation, call out sick, or resign no longer leave holes you have to scramble to fill. And because drones and robots perform reliable and repeatable patrols by day or by night and in all kinds of weather, you don’t have to worry about gaps in coverage.
Automated patrols also yield data, such as activity heat maps, that your team can mine for valuable operational insights. By analyzing patterns over time, they can gain predictive insights into potential vulnerabilities and operational bottlenecks, allowing them to plan and take preemptive action.
When aerial drones and ground robots verify alerts, human security personnel are free to focus on genuine threats. Only actual threats receive a physical response. In this way, automation is helping conserve your team’s resources and reduce unnecessary disturbances.
And because Asylon operates on the RaaS (Robotics-as-a-Service) model, you’re not facing rising capital expenditure (CapEx) or unpredictable labor costs. Instead, you can budget a predictable amount of operational expenditure (OpEx). No more hefty upfront costs. No surprise, painful maintenance bills. The improved financial forecasting a subscription model provides lets you allocate resources more efficiently and allows for you to scale operations as your facility flourishes.
Augmenting People Power—Not Replacing It
Robotic warehouse and distribution center security solutions don’t eliminate human roles. Instead, they are tools that enhance and transform human safety and productivity.
Because they automate dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs, drones and robots maintain constant vigilance and high security without compromising human safety. They also give your people the freedom to focus on higher-order security challenges and other strategic operational decisions. This shift in task allocation can enhance job satisfaction while driving growth and innovation within your organization.
In addition, Asylon’s Robotic Security Operations Center (RSOC) is a synergistic environment where human expertise and machine intelligence work in concert. Drawing on indispensable experience and critical judgment, skilled analysts interpret the data robots and drones gather to take deliberate, decisive action in situations requiring the human touch.
See Asylon’s 3PL Security Solutions in Action
In today’s volatile and high-stakes market, 3PL facilities aren’t going to move slower or become less complex. Your facility needs every strategic advantage it can get.
By acting as a powerful force multiplier, drones and ground robots from Asylon can elevate every critical aspect of the business—not only physical security, but also operational speed, workforce development, inventory management, and financial health.
If you want to see for yourself how our robotic solutions can help your facility thrive, schedule your demonstration with one of our experts now.
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