A parking facility is at risk in the hours its cars stand unattended and nobody is watching, and those hours depend on how it is used. A structure open to the public may stand unwatched all night; a commuter lot stands unwatched through the working day.
In a Home Office study of one English town’s parking facilities (Laycock and Austin, Security Journal, 1992), 94% of the offenses at a commuter lot happened on weekdays and 81% between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., the hours its cars stood unattended.
Your own incident records often show which hours are yours.
Source: Laycock, G. and Austin, C., ‘Crime Prevention in Parking Facilities’, Security Journal 3(3), 1992 (Home Office Crime Prevention Unit). Accessed 5 October 2026.
Your facility’s week
- Cars parked, nobody on site
- Someone from your operation on site
- No cars parked
60 of 168 hours a week with cars parked and nobody there to see them
- Mon–Fri
- 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sat–Sun
- none
These are the hours any cover would have to span. Tap or click an hour on the grid to change just that hour.
Weekdays
Weekends
The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 19% of nonfatal carjackings in the United States in 2012-21 happened in a parking lot or garage, against 39% at or near the victim’s home and 22% on the street. Most carjackings, wherever they happened, involved an armed offender: 59% did, and 26% injured the victim.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Carjacking Victimization, 1995-2021 (NCJ 305204, October 2022), table 1: 2012-21 National Crime Victimization Survey estimates, published October 2022. Accessed 5 October 2026.
Recording cameras show an incident afterward, if someone looks; residents of gated garages describe gates lifted and crawled under or failing to close; and a patrol sees only what happens while it passes. Blinkless Remote Guarding is a different model: our trained agents watch your cameras live and act when they judge someone a trespasser or a threat.
| Option | During an Incident | Hours It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Recording cameras | Record it. The footage is seen afterward, if anyone looks. Evidence A condominium owner: “we spent over 40k on cameras that no one ever watches.” A property manager who doesn’t monitor the footage reviews it with the police and insurers when needed. | Every hour they record, with nobody seeing it live. |
| A gate or barrier | Stops a car that can’t open it. People on foot can get past it. Evidence Residents of gated apartment garages describe gates lifted and crawled under, or not working half the time. | While it is closed and working. |
| A patrol | Passes at intervals, and sees what is happening only while it is there. Evidence Guard and patrol services are offered to parking operators. | The minutes it is on site. |
| An attendant or guard over the risk hours | Someone is there while it happens. Evidence In the Home Office study’s one evaluated lot (Laycock and Austin, 1992), two attendants placed to cover its high-risk hours were followed by 66% fewer offenses in the next 12 months (38 to 13), with no significant evidence that the crime moved to the town’s other car parks or the surrounding streets. The result is for one lot, in one town, over one period. Source: Laycock, G. and Austin, C., ‘Crime Prevention in Parking Facilities’, Security Journal 3(3), 1992 (Home Office Crime Prevention Unit). Accessed 5 October 2026. | Their scheduled shifts, timed to the risk hours. |
| A camera trailer | Cameras on a solar, cellular trailer. Some have live voice-down. Evidence Offered to parking operators. | Wherever and whenever it is deployed. |
| Blinkless Live Remote Guarding | When a potential threat is detected, a trained agent is alerted immediately and reviews your live cameras. If the agent judges the person a trespasser or a threat, we order them to leave with a live voice-down warning over your speakers, notify authorities when required, and send you instant alerts with footage and an incident report. Evidence Across the properties we protect: 3,000+ break-ins prevented, and an average response time under 30 seconds. | Your scheduled coverage hours, 24/7 if you need it. |
When our intelligent detection technology flags a potential threat on your cameras, a trained Blinkless agent is alerted immediately and is live on your feed within seconds.
- Detection: We monitor your entrances, exits and parking levels in real time for loitering, unauthorized access, trespassing, after-hours movement and suspicious movement.
- Assessment: The agent reviews the live feed and judges whether the person is a trespasser, an intruder or a threat.
- Intervention: If they are, we order them to leave with a live voice-down warning over your speakers and maintain active monitoring until the incident is resolved.
- Escalation: We notify authorities when required.
- Reporting: You receive instant alerts, live video access, footage and an incident report through the Blinkless client platform.
At a residential property in New York, we resolved an attempted break-in for our client PrimeMark Property Management in under three minutes from detection, without police dispatch or property damage.
Residential Property | New York
- 1:35 a.m.We detect an attempted break-in.
- 1:36 a.m.A trained Blinkless agent is live on camera, assessing the situation.
- 1:37 a.m.We issue a verbal warning via two-way audio, and the intruder leaves the property.
- 1:38 a.m.The client receives alerts, footage and an incident report.
"Before Blinkless, we only found out about incidents after the fact. Now, we're alerted immediately, and issues are resolved before damage happens. We have peace of mind we never had before."
Can Blinkless Work With My Existing Cameras?
In most cases, yes. We can integrate with many existing surveillance systems, or install new cameras with the most up-to-date technology.
How Does Remote Guarding Compare With Security Patrols?
Remote guarding delivers continuous coverage across all areas instead of periodic patrol checks.
Can Remote Guarding Replace an On-Site Guard, and Does It Cost Less?
Remote guarding can replace or supplement guards depending on site requirements, coverage goals and response needs, at up to 70% lower cost than traditional on-site guards. A guard is physically present on your lot; we are not.
Entries and Exits
Natural access control
Every way in and out, by car and on foot. These are the access points to control, and a single, clearly identifiable point of entry is easier to control than several.
A gate alone leaves gaps. Residents of gated apartment garages, in two public discussions, describe cars broken into overnight behind the gate: people lifting it from the ground and crawling under, or a gate that fails to work half the time. Nobody in either conversation describes anyone watching the garage at night.
Sightlines and Lighting
Natural surveillance
Which levels, rows and corners could be seen, and which are dark or out of view.
Signs and Boundaries
Territorial reinforcement
Whether the edges and the signs mark the facility out as managed property.
Upkeep
Maintenance
What is broken or left unrepaired.
Active Surveillance, Hour by Hour
Active surveillance
Who or what is watching on purpose (patrol officers, security guards, cameras) and in which hours. Compare those hours with the hours your facility stands unattended: any hours left over are hours nobody is actively watching.
The CPTED principles and terms above follow the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice's brief, which distinguishes active surveillance by patrol officers, security guards and CCTV cameras from passive surveillance by design.
Source: Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, Office of Research and Statistics, ‘In Detail: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’ (May 2024). Accessed 5 October 2026.
We assess the entrances, exits and parking areas of your garage or lot remotely, from satellite imagery and the cameras already up.
Then we send you a written security plan. The plan is yours to keep, whether you hire Blinkless or not.
- Send us the address and tell us about your cameras. Where they are installed and which areas they cover.
- We look at it remotely. From satellite imagery and your list.
- You get your written security plan. Which areas need monitoring, when coverage is needed, how intruders and break-in attempts would be handled, and who receives security alerts.