Cargo theft remains a significant supply-chain concern. CargoNet recorded 3,594 reported supply-chain crime events across the United States and Canada in 2025, including 2,646 confirmed cargo thefts. Estimated losses from confirmed thefts approached $725 million.
At the same time, warehouse camera infrastructure is increasingly being used for more than security investigations. Cloud and cloud-connected video platforms can centralize administration across sites, while industrial intelligence platforms such as Voxel can use compatible camera feeds to provide additional operational visibility around workplace safety and facility activity.
Warehouses often operate across multiple buildings, regions, or distribution networks. A cloud-managed video environment can give authorized teams centralized access to cameras, recorded footage, alerts, user permissions, and system information without requiring every facility to be administered independently.
The cloud model does not always mean that all video is continuously stored off-site. Some systems use local or edge storage with cloud administration, while others support fully cloud-hosted or hybrid configurations.
Security remains one use of warehouse video, but warehouses also contain moving equipment, pedestrians, repetitive material handling, loading operations, storage systems, and changing work areas.
OSHA's warehousing guidance identifies powered industrial trucks, ergonomics, material handling, slips and falls, hazardous chemicals, and robotics among potential warehouse hazards. It also highlights musculoskeletal disorders and incidents involving powered industrial trucks and other material-handling equipment as important areas of concern.
That makes camera coverage potentially useful to safety and operations teams as well as security personnel when paired with technology designed for those applications.
Organizations with substantial camera investments should determine whether a platform can use the equipment already installed.
ONVIF Profile T defines interoperability capabilities for IP-based video systems covering functions such as H.264 and H.265 streaming, metadata, imaging settings, motion and tampering events, and other supported features.
Compatibility still varies by camera model, firmware, protocol, and required functionality, so individual devices should be validated before deployment.
Cloud connectivity also makes cybersecurity an important part of system selection.
The NIST IoT cybersecurity baseline provides a framework for considering capabilities including device identification, configuration, data protection, interface access, software updates, and cybersecurity-state awareness when connected devices are acquired and deployed.
Voxel applies industrial computer vision to warehouse camera feeds so safety and operations teams can identify supported workplace conditions alongside existing security workflows.
Instead of functioning as the warehouse's primary VMS, Voxel adds a specialized intelligence layer focused on how people, vehicles, equipment, and work areas interact across industrial environments.
Voxel works with more than 95% of existing IP cameras and can deploy to a site within 48 hours. Its AI is trained on more than 5 billion hours of real-world industrial workplace scenarios.
Warehouse-relevant applications include:
This gives warehouse teams visibility into recurring conditions that may otherwise be distributed across inspections, observations, incident reports, and recorded footage.
Voxel's customer stories include results from warehouse and distribution operations:
These examples show how different distribution operations have incorporated Voxel into their safety programs, with reported outcomes reflecting the conditions, priorities, and implementation at each facility.
Voxel is relevant to warehouse organizations that want more operational value from existing camera coverage without asking their security VMS to become a workplace-safety platform.
Its combination of industrial computer vision and structured follow-through makes it a distinct addition to a cloud-video environment.
Spot AI provides a video-intelligence platform designed to work with existing IP cameras. Its architecture combines local video storage and processing with cloud-based administration and search.
The platform covers security, operational, and selected workplace applications across industrial environments.
Spot AI is relevant to warehouses seeking AI-assisted video management while retaining compatible cameras already deployed across facilities.
Verkada provides a cloud-managed physical-security environment spanning video, access control, alarms, environmental sensors, and related applications.
The platform primarily operates around its integrated hardware ecosystem, while additional connectivity options support selected third-party cameras.
Verkada can suit distributed warehouse networks that prioritize centralized administration across several physical-security functions within a common environment.
Avigilon Alta, part of Motorola Solutions, provides cloud-based video management with AI-assisted search, alerts, and multi-site administration.
Its connectivity options also allow supported existing third-party cameras to be incorporated into the cloud-managed environment.
Avigilon Alta is relevant to warehouses that want cloud video management while preserving selected existing camera infrastructure during modernization.
Rhombus combines cloud-managed video with access control, sensors, alarms, and related physical-security capabilities.
The platform uses cloud administration alongside local processing and storage, with additional options for connecting selected third-party cameras.
Rhombus provides a centralized cloud environment that can accommodate video and adjacent physical-security requirements across distributed warehouse locations.
Genetec Security Center SaaS provides cloud-based physical-security management spanning video surveillance, access control, intrusion monitoring, and related functions.
It can support cloud and hybrid environments, allowing organizations to preserve portions of existing infrastructure as they adopt cloud services.
Genetec is relevant to larger warehouse networks that require flexibility across video, access control, and other physical-security systems rather than a video-only environment.
Eagle Eye Networks provides cloud-based video management with an emphasis on centralized administration, camera compatibility, and application integration.
Its architecture can support organizations operating cameras from different manufacturers across multiple facilities.
Eagle Eye Networks is relevant to warehouse organizations that prioritize cloud management and integration with other business or physical-security applications.
Lumana provides an AI-enabled video platform for security and operational monitoring and offers warehouse-oriented applications.
The platform is designed to work with existing camera infrastructure and can apply video analytics to security, logistics, and selected workplace conditions.
Lumana is relevant to warehouse environments that want video analytics spanning traditional security and operational monitoring.
Milestone's broader ecosystem provides options for organizations balancing open-platform VMS requirements with cloud adoption.
XProtect supports extensive third-party hardware integration, while Arcules provides a cloud-based video option within the Milestone ecosystem.
The Milestone ecosystem can suit warehouses with mixed camera infrastructure that want flexibility around the pace and architecture of cloud adoption.
Hanwha Vision combines its camera portfolio with Wisenet WAVE video management and cloud-connected functionality.
WAVE supports third-party IP video sources and provides APIs and SDKs for extending the platform.
Hanwha Vision provides a combination of camera hardware and extensible video management for warehouses that need integrated equipment alongside support for third-party devices.
Cloud video platforms are commonly evaluated for theft prevention, access control, remote viewing, and investigation. In warehouses, the same camera coverage can also provide another source of information for safety teams.
Loading docks, warehouse aisles, intersections, storage areas, picking zones, and material-handling areas contain repeated interactions among workers, vehicles, equipment, and inventory.
Computer vision designed for industrial environments can help surface recurring conditions in those areas without requiring supervisors to continuously watch live feeds.
Warehouse networks often have different layouts, equipment, staffing patterns, and camera environments from one location to another. Voxel gives safety teams a way to organize supported observations across those locations while allowing individual facilities to retain their own operating context.
An isolated event may explain what happened at one moment. Repeated observations can reveal where a condition is becoming a pattern.
Voxel can help teams review trends by site, camera, risk category, and time period, making it easier to identify recurring issues such as vehicle stopping behavior, pedestrian interactions, ergonomic movements, or PPE use across a distributed warehouse network.
Once a pattern is identified, the next step is determining who owns the response.
Voxel's Actions workflow allows relevant findings to connect with recommended measures, responsible owners, deadlines, follow-up, and coaching.
This helps convert video-derived observations into documented work rather than leaving them as another set of alerts for teams to review.
Local safety teams need detail, while regional and corporate leaders often need visibility across multiple facilities.
Voxel's Executive Hub provides a higher-level view of identified risks, actions, and changes across the organization, helping leadership understand where attention is concentrated and how teams are responding.
Using warehouse cameras for safety creates different considerations from traditional security investigation.
Voxel does not use facial recognition and provides face and body blurring. Role-based access controls, SSO, SOC 2 Type II-audited controls, TLS 1.2 encryption in transit, and AES-256 encryption at rest provide additional safeguards around platform and video access.
Organizations evaluating how camera coverage could contribute to a broader warehouse safety program can contact Voxel to discuss their facility and use cases.
Cloud video surveillance uses cloud-based or cloud-connected software to manage cameras, recorded footage, users, alerts, and other surveillance functions across one or more facilities. Some platforms store video primarily in the cloud, while others combine local storage with cloud administration. Warehouse operators should compare bandwidth requirements, retention, camera compatibility, cybersecurity, remote access, and resilience.
Important factors include camera compatibility, multi-site management, storage architecture, AI analytics, remote access, cybersecurity controls, integration options, and support for warehouse environments such as loading docks, aisles, yards, and material-handling areas. Organizations should also confirm whether the platform's architecture aligns with their bandwidth, retention, and IT requirements.
Some platforms work with compatible existing IP cameras, while others are built primarily around proprietary hardware. Compatibility should be checked by camera model, firmware, protocol, and required features. Voxel, for example, works with more than 95% of existing IP cameras for supported industrial-intelligence applications.
Video analytics can provide additional visibility into camera-visible conditions such as vehicle movement, pedestrian interactions, PPE use, ergonomic patterns, spills, obstructions, and designated areas. Industrial platforms such as Voxel are designed to analyze supported workplace safety and operational conditions, complementing inspections, training, engineering controls, observations, and other established safety processes.
Organizations should evaluate role-based access, authentication, encryption, audit logging, software updates, retention controls, and privacy features appropriate to workplace use. Different platforms provide different safeguards. Voxel, for example, does not use facial recognition and provides face and body blurring alongside role-based access controls, SSO, and encryption.
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