New Fire Watch Patrol Tech

GPS & Drones: New Fire Watch Patrol Tech

Remember the old clipboard shuffle? A guard walks by, scribbles something illegible, and nobody sees the log until the marshal shows up… yeah, thats gone.

Today’s fire watch runs on lithium batteries and cloud dashboards. GPS tags, thermal drones and NFC checkpoints are turning patrols into data streams that even insurance underwriters love. If you’re still paying for handwritten logs, you’re buying nostalgia, not compliance.

GPS Checkpoints That Talk Back

Our guards carry a phone sized beacon that pings every checkpoint within one meter. Miss a tag and the app screams in real time, not the next morning.

Supervisors see a live map dotted with green check marks. One red flag triggers an automatic call to the site super and the log gets time stamped down to the second. Courts call that “immutable evidence,” and it has saved our clients six figure claims more than once.

Drones That See Heat, Not Smoke

Smoke takes minutes to billow, but heat shows up in seconds. Our patrol drone lifts off the roof at 2 a.m., scans the building with a 640p thermal camera and streams the feed to the cloud.

If a motor bearing hits 200°F, the software texts the guard on the ground before the bearing even turns red. Early knockdown, zero paperwork, happy marshal.

And don’t worry about FAA red tape, we handle the Part 107 waivers and night flight certs so you don’t have to.

Digital Logs That Insurance Loves

Handwritten logs get rejected in court 78% of the time. Digital logs with GPS metadata? Zero rejections to date.

Our system auto emails a PDF to your risk manager every shift. The file includes checkpoint photos, temperature graphs and a digital signature that can’t be backdated. One client submitted those logs after a kitchen fire and got their claim check in ten days, not ten months.

That’s the difference between “proof of watch” and “proof you watched.”

Ready to swap the clipboard for cloud power? Our tech team can retrofit your existing patrol routes with GPS tags in under an hour and launch drone coverage the same night. Contact us today and get a free demo of the same system that cut one client’s premium by 15% last quarter.