Solutions for Petrol and C-Store

The Unique Needs of Petrol/C-Stores

The price of fuel and labor make security for filling stations and convenience stores a constant challenge. Arecont Vision understands the unique needs of the petrol/c-store market and provides megapixel technology to specifically meet those needs.

Filling Stations

Gasoline price volatility traditionally leads to a significant increase in gasoline theft, brought on by misdirected consumer anger at higher prices. However, more retailers now require prepay to stop the problem that had gotten out of control. Typically, convenience stores can experience a few gasoline thefts a week; however, when prices increase, some stores see several gas thefts a day. With retailers only making a penny or two profit on the sale of gasoline, a retailer needs to sell thousands of additional gallons of gasoline just to make up for the loss. Oftentimes, it only takes one $50 theft a day to significantly erode -- or wipe out -- a retailer's daily gasoline profits.
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Convenience Stores

National Retail Security (for the US market) report Shrink up to 1.51%
$36.3 Billion annual loss to retailers (1.51% x $2.4 Trillion USA)
Video security is considered a hot tool for large retailers
The 'addressable' shrink is closer to 1.2% (as 20% of total shrink is reported to come from administrative and vendor fraud issues).
Employee theft and shoplifting remain the big two drivers of shrink with 42.7% of shrink coming from employee theft and 35.6% from shoplifting.

Petrol/C-Stores and Arecont Vision

Arecont Vision megapixel cameras are part of the surveillance solution at filling stations and convenience stores around the world, including:

Murphy's Oil
Frontier Oil
Flying J
Maverick

ADNOC Gas Stations (MEA)
Total (SA)
Shell (SA)
Teyssar Gas (MEA)

Applications and Solutions

Megapixel for Petrol/C-Stores

Deter internal and external theft
Catch and convict 'drive offs'. Capture the license plate of a robber and vehicle description
Overall security with enough detail for customer and staff ID and vehicle/license plate ID
Megapixel provides the ability for facial detail
Improve staff productivity
Resolve staff and customer disputes
Protect staff, customers, equipment and goods
Ability to cover more with less (instead of manpower to control PTZs, panoramic cameras can cover it all of the time)
Increased detail equals better forensics and reduced time from police and healthcare security professionals in post event investigations
Forensic documentation to build cases
Monitor daily business
Forensic documentation to build cases
Provide security, situational awareness, life safety
Prevent fraudulent claims
Quantifiable Return-On-Investment

Applications

Entry/exit
Fuel islands
Storage areas
Open areas
Selling floor
Parking lot

Benefits

Remote accessibilit
• Monitor video between administration offices and remote locations

Easy future-proof integration
• Megapixel provides better image quality
• Easily migrate existing system to HD

Scalability and flexibility
• Easily expand your system to meet growing needs.

Cost effectiveness – lower total cost of ownership
• Fewer cameras, licenses and accessories
• Use existing infrastructure
• Lower maintenance
• Lower operational costs

Distributed intelligence
• Put intelligence where you want it motion detection or system based analytics
• Reduce false alarms

Proven technology
• Thousands of installations across the entire security market
• Applicable to any installation

Arecont Vision Product Applications for Petrol/C-Stores