TetherX for Self Storage // SINGLE SITE // MULTI-SITE // UNMANNED
Unmanned site. Access that runs itself.
A customer pulls up after hours. ANPR reads the plate and opens the gate, their swipe at the unit disarms only that zone, and the owner gets a snapshot of who went in - no staff on site, no keypad dance, no false alarm. Grant a guest access from your phone and revoke it when they leave. Every gate, corridor and entrance on one timeline, across every facility, on one login.
ANPR whitelist opens the gate for known customers; their swipe disarms only their unit's zone.
Every access notifies the unit owner with an image, and lands on one audit timeline.
Grant or revoke a unit remotely - a guest, a contractor, a moved-out customer.
Quote routed direct to a TetherX-accredited local installer who fits self-storage sites. No central sales call.
A customer arrives after hours
Already running TetherX
Accreditations across the TetherX installer network
TetherX partners hold the accreditations security-procurement buyers and insurers filter on. Coverage varies by partner.
Counts reflect partners currently in the TetherX directory holding each accreditation.
An unmanned site that manages its own access.
Most of the day there is nobody at the facility - and that is the point of self-storage. The difference is everything that should be automatic actually is: the gate opens for a known plate, the customer's own token disarms only their zone, the owner is told who came in, and you grant or revoke a unit from your phone. The alerts that remain are the real ones, and you verify those from a phone too - no drive-out to find it was nothing.
ANPR and token, one automatic entry
A whitelisted plate opens the vehicle gate, and the customer's own swipe or PIN disarms only their zone and unlocks only their unit - no keypad dance, no panel-wide disarm, no false alarm. The legitimate entry runs itself; you only get pulled in when something does not fit.
The owner sees every entry, with a picture
Each access pushes the unit owner a snapshot of who went in and when, tied to the camera that saw it. They do not have to ask, and you do not have to pull footage - the notification is the audit, and the audit is already on one timeline.
Grant or revoke a unit from your phone
A guest for the weekend, a contractor for an hour, a moved-out tenant cut off in seconds - issue and pull access remotely without driving out or re-cutting a key. Every grant and revoke is logged against the named person who made it.
"My unit was emptied" - resolved
A theft or dispute claim turns into a query, not a day of searching. 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.
One swipe opens the gate, disarms the zone, notifies the owner.
Self-storage lives and dies on access control - one PIN, one gate, one unit. TetherX ties the vehicle gate, the keypad, the alarm panel and the per-unit door into one event, so a legitimate entry runs itself: the gate opens for a known plate, the swipe disarms only that customer's zone, the owner is notified, and every access lands on the same timeline as the camera that saw it.
Gate, keypad and alarm, one event
ANPR whitelist opens the gate; the customer's swipe disarms only their unit's zone and bypasses its motion sensor - so a real customer never trips a false alarm, and a panel is never left disarmed estate-wide. Every PIN, fob and gate open lands on the timeline with the footage.
Tailgating detection Coming soon
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.
Owner-notified, remotely managed
Every entry pushes the unit owner a snapshot of who went in and when. Grant or revoke a unit remotely - a guest, a contractor, a moved-out tenant - and every access stays recorded against the named person, ready for the dispute, the insurer or the auction.
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 supports 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 15 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: the entrance plates, how billing keeps access in line, what is occupied and who rents what, 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.
Billing drives access
Your storage management software stays the single source of truth. A paying customer is let in on first arrival, a customer who falls behind is locked out automatically on the next sync, and a move-out drops their access and frees the unit - no staff visit, and no tenant keyed into two systems.
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 searching 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.
Occupancy and tenant audit
Manage every unit in TetherX - who rents it, the rental dates, whether it is occupied - with a full audit trail of which units are let to whom. Search by customer name across one site or the whole estate, so "who was in unit 14 last Tuesday" is a name, a time and a clip, not a guess.
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, CHeKT 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 site full of customers coming and going - and a manual gate, alarm and access list to babysit?
ANPR lets known customers in, their swipe disarms only their zone, the owner is notified, and you grant or revoke a unit from your phone.
A TetherX-accredited local installer scopes your facilities and quotes one project price.
Ready to scope your facilities?
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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