TetherX for Self Storage // SINGLE SITE // MULTI-SITE // UNMANNED
Eyes on an unmanned site - before a guard ever rolls.
A gate alert fires at 2am with nobody on site. Today that means a keyholder in the car or a guard on the clock, on a hunch. With TetherX you open the camera tied to that exact gate event from your phone, see whether it is a customer who forgot the closing time or someone who should not be there, and decide before anyone drives out. Every gate, corridor and entrance on one timeline, across every facility, on one login.
Verify an out-of-hours alert remotely before a keyholder or guard rolls.
Every gate and access event tied to the camera that saw it - one timeline.
Quoted, fitted and supported by a TetherX-accredited installer who knows storage.
Quote routed direct to a TetherX-accredited local installer who fits self-storage sites. No central sales call.
An after-hours alert on TetherX
Already running TetherX
Accreditations across the TetherX installer network
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A largely unmanned site that still has eyes on it.
Most of the day there is nobody at the facility - and that is the point of self-storage. But an alert still has to be answered, a dispute still has to be resolved, and a late-night customer still has to be safe. TetherX is built so a remote manager can do all three from a phone, without driving to the site or paying a guard to find out it was nothing.
Remote verification before the roll
When an out-of-hours alert fires, the camera tied to that gate or corridor is already cued on your phone. Confirm it is a forgetful customer, not an intruder, before a keyholder gets in the car or a guard goes on the clock. The call-out you avoid pays for the platform.
A named audit of who opened what
Every PIN entry, fob tap and gate open is logged against the named customer or staff member, with the timestamp and the camera that saw it. When a unit holder disputes access, you have the entry log and the corridor clip on one timeline - not a guess.
"My unit was emptied" - resolved
A theft or dispute claim turns into a query, not a day of scrubbing. Pull the access events for that unit and corridor across the period in question, line them up against the footage, and package a signed evidence pack for the police or the insurer.
Lone-customer safety after hours
A customer alone in a quiet facility late at night is a duty-of-care question. Corridor cameras, audio talk-down through compatible speakers and an after-hours access record mean a remote manager can keep an eye out and step in if something looks wrong.
The access event and the camera angle, on one timeline.
Self-storage lives and dies on access control - one PIN, one gate, one unit. TetherX ties the keypad, the vehicle gate and the per-unit door event to the camera that saw it, so an entry is never just a line in a log. The remote manager sees who opened which gate, when, and what happened next.
Gate & keypad integration
PIN, fob and app entries at the vehicle gate and pedestrian doors land on the same timeline as the camera. Click an access event and the footage scrubs to that exact second - per gate, per corridor, per unit door.
Tailgating detection
One PIN, two cars through the gate is the classic storage problem. AI flags a second vehicle following a single authorised open, so a tailgate becomes a named alert with the footage attached - not something you only notice when a unit goes missing.
After-hours access audit
Every out-of-hours entry is recorded against the named customer or contractor, with the gate, the time and the camera that saw them arrive. The audit answers the dispute, the insurer and the auction-evidence question without a phone call to anyone.
From a single yard to a portfolio of unmanned sites
Operators like Fox Storage and Securus Storage run several facilities with a small remote team - not a guard at every gate. TetherX is open by design, so the cameras and access kit already on site keep working, and one platform covers every facility from one login.
Several Facilities, One Login, One Remote Team
A self-storage operator does not staff every gate - a small remote team oversees a portfolio of largely unmanned sites. TetherX scopes per-facility, per-role, per-camera. The duty manager watches every gate across the estate; the regional manager sees their cluster; a single-site caretaker sees only their yard. Same dashboard, same audit log, no VPN per site and no driving out to check a recorder.
- Map and list view across every facility, colour-coded by camera and gate health
- Per-facility and per-role scope - duty manager, regional, single-site caretaker
- Native iOS / Android apps - verify a gate alert from the phone, off site
Keep The Cameras And Access Kit Already On Site
TetherX is open by design. The TetherBox bridge connects to 1,000+ integrations and any ONVIF device, so the cameras and access control already at your facilities keep working - no rip-and-replace and no capital write-off. And because the TetherBox records at the edge, recording keeps running even if the site broadband drops, which on a remote unmanned facility is the difference between footage and a blind spot.
- Works with the cameras and access kit already fitted - 1,000+ integrations and ONVIF
- TetherBox bridge installs in 5 min per facility
- Edge recording keeps running if a remote site loses broadband - then syncs once it is back
The questions after the site walk
Once the access workflow makes sense, the rest of the questions are always the same: what about the entrance plates, the fire doors and shutters, the after-hours customer, the abandoned unit you have to auction, and where the footage lives when nobody is on site to mind it.
ANPR on the site entrance
Every vehicle in and out of the site entrance gets a plate read. Cross-reference a customer whitelist, a contractor watchlist or a known-trespasser blacklist against the gate and corridor cameras in one view - so the manager knows which vehicle belongs and which does not.
Fire-door & roller-shutter tamper alerts
Fire doors propped open, a roller shutter forced or held, an access point bypassed - all surface as named events on the same timeline as the footage. The remote manager gets the alert the moment it happens, not on the next site visit a week later.
Audio talk-down to deter trespass
Trigger a live or recorded announcement through compatible IP speakers - "you are on a monitored storage site after hours, this is being recorded" - the moment after-hours motion fires in a corridor or the yard. Most opportunists leave, and the manager never has to send anyone out.
Abandoned-unit & auction evidence
When a unit goes into arrears and heads for auction, the access history and corridor footage build the evidence trail - last entry, condition, and what came out. Package it as a signed evidence pack for the auction process or a later dispute, without scrubbing a recorder by hand.
Cloud, on-prem or hybrid - your choice
Store on the TetherBox at the facility, in cloud, or both for redundancy. The bridge keeps recording locally if the site broadband drops, then syncs once it is back - essential for an unmanned site nobody is watching. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit; cloud infrastructure is ISO 27001 / SOC 2 attested at the infra level via Wasabi.
Same view on phone, laptop, office screen
A duty manager on the phone overnight, a regional manager on the laptop, a caretaker on the office monitor - same login, same scope, same audit log. Oversee several facilities on one screen without a VPN per site or a recorder login per yard.
Operators like Fox Storage, Securus Storage, U Store It and Storage Future run sites like these - largely unmanned, watched well.
Gate, corridor, unit access, audit
Corridor, unit door, gate - audit-ready.
Estate-wide site coverage without on-site guard.
Self-storage platform brief
Get the self-storage platform brief by email.
What TetherX is, how it ties access control to the camera on an unmanned site, what it replaces across a portfolio of facilities, and what a per-site rollout looks like. PDF, in your inbox before you go.
No sales call; your email stays with us. We route serious enquiries through accredited local TetherX installers.
How TetherX stands out for self storage
Unmanned-site video, access and alerts on one platform - across every facility.
One platform, one bill
Video, access control and intruder alerts on one dashboard, one app, one bill - not three systems from three vendors.
Records through any outage
The TetherBox records full-rate on-site. A site-broadband drop never loses footage - it syncs when the link returns.
Your retention, full 4K
Set retention per camera at full 4K - long on corridors and entry points, short elsewhere. No pricing-band retention cap.
Keep your own ARC
Connect your existing monitoring station for out-of-hours response - Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages and others. Any ARC software can connect via a generic link - no special integration required. No forced SOC switch.
Built in the UK and Australia
Built in the UK and Australia. Local representatives in Canada and India. EU, North America and APAC supported. Your data stays in your region (UK, AU, CA, IN, EU, NA, APAC).
Ringfence legacy cameras
Existing cameras (including Hikvision and Dahua) stay reachable behind the TetherBox, off the public Internet - phase NDAA-compliant replacement on your budget cycle. NDAA-ready options include Hanwha Vision, Axis, Avigilon, Pelco, Bosch.
What storage operators ask before they switch
A 2am gate alert on an unmanned site - and no way to know if it is real?
Open the camera tied to that gate from your phone and stand the keyholder down in seconds.
A TetherX-accredited local installer scopes your facilities and quotes one project price.
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Tell us roughly how many sites, gates and cameras you have. We route your enquiry direct to a TetherX-accredited installer who fits self-storage - no central sales call.
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