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blogYou Digitized Your Gate. Why Is It Still a Bottleneck?Sep 29More
blogComputer Vision in the Yard Is a Physics Problem, Not an AI ProblemSep 21More
blogWhat Is a Yard Mission? Why Tasks Are the Wrong Unit of WorkSep 15More
blogCargo Theft Starts at the Gate | Terminal IndustriesSep 08More
articleERP TODAY: Automation and ERP Q&A with Terminal CPOJun 05More
case-studyTerminal Industries receives another 5 star Gartner Peer Review: "Terminal Teams Offer Responsive Support and Efficient Information Gathering Experience"May 07More
podcasteCom Logistics Podcast - Featuring Darin Brannan: Why Yard Management Is the Last Broken Node in Supply ChainApr 23More
blogWhy We Built Missions™: Turning Yard Activity into Execution.Apr 10More
announcementTerminal Industries Launches Missions™ as Structured Workflows for All Yard OperationsApr 09More
blogThe Yard Doesn’t Have a Visibility Problem. It Has an Execution Problem. Introducing Missions™.Apr 07More
Press Releases
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Terminal Announces Yard Security
Yard Security, Cargo Fraud Prevention, and Chain-of-Custody Have Been a Patchwork; Terminal Industries Just Made Them Native to their Yard Operating System
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Flock Safety and Terminal Industries Formalize Strategic Partnership
Atlanta, GA, Jan. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flock Safety, the leading public safety technology company, has partnered with Terminal Industries, which builds modern solutions that give logistics operators full visibility and control over critical transportation assets using AI computer vision and machine learning. This partnership will enable Terminal Industries to utilize Flock’s industry-leading cameras at logistics sites, including warehouses, fueling stations, and supply chain yards, to increase efficiency and automate processes.
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Ryder and Terminal Industries Digitize Yard
“We have not seen this kind of accuracy with computer-vision technology previously, so this is a significant milestone in the race to modernize what is currently a very manual and inefficient process across the industry,” says Karen Jones, CMO and head of new product development at Ryder.
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Darin Brannan Takes Helm of Terminal Industries as CEO
Excited to share that I've joined Terminal Industries as CEO! Terminal is transforming logistics with AI/ML and computer vision, driving smarter, more efficient operations. ...
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Introducing Terminal Industries
Podcasts & Articles
Videos
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Prologis Groundbreakers 2025
Check out this video from Prologis Groundbreakers 2025 event a few weeks ago. Terminal CEO Darin Brannan talking about the yard. "The Yard is now the bottleneck for transport and digital transformation in logistics...bringing AI and Computer Vision over the top of dated tech will deliver ROI, rapid efficiency gains, along with measurable sustainability gains too!"
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Multiple Lane Detection - Terminal Industries Computer Vision
Multiple Lane Detection - Terminal Industries Computer Vision
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Computer Vision in the Lane - Terminal Industries Computer Vision
Computer Vision in the Lane - Terminal Industries Computer Vision
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4 Minute Pilot Kit Installation - Terminal Industries Yard Efficiency
4 Minute Pilot Kit Installation - Terminal Industries Yard Efficiency
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Gate Check Out - Terminal Industries Computer Vision
Gate Check Out - Terminal Industries Computer Vision
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Digital Gate Check in - Terminal Industries Yard Efficiency
Digital Gate Check in - Terminal Industries Yard Efficiency
Case Studies
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Terminal Industries receives another 5 star Gartner Peer Review: "Terminal Teams Offer Responsive Support and Efficient Information Gathering Experience"
Terminal Industries receives their third, 5-start Gartner Peer Insights Review
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Terminal YOS receives second 5 star Gartner Peer Insights Review: "Terminal Delivers Immediate Efficiency Gains and Consistent Long-Term Platform Value"
Our overall experience with Terminal has been excellent. The solution is intuitive, dependable, and well-suited to complex, real world use cases. We've seen meaningful efficiency gains since adopting the platform, and the product roadmap and support engagement give us confidence in its long-term value. Terminal has become a trusted part of our technology stack.
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Terminal YOS receives 5 star Gartner Peer Insights Review: "A modern, operator-friendly yard platform that brings structure, visibility and speed to daily operations"
delivers a strong combination of operational visibility, structured workflows and modern yard management tools. The platform is easy for operators to adopt and provides a clear, consistent process across gate, dispatch, and spotter roles. It improves coordination and reduces manual back and forth
Blogs
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You Digitized Your Gate. Why Is It Still a Bottleneck?
Replacing the clipboard with a tablet does not reduce dwell. The difference between a digitised gate and an automated one, and five questions that reveal which you have.
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Computer Vision in the Yard Is a Physics Problem, Not an AI Problem
The models are the easy part. Camera position, uplink, domain drift and weather are what decide whether yard computer vision works at forty sites or one.
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What Is a Yard Mission? Why Tasks Are the Wrong Unit of Work
A yard task records what happened. A yard mission is the whole job, orchestrated end to end. Why the unit of work determines whether automation is possible.
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Cargo Theft Starts at the Gate | Terminal Industries
Cargo theft is now a verification problem, not a perimeter problem. How to check the carrier, the driver and the load before the freight leaves your gate.
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Trailer Tracking Inside the Yard
Trailer tracking built for the road dies at the gate. Here's what actually tracks trailers inside the yard — and why cameras beat devices.
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The Yard Gets No Respect
On FreightWaves Today, Terminal CPO Chris Brumett called the yard the Rodney Dangerfield of supply chain solutions: it gets no respect, largely because no one clearly owns the handoff between over the road and the warehouse. That ownership gap shows up as a manual guard shack running parallel to the system that actually runs the operation, and organized cargo crime has learned to work the seam, with over 60% of theft now built on impersonation rather than bolt cutters. The yard is not a low-value asset, it is a high-value asset with a low-value reputation, and now that computer vision is more accessible, the excuse for leaving it unmeasured has expired.
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Build As Your Yard Grows on One Operating System
Legacy vendors treat the yard as a series of discrete modules, separate workflows you bolt on one at a time, while Terminal delivers one AI-native Yard Operating System where new capabilities are apps you simply turn on. Start with the app you need today, add more as your yard grows, and run every site on one system with real-time visibility across your entire network.
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OCR Reads the Plate, Computer Vision Runs the Yard.
OCR (the "AI camera" most gate vendors actually sell) just reads characters into a string and hands the work back to your guard, dispatcher, and clerk, which is why a faster clipboard never transforms a yard. Terminal's computer vision reads, then classifies and understands the whole scene, then acts on it (open the gate, hold the fraudulent carrier, route the reefer), turning recorded data into orchestrated decisions worth 4x ROI in year one.
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The CV Market is Having its SaaSpocalypse Moment
Computer vision is still priced like 2010s enterprise software: six figures up front, long implementations, and a point tool you manage on the side. The economics underneath it have shifted, so Terminal delivers CV at a price built for ROI, folded into the yard platform you already run rather than bolted on beside it.
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Beyond the YMS: How a Yard Operating System Unlocks Your WMS
The YOS era retires the purpose-built YMS, which is still just a tidier task list, and replaces it with an AI-native system that orchestrates yard missions from data it captures directly. In doing so, it closes the highway-to-warehouse gap and feeds your WMS the clean, live input it needs to finally run at full speed.
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