Construction site security software
built around the gate and the night round
A jobsite is the hardest property a guard company covers. It has no addresses, no lighting after the crews leave, a footprint that changes every few weeks, and a stream of vehicles that all have a legitimate reason to be there. Almost nothing walks out through a cut fence — it leaves through the gate, in a truck that arrived empty and left heavy, driven by somebody whose company name was on a list. CGuardPro is the record of who came through that gate, what their vehicle looked like going in and coming out, and what the officer found on the round at two in the morning.
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What actually goes missing on a jobsite
Copper, tooling and fuel leave in daylight
Spooled wire, small plant, batteries, generators and diesel are the targets because they are portable and resale is instant. The theft that hurts is rarely a night forced entry — it is a pickup that came in against a delivery and went out with a laydown yard's worth of material, past an officer with no way to record what the bed looked like on the way in.
The trade list is a week out of date
Subcontractors rotate constantly, crews change names mid-package, and the officer at the gate is working from a sheet the superintendent printed on Tuesday. Either everyone gets waved through, which is not security, or genuine crews get held at the gate while a project manager is chased for a confirmation, which is the complaint that loses the contract.
You cannot patrol what has no address
There is no street number for the tower crane base, the temporary switchgear or the third-floor stair core, and half the site has no light. A round described in words gets walked differently by every officer, and the report that lands with the general contractor is a paragraph saying all clear.
How the site runs on CGuardPro
Clear the trades before they reach the gate
The superintendent or project manager raises a pre-authorisation for a visitor or a vehicle with a validity window — this crew, this plate, from Monday to Friday. It carries a code the officer scans at the gate, which turns a phone call to the trailer into a two-second confirmation and leaves a record of who authorised the entry.
Log the truck, not just the driver
The entry record holds the plate, vehicle type, make, model and colour, the company, who they are on site to see, the badge or tag issued, where they parked, and the condition of the vehicle on the way in and again on the way out. That last pair is the field that changes behaviour: the officer looks at the bed twice and both looks are on the record.
Warn the officer, do not pretend to decide for them
A plate can be flagged company-wide or only for one site — an ejected vehicle, a terminated supplier, a truck the general contractor asked you to stop. When it appears at the gate the officer is warned clearly. The system does not open, close or hold anything: the person at the gate decides, with more in front of them than a screen can see, and the decision is recorded with their name on it.
Turn the round into fixed points with instructions attached
QR or NFC tags go on the things worth checking — the gen set, the copper rack, the fuel bowser, the crane base, each stair core. Each tag carries its own instructions and its own tolerance radius, and every scan records whether the officer was inside it and how many metres away they were. The officer walks a defined route on a dark site instead of interpreting a paragraph.
What the general contractor gets in the morning
- A gate log with plate, company, host, badge number, parking spot and the vehicle's condition entering and leaving
- Pre-cleared subcontractors with a scannable code and a validity window, raised by the trailer rather than by you
- Flagged plates that warn the officer at the moment of the decision, scoped to one site or to every site
- A maximum time inside per post, with a single notification when a vehicle passes it
- Checkpoints carrying their own instructions and their own tolerance radius, on gear that has no address
- Round cadence set per site: interval, rounds per shift, lateness tolerance and maximum duration
- Photographed reports filed with no signal and sent when it returns, keeping the time the event happened
- A client portal where the GC reads the night's log for their own site instead of waiting on an email
Frequently asked questions
Can a subcontractor be cleared before they arrive at the gate? +
Yes. A pre-authorisation is raised for a named visitor or a plate with a from and until window, and it carries a code the officer scans on arrival. Once it is used it is tied to the entry it created, so the trailer can see that the crew they cleared on Monday is the crew that actually came through. It removes the two situations that cause friction: waving through anyone who claims to be expected, and holding a legitimate crew while someone hunts for a project manager.
Does the software open the gate or run a turnstile? +
No. There is no barrier control, no turnstile integration and no card reader — the platform records and warns, and a person opens the gate. That is a deliberate limit rather than a roadmap item: on a jobsite the entrance changes location as the works progress, and hardware bolted to a fence line that moves in March is money spent on the wrong problem.
How do you patrol a site with no lighting and no addresses? +
By fixing the route to physical tags rather than descriptions. A QR or NFC tag on the gen set, the laydown yard, the copper rack and each stair core defines the round, and each tag carries the instruction for that specific point — check the fuel level, check the lock, photograph the rack. The scan records how far the officer was from the tag's coordinates, so a round walked from the warmth of the trailer does not read the same as a round walked on the ground.
What happens when there is no cell coverage in a basement or a lift core? +
Incidents, gate entries and the start and finish of a tour are held on the phone and sent when signal returns, and an incident keeps the time it actually occurred rather than the time it uploaded. Two limits are worth knowing before you plan the posts: clocking in needs a live connection, and a checkpoint scan is timestamped by the server when it arrives, so a long dead spot shifts the scan times even though the round itself is recorded.
Do we have to buy patrol wands or NFC readers? +
No. Officers scan with the phone they already carry, which on a jobsite matters more than usual: a wand is one more thing to charge in a trailer, one more thing to lose in mud, and one more thing to buy again for a site that only runs for eight months. Tags are consumables, and a lost tag costs the price of a sticker.
Can we track material and progress for the general contractor? +
Not as a construction discipline, and it would be dishonest to suggest otherwise — this is not a progress or quantities tool and it does not read a programme. What it does produce is dated, photographed and located evidence of site condition on every round, plus a gate history of who and what came and went. Contractors use that for delay and theft claims, but the schedule of works lives in their software, not ours.
How long does a vehicle get to stay on site? +
You set a maximum stay per post. A sweep looks for vehicles that have been inside longer than that and raises one notification for each — once, not repeatedly, because a warning that fires every ten minutes trains everybody to ignore it. Posts without the rule enabled are untouched.
A jobsite runs for months and then disappears. Does that break the setup? +
No. A site is stood up with its own geofence — a radius or, for an irregular footprint, a drawn polygon — its own posts, its own orders and its own checkpoints, and it is stood down the same way when the project closes. The officers who worked it keep their history, and the records for that site stay searchable after the fence comes down, which is what you need when a claim arrives a year later.
Bring us one jobsite and one gate
In a demo we will set up its gate log with the vehicle fields filled in, pre-clear a trade for a week, and lay out a night round on the points that actually get hit. You will see what the officer taps and what the general contractor reads.